Famous First Words: Throw me something, Mista...
From bead to shining bead / The New Primary falls on Fat Tuesday this year. That's a good omen for Chris Christie. --Erik Bransteen 2016
..........And everybody's having fun.........Al Johnson …..Carnival Time
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. --St Catherine of Siena
Peace, Love, and Gumbo
It is a beautiful but still chilly (38°F) Fat Tuesday morning. The sky is a clear blue without a cloud. Even the jet stream behind the planes disappears soon after it floats out. There is very little traffic, a couple of cars on their way to work, no doubt, and a small school bus making its way down Brush Creek. After a few initial barks to any creatures who care, Puck silently sniffs and assumes his character of mighty-tracker. There is a very slight breeze with a coldness that reminds us that spring is still a ways off. The Mardi Gras cam shows a nearly empty street with tiny bulldozers scooping up mounds of party trash and pick up trucks with tanks of water moving slowly as a man hoses down the sidewalks with the water. Puck and I saw no one walking in our neighborhood except us. The trees are still bare, the grass is brown and dry. But we return to a warm house and the smell of brewing coffee and the cats watching us – first out the window and now in the living room. It is a nice house and we feel welcome and warm. So now I'm sitting at my computer writing to you. The temperature is already up to 41°. So rev up your mojo and let's party.
Laissez les bon temps rouler, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Drunks run stop signs. Pot heads wait for them to turn green. --Submitted by PsyDe
NOTICE: There will be no ePistle this Friday, March 4th.. See you again March 11th.
Every day is Fat Tuesday if you try hard enough and don't care about your health. --Marie Connor 2018./ The only good Tuesday is Fat Tuesday.
..........It takes a cool cat to blow a horn..........Hawkettes …..Mardi Gras Mambo
Trivia Questions: Welcome to World Compliment Day ! Can you name the work from which these compliments come or the character about whom they were said, or who said it?
^ It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. --E B White
^^ For she was a woman of surpassing beauty, and at that time, when she was in the prime of her youth, she was most striking; she also possessed a most charming voice and a knowledge of how to make herself agreeable to everyone. --Dio
^^^ You don't push through every moment. You pay attention. You take everything in. I like that about you—I like that better. --Rainbow Rowel
^^^^ You have a beautiful laugh. --Renee Ahdieh
^^^^^ Thou are wise as thou art beautiful. --Shakespeare
Big Hello: Comment ça va? - Cajun: How's it going? https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: What happens on the float stays on the float.
Max Picture of the Week: Max and his not-quite but very nearly Mardi Gras mask.
Meditation of the Week: What are you giving up for Lent. I, personally, am just giving up.
It's time to get Jazzy.
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: While engrossed in a book, 60% of librarians have missed a bus stop, subway stop, or highway exit. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Every day has been Fat Tuesday since quarantine started. --Dan Regan 2021 / Hit me with your best beads.
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..........A Jackimo feeno, hey-la-hey.........The Wild Tchoupitoulas …..Meet De Boys On The Battlefront
Moonbeam: and its various segregations / and congressional investigations / and other constipations... Lawrence Ferlinghetti The World Is A Beautiful Place
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If we're going to freeze Russian assets, we should start with the Republican Party. --Submitted by SDS
Week of the Week: National Cheerleading Week (1-7) –Knock, knock...who's there...Noah...Noah, who?...Noah good joke about cheerleading? / Yeller is the cheerleader's favorite color.
I always remember when Fat Tuesday is, it's the day before Diet Wednesday. / King cake calories don't count.
..........Good for the body and it's good for your soul..........The Meters …..Hey Pocky A-Way
^ Wilbur says this of Charlotte in Charlotte's Web
Almanac: It is Tuesday, March 1, 2022. The moon will be new tomorrow and is in Pisces. It is Employee Appreciation Day, National Horse Protection Day, National Peanut Lovers Day, Peace Corps Day, Pig Day, Plan a Solo Vacation Day, Refired, Not Retired Day, World Compliment Day, and World Day of Prayer. Because it is Mardi Gras it is also IHOP National Pancake Day aka Paczki Day, International Pancake Day aka Shrove Tuesday aka Mardi Gras, and Pancake Day Race (Between US and England),
Among those born on this day were Frederic Chopin (1810), William Dean Howells (1837), Glenn Miller (1904), David Niven (1909), Ralph Ellison (1914), Dinah Shore (1917), Robert Lowell (1917), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919), Harry Caray (1920), Yitzak Rabin (1922), Judith Rossner (1935), Roger Daltrey (1944), Alan Thicke (1947), and Ron Howard (1953).
