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japingape

Funny that you thought of Dracula. Had he been present, even as motes of dust, I believe your chickens would have been clucking in terror. He had that effect on animals. And yet women allowed him to bite their necks.

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japingape

If I were the Boss Witch, I would make a spell for Trump’s penis to fall off. Then I would make a spell for Melania to fall in love with Hillary,

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Shoshanah Marohn

No, I think he’s just dumb. But yes, he’s just about about the horniest sheep ever. Impressive, really. It’s like he’s overcompensating.

Bob Lee

This gives me an idea for a coloring book app. You pick colors and touch areas to do flood fills between the lines. You can magnify for small areas. When you’re done, it generates a GIF of your coloring session to share. The app is free – you buy the coloring books.

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japingape

This is good news:

“both Facebook and Google have responded by cutting these sites out of their advertising networks and otherwise making their stories harder to find.”

Compiling a list of fake news sites is also a good idea.

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japingape

I’ve heard myths of dog heads and bull heads, but never of deer heads…until now. You should warn the poor creature…send him a letter starting “Dear Mr Deer”.

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abeerfortheshower

“No, that’s not a washing machine. That’s just the cat’s new bed. Very chic, right?”

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Gina Bina

I’m so glad to see you say this. We’re not smarter than the Egyptians. We just have better technology, which has made us lazier.

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japingape

Are you a consumer as well as a producer? The organic soap sounds good!
I would be interested in the “much, much more”, especially if it includes clockwork toys.

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Shoshanah Marohn

Yes, am also a consumer. The soap is amazing! And last year I got my daughter some fingerless gloves. I meant to buy some ceramics, but they were pretty near sold out! I’m hoping Rick, the other artist upstairs with me, will want to trade something at the end of the night. His work is great!

Jennifer Gilbert

Very nice. Like to say welcome to Wisconsin community. Hope you have a great day.

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Jennifer Gilbert

Very nice would like to say welcome to Wisconsin spam free community on google plus.

Professor Batty

Very funny! I had mislaid my copy of Exhaust(ed) and had been looking for it ever since I came home. I finally found it this afternoon, hiding in one of your other books. I sat down and re-read it; it was just as funny as I remembered. Then I went on line and saw that you had just posted this!

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Shoshanah

Sometimes the hats were so elaborate, it looks like ladies needed better posture then, just to hold up their hat!

jono51

Even though I no longer have a prostate I think this is totally valid. I told my doc that one of the reasons we like her is her small fingers.

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Shoshanah

This photo is in a family photo album I have that also has pictures of the San Francisco World’s Fair, which was 1915. So, I’m guessing around 100 years old. I know who some of the women are in the photo album are, but none of the men, so this photo is extra special mysterious. I have so many questions about this photograph, and no one left alive to ask!

japingape

That tiger’s going to be mighty pissed off in the morning! It doesn’t look like the easy-going sort judging by the expression on its face.

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japingape

Lovely that people can take such good care of their teddy bears, although it does make me wonder whether teddy bears need a bath now and again. Soap and rinse in the rain might be better than the washing machine. Merry Christmas to you and your dear ones.

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Janyce O'Keeffe

That’s a really interesting comment that the student made. Since he was one of the misbehaving kids, I wonder what his motive was. Did they all calm down after you heard this and reacted, or did he change, or did nothing change? I used to substitute teach and I sweartagah, sometimes there is just nothing…

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Shoshanah Marohn

I don’t think he had any real motive beyond boredom for this conversation. We were just talking. Kids are always different when you’re alone with them. He didn’t change his behavior at all after this. I did mellow out a bit and stopped worrying so much, and things went a little bit better. I stopped watching the clock and started reading during class, and a few kids followed my example. This was all about fifteen years ago. I could probably handle them a lot better now, with all of my experience, but who knows? Maybe I would still be the rock, or maybe now, I would be the stream.

Shoshanah

Interesting! In the online coloring group where I shared it, they all like the longer version, because it shows all of the pictures.

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japingape

How nice to hear a story about sheep having sex with other sheep. The ewes must be suspicious about his lack of horns, so I bet he compensates by riding them hard! Do they bleat in a particular way when they’re being mounted?

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abeerfortheshower

Mulder – the hornless gigolo with a heart of gold. I feel a holiday special coming on.

