This is Troy. He is chill.
All-righty! This week there’s actually something! First of all, Venus has gone back to direct motion, so mysteriously terrible things happening in your love life should cease for the time being. There are two significant construction, the biggest being MERCURY RETROGRADE – Sol-Jupiter with Mars in opposition. This has a straightforward interpretation of “stupid government tricks,” being driven largely by the military. The other one involves the Sun and Moon with Saturn, which is a general-purpose misfortune indicator. Probably not a good week to be on active duty.
Lucy and Ba’al
Aquarius: The Tower – Hoo boy. This one is bad. So bad I’m not going to even tell you how bad it is. It’s just that bad.
Pisces: The Sun – On the other hand, this one is really good — Material happiness, fortune, growth.
Aries: King of Wands – Rural or populist leader, power from the commoners, honesty forthrightness.
Taurus: 10 of Cups reversed – Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.
Gemini: The Hanged Man – Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.
Cancer: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Leo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
Virgo: Judgement – Change of position, renewal, outcome, total loss though lawsuit, the dead rising from their graves.
Libra: The Star – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope and bright prospects.
Scorpio: 9 of Cups reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections.
Sagittarius: 10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.
Capricorn: 6 of Cups reversed – The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently. This card doesn’t make much sense by itself.
Bean and Groghan
This is Samson. He doesn’t play, he RUNS.
….which is a general-purpose misfortune indicator.
I live there.
Gemini: The Hanged Man – Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.
Good(ish) news for Gemini? What is this sorcery?
Oh, and several cute doges. ‘specially Troy.
You don’t really get a sense of how big Troy is. He’s Part Malamute part black bear.
Sagittarius: 10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.
Now we’re talking.
Samson looks like a dork, The person who dressed him in that get up needs a pummeling.
He has to have his ears bound, otherwise when he runs they develop hematomas.
Maybe he should have his legs bound so he can’t run.
You’d think this would be a case where ear cropping would be appropriate.
Yeah, I hate to see ear cropping done for looks only, but I had no idea that hematomas could be a factor.
Better to have hematomas than look like a dork dog.
Insurrection! Mayhem! DOOOOOM!
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family were reportedly moved to a secret location Saturday after thousands of protesters descended on the country’s capital to decry COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Trudeau, his wife and their children were relocated from their Ottawa home to the undisclosed location in the capital amid heightened security concerns, sources told CBC.
Does Canada have something akin to the Tower of London?
Sorry for the OT.
That would be a fun addition to the horoscope – what it portends for politicians.
Last week’s IFLA has Capricorn (trudeau’s sign, I think) as: “The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs.”
Look out – Canadians are getting mad!
https://mobile.twitter.com/awudrick/status/1487567202459037700?cxt=HHwWiMC9oaef86QpAAAA
Nice!
Ba’al is a great goddamn name!
Love Troy! What a cute pup!
He’s no Lily, though.
Leo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
I’ll take it!
Ba’al is a terrible name for a d’og.
“Yep, I’m just a dog. All I know is ‘Ba’al’…and ‘good’…”
Particularly for a go’olden retriever.
How many clones are there?
Leo: 10 of Coins – ……archives, extraction
time to go! – Stephen Breyer
“Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss. ”
*Kif sigh*
Weather still sucks. Steaks will be done in the cast iron again this week.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/UJ-9Lv8kRi6BLjOpe3UQTA.UQF7TXMxAgN3u_OxvvibR-
If I ever live in a jurisdiction where printing isn’t a felony, I’ll pick up a PCR.
5 pounds of tri-tip going on the grill later!
Mmmm….tri-tip.
Great cut that is still (relatively) cheap. I like to do tri tip with a coffee based rub. It also pairs very well with chimichurri, but then again that goes well with most everything meat ? .
Filet Mignon tonight.
Same. Bacon wrapped and garlic butter. ?
The Sun – On the other hand, this one is really good — Material happiness, fortune, growth.
