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Posted by Laurent Shinar

You know what the main problem with politics is? There are no cats involved, and that is a problem that was picked up on by one small town who decided that their mayoral race had become a disgrace and pivoted to bringing in feline candidates to fill the void.

The result is a campaign trail that is far more feisty, far more funny, filled with cute and charismatic cattos and best of all some of the best pawlitical pawlicies that have ever been put forward cat or not. So step right up and look into our feline overlord future where things generally look a lot brighter than they do now, even if it means handing the societal controls over to cats
 They might not care all too much about foreign pawlicy but you know what they say you catch a mouse in your neighborhood not in another country. So think local and start advocating for a feline run election cycle in your town.
 

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🔗 Links of interest

Aug. 18th, 2025 02:08 pm
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Willow Talks Books - Trans book author and reviewer + book discussions. I don't always agree with her but I appreciate that she's open to criticism. She mainly reads sci-fi, horror and fantasy.

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

The Fandom Platform Diaspora - "The history of fandom being kicked off a site when we're no longer considered a desirable demographic leaves many fans bitter and jaded when it comes to social media."

We Need to Talk About Tales of the Shire... (Full Review) - I just like listening to people talk about games I don't play and this pretty interesting.

"Why is this show SO obsessed with giving Spock a girlfriend?" - This kind of puts me off watching Strange New Worlds but I'll still try it.

"I Want a Wife (1971)" - This manifesto deserved a reward, 'cause damn.

Chicken Florentine

Aug. 18th, 2025 09:00 pm
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I posted a few weeks ago about Florentine omelette, a recipe we really liked, after I saw it mentioned in a book (neither of us had heard of it previously).

Florentine or à la Florentine is a term from classic French cuisine that refers to dishes that typically include a base of cooked spinach, a protein component and Mornay sauce. Chicken Florentine is the most popular version. Because Mornay sauce is a derivation of béchamel sauce which includes roux and requires time and skill to prepare correctly, many contemporary recipes use simpler cream-based sauces.


A Florentine omelette doesn't have Mornay sauce; it's just an omelette with spinach and cheese filling (parmesan and gruyere traditional). However, eggs Florentine is a common café/diner dish from the UK and Australia, a breakfast sandwich with a poached egg, spinach, and sauce on an English muffin. (People seem to expect Hollandaise instead of a Mornay sauce in that case.) Chicken Florentine might be the oldest version: that idea is out there, but it might be apocryphal too. The history of the term and the style is colorful but probably not accurate:

Culinary lore attributes the term to 1533, when Catherine de Medici of Florence married Henry II of France. She supposedly brought a staff of chefs, lots of kitchen equipment and a love of spinach to Paris, and popularized Florentine-style dishes. Food historians have debunked this story, and Italian influence on French cuisine long predates this marriage.[4] Pierre Franey considered this theory apocryphal, but embraced the term Florentine in 1983.[5] Auguste Escoffier included a recipe for sole Florentine in his 1903 classic Le guide culinaire, translated into English as A Guide to Modern Cookery.


(Quotes from Wikipedia, Florentine (culinary term))

Because Chicken Florentine was trendy in the US in the mid 20th century, the popular English-language versions of the recipe have suffered from simplification. Recipes from the midcentury reportedly used mushroom soup. Modern ones overwhelmingly use cream instead of Mornay sauce; it was necessary to put "Mornay" in the search terms before I found any recipes with it (because 1. it's not hard to make a roux, like what are you talking about? & 2. we wanted to try the more authentic recipe). We looked at three and used this one because the Mornay sauce called for wine, mustard powder, and nutmeg. We didn't use gruyere, though, just parmesan, and served it over white rice and it was sooooooo good. So delicious.
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The history of Vesikko, which translates to “mink” in Finnish, is tied to some of the most dramatic periods of the 20th century.

After its defeat in World War I, according to the terms of Treaty of Versailles, Germany was forbidden from having a submarine fleet. In order to circumvent these regulations, German authorities employed a cunning strategy. They set up engineering front companies in neighboring countries and used them as cover for their own armament research programs.