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Shoshanah Marohn

Well, I was going to change the credits on the first one to not be so long and distracting. And then I found I deleted it in my editor, so all that exists is the youtube upload. I’m not willing to start from scratch, so it is what it is.

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Janyce O'Keeffe

Oh, my. That is one crazy lady! I went to school in Potsdam, NY back in the 60s and it was regularly below zero, well below zero. One week it stayed at -30 in the daytime every single day. We had a tunnel to take us from the dorm to classrooms and people who had cars put smudge pots or something under the engine blocks so the cars would start. Honestly, once it got below zero, it all felt the same. I understand from talking with fundraisers from the school in recent years that it doesn’t get that cold there any longer. Lucky them!
I hope your cat comes back!

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Bibiophile

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but I had to read it on a lectern because I got pain in my wrists from holding it… Would definitely recommend a Kindle edition.

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Shoshanah Marohn

Yes, I had trouble reading it in bed. Holding it up casually to the correct page was a challenge. For awhile, I put a teddy bear on my belly and then set it on top of that. Awkward.

japingape

It could be a musical. Just modify the lyrics of ‘Springtime for Hitler’ from ‘The Producers’. Cast Robert Downey Jr in the title role.

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Shoshanah Marohn

“Murgatroyd Buttercups” is a book I illustrated for friend and writer Yosha Bourgea. That’s the book title. It’s a wonderful little children’s book about the joys of nonconformism.

japingape

The whole world knows about the protests and chuckled when his press secretary said the inauguration crowd was the biggest ever! Donald’s hands are the biggest ever too! I hope you’ve visited the website showing how to lobby your federal reps – you can find it in Anne Marie’s blog.

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Shoshanah Marohn

We tried to get rid of him and everyone “Up Nort” voted for him again. What can you do? I never thought I’d say this, but Scott Walker would probably be a better president than the one we got. He’s at least consistent.

abeerfortheshower

That is the most adorable killer I’ve ever seen.

My little cat killed a candy wrapper yesterday, but then she got exhausted and had to take an 18 hour nap.

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Shoshanah Marohn

Yeah, they don’t seem like they have any real meat on them. I heard you could make jello with them, but I have no idea how. Or Polish chicken soup. Blah.

abeerfortheshower

I’m Mexican, but apparently I’m not very good at it, because I never once have wanted to eat chicken feet. Sorry Grandma. But I don’t discriminate. I don’t want to eat lamb feet, either. Or anyone’s feet, really.

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Shoshanah Marohn

I don’t think they’ll kick you out if the Mexican club for that. Of course, if you had only eaten more feet, they wouldn’t be able to kick you out.

abeerfortheshower

This is a great point. I’m thankful to spend Valentine’s Day with my wife, but I can think of at least a dozen women that I’m even more thankful to NOT be spending it with.

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abeerfortheshower

I never thought I could learn so much about trolls in one post. What a cool place. And extra cool that you get to do the coloring book!

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Shoshanah Marohn

My husband got his picture taken at the original White Castle. It inexplicably has a tiny door that no one is allowed to use. This is not the original White Castle.

abeerfortheshower

Wow. That’s just amazing. Makes for a hilarious story, though.

And don’t worry about the name. I’m convinced that anyone in retail can and will screw up anyone’s name. Regardless of how easy it is. For example, my mom’s name is Jane, and someone signing her up for something once thought it was ‘Jame.’ She even pronounced it that way.

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japingape

You spent so long fingering those chits in the helmet that I thought you were stirring cake mix or something! But it was nice to see you speaking in person!

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Shoshanah Marohn

Next time, I think I’ll just stir them for ten minutes while I talk about beautiful colored drawings I’ve seen and then, when the cat walks in front of the camera, I’ll forget to actually draw a name. I’ll just turn off the camera and move on.

jono51

Skinny only exists in Hollywood and dreams. And in third world war-torn countries.

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abeerfortheshower

Fantastic picture and fantastic story. I mean, their beaks DO look like giant hook blades…

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Liz

you have the most lovely smile I’ve seen in ages. And you’re giddy and laughing. All very good things!

