Famous First Words: Once upon a midnight dreary... Edgar Allen Poe The Raven
Blessed be your Samhain! Merry be your fall! Happy by your harvest! Joyous Halloween to all! / I belong to a dating club for unattached witches; it's called Craft Singles. / The Goddess is alive and she ate my homework.
..........It was a graveyard smash.........Bobby Picket …..Monster Mash
No peace without justice, no justice without forgiveness…Peace is essential for development, but true peace is made possible only through forgiveness. --Pope John Paul II
It is a beautiful Friday morning. A temperature of 49°F with no wind to speak of is lovely sweater weather. Sun shines across a clear blue sky. Squirrels are so very busy this time of year...running in front of cars, dashing up trees, scrambling to put away food for the winter. The air is filled with birdsong; a call and answer couple communicate across the street from one another, but the sparrows stay close together and quarrel among the quarrel. In the midst of a morning filled with other people's errands, I dropped my ballot in the box in front of the polling office. No one was watching that I could see, certainly no one with weapons. Should I be disappointed that no one cared? Now we're home again and I'm sitting with a full cup of creamy decaf and thoughts of you. Blessed Samhain, ePistliers, have a great weekend.
Hope your weekend scares the pewadden out of your neighbors, ePistlers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. -Augusten Burroughs
Wilma Witch died tragically in a broom rage incident. A vampire bat cut in front of her and she got so angry she flew off the handle. / I took a DNA test and it turns out I'm 100% that witch.
..........I don't give a damn 'cause I'm dead stone dead already..........The Kingston Trio …..Zombie Jamboree
Trivia Questions: Happy Champagne Day !
- ^ Where must the grapes grow to make the wine Champagne?
- ^^ Calorie wise how does Champagne compare with white and red wines?
- ^^^ How many bottles of Champagne are produced annually, more or less?
- ^^^^ What is the Champagne industry worth – more or less?
- ^^^^^ How do they create those bubbles?
Big Hello: Shalom - Hebrew https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I hate it when TV shows say they contain “adult situations” but then don't show anyone going to work, paying their bills, or cleaning up after their kids. --Submitted by INRITH
Image of the Week: My Halloween Costume Pick of the Year – Cheech & Chong
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: A good librarian is known by name at the local bookstore, area knitting store, and every bar in town. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Half of the drinks at the witches hoodoo were microbrews. Slow cookers are just so easy. / How many witches does it take to change a light bulb? It depends on what you want it changed into.
..........From the window the moon is bright..........Roky Erickson …..Night of the Vampire
Moonbeam: Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. --Ivan Turgenev
Meditation of the Week: Are emotions rational or irrational?
Puzzle of the Week: From listener David Edelheit of Oyster Bay, NY. Think of a pair of two-syllable words that are pronounced the same, except one is accented on the first syllable while the other is accented on the second. The word that's accented on the first syllable is associated with confrontation, while the word that's accented on the second syllable is associated with cooperation. What words are these?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: We'll be turning our clocks back soon. Gaining an extra hour in 2022 is like getting a bonus track on a Yoko Ono album. --Submitted by sb of ar
Really, is this a garage or a broom closet? / How many Druids does it take to screw in a light bulb? Druids don't screw in light bulbs, the screw in Sacred Groves.
..........You hear him howling around your kitchen door.........Warren Zevon …..Werewolves of London
^ In order to be called Champagne, the drink has to be produced in a very specific corner of France. The Champagne growing region is located in North Eastern France, and not even neighboring French regions are allowed to call their sparkling wine Champagne. The whole region is only 34,300 hectares which is double the size of the city of San Francisco.
Almanac: It is Friday, October 28, 2022. The moon was new last Tuesday and is in Sagittarius. It is Champagne Day, Francis E Willard Day aka Temperance Day, and National Chocolate Day. Because it is the last Friday, it is also International Bandanna Day and National Breadsticks Day.
Among those born on this day were Henry III (Holy Roman Emperor, 1017), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Elsa Lanchester (1902), Evelyn Waugh (1903), Edith Head (1907), Jonas Salk (1914), Dody Goodman and Joan Plowright (1929), Charlie Daniels (1936), Bruce Jenner (1949), Annie Potts (1952), and Lauren Holly (1966).
On October twenty-eighth Harvard University was established (1636), Eli Whitney applied for a patent on the cotton gin (1793), the Statue of Liberty was dedicated (Pres. Cleveland, 1886), Omega Psi Phi incorporated (1914), Czechoslovakia gained independence (1918), the Volstead Act (Prohibition) passed congress over Wilson's veto (1919), Mussolini took control of Italy (1922), ground was broken for Shea Stadium (Municipal, 1961), missiles were withdrawn from Cuba (Khrushchev, 1962), the Gateway Arch was completed (1965), Rhoda got married (1977), and Led Zeppelin released a box set of IV and Houses of the Holy (2014).