The designers of Vesikko, Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw, registered in the Netherlands, was one such company. In order to further cover their tracks, Germany used the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard in Turku, Finland, to produce their prototypes. Vessiko was constructed between 1933 and 1936 as one such prototype under the codename CV 707.

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II this submarine was sold to the government of Finland. As part of the Finnish Navy it saw service in both the Winter War and Continuation War, both satellite conflicts of World War II involving Finland and the Soviet Union.

Unfortunately, Finland didn't fare well in these conflicts. The consequences of World War II were harsh for the country. Under the provisions of the Treaty of Paris from 1947, Finland was forbidden from ever having a submarine fleet.

Vessiko was decommissioned after the war, along with the rest of the Finnish submarine fleet. However, it avoided the fate of Vetehinen, Vesihiisi, Iku-Turso, and Saukko, the other Finnish submarines, which were transported to Belgium and turned into scrap metal.

The sub was restored in 1973, transported to the current location at Suomenlinna, and converted into a museum. It remains the sole surviver of this chapter of Finnish naval history.

[Promo] October Review-a-Thon 2025

Aug. 18th, 2025 08:09 pm
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We are getting closer and closer to October (where is the time going?!) and the [Sign-Up Post] October Review-a-Thon 2025 post is of course still up. Sign-ups will not close until Oct 31, LOL.

This event took place last October, too, and the rules are the same. I'm super excited to see what reviews will be posted!

(It's a low-commitment event: you can drop your sign up at any time, and if you don't manage to post a review on your claimed day(s), there are zero (0) consequences. Just have fun at your desired comfort level!)

🔊 Daily music

Aug. 18th, 2025 01:14 pm
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@ Spotify

Hold me closer
Although you'll leave before the sunrise
Might be bleeding, but don't you mind, I'll be fine

Cornelia Jakobs – Hold Me Closer

AI scam bots on Dreamwidth

Aug. 18th, 2025 07:08 pm
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A quick heads up to let people know that the extractive AI spammers/scammers from AO3 seem to have made it over here to Dreamwidth. I received a message from one of them just now, which reads:

Hi, I thoroughly enjoyed your story when I read it. I would love to offer some suggestions that could improve your narrative even further, if that is okay with you. Is it feasible for us to communicate via a different platform?
Email address: karencrabtree98@gmail.com
Discord: karencrabtree_


The account is [personal profile] karencrab, but I would assume there are others active. This one has only existed for a few days, has made no comments, no posts, nor contributed to a single comm, and has a blank/weirdly inconsistent profile.

I'm going to block the account now, but I don't think there's much more I can do about it (unless anyone is aware of a mechanism for reporting suspected AI bot accounts to Dreamwidth). I would assume this means public posts on Dreamwidth are going to be more directly targeted as sources to train AI tools (although I know that this was happening already).

Please feel free to share this warning post.

Incremental progress [projects]

Aug. 18th, 2025 01:49 pm
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After the Row to Troy, it was a weekend of incremental progress and small projects.

There were more half-peck tote bags of peaches at the grocery co-op on Friday, so these are now ripening towards that 30-second window of perfection.

Peach array

S brought back baked goods from the farmer's market, so we enjoyed those on the catio on Sunday morning, along with our morning coffee.

Catio time

The cats like to lurk along this edge:
Catio time

Some time ago, we found a discounted disco ball at the grocery co-op for $5. S then attempted to hook it up to one of the pull switches on the dining room light, but the glue holding the hanging part failed and the disco ball has been waiting for someone to do something with it ever since. So yesterday I threaded a wire all the way through, added some random charms to the bottom, and hung it up in the catio.

Catio disco

This isn't the greatest picture, but shows you that we can see and enjoy the disco ball from inside the kitchen.

Catio disco

On Sunday S also helped me make progress on the project of dealing with some rust on one of Big Red's panels (Mazda2 - panel at the base of the door). I decided to go ahead and obtain a fancy angle grinder, so we went over to the hardware store to buy one. This is after the corded one for sale at the used tool store proved to be unuseable (mechanism for unthreading used discs is stripped). Unfortunately, by the time we got home I wasn't up for actually starting to take down the finish to sand out the rusted section. But I'll get to that very soon.