Finally some good news.
Troy looks awesome.
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2022/01/some-nj-health-workers-weigh-quitting-over-new-vaccine-mandate-will-it-escalate-the-staffing-crisis.html
? ?♂️
(er, ?️ ? ?♂️?)
(i.e., many anonymous Atlases shrugging internationally; sorry to be oblique)
While the holdouts amount to only a fraction of the state’s health care employees, worker shortages in many hospitals and other facilities have reached a crisis level.
It is a mystery.
This tiny fraction must comply or we’re in peril.
TPTB: Good morning. I’ve submitted a submission for your review.
I’ll take a look at this tomorrow.
??
Booger!
(oops; me read gud sum day)
🙂
I’M AWAKE! I’M AWAKE!
I missed the morning lynx opportunity to wish SP a happy birthday, so here are my late birthday greetings for Her Majesty. Have a happy one!!
Those are awesome dog pics. Those dogs must look forward to getting together at the dog park regularly. Not sure how their brains, evolved to be pack animals, interpret getting together to play, then going to their separate homes afterwards. The bond to their humans is number 1, but they sure like to play together.
Yes, and they have definite friend circles.
Most of the time, any two dogs there can play together but if a third tries to join, things get ugly pretty quickly.
Lily, Daisy, Callie and Duncan are an exception to that, they can play in threes or fours without getting into a fight.
Lily, Ghost, Callie and Dakota are another circle, but Dakota and Daisy don’t play we if they’re both in a group.
Tres to Aisle D – Tres to Aisle D. STAT.
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1486580830625357825
Prob’ly NSFW – or anywhere else.
*hurk*
No doubt.
How ? Why ? I can’t…
*hurk* indeed.
I don’t understand haute couture
Is that safe for any-thing/where/one?
The fact that she’s shopping the body jewelry is just perfect.
Mercury Retrograde.
https://youtu.be/e5nOxc-p-eM
the dead rising from their graves
How literal are these things?
That’s just a reference to Pelosi after her alarm clock goes off.
Pie waking up from his scotch induced slumber
OT: from morning links, we have Gene Hackman’s birthday.
Gene Hackman is an artist in his off-screen life, preferred medium being oil painting. He has a house (at least one) in New Mexico, which is the center of the “plein air” art scene in the US.
Hackman is a very private person who struggles to live a “normal” life, but when he mixes in with the populace, he inevitably gets identified and then leaves ASAP to go back to sanctuary.
He once attended a week-long painting workshop taught by Russian painter Sergei Bongart in Idaho. My mother was also in attendance; only about a dozen people. They were all outside (plein air means painting outside in real time from life) with their easels, working away and getting critiques and help from Sergei. All the other artists were respectful of Hackman’s privacy and treated him as equals.
But eventually some hikers spotted him and a crowd formed to come around and ogle and watch him. He tried to ignore them at first but it was no use. He apologized to the other participants and to Sergei, then left after only 3 days of the workshop.
This was back in the 80s, and my takeaway from the story was “I don’t ever want to be famous.”
I hope Gene has as normal a life as possible for his remaining years.
Every time I see swarms of strangers gushing over celebrities in television or film I think “Oh come on, that can’t be real.”
I might nod or smile and that’s it. In fact, on the couple occasions it happened, that’s exactly what I did. What is wrong with people?
Makes you wonder if we’re really the most advanced branch of simians, doesn’t it?
It might be their only chance?
I once saw Paul Sorvino by himself at a museum. Now there was a cordial force field.
I was at a small airport bar when Pierce Brosnan sat down next to me and ordered a vodka tonic. I glanced at him, inclined my head and raised my glass slightly in acknowledgment. He returned the gesture, clearly relieved, and we sat in silence.
Then a guy recognized him and approached, blathering away at him, and he politely acknowledged the guy but the guy then asked for a selfie and Pierce threw money at the bartender and left.
No peace.
