Like getting to teach one of our young regulars how to play chess with the oversized chess board that my branch recently borrowed from Central library.
Then after seeing how quickly he picked up the game, watching as he went on to teach a few of our other young regulars over the past couple days.
I was looking back and realised that the shirt and pants I wore to tell stories to some kids in a summer reading program two years ago…
…are the same ones I wore this past summer.
(I have no photographic evidence of what I wore for the school visit in summer 2015 but I suspect it was likely the same combo that appears to be my “Go To” storytelling outfit!) 😉
Lots of great humour about the reports that Donald Trump paid Russian prostitutes to urinate on him.
The absolute funniest part to me is that a guy who makes up shit, lies freely, changes his story regularly and was helped greatly by “fake news” is now being undermined by an unsubstantiated rumour.
Someone joked that this scandal is what the Internet was invented for. Here’s some of the *many* jokes and puns I’ve seen…
“I’m not going to validate that report by sharing the most salacious details from it, even the detail everyone’s talking about. You might call it the number one detail. I think this is just an unfortunate leak. That’s making a huge mess. And I know I’m being a wet blanket, but reporting on this is the worst kind of yellow journalism. Even though jokes about this story are a golden opportunity, I won’t do it. Not to say the story didn’t make a huge splash. It did. It flooded Twitter. We’ll keep you updated as facts trickle in. We have our best researcher working on it. She’s a real whizz. And one thing is for sure: The president-elect is a Goldwater Republican who believes in trickle-down. So no, no, I’m not going to make any jokes, not even a wee one. So, I’m cutting it off now. I am finished. Wait! A little more is coming out! It happens sometimes. But after eight years of listening to Trump make unsubstantiated claims about Obama’s birth certificate, I don’t think this matters if this is true or not, because the fact is, it’s out there, and that means, Mr. Trump, you’re in trouble.”
Obama gives a heartfelt, inspiring, intelligent farewell address.
Trump has it leaked that he may have paid Russian hookers to urinate on him. :-0
(The claim about Trump is unsubstantiated but it comes from a reliable source in the UK intelligence community, the US intelligence community apparently brought these allegations to the President which they don’t do lightly and isn’t it delightful that Mr. “Say Whatever Shit He Wants No Matter How Insane” is getting some of his own medicine either way?)
Meryl Streep gave a great speech while accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes last night criticizing Donald Trump without once mentioning him by name.
He reacted like a big crybaby as usual. (Hint: There’s no way on earth that the most decorated actress of all-time is “over-rated” even though that’s the go-to word in your limited vocabulary.)
Anyhow, “S.O.S” seems appropriate today with the Presidential Inauguration less than two weeks away…
How did our nine year old become a teenager?
And of course his little sister idolizes him and if brother’s a skateboarder, she’s a “skateboarder friend”…
This post is half Throwback Thursday and half Friday Fun Link.
It features cassettes! Acid Wash Jeans! Big Hair! And somebody who looks like I looked in 1989 (okay, the pic is 1991) leaning against a brick wall.
It’s a pictoral history of the American Mall in 1989!
Hard to believe that just over a year ago, we were celebrating New Year’s Eve in Cuba!