After the hardware store, we stopped in at the auto parts store, and learned that particular one doesn't carry touch-up paints, just the store one town over that isn't open on Sundays. So today I instead went ahead and ordered the appropriate paint and finish online.

Before I headed in to work this morning, I tried to work on replacing a broken fender stay on Frodo's rear fender:
Fender in need of repair

Unsurprisingly, the nuts that are holding the fender stay in place are totally seized up. You can tell from the inside of the fender, that this is a region of the bike that experiences all of the winter snow and salt. I didn't feel like trying to tackle the larger project of dealing with seized nuts, so I just gave up and rode in to work.

It always feels a little unsatisfying to only make it partway through various "small" projects. So I am trying to be patient and persistent with these things.

And now I need to buckle down and ramp up my preparations for teaching. Classes start the day after labor day.

Dreams and Mayhem: Hodge Podge!!!

Aug. 18th, 2025 01:35 pm
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It's one part dream.
One part disaster.
And absolutely 100% fandom.
It's Your OTPs/Fandoms combined with our chaos.

Schedule: From now until October 12, 2025 when our first challenges closes.

Links:
On Dreamwidth: [personal profile] innitmarvelous_og | Hodge Podge
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Russia has occupied less than 1 per cent of Ukraine's territory since November 2022.

'[Making "territorial concessions" would mean handing over] a region the Russians have been unable to capture fully since 2014, thanks largely to the powerful system of fortifications there. At the current pace of the Russian army’s advance, it would take them many years to seize full control.

Giving this defense belt up would enable unhindered, rapid advances of Russian equipment and threaten Ukraine’s very existence as a state. And despite breakthroughs in the Donetsk region, they still have not managed to capture cities protected by fortifications. According to a recent report by the Institute for the Study of War, capturing the cities in the fortress belt would likely take several years and cost Russia significant human lives and material losses.'

In other words, anyone presenting the current state of Russia's invasion as a stunningly overwhelming military force is either ill-informed, or presenting a false picture in order to push a particular agenda. This is not to say that life as a soldier or civilian in Ukraine is particularly easy right now, but it's important to keep these facts in mind.

'Territory' is not lines on a map, on an empty piece of paper: it is the people who live there, and 'territorial concessions' is a conveniently bloodless euphemism for condemning hundreds of thousands of people to totalitarianism and human rights abuses without justice.

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Aug. 18th, 2025 07:07 pm
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Posted by Miss Cellania

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released on August 14, 1975 in the UK and on September 25, 1975, in the US. The movie is a science fiction horror comedy musical with a ton of sexual innuendo (but no nudity) starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, and Meat Loaf. I didn't see it until early 1977, when it was established as a midnight movie in college towns. The Rocky Horror Picture Show seemed shocking and downright deviant to mainstream audiences, but it was a lot of fun and had plenty of catchy songs. It also had quite a few awkward pauses in the dialogue, which led to the custom of audience responses. Over time, going to the movie became an full-on participation event, with thrown props, cosplay, and even shadow casting, in which costumed characters perform the parts along with the movie. It's no wonder it became the biggest cult movie of all time. It never left theaters, even during the pandemic.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its audience traditions spurred the formation of fan clubs and communities of people who appreciated the film's subversiveness and sense of fun. Those who felt excluded from the wider culture found kindred spirits among Rocky Horror fans -and that's been going on for 50 years now. Read more about the legacy of the longest-running theatrical film ever at Ars Technica. 

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Emboldened by drinking Iron Tusk (the Oort Cloud Mariner was off), and feeling metal as a sidequence, I have unwisely decided to share my thoughts on the tendency to handmaidenly self-sacrifice: if you see me walking down the street, try not to cry each time we meet, just scroll on by....

Warning for oblique mention of suicide by self-sacrifice.

I was thinking about places we tour as spectators, as differentiated from times and places we might choose to live in.

Which in turn led me to wonder about fandom, and how much human behaviour has or hasn't been modified by the wider availability of (more-or-less accurate) information through mass media.