That explains why he was living in an abandoned warehouse with fencing and tons of security cameras.
You left out the explosives.
Bugger! booger! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/howard-hesseman-dead-wkrp-cincinnati-1235084085/
Rip Mr Moore.
Also RIP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Singlaub
JFC – Carter could relieve an officer that was insubordinate, but Trump never did any of the bastards that slow-rolled him?
Was thinking that too. Could also be that Singlaub actually had some personal honor as well. There’s no shame anymore.
This is going to end well
https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/jan/27/police-teens-in-vancouver-kicking-in-doors-in-tiktok-challenge/
“Sorey for having that door closed.”
kicking seems a recipe for injury they need one of those tiny battering rams
Which challenge is it where you accidentally broadcast on TikTok the life draining from your body as you bleed out from a gunshot wound?
in Vancouver ? neah
I might visit that sewer for that.
Around here, that’s a good way to get shot.
Yeah. That challenge wouldn’t last long around here either. Definition of self limiting.
https://jalopnik.com/driver-opens-fire-at-another-car-on-i-95-in-miami-1848446264
WTF?
I thought that was a regular occurrence on US highways
In some places. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoU39Rpp4FI
that was the scene I was thinking bout though I did not remember the movie name, just something with steve martin
Sean Penn: ‘Cowardly genes’ lead men to wear skirts
Sean Penn is doubling down on his defense of traditional gender roles.
In two separate interviews this month, the two-time Academy Award-winner and ex of Madonna made comments bemoaning his perception that men are becoming more feminine.
“I am in the club that believes that men in American culture have become wildly feminized,” the 61-year-old told the UK-based publication The i in an interview ahead of the UK release of his new film “Flag Day.”
“I don’t think that being a brute or having insensitivity or disrespect for women is anything to do with masculinity, or ever did. But I don’t think that [in order] to be fair to women, we should become them.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/28/sean-penn-cowardly-genes-lead-men-to-wear-skirts
old school commie I see
Huh, I would not have expected an independent thought from that one.
First of all, Venus has gone back to direct motion, so mysteriously terrible things happening in your love life should cease for the time being.
No they won’t.
This has a straightforward interpretation of “stupid government tricks,” being driven largely by the military.
You are really going out on a limb here.
Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
Not sufficiently shitty.
I like the dog pictures.
I haven’t seen chili powder on the shelves for more than a month (other than in the small glass jars, and that’s not enough to make a single batch). But there was some today, so chili tonight!
No beans.
You should have been on the Zoomy last night. There was hot chili powder action.
+1 dead boyfriend.
No salad or spinach at the store today. Man, living in a declining empire sucks.
Wasn’t there some sort of contamination scare with the leafy stuff recently? Almost a whole wall in the local grocery’s produce department was bare a week or so ago.
Maybe that’s it. It’s been more than two weeks with no lettuce or spinach.
The shelves were rather bare at the grocery store I go to, but it is the day after a blizzard so I’m not going to read too much into it.
On the other hand, face diaper wearing has increased.
Twas fine here. A couple missing products, but nothing out of the pre-totalitarian norm. They still have a limit 1 on toilet paper and paper towels, which is weird because they had pallets of the stuff.
35-40% masked at Sam’s, which is usually lower than average. I’d guess that Target and Kroger are over 50% based on Sam’s being that high.
It’s good here. Pretty sure you are in TX too. No major shortages. I did a big pork loin last week, doing a roast chicken this week during the DFW “SNOWPOCALYPSE.”
I saw snowflakes on my weather app’s long range forecast, but I’m unplugged from the local hype artisans. It’s supposed to be a big one?
You ready, Mo?
Here I am!!!! w00000t!!!!
Bad spot, first down.
And we’re off!
It’ll be a decent game but nothing can ever compare to last week.
USMNT gives up an early goal *again*.
[sigh]
Didn’t know that was on. ?
LOL Spanish-only. Fuck that noise, sick of it.