On March first the revised Julian calendar began in Rome (1 BCE), Pennsylvania outlawed slavery for new borns (1780), the US Articles of Confederation were adopted (1781), the first US census was authorized (1790), Ohio became the 17th state (1803), the USA annexed the Republic of Texas (1845), (most of) Nebraska became the 37th state (1867), the Library of Hawaii was established (1879), the first federal land bank was chartered (1917), Rwanda was ceded to England (1921), Captain America first appeared in the comic books (1941), the first permanent auto license plates were issued (CT, 1937), the International Monetary Fund began operating (1947), the Peace Corps was established (1961), K-Mart opened (1962), Uganda became self-governing (1962), the Ba'ath party took power in Syria (1966), NBC announced the return of Star Trek (1968), Johnny Cash married June Carter (1968), Pirate Radio began operations (1969), the Watergate grand jury indicted 7 Nixon aides (1974), and Russian Venera landed on Venus (1982),
Night Sky, 3/1: With the Moon gone and Monoceros walking across the south behind Orion, now's a fine time to trace out the Unicorn's big, dim stick figure. Many binocular starwatchers know about its distinctive star cluster NGC 2244, a boxy little rectangular pattern in the center of the vastly fainter Rosette Nebula. It's right about where the Unicorn's eye might be in his triangular head. The brightest stars of the pattern are 6th and 7th magnitude. Find them 10° to the celestial east-southeast of Betelgeuse. The elongated rectangle currently stands upright. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week:
This Week: Wednesday, March 2 – Dr Seuss Day & World Teen Mental Illness Day
Thursday, March 3 – National Anthem Day & Soup It Forward Day & World Wildlife Day
Friday March 4 – Holy Experiment Day & Marching Music Day & National Grammar Day
Saturday, March 5 - Sock Monkey Day & World Tennis Day
Night Sky, 3/5: Look east after dusk this week for Leo already climbing well up the sky. Its brightest star is Regulus. The Sickle of Leo (about a fist and a half tall) extends upper left from there. The sickle includes Algieba, second in brightness to Regulus by only a small amount.
Sunday, March 6 – Oreo Cookie Day
Monday, March 7 – National Be Heard Day & National Cereal Day
Tuesday, March 8- International Working Women's Day & National Proofreading Day
Wednesday, March 9 – Get Over It Day & Panic Day & Sterile Packaging Day
Night Sky, 3/9: Brilliant Venus and Mars are in the morning sky. Saturn begins its morning appearance. The evening moon is above the horns of Taurus.
Thursday, March 10 – International Bagpipe Day & Mario Day & World Kidney Day
One of the worst jobs in the world is staffing the confessional the day after Mardi Gras. / It's beignet a while.
..........I'm gonna set your flag on fire.........The Dixie Cups …..Iko Iko
^^ Cleopatra described in Roman History
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: God isn't the problem. It's his fan base I hate. --Satan --Submitted by FNOG
Chant of the Week: Stop the war! Stop the pain! Russian out of the Ukraine! --Submitted by rg of kc
Moonbeam: and I am waiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder. --Lawrence Ferlinghetti I Am Waiting
Strange Fact of the Week: After a year of this pandemic, I’m either going out for ice cream or to commit a felony. I’ll decide in the car.
Video of the Week: Trailer for the movie Black Orpheus (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKtUEpopu6A ~~This was my number 1 best movie of all times until Apollo 13 came out. Black Orpheus has been number 2 ever since.
There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful. --Elaine Stritch
Confetti in the hair, Cocktail in the hand
Fighting a Mardi-Gras-In-New-Orlens crowd for eight blocks from Trahan's Tavern on St. Peter to Bourbon O on Bourbon was like a man being willing to swim the Nile, climb Everest, and cross the Sahara for true love. --Erin Nicholas. / Leave a little sparkle wherever you go.
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..........I'm sure you'll see the Zulu queen.........Professor Longhair …..Go To The Mardi Gras
^^^ Levi to Cath in Fangirl
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: How come there's enough asphalt for speed bumps, but not enough to fill potholes?