For example, many human cultures used to indulge in the supposedly voluntary mass sacrifice of young people at the death and burial of a cultural idol. Not only a loving partner, whose motive might be more understandable to us, but also multiple handmaidens (of any sex/gender). And I'm sitting here idly wondering if such spectacular "high status" (i.e. resource-hoarding) funerals were still de rigueur in our contemporary global cross-culture then how many young women would want to sacrifice themselves as a public display of grief at the death of a mass media idol or in the belief they'd accompany him to an enticing afterlife (as historically it was usually hims - or perhaps we have achieved equality of exploitation)? Would being one amongst hundreds or thousands of ghostly handmaidens, instead of a select few, encourage or discourage potential victims of self-sacrifice? Would their families and societies encourage or discourage them from joining the ghostly horde / hoard?

What about young warriors sacrificing themselves en masse at the funerals of their dead idols? As far as I know there isn't even a fashion for mass sacrificing virtual gaming characters to honour a fallen leader....

When did humanity change its mind about this previously widespread fashion for terminal self-sacrifice and why? Or is it merely better disguised now as millions willingly throw their lives onto the pyres of billionaires? I dunno, but I am interested in whether a fashion for young people to mass sacrifice themselves for a dead idol could ever return.

August Movie PTW List

Aug. 18th, 2025 11:45 am
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Using my movies boardgame.

I completed 6/7 movies from my last challenge and had a good time! I rated 3 movies 4.5 stars stars and 3 movies 3 stars, that's really good from me!


Avatar:
Sci-fi (choose your own prompt once)

Roll #1

A 2, prompt: popular. Sinners it is! I want to join the hype train.

Roll #2

A 7, prompt: weapon on the cover. Well that would have fit Sinners too but there's plenty of options...okay: Last Night at Terrace Lanes.

Roll #3

A 9 and just past the trap tile. Prompt: Sci-fi element. Settled on M3GAN 2.0. I remember the first one pretty well so I think I'll be okay.

Roll #4

A 3 and that's the PTW tile which makes bringing out the generator... Going off of a shuffled 100 movie page I got 13 which is Storage 24!

Roll #5

Wow, PTW tile again, first time happening. Shuffled again and generated an 83 which is...Infested...a movie about spiders...normally movie spiders don't scare me but we'll see.

Roll #6

A 2. I'm using my skill to choose the 'shortest film on list' prompt and that's Past Lives which feels like cheating because it's only a little over one minute!

Roll #7

A 1...the list is gonna be long again this time. đŸ˜„ Prompt: mostly blue cover. Let's do The Eternaut.

Roll #8
A 6 prompt: favorite theme/trope/cliche. This really stressed me out but I eventually decided I should rewatch something with stuff I like so I picked 28 Days Later, this way I can prepare for the new movie that came out for it recently.

Roll #9

8 and the end. Reward: 28 Weeks Later.

Most looking forward to: 28 _ Later series
Least looking forward to: Sinners because I'm worried it won't live up to expectations (and I've heard some things about the role the women play)

Movie PTW List:

[Horror/Thriller] Sinners
[Horror/Comedy] Last Night at Terrace Lanes
[Horror/Sci-fi] Storage 24
[Thriller/Horror] Infested
[M/M] Past Lives
[Drama] The Eternaut
[Horror/Thriller 28 Days Later
[Horror/Thriller] 28 Weeks Later
[Romance/Drama] Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Rollover)

🎬Movies Check-in

Aug. 18th, 2025 11:27 am
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Fear Street: Prom Queen ('25): Based on The Prom Queen ('92), I don't know if I ever read this one. It's set in '88, the year I was born actually. I felt a visceral reaction when Never Gonna Give You Up came on, I felt rickrolled haha. I like the 'Sarah Fier is still alive' touch in the bathroom stall. I'm kinda disappointed her mom didn't turn up at the end to save her daughter to bring it back full circle, but I guess the daughter getting prom queen and taking down her boyfriend's killer in her place is still a win. Did anyone else feel like Megan might've had feelings for her or am I looking too much into it because I wanted her to? I liked their friendship though, Lori laughed at all of Megan's dark humor and didn't try to change her. I would watch every single one of these adaptations I don't care who hates them. 3/5 stars

