Yes, I did manage to make my cold 99% worse by going back to the train station before I was over it, and I am utterly exhausted and feel like I’m 110 years old and I’m now battling laryngitis…
However, the Beaujolais Nouveau 2023!celebration at the train station has been a complete and fantastic success.
The guests are LOVING it — and most of them had no idea what Beaujolais Nouveau even was. They just wanted to show up and find out.
Last night, it rained and was cold, so the patio was closed and we couldn’t light the fire pits, and we can only seat about 26 people inside. But we stayed busy all evening and almost ran out of food!
And we’re down to only 12 bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau to sell by Thanksgiving — and we still have another round of celebrating tonight!🥳 So, yay!!
And people are loving the French 60s pop music — mostly the Ye Ye girl stuff. But on Thursday evening, an older woman, with some type of European accent that I didn’t recognize, was sitting at the counter, drinking a glass of Beaujolais, the lights were dim, the votives were flickering, and she called me over and said, “What is this music?”
“Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, singing a song called ‘Bonnie and Clyde’.”
She had such a serious expression. She said, “It’s wonderful.”
So the guests are having an incredible time, the cooks are making incredible food (!!), and Wendy (my co-worker) and I are having a blast . (I just wish I felt better….. )
Okay. Enjoy your Saturday, wherever you are in the world!
The fake Biden called “his friend” Xi a “Dictator” in front of everybody. (You know, for people who have no clue what’s going on, that all of this is fake, that Xi is in on the whole thing, they must just want to tear their hair out.)
And then a bunch of really offensive (paid actors?) “illegal” pro-Palestinian protestors attacked the DNC offices in DC last night and had everyone running for cover.
A lovely — and really, really, really REALLY loud — protestor:
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Honestly, that’s it.
Here’s that interview Nick Cave did with Rick Rubin right after his solo tour-with-bass-player ended in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago (1 hr 23 mins):
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Another great photo of Keith!! (You know, I’m putting together notes, notes, and more notes, for a memoir I am going to write about the various different father figures in my life, and Keith Richards is the only one of all of them who isn’t dead yet. (This doesn’t count my adoptive dad, who is terminally ill but still alive). Anyway. if you know anything about the life of Keith Richards, it is kind of amazing that he, of all people on Earth who had such a profound affect on my entire life, is still alive.)
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So, I am still a little bit sick with that cold but I have to head back to the train station today, because we are having our Beaujolais Nouveau 2023 celebration. starting tonight.
This was, of course, my idea, since no one on Earth expects a tiny 200-year-old train station in the middle of Nowhere Ohio to be celebrating the annual release of the Beaujolais Nouveau.
I had to basically beg for it, starting way back in September, and I finally got everyone onboard, and 2 cases of Georges Duboeuf were ordered and delivered, and the social media promotions went out — and so now I have to be in top energetic form to MOVE THOSE BOTTLES of wine before Thanksgiving, or at the very latest, by Christmas….
But my nighttime co-workers, who are a whole different breed from the daytime staff, except for one of the day shift girls who is like a daughter to me. But anyway. They are so enthusiastic. Everyone’s dressing in retro-French garb tonight and we’ll be blasting (and I mean blasting) 60s French pop music on the sound system — France Gall, Francoise Hardy, some famous Serge Gainsbourg duets, Dalida, Juliette Grecco, and various Ye Ye girls, etc.
My dear friend Kara is even going to stop in, either tonight or tomorrow. So it really should be fun. However… I am so fucking tired….
But on we go.
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Enjoy your Beaujolais Nouveau day, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya.
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I leave you with another great one from Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs, 1983 — which was just remastered and it is great!! This one below, “Gun Street Girl,” is not remastered here. And I have the lyrics below, too, because I think that some of the songs I posted yesterday are hard to understand. Okay. Enjoy.