Night Sky, 10/28: This is the time of year when the Big Dipper lies down horizontal low in the north-northwest after dark. The farther south you are, the lower. Seen from 40° north (New York, Denver) even its bottom stars twinkle nearly ten degrees high. But at the latitude of Miami (26° N) the entire Dipper skims along just below the northern horizon out of sight. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Fraternal Picture of the Week: Brothers of the Road
This Week: Saturday, October 29 – National Cat Day & National Hermit Day
Night Sky, 10/29: The waxing Moon crosses the Sagittarius Teapot. Using the Moon to get started, use binoculars to piece out the Teapot's stars so low so long after summer. To do it you'll need a good sense of the size of your field of view. A typical binocular's field is a little larger than the Teapot's handle.
Sunday, October 30 – Create A Great Funeral Day & National Candy Corn Day & Mischief Night & Haunted Refrigerator Night
Monday, October 31 – Beggars Night & All Hallows Eve & National UNICEF Day & Magic Day
Night Sky, 10/31: Every Halloween – and a few days before and after – the brilliant star Arcturus sets at the same time and on the same spot on the west-northwest horizon as the summer sun. What’s more, this star rises at the same time and at the same place on the east-northeast horizon as the sun does during the dog days of summer.
Tuesday, November 1 – All Hallows Day & Author's Day & Extra Mile Day & Plan Your Epitaph Day
Wednesday, November 2 – All Souls Day & Parrothead Days
Night Sky, 11/2: Mars, magnitude –1.0 in eastern Taurus, clears the east-northeast horizon around 8 or 9 p.m. and gains altitude for most of the night. Still creeping eastward, it has just passed between the horn tips of Taurus, Beta and Zeta Tauri. Orange Aldebaran, much fainter at magnitude +0.9, sparkles to Mars's upper right by about a fist and a half. A similar distance lower right of Mars is orange Betelgeuse.
Thursday, November 3 – Cliché Day & Public Television Day & Stout Day
Wilamina the Witch is prone to rashes. The neighborhood kids call her itchy witchy. / 13 witches in a hot tub are a self cleaning coven.
..........Like some otherworldly violin.........Don Henley …..Miss Ghost
^^ The average bottle of red wine contains about 625 calories, white wine averages 600, and Champagne averages 570 calories.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You never know what I have up my sleeve. Today, for example, it's a dryer sheet. --Submitted by INRITH
Moonbeam: Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. --Evelyn Waugh
Video of the Week: Dodie Goodman in a 1972 commercial for Campbell's Soups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-11i11aJZM
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: The Tories in the UK are really putting our American conservatives to shame. Because our Republicans won't accept the results of an election they lost; the Tories barely accept the results of an election they won. -- Josh Gondleman Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 10/22/22 ...On another subject Josh said “You've been able to get recreational hearing aids in California for like 5 years.”
The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist. --Pope John 23rd
Winny Witch's broom broke down over Tonganoxie and she had to witch-hike home. / It may be an M for M&Ms every other day, but on Halloween it's a W for witch.
..........Beatniks are out to make it rich.........Donovan …..Season of the Witch
^^^ Over 300 million bottles of Champagne are produced on an annual basis. The exact number will vary depending on a variety of factors: weather, pests, and anticipated consumption.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Procter & Gamble is advertising a zero water / zero plastic / zero waste soap that can be used as hand soap, shampoo, and toilet cleaner. EC30, I'm not going to try anything that can shampoo my hair and clean my toilet bowl. Carbon Neutral Clean
Weird Word of the Week: Kludge – an ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-klu1.htm
Famous Middle Words: Doom creeps in on rubber treads... Dorothea Tanning All Hallows Eve
Dragon of the Week: Welsh Iron Dragon
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Make finger paint. Let children paint with Barbasol shaving cream on a kitchen table or vinyl tablecloth. For color, sprinkle powdered tempera paint or add a drop of food coloring. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/barbasol.html
Wilene Witch was cited by the WWC (Witches & Wizards Council) for being excessively familiar with her cat. / Mr. Block down the street stole all the butterfingers he gives out on Halloween. He laughs and calls it hot chocolate.