The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster ('23): This left a big impression on me. All spoilers head. A young girl loses her mother and brother to gang violence and watches another little boy get killed in the crossfires as well. She becomes obsessed with death and curing it and finally she manages to bring her brother back, but she didn't take into consideration that he would look like a monster and have the strength to back it up. It takes literally everyone but her and a little girl dying to finally find a better way. The irony of her reviving her brother only for him to kill his own dad who called him a monster! And he killed his other family. I was a little confused about who was related to who and also why the little girl acted so unnecessarily creepy. I'm so curious who all she brought back. 3/5 stars

Detention ('11): This movie had a lot going on. A guy with fly powers, a time-traveling bear, a murderer dressed like a famous movie killer named Cinderhella, a group of awful teenagers and more all amongst a school backdrop. I didn't understand all the references but twitter was mentioned and of course popular music of the time(s). I feel like if I rewatch I'll catch more than I did one a first watch. Overall the interesting mix of elements makes me give it a 3/5 stars.

I Saw the TV Glow ('24): Whatever I was expecting it wasn't that and now I'm crying, what a gut punch... I don't know if I could watch this again but maybe I need to. The balloon tent brought me back to my childhood btw, I loved when we did that. The music was great. Back to crying! (some interesting commentary on reddit here) 4.5/5 stars

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ('23): It just hit me that Spider-Verse reminds me a bit of the Life is Strange game!


It's wild that Gwen's father thought Spider-Woman murdered a boy. *smh* I get that he knew Peter but he didn't try to know or understand Spider-Woman.

I really did not enjoy the whole Miles -> Gwen / Hobie thing, love triangles and unrequited love are personal icks for me.

They blamed Miles for saving Singh but Pav was trying to save him too even knowing he was supposed to die.

I'm not surprised Hobie helped Miles what with his rebel attitude.

The chase scene was so much fun, a lot going on.

Jess told Peter he was a terrible mentor but it was them who got Peter in trouble and made Miles run again. >_> Man, blaming a boy for everything is a Choice, Miguel. Instead of saying 'it wasn't supposed to happen but here we are, let's make the best of it' he chose to put all the blame on someone who didn't ask to be bitten and have his life changed all because of this machine that says it was 'supposed' to go another way so Miles is a 'mistake'.

It's another Choice to send Gwen back to a place where her father wants to kill her or imprison her and she has nowhere to go...(though it didn't go there thankfully). There's a lot of messy people and situations in this 'verse and I reckon that's what keeps you hooked, you have to know how how it's all going to turn out. I'd love to watch or reading something pointing out all the references btw.

The next one isn't coming out until 2027 ahh. 4.5/5 stars maybe?

Phenomena ('23): Spanish is so fast, I had to pause a lot to catch everything! I like the sense of humor in this. As someone with anxiety and hyperhydrosis I felt bad for Enrique. I really enjoyed this movie, I loved seeing how the three women interacted together and with others. I want to watch it again. But what did that mid-credits scene mean?? A ghost shoving off all the bartender's glasses but one, and he smiled? 4.5/5 stars

Jurassic World: Rebirth ('25): I don't even know if I finished the previous entries, I started losing interesting somewhere after the first one but I was curious about this one. It takes place 37 years after the last one I think, when most dinosaurs have moved near the equator to survive. It was just okay at first but I started enjoying it more and more when the stranded family came into the picture. There were several references to Jurassic Park. Isabella took Dolores with her but will it be able to survive in different conditions?? Also how the heck did Duncan survive? I was ready to be pissed off if they didn't make him throw the stick in the dinosaurs mouth or something but the way it went was confusing instead. Also the dinosaur paralyzing pills(?) never came into action. And how did they get attacked so much on the way there but not on the way back, and there were even dolphins surviving nearby? 4.5/5

I am watching Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, it is just slow going because of my squicks, so I'll roll it over to the next challenge until I've made it through.
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Posted by Blake Seidel

If there is one day we allow ourselves to drink an extra five cups of coffee, it's Meownday. After lazing around all weekend doing purractically nothing except cuddle with our cats and watch too much Netflix, we need all the help we can get to drag our cat-loving souls to the office. But even with that extra shot of meowspresso in our coffee on Mondays, sometimes it's still not enough. And for those meowrnings, we need to go to plan B - cat memes with extra caffeine.