“Gun Street Girl”
Falling James in the Tahoe mud Stick around to tell us all the tale He fell in love with a Gun Street girl and Now he’s dancing in the Birmingham jail Dancing in the Birmingham jail
Took a 100 dollars off a Slaughterhouse Joe Bought a bran’ new Michigan 20 gauge Got all liquored up on that roadhouse corn Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette Bought a second hand Nova from a Cuban Chinese Dyed his hair in the bathroom of a Texaco With a pawnshop radio, quarter past 4 Well he left Waukegan at the slammin’ of the door He left Waukegan at the slammin’ of the door
I said, John, John he’s long gone Gone to Indiana Ain’t never coming home I said John, John he’s long gone Gone to Indiana Ain’t never coming home
Sitting in a sycamore in St. John’s Wood Soakin’ day old bread in kerosene He was blue as a robin’s egg brown as a hog Stayin’ out of circulation till the dogs get tired Stayin’ out of circulation till the dogs get tired
Shadow fixed the toilet with an old trombone He never got up in the morning on a Saturday Sittin’ by the Erie with a bull whipped dog Tellin’ everyone he saw They went thatta way Tellin’ everyone he saw They went thatta way
Now the rain’s like gravel on an old tin roof And the Burlington Northern’s pullin’ out of the world With a head full of bourbon and a dream in the straw And a Gun Street Girl was the cause of it all A Gun Street girl was the cause of it all
Riding in the shadow by the St. Joe Ridge He heard the click clack tappin’ of a blind man’s cane Pullin’ into Baker on a New Year’s Eve With one eye on the pistol and the other on the door With one eye on the pistol and the other on the door
Miss Charlotte took her satchel down to King Fish Row And she smuggled in a bran’ new pair of alligator shoes With her fireman’s raincoat and her long yellow hair, well They tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire They tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire
I said, John, John he’s long gone Gone to Indiana Ain’t never coming home I said John, John he’s long gone Gone to Indiana Ain’t never coming home Bangin’ on a table with an old tin cup Sing I’ll never kiss a Gun Street Girl again I’ll never kiss a Gun Street Girl again
I said, John, John he’s long gone Gone to Indiana Ain’t never coming home I said John, John he’s long gone Gone to Indiana Ain’t never coming home
Even though I am amazed by how much better I feel today over yesterday, I am staying (mostly) in bed just to get to 100%.
But this morning, I forgot to post this, so I am back at my desk!
In the event you’re interested in Tom Waits…
This is one of my favorite records of all time. Seriously. It ranks in my Top 5. And it was just remastered.
I listened to it last night, in my bed, candles lit. Me, trying not to cough, etc.
And I was really overcome. They did a great job.
I hadn’t listened to this album in it’s entirety for a few years. And so many memories came rushing back — mostly memories of living in that hellhole on E.12th Street in the East Village in NYC in the early 1980s.
This album came out in 1983, right when I left my first husband and moved to E.12th Street because it was all I could afford while staying in Manhattan. (Back then, the East Village was just a god-awful, bombed out sort of war zone. Really high crime, tons of drugs, cops were almost worse than the criminals. However, I have such incredible memories of my life there because it was just so intense.)
Anyway. I wanted to share this with you, in case you wanted to get it.
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs, Re-Mastered 2023
Here are a three of my absolutely favorite songs from the album (1983 – these are not remastered). Enjoy.
Phil just posted a comm — a photo of himself in an old London-style phone booth in Arizona, the old London Bridge in the background, with a Christmas wreath on it. He’s wearing a t-shirt that appears to be a “Phoenix” rising…
Lots of people decoding it on his private chat. To me, it seems like it’s more comms about the Royals (?), or London’s Government falling? And maybe something huge happening over revealing election fraud in Arizona?
Also, Phil seems very calm.
I’m not good at decoding, gang, so I rely on lots of other people’s opinions. We shall see how this goes!
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Apparently, there were 290,000 protestors at the pro-Israel rally in DC yesterday. It was peaceful, and well organized. (4 mins.):
“My great sister, Maryanne, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. A truly beautiful woman, tall and elegant, with a presence like no other, she was also a tremendous student, intellect, and Judge, in charge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, just below the U.S. Supreme Court. Her life was largely problem free, PERFECT, until I made it difficult for her when I decided to run for President. The Fake News, and others, went after her mercilessly, and because of the fact that she felt it inappropriate, due to her position, to defend herself, it just never stopped! While tough and strong, she was made to suffer in those years from 2016 until her Retirement. I will never forget the many times people would come up to me and say, “Your sister was the smartest person on the Court.” I was always honored by that, but understood exactly what they meant—They were right! She was a great Judge, and a great sister. She will be truly missed!”
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In my own life — I want to promote this to you. I always keep it on hand and it is incredible:
Yesterday, I came down with a cold and got one of those wretched sore throats. Quick-Blast is amazing at getting rid of that sore throat almost instantly.
I also take a bunch of other stuff — tons of elderberry, echinacea, reishi, oil of oregano, colloidal silver nasal spray. Etc. And then old-fashioned chest rub to stop from coughing so that I can sleep….
(And, yes, I did have yet another one of those confounding, endless, frustrating dreams last night, but at least this one didn’t break my heart.)
And then, lo & behold, the cold is just about gone this morning. I’m planning to stay in bed all day, too, just to be safe. Next week is Thanksgiving, and if I’m sick with anything at all, I can’t be around my dad.
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Valerie has a lot of stuff going on in her life this week — none of it good. So we can’t work on my Zazzle store. It’s frustrating, because it is almost ready. And I know how much you wanted that 1954 Powder Blue Pickup coffee mug by Christmas…
By the way — thank you to everyone who is reading me on substack. You guys are just amazing.
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I forgot to mention that our play, “The Guide to Being Fabulous”, finished its run Sunday in Toronto. The audiences really loved that show, gang. And just before it closed, Broadway World gave it yet another great review. (You can read it at that link.)