...........Something evil's lurking in the dark.........Michael Jackson …..Thriller
^^^^ The Champagne industry has an annual revenue of over 5 billion dollars.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Thank you for contacting the Abyss. Your scream is very important to us. --Blue Berrymore --Submitted by Philosophy Matters
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: HallowCon 2022 (28-30, Dalton, GA) A FANTASY and HORROR CONVENTION http://www.hallowcon.com/
Actual Science Conference of the Week: International Conference on Computer Science and Technology (ICCST) (28-29, LA) ...dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events... https://conferenceindex.org/event/international-conference-on-computer-science-and-technology-iccst-2022-october-los-angeles-us
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Conquer and concur
Brooms leave no carbon footprint. / Almond Joy, the Hollywood star, and Miss Kit Kat were seen giving each other Hersey's kisses on 5th Avenue.
..........writing on the wall...........Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble …..Superstition
^^^^^ While normal (non sparkling) wine is created by a single fermentation, a double fermentation is needed to create the bubbles of Champagne that make it sparkling. The first fermentation gives a white or rosé wine. The second is when yeast and sugar is added. This process has a legal requirement of preparation of at least 15 months for a standard champagne or 3 years for a millésime champagne.
My Own Writing of the Week: Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo. She is the goddess of the wilderness, the hunt, animals, and fertility. She and Apollo were both great archers. Mostly, she is the moon goddess, the maiden of the triple goddess - maiden, matron, matriarch
For a while I dated a beautiful young woman, my Artemis. She was stunning and petite, not tall, and her skin was supple and smooth and she was soft everywhere and she smelled delicious. And she was young and nice and intelligent and amusing. Yum! When she approached ecstasy, she made sounds much deeper than her speaking voice suggested. She was sweet to taste and to see. Everywhere I went with her, I felt people were thinking how lucky I was. But she was nearly a child, so I moved on. I didn't need a grown up kid especially, one with benefits.
I once un-re-wrote the Apollo and Daphne myth. It's the one where she turns into a tree to get away from his advances. In my version they meet when he is spending spring break from god school hiking in her woods. They become lovers and then he gets bent out of shape when she expects to go off to the spring orgy "not as a couple" (for Pete sake, it's the spring orgy. Give me a break, would you go to Carnival and not dance? Would you go to a Stones concert and not smoke dope? Besides, I have official duties...) and things deteriorate from there.
I love accordion players , they hold so tight.
From Always Surrender by Christine Smith
Quote of the Week: FIFTEENTH COUNT: AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, further accuses the defendants the Trump Corporation, d/b/a the Tramp Organization, and Allen Weisselberg of the crime of FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of Penal Law § 175.10, committed as follows: The defendants the Trump Corporation, d/b/a the Trump Organization, and Allen ‘Weisselberg in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about September 2016, with the intent to defraud, altered, erased, obliterated, deleted, removed and destroyed a true entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, DonaldJ. Trump's Detail General Ledger, and defendants’ intent to defraud included an intent to commit another crime and to aid and conceal the commission thereof. --The final count in the indictment against the Trump Organization
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Not even Carbon-14 would date you. --Submitted by Heinlein Society
Today's Peace of History, October 28, 1958: Mary Roebling became the first female director of a stock exchange, the American Stock Exchange.
Wiletta Witch claimed her broom was possessed. It didn't obey her and it had its own sweeping gestures. / Creep It Real! / Give 'em pumpkin to talk about.
..........And he vanished in the air.........the Grateful Dead …..Friend of the Devil
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle October 28, 2022, eErie ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith, Lawrence, KS
Moonbeam: Even the most beautiful legs – Marlene Dietrich's, for instance – look better when the kneecap is covered. --Edith Head
Cost of War:
- As of 10/27/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $191,118,610,845.
- As of 10/20/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $190,548,886,303.
- As of 10/27/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,092,917,596,307.
- As of 10/20/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,091,326,345,667.
- As of 10/27/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,119,301,336,375.
- As of 10/20/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,118,682,523,234.
- As of 10/27/22 Veterans Care since 2001: $2,709,858,963,140.
- As of 10/20/22 Veterans Care since 2001: $2,697,796,954,674.
- As of 10/27/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,989,493,271,628.
- As of 10/20/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,988,285,163,251.
- As of 10/27/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,102,691,035,659.
- As of 10/20/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $8,086,642,152,264.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Today is the World Day of Peace, “No longer slaves, but brothers and sisters.” Because war always makes slaves of us! It is a message that involves all of us. We are all called to combat every form of slavery and to build fraternity , all of us, each one according to his or her own responsibility. Remember well: peace is possible! --Pope Francis
Famous Last Words: ...among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow. --The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
..........She's a restless spirit on an endless flight.........The Eagles …..Witchy Woman
Riding a broom always gives me a clean getaway. / All witches wear black so you can't tell which witch is which.
May Peace be your trick
And Joy be your treat
prairie mama
christine
Last Laugh:
No comments:
Post a Comment