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abeerfortheshower

Yeah, isn’t that always the case? My pop star wants to do something like this, and I told her no, please, don’t do that. “But I want to show everyone how to be happy, and how easy it is!” Uh yeah, you’re pretty enough to be a model, you’re rich, and you live on the beach. Of course you’re happy. That doesn’t solve any of MY problems, however.

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Shoshanah Marohn

Exactly!

Gretchen Ruben actually does give some good advice, but she just has these amazingly huge blind spots in her world view. Sometimes listeners write in with their “happiness tips,” and she reads aloud the best ones on the podcast. At New Year’s, she read aloud the tip, “Out with the old, in with the new! Every new years, my family has the tradition of throwing out all of the food in the refrigerator and starting over! Everything goes. It’s nice to start with a fresh new refrigerator for a fresh new year.” (I’m quoting from memory.) Gretchen Ruben admitted she wouldn’t be doing this one, but she did read it out loud like it was worthy of doing. And she never addressed the obvious: That you are taking a time (after the holidays) when your refrigerator is most full, and you would literally be throwing it all away. Everything. And what if you don’t have money to restock it? This was all along the lines of decluttering or something, I guess? What an absurd waste.

Sorry— back on my rant again! Thanks for commenting. 🙂 I’m glad you talked your pop star out of it.

japingape

I was so relieved when you revealed the Lennon song – initially I thought it was ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’. I like beans and farting is much easier to enjoy if you’re outdoors. No one is entitled to complain about anyone farting in the open air.

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abeerfortheshower

That is hilariously batshit. You really can’t make this stuff up.

You know, there’s also this conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is a time traveler, sent back in time using information handed down by Nikola Tesla.

http://imgur.com/EVdeMRP?r

What an age to be alive.

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japingape

I thought the kook who killed John Lennon was in prison, but now I have a suspicion that Mr Crazy was the culprit. Accusing others is a wsy of diverting attention from yourself, as every witch doctor knows.

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japingape

So many children learn the recorder, but so few become virtuoso players. It’s a mystery. But I’d rather listen to a recorder than a honking goose.

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Bobby Lee

I love that show. I was so disappointed to discover that Amy Poehler is nothing like Leslie in real life. Sad.

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japingape

You’d marry Ron? Isn’t he a bit on the grumpy side? But I agree it was a great show and I want to pinch Leslie’s cheeks. I’m sure she’d let me if I asked nicely.

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abeerfortheshower

My vote is for yak. That way you don’t have one bit of consensus among your commenters. I’m helpful like that.

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Shoshanah Marohn

Oh, thanks! I was worried two people might agree.
And, because I feel obligated to agree with everyone except for my dad: I totally agree. It was a yak.

japingape

I don’t like that mole. It’s deeply unpleasant. What man would want to kiss it while making love to her? If I were a demoling surgeon I’d operate immediately.

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japingape

It looks like ‘noof’. One of those words that convey the meaning of a sentence or even a paragraph (e.g. ‘Siaoo!’ exclaimed by Chairman Mao in ‘The Red Monarch’).

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abeerfortheshower

I love her style of trolls. Very fun and whimsical. And I’m a big fan of breaking rules, so bleeding colors be damned! Maybe it’ll make it look even more fun with the mixture of colors?

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Shoshanah Marohn

I’m at the stage of creativity where you’re almost done, and the deep doubts creep in. Thanks for the encouragement!

japingape

The border on the plate reminds me of eels. Your border looks like flowers and leaves and possibly the odd shrimp. It doesn’t look like a goof to the naked eye.

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japingape

Yes, the story within the story is often better than the story. ‘1001 Nights’, for example. And ‘Life with Tom’ in ‘Tom and Jerry’. The story within the story within the story would take us to the next level.

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abeerfortheshower

Oh, if only the alligators had come equipped with stairs, maybe they’d have stood a chance (since apparently cows can go up stairs, but not down them).

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jono51

The cow should be nominated for sainthood. It worked for St. Patrick and St. Urho.

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Marilyn

Sorry for your loss, but I love what you wrote about your “Cuz”, and I think he would have loved it, too.

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Janyce O'Keeffe

I’m so sorry about your cousin. I’ll pass along what a nurse in the ER said to me after a family member’s unsuccessful suicide attempt, when we were so stunned: You can never know what’s in someone’s mind.
We all felt so responsible, and the nurse’s statement helped.

