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1. 1 day ago on Lio

   Thank you! It was and I have. They installed the little wires and springs and woke me up in less than an hour and sent me home in about 48 hours. No one even noticed that I was “missing” in action! Met with my happy hour friends on Thursday and they were pretty sure I was making the whole thing up….

2. 2 days ago on Lio

   True story…

   Sometimes a traumatic crisis can mess up your usually “clear thinking.” I was having a heart attack. I knew what it was ’cause all the classic symptoms were there. Did I call an ambulance? No.

   I summoned Uber. The driver showed up in less than five minutes. She asked me if she was going to drive me to some “fun” place on such a lovely Spring day. I named a hospital and asked to be taken to their emergency room. She did not lose her calm demeanor and proceeded to get me there promptly.

   Here’s what happens when you walk up to the admissions desk and say “I think I’m having a heart attack.” A wheelchair materializes under you and you immediately get an exam and you meet your cardiologist… even if you’ve never had one before.

3. 2 days ago on Dick Tracy

   From “Chim Chim Cheree” in “Mary Poppins” there’s this line… “On the rooftops of London coo, what a sight!”

4. 4 days ago on Dick Tracy

   “Ronnie Rump, Margerine Sailor-Spleen, Fred Cruise, Carry Fake….”

   These made my day.

   How about Kanamatt Gaetz?

5. 11 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   Donovan’s song “The Starfish-on-the-Toast” invokes an image of starfish contemplating a sky full of stars. No matter how often I’ve heard it, I still get a goose-bumpery awareness of the… Cosmic… implication of it all.

   “Their brother stars were twinkling in the skies of the sea.”

   And halfway between those two families of stars, the men in the crabbing boats. And once a boatman is ashore:

   “Holding whelks and periwinkles. Tingling in his hand. Little does he know they hold him too.”

   Mr. Henry’s beautiful and (deceptively) simple images put me in the same place… right in the center of the All-Thing.

6. 12 days ago on Back in the Day

   Queue is one of my favorite words. But in this case, cue is the word…is the place… is the motion…

7. 12 days ago on Dick Tracy

   We can only do what we can do. Be kind to yourself too.

8. 12 days ago on Clay Jones

   Yes it is! And pretty effective on a couple of blood/platelet related cancers….

9. 12 days ago on Clay Jones

   It not rat! It Siberian hamster!

10. 12 days ago on Joe Heller

    Does she or doesn’t she? Only her veterinarian knows for sure.

    Yeah, shamelessly stolen from a fifty [or sixty?] year old source.