Famous First Words: You're so wrong, I ain't laughing... -Harry Fatt --Clifford Odets: Waiting For Lefty
Why did the homicide team investigate the murder of crows? Probable caws. {} Chris Crow became a pro wrestler and called himself Caws of Death.
Don't try to write with a broken pencil; it's pointless.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. --Dolores Huerta
..........It's the same story the crow told me, it's the only one he knows.........Grateful Dead …..Uncle John's Band
...to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. --Nelson Mandela
It is a cloudy Friday morning. The sky is gray and without texture. There is no wind to speak of, even the small willow branches at the top of the tree are hanging still. The complaint of a bluejay is the only birdsong. Puck has been out and is now asleep in the doorway to the office. Veronica has been out and has disappeared into the rest of the house. I am sipping coffee and trying to quell my anxiety. This morning we will go to Jeff's apartment and see what needs to be done to get this stuff out. On that happy note...
Hope your weekend is something to crow about, Birders.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Schrödinger's Epstein Files...
Oddity of the Week: We finally got Jeff's death certificate and there is no date of death on it. There doesn't even seem to be a place for Date of Death on it. There is even a time (actual or presumed) of death, but not a date. There the date the death was certified and the date the certificate was issued.
My local murder of crows have taken up gardening. So far they've only planted crowcus. {} A flock of crows on a mission is justifiable murder. {} Carrie Crow wanted to be a lawyer but they wouldn't let her into cawllege.
I hope to write something someday that's worth plagiarizing.
The activist is not the one who says the river is dirty. The activist is the one who cleans up the river. --Ross Perot
..........Smiling at me.........Ozzie & Harriet Nelson …..Blue Skies
Trivia Questions: Happy Day of Celebration of the Horse
How many horse years in a human year?
What country has the highest horse population?
Horses can get the hiccups. True or False?
What does a horse with “a lot of chrome” mean?
What natural bodily function (of most mammals) do horses lack?
Big Hello: āyubūvan – Sidhara (Sri Lanka) https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Due to recent events Heidegger discussions are no longer permitted on the patio.
Suggestion of the Week: Save time by crying about two things at the same time.
Insult of the Week: He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone. --Franz Kafka Metamorphosis
My Crowcrew have taken over the backyard. They just laid out a Crowquet field. {} The crows had a birthday party down at the crowbar. They spent the whole night drinking cawmospolitians.
Sure, it's simple, writing for kids is as easy as bringing them up. --Ursula K LeGuin
Activism is my rent for living on the planet. --Alice Walker
..........Just a little too late.........Shinedown …..The Crow and the Butterfly
Moonbeam: You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. --S I Hayakawa
Blasphemy of the Week: 2000 years from now, people will not understand the difference between “butt dial” and “booty call” and this is exactly why the Bible is hard to understand. --Submitted by MMS
Coffee Joke of the Week: When life gives you lemons, trade it for coffee.
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It's a shipment of new adjectives to describe how messed up everything is. --Lars Submitted by The New Yorker
Yeah, yeah, we've all seen the picture of two crows labeled attempted murder. But, face it, three crows are still barely manslaughter. {} Little known fact, before the crowbar was invented, crows drank at home.
Why I write: because kidnapping people and forcing them to act out your interesting make-believe worlds is technically illegal.
The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate. --Lecrae
..........I've been crashing rainbows..........Bobby Sherman …..Hey, Mister Sun
1) Conversion of horse's age to human years, multiply the horse's age by 2.2 OR count the first horse year as 10 human years and then multiply by 2 for each horse year.
Almanac: It is Friday, July 18, 2025. The moon entered its first quarter yesterday (7/17) and is in Taurus. Today is Celebration of the Horse Day, Insurance Nerd Day, International Mandela Day aka Nelson Mandela International Day, National Pajama Day, National Sour Candy Day, and Recreation Professional Day, Robin Hood Day, and World Listening Day.