Weird Word of the Week: Novinaphobia – The fear of running out of wine.
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie … partied out
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Remove burnt-on food from cookware. Dampen area, sprinkle with Arm and Hammer Baking Soda, let soak overnight, then scrub with a sponge, rinse, and dry. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/armhammer.html
If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom. --Judy Deck / Keep Calm and Throw On
........... **….......Don Shirley Trio …..Water Boy ~~~This is an instrumental **All the way to the jail, boy, all the way to the jail. Words as sung by Odetta
^^^^ Khalid to Shrazad in The Wrath and the Dawn
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You deserve this party. You've lived through 3 “once in a lifetime” crises in the last 5 years.
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: ZoloCon 2022 (5-6, Warminster, PA) The largest toy and comic show in Bucks County. https://zolocon.com/
Vintage Players One Liner of the Week: Cats and wine make everything fine
Lawrence Is A Wonderful Town Story of the Week: On Saturday, Loring called. Loring is an old friend and a longtime peace advocate. He said we probably ought to do something about Ukraine. I said, yes, and we started by picking a date and time and place. He said, tomorrow's supposed to be nice (it was) and I said how about noon – after church. And we agreed on the county courthouse as a place – visible and traditional. So I put it on the website and went to gmail to send out invitations. We called it A Vigil in Support of the Ukrainian People. On Sunday at noon – 6 people showed up. When I left at 1:30 there were over a hundred people. There were actual Ukrainians and some folks from the Czech Republic, there were young people and old people and university people. They had Ukraine flags and clothes in yellow and blue and signs in yellow and blue. What wonderful people there are in this city. Imagine what might have happened if they'd had a week to plan. Wow Here's Media Coverage ~~The video at the bottom also contains video from a drone camera and picture of the skywriting airplanes. (We do vigil up big)
Actual Science Conference of the Week: International Conference on Technical Theater, Theater Production ICTTTDP: (8-9, Bangkok) *Theater design & production *Period styles for theater *Costume production *Lighting production and so much more...https://conferenceindex.org/event/international-conference-on-technical-theater-theater-design-and-production-ictttdp-2022-march-bangkok-th
If you love New Orleans, she'll love you back. --Drew Brees / There is nothing king cake cannot fix.
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..........We gonna dance 'til morning come.........The Neville Brothers …..Big Chief
^^^^^ Titania to Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream
My Own Writing of the Week: Single Parent Diversion: I found the hardest decisions as a single parent to be health related, Should I take this child to the emergency room now? Should I make an appointment with the doctor for tomorrow? Should I stop being paranoid and go back to bed?
Not A Single Parent Diversion: I claimed that, as a single parent, the question I asked more than any other was “Can't I even take a shit in peace?” I have, however, talked to parents in two parent households that claimed the same thing, so NOT a single parent issue but a Universal Parent Issue. --From miscellaneous untitled writings
Quote of the Week: Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once. --Chris Rose
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: For your peace of mind, do not try to understand everything. --Submitted by HPF
Today's Peace of History, March 1, 1978: Women’s History Week was first observed in Sonoma County, California AND Congress passed a resolution designating March as Women’s History Month.
It's Mardi Gras, get your crazy out of the closet and parade it down the street. / New Orleans, New Me.
..........Tout le tour autour du moyeu..........The Balfa Brothers …..The Mardi Gras Song
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle March 1, 2022, ePistle Etouffee 2022 Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: toward that still higher perch. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Cost of War:
As of 2/28/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $171,992,167,897.
As of 2/24/21 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $171,653,713,579.
As of 2/28/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,039,494,968,127.
As of 2/24/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,038,549,062,722.
As of 2/28/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,098,525,881,613.
As of 2/24/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,098,158,272,185.
As of 12/28/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,304.898,807.798 .
As of 12/24/21 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,297,729,394,424 .
As of 2/28/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,948,931,426,461.
As of 2/24/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,948,213,823,571.
As of 2/28/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,563,848,775,842.
As of 2/24/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,554,313,941,771.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring. --St. Catherine of Siena
Famous Last Words: Let the good times roll !
..........I hate to go and leave this pretty sight.........The Von Trapp Children …....So Long, Farewell
Mardi Gras is over; get your ash to church. / Mardi on
May Peace bless your days
And Joy delight your nights
prairie mama
christine
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