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Okay, that’s it.
Enjoy your day, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!
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Yes, Tom Jones continues around here…. another great one. Enjoy.
There is not much out there that is really interesting, gang. As you can probably figure out all on your own. It is so much noise and almost all of it optics.
I thought this was interesting, though — to me, it sort of proves that Bongino is in on the whole Q thing, but that he has his own mission: to wake up Conservative normies who refuse to believe in Q.
Posted on il DonaldoTrumpo last night — Dan Scavino (Q-team) and Dan Bongino (close friend of Donald Trump) at what looks like the UFC 295 fight in NYC:
There is a pro-Israel rally in DC today. About 60,000 protesters are expected and the Mayor has called in the National Guard, just in case there’s the same kind of chaos the pro-Palestinians caused.
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And Patriot Princess had some interesting Q-Gematria decodes. Having to do with the fake Biden’s 81st birthday coming up next week, and a full moon and maybe the fake 81-year-old Biden having a heart attack while driving his Corvette on the full moon??
Wouldn’t that be nice? But I guess we’ll just see.
Nick Cave gave a 17-year-old lad in Rome, Italy some great advice today on becoming a singer — basically, he said: don’t think so much, just go for it.
Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!
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Yes! I overslept this morning. More intensely maddening, disheartening dreams. But I don’t have to do anything today but write, so it doesn’t matter that I overslept…
Meanwhile–
Breakfast-listening music from today!!! TWO, yes two — choices!! Both of them are terrific!! Enjoy.
Sorry for the absence, gang, but there really hasn’t been anything to report on here that you don’t already know about — mounting optics, psyops, chaos, noise. So frustrating.
And here in my personal world, there has just been the battle with sorrow, confusion, despair. Even my dreams at night have been the kind that tear your heart out.
Anyway. I have to go to town this morning because my crazy amazing Honda Sport Civic needs another oil change (!!), and tire rotation. Doesn’t it seem like I just did that??
Anyway. Then I have to get the groceries.
If anything comes up today, I will drop by the blog and post it!
There is no news yet today, gang, although the stock market closed yesterday way way way in the red… I think from now on it will be moment by moment.
And Xi is apparently going to be “meeting with (fake) Biden in San Francisco” beginning Nov. 15th…that should be more than interesting and/or more optics and a complete waste of time. We shall see.
In my own life….
I got some really disheartening news about my dad yesterday. Not that it’s unexpected because he is really far along with cancer, but you just wish that somehow, you didn’t have to see the end of the movie, right?
I don’t blog about this stuff, but I will say that my dad and I had a very tumultuous relationship for about 50 years, but then suddenly, a few months ago, everything changed and it was like those 50 years completely evaporated and he “suddenly became” the dad he was when I was a little girl. And he was a great dad when I was a little girl, growing up in Cleveland. I am going to miss him so much.
Anyway, it is heartbreaking. But hopefully he will still be able to be present at Thanksgiving. My stepsisters and their families will be there, too, including my nephew whom I haven’t seen since before the scamdemic. — and even then, it was at my stepmom’s funeral. He has now already graduated college. How that happened, I have no clue, since he is only about 10 years old… (where did the time go, gang?)
Well, I am hoping that Thanksgiving will happen and that it will be a happy time, all things considered.
But in brighter news — and this is what I mean by my title for the blog today–
Peitor just now texted me some photos of what will soon be the NEW HOME of our micro-film production company, Abstract Absurdity Productions!!! On the Mediterranean in Nice, France. Just awesome, gang.
It is something to live for, right? The thought that after all this horrible war stuff is finally over, he and I will get back to work on “Lita måste gå! (Lita’s Got to Go!)” and the dozen other micro films we had in the works before the scamdemic.
And that is sort of it, at least for now.
Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!
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France Gall, 1964, “Laisse tomber les filles”. Enjoy.
But according to his private chat, there was a lot of gematria done over his posts yesterday (if you follow that weird AI-looking Patriot Princess, she did all the gematria in a tiktok video that is super hard to look at because her face is so weird.)
Anyway.
She talks a lot about the Royal family being taken down (checkmate), about Diana being still alive (which makes her Queen Diana now) and working with Trump. And Netanyahu being dead, or dying soon. Stuff that has been all over the backchannels for years. But now seems imminent.
So, as we’ve been hearing for the last week or so — a lot of shit is finally happening, gang. So stay safe, sit tight, be prepared — and, for most of us, this can’t happen soon enough. (EBS, blackouts, martial law in certain areas of the country.)
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Okay.
I’m going to get back to work on Novitiate. If anything else pops up today, I’ll be back…
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More from the “soundtrack” of Novitiate last night… “19th Nervous Breakdown,” The Rolling Stones, 1966. Enjoy!
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