Among those born on this day were Robert Hooke (1635), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Clifford Odets (1906), S.I. Hayakawa (1906), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Red Skelton (1910), Hume Cronyn (1911), Harriet Hilliard Nelson (1916), Nelson Mandela (1918), John Glenn Jr. (1921), Hunter S. Thompson (1939), James Brolin (1940), Bobby Sherman (1943), and Ricky Skaggs (1954).
On July eighteenth the great fire of Rome began (64), Ty Cobb got his 4,000th hit (1927), Uruguay accepted its constitution (1951), and Billy Martin suspended Reggie Jackson for not bunting (1978).
Night Sky, 7/18: Stargazers will be treated with an eye-popping planet parade roughly an hour before sunrise on July 19 and 20. Jupiter, Venus, the crescent moon, and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye, with Neptune (adjacent to Saturn) and Uranus (near Venus) visible via telescope. Watch the lineup in the east and southeast sky, and look for clear eastern vistas since Jupiter won’t travel far above the horizon. https://www.travelandleisure.com/july-2025-stargazing-astronomy-guide-11766109
Fraternal Picture of the Week: One mermaid and two pirates – one must be the pirate captain, he has such an official looking hat.
This Week: Saturday, July 19- National Caviar Day & Woodie Wagon Day & Words With Friends Day
Sunday, July 20 – Mon Day & National Ice Cream Day & Lake Superior Day & World Chess Day
Night Sky, 7/20: The Delta Aquariid meteor shower begins to be visible and peaks around the 29th. It's in Aquarius. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-delta-aquarid-meteor-shower/
Monday, July 21 – Global Hug Your Kid Day & International Balloon Holiday & National Be Someone Day
Tuesday, July 22 – Casual Pi Day & Be A Good Teammate Day & Spooners Day
Wednesday, July 23 – Gorgeous Grandma Day & Hot Enough For Ya Day & National Sprinkle Day
Thursday, July 24 – Cousins Day & International Self Care Day & National Tequila Day & Tell An Old Joke Day
Night Sky, 7/24: New Moon in Cancer c. 7:10 pm
All the crows in my local murder are nestdoor neighbors. {} Carol Crow is a famous baker. Her specialty is Crowconbush.
Easy reading is damn hard writing. --Nathaniel Hawthorne
I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. --Micahel Moore
..........Pretty flowers were made for blooming.........Ricky Scaggs …..Little Maggie
2) The United States has the highest horse population with more than 9 million horses.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I could've given them a word wedgie so wedged they'd be picking syllables out of their pride for a week. But I was feeling merciful and slightly dehydrated. --Submitted by Laughing Librarian
Moonbeam: When the going gets weird, the weird go pro. --Hunter S Thompson
English Major Joke of the Week: English is what you get when Vikings learn Latin and use it to shout at Germans, and then the French shout back. --Submitted by Laughing Librarian
Fun Fact of the Week: Happy National Pajama Day! The US pajama market is a significant segment of the broader sleepwear industry. It;s worth is estimated at $45.67 billion.
Video of the Week: John Glenn preparing for this Friendship launch, 1962.
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. --Nelson Mandela
I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives. --Bill de Blasio
Clarence Crow told me it was about 10 miles as the car drives but crows can do it in 6. {} My crows love me, just caws.
Sorry, we only accept manuscripts through an agent except spy novels which we only accept through a double agent.
..........Stay down to Earth with me.........Ricky Scaggs …..Don't Get Above Your Raisin'
3) True: Horses can get the hiccups, also known as “thumps”. More Than You Care To Know About Horse Hiccups
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You are here. Against all odds. A bundle of atoms with opinions, shoes, and unfinished laundry. --Submitted by 42 Collective
Weird Word of the Week: Erf – a plot of land https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erf
Dragon of the Week:
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Sterilize and clean stains from dentures. Mix one teaspoon of Clorox Bleach in a glass of cold water, and soak the dentures for ten minutes. Then rinse the dentures well and brush as usual. The bleach whitens the false teeth and makes the dentures sparkling clean, removing coffee stains. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/clorox.html
Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. --Martin Luther King, Jr
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. --W Somerset Maugham
Do Christian crows believe in Stant Caws? {} When my local murder gets into a fussing fit, a cawcophony, if you will, I call it a cawnversation. {} Crows never deal with airport baggage claims. They only carrion.