Not only do they make you smile, but they also boost your mood and keep you laughing all morning long. Think of it like a slow-release cup of happiness, like a nice meowtcha latte that gives you silliness and caffeine over the course of a couple hours instead of one big boost after a few minutes. We want to be productive all day, not hyper-productive for a few hours. Especially if you enjoy cats and their never-ending reign of meme supremacy on the internet, these memes are meowssential to managing your Mondays. 

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Signal boost: Meme for fic writers

Aug. 18th, 2025 04:57 pm
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Meme enjoyers who are fic writers! [personal profile] maevedarcy's got you covered with a "Questionnaire: 15 Questions for Fanfic Writers" in case you're looking for what to do write in a future post, for Fandom 50 or unrelated!

It's fun to read people's answers :)

She Had Such An Inventive Mind

Aug. 18th, 2025 11:37 am
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Finished David McCullough's extraordinary biography of John Adams.

Actually cried at the scene where the old curmudgeon opens his eyes on his deathbed for the last time & croaks, Thomas Jefferson survives! before expiring.

This one I didn't read; I listened to the audiobook on innumerable drives to Middletown, and then back & forth & around in Ithaca. I'd been wanting to tackle the book since I watched the excellent HBO miniseries John Adams, but it was the kind of book I knew I wouldn't be able to read as it contains hundreds of pages on John Adams's theories of governance, & I mean, Zzzzzzzzz.

But I also figured those theories of governance are relevant—particularly to the political situation today—& that if I were driving, I wouldn't fall asleep while parsing them.

###

Literally speaking, John Adams was wrong: Jefferson died about five hours before Adams did.

Figuratively speaking, though, Adams was right: Jefferson (despite the business with Sally Hemings) remains far more influential today than Adams—a bit weird when you think about it because Adams was a fanboy of iron-fisted federal control, all the rage right now, whereas the Rosseau-influenced Jefferson was an ardent supporter of individual rights & frequent revolution. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants, Jefferson once wrote in a letter to Adams's son-in-law.

On the other hand, Donald Trump only wishes he'd legislated John Adams' Alien & Sedition Acts.

###

In other news, Brian-Palooza went well. Good in-person turnout; people driving from as far away as Boston, Vermont, & Pennsylvania; a respectable Zoom contingent.

Brian's niece turned up! A lovely, 30-ish young woman. I was so glad to see her.

I spent most of the time I wasn't emceeing chattering with Brian's neighbor Willie (not his real name) who turns out to have been the chairman of Manhattan's Democratic Party for 15 years. We talked politics! Why are Democrats such losers? And he asked me for my phone number—no, nothing like that! He is a billion years old and very, very gay; in fact, he retold his story about knocking on Brian's door to borrow lube when it came time for us to share remembrances. (Water-based or silicon-based? was Brian's reply)—because, "You have such an inventive mind!"

If only I weren't planning to be cremated! She Had Such An Inventive Mind would look so good on a tombstone.

###

Tranquili-Tea put on a good spread!

Just look how adorable & The-Importance-of-Being-Ernest-ish these cucumber sandwiches are!



Vinnie, the husband of the woman who runs the tea shop, stood listening to our Brian remembrances with tears in his eyes.

Mind you, Vinnie is a very conventional guy who's lived a totally conventional life.

I was actually rather terrified that he & his wife Vicki would recoil in horror at some of the stories that were being shared.



But afterwards, Vinnie sought me out. "I felt so privileged that you chose us to be a part of this," Vinnie said.

And that was Brian's great gift, you know. He saw the multiplicity of dimensions that people exist on and he focused them into something singular and beautiful through the generosity of his own enormous heart.

Brian, I will miss you...

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