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Becky

Yes he did keep those coon skins on the wall i have seen them very nice story as well RIP my friend

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japingape

How sad, poor fellow, he must have been depressed. I’m glad your coon skins gave him some temporary happiness.

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Jenny Oskarsson

If you would like a Swede in your list you could go for Gustafson Fröding. He had a big beard and was a fantastic poet.

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Shoshanah

Do you think that I look like her when I’m with my sheep?

japingape

Did he make love to the ghost? If they practised safe sex it would have been a good lesson for 9 year olds. That picture isn’t so great. Leaning over a chair is structurally unstable.

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Oroboros

Perhaps the awkwardness in the pose is studied. Definitely a striking woman.

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abeerfortheshower

Bravo. I absolutely love this. This is so, so much better than those bland author photos where they try to dress up in some boring pantsuit and look thoughtful. Give me a good old fashioned chicken hat over that any day.

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japingape

Ba Ba black lambs, they don’t have any wool (yet). Cute creatures and I can’t help feeling sorry for the eunuch you made. Don’t people need stud rams?

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jono51

I think it was Kurt Vonnegut that taught me where the asterisk came from. He may have been looking at the back end of a dog, but nearly any mammal is a good example. The line up of cats makes it definitive.

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japingape

Maybe they thought the bed was a refuge from the storm. I would have thrown a blanket over both of them to calm them down.

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abeerfortheshower

That’s awesome! I cannot color to save my life. I can barely color inside the lines with a fancy computer program.

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japingape

I’m surprised your kitties need a litter box. Can’t they do their business in the Great Outdoors (after digging a little hole)? I’m assuming you have a cat flap.

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Shoshanah Marohn

No cat flap! The two indoor cars stay indoors to keep our house mouse free. Then we have two feral cats to keep the barn mouse free, and they go in and out through the chicken door, but they have a litter box, too. It’s a good way to keep track of when they are home.

abeerfortheshower

I don’t think I’m high enough to appreciate this level of awesomely absurd alliteration.

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japingape

It’s worth learning Portuguese just to find out what “passado pranto” means. It’s a phrase that could easily become more popular than its English equivalent.

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jono51

Past mourning. I cheated and used google translate. It would take a long while to learn Portuguese for this geezer. So North Africa is the place to go when your heart is broken? I could see that. Even with one eye.

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Shoshanah

Portugal has a strange and interesting history, wherein they sort of lost North Africa. It might still be a good place to go, though.

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jono51

When I first saw those pictures of entire neighborhoods having gone up in smoke I finally understood the devastation that was going on. So many killed. I just can’t imagine what those effected by all this must feel.

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Oroboros

Not really. It was a great career but changed so much after 9/11 I was glad to be done.

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Professor Batty

Great story! I remember the EXP very well, I was interested in getting one, but since we had kids then, we went with the Mercury Lynx, the same thing with four seats.

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rah53

Only thing missing was the old gentleman with the umbrella poking him in the behind. 🙂

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trevorpspeer

Here is some Hesse magic for ya.

Whenever I read a Hesse novel weird synchronicities happen, like, for example, finding a GLASS BEAD in a random part of the woods while picking up dog poop (way off the trail) that is the exact size, color, and design, and is positioned so that the design in the glass bead is facing the same direction and is oriented the same as the most prominent glass bead on the cover of the copy of The Glass Bead Game I had with me. Was reading it on a bench before going to get the poo and discovering the marble staring right at me.

Thankfully there is an explanation for this seamingly personal message from the universe:

“The life of everybody is a road to himself” – Hesse

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Shoshanah Marohn

Like pay a vet to come out? He came out and explained to me what happened and how to do it better, in great detail, while constantly pointing to his own testicles. LOL. I think I am a professional, now, just not a good one.

Professor Batty

This looks great, I can’t wait for my copy to arrive.

Actually, since I now have eternal life, I guess I can wait.

It makes me happy to have been the “grit” for your pearl!

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Professor Batty

You treat your critters well, no wonder Cooper loves you.

If you wondered where I’ve been, I only figured out that you were still blogging yesterday! I had a link to Shoshanah.space but I thought is was just a sale site for your art and books. D’oh!

The Weaver and I might be in the Mount Horeb area in May…

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