...........It seems I hear you whisper in the gloom.........Ricky Scaggs …..Crying My Heart Out Over You
4) Chromed Out Horse – lots of white on the legs.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Anxiety: Get Ready! Me: For what Anxiety: I don't know, just hurry. --Submitted by INRITH
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Readercon 34 (17-20, Burlington, MA) The conference on imaginative literature, thirty-fourth edition. https://readercon.org/
Life Hack of the Week: Make your guns totally invisible to the government by wrapping them in Epstein's Client List. --Anarchist Beauties
Spark of Joy of the Week: Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug ($19.95) When you pour in hot liquid, your bill of rights disappears. https://philosophersguild.com/products/disappearing-civil-liberties-mug
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. --Christine Quinn
Political crows are forever cawcusing. {} The rooster crows so early in the morning to get a word in before the crows wake up.
Dear readers: If you like my book, please tell your friends. If you don't, tell your enemies. I'm not picky about sales. --Submitted by Laughing Librarian
..........I've lost the heart I had a claim on.........Bobby Sherman …..Blame It On The Pony Express
5) Horses cannot vomit because a muscular valve prevents food in the stomach from returning to the esophagus.
Protest Sign of the Week: Without Due Process It's Just Kidnapping
Quote of the Week: The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal. --Camille Paglia
Second Cousin Once Removed Quote of the Week: I didn't want to be gay. I wanted to be … I wanted an easy life. And you know what? I am gay, and I still have an easy life. --Jane Lynch
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Herr Hegel writes gobbledygook and gibberish on a scale that many have emulated, but none have surpassed.. -Richard Porter --Submitted by Philosopher Games
Today's Peace of History: July 18, 1848: The first Woman's Rights Convention in the U.S. opened at Seneca Falls, NY. Its “Declaration of Sentiments” launched the movement of women to be included in the constitution
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality. --Jasmine Guy
Careful, you don't want to end up in my novel.
Admit it, crows feet don't even look good on crows. {} You know what they say: birds of a feather plan bank heists together. {} If you cross the bands Kansas and Counting Crows, you get Kerrin
..........Well, I'm telling you, baby, I'm through with you.........Harriet Nelson …..Just Because
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle, July 18, 2025: cOrvine ePistle . Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS.
Distant Cousin of Today's Peace of History: July 18, 1979: SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty), an agreement to put limits on both America’s and the Soviet Union’s long-range missiles and bombers, was signed by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. This was the first arms-reduction treaty between the two superpowers. It was signed despite the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the previous year.
Moonbeam: To love and win is the best thing;. To love and lose is the next best. --William Makepeace Thackeray
Cost of War:
As of 07/17/25 State Department Costs: $270,085,624,958
As of 07/10/25 State Department Costs: $269,526,750,323
As of 07/17/25 Homeland Security: $1,205,075,717,060
As of 07/10/25 Homeland Security: $1,204,468,754,577
As of 07/17/25 Interest on War Debt: $1,312,480,652,044
As of 07/10/25 Interest on War Debt: $1,301,919,782,299
As of 07/17/25 Military Costs: $3,156,957,706,759
As of 07/10/25 Military Costs: $3,155,772,525,437
As of 07/17/25 Veterans Care: $4,381,782,384,682
As of 07/10/25 Veterans Care: $4,369,949,228,564
As of 07/17/25 Total Cost of Wars: $10,327,384,919,047
As of 07/10/25 Total Cost of Wars: $10,312,638,775,641
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
In our country we go to prison first and then become President. --Nelson Mandela
Famous Last Words: Good Night and God Bless --Red Skelton as the sign off on the Red Skelton Show
..........Thought I had you beat..........Nina Simone …..Old Jim Crow
Being an activist is not easy. --Joshua Wong
I bought a pen that can write underwater. It can write other words as well.
The murder knew it was a scarecrow not a human; it wasn't looking at its phone. {} Are albino crows cawcasian?
May Peace rest on your shoulder
And Joy eat from your hand
prairie mama
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