Friday Night Miscellany

Hola darlings! I was actually able to walk home comfortably tonight without my scarf wrapped close about my face and my hood zipped tight against the wind! The weather has turned - as Etta James sang AT LAST.... Speaking of Etta James, she's been having a hissy fit about Beyonce singing "At Last" at one of the Obama Ignaugural Balls. She also evidently does not like the new President, but now says she was just smack-talking and didn't mean anything by it. Personally, I don't think his ears are all that big; they just stick out a little bit. Anyway, Bing Crosby had "big ears" and he was adored by an entire generation of bobby-socks babes back in the day. Now Etta, if you want to see big ears, take a look at mine...one sticks waaayyyy out, too. BTW, I've heard Beyonce's rendition of "At Last" and think it's just fine. She's on-tune and has some good inflections here and there, and the orchestration sounds (to my untrained ear) very close to the original. But it will never be Etta's version, which still brings chills to my spine every time I hear those opening notes of hers. So Etta baby, get over it already. There will NEVAH be another you. Here's an interesting article about something I've never heard of: Charles Bonnet Syndrome. It causes one to see things that aren't really there, but is not a function of mental illness, Alzheimers or senile dementia. Hmmmm, are the experts really sure those faces and tiny people and other things that people who have CBS are seeing aren't really there? What if people who have CBS are actually seeing the world as it is? Or maybe seeing in-between dimensions? Or another dimension? Wow! The Hound of Mons. I found this at the Daily Grail, and it is tres spooky! A giant hound with a transplanted human brain at the hands of a "mad" German scientist during WWI? This is taking the legend of Hounds from Hell ONE STEP BEYOND... Unfortunately, not many of those who fought in that war are still living, so it's easy for tall tales to rise up. Who is there left to refute them now? Personally, I have little doubt that some feral dogs and/or wolves roamed among the soldiers in those horrid trenches in Europe where WWI was fought and may have killed many. But - the stories do NOT indicate that the remains were partially eaten which, one would think, if it was a large feral dog or pack, or wolf or wolves hunting for food in a ravished land, the body would show some evidence of having been partially eaten, would it not? Oh yes, Islam is such an understanding, compassionate religion (can you feel the irony dripping from every letter, darlings?) Will they burn these guys at the stake like the sicko so-called Christians used to do hundreds of years ago with "heretics?" All these guys did was publish a translation of the Quran without the Arabic verses side by side, but that's a big crime! Bet the Pope is having a good laugh in Rome, har! Radical Islam is doomed to fail because sooner or later all systems that repress people fail. History has proven this to be so. Sooner or later - let us all hope sooner. Oh, those Imams they are sooooo holy, aren't they. Six hundred years ago they were called Bishops in the "Church." And isn't this a neat way to get rid of one's enemies. Accuse them of being an infidel, just like one used to be accused of being a witch, or a Cathar, or a Hugenot...because someone wants your dog, your house, your land, your wife, or your kids, to do with what they will. A pox on these people, may they die agonizing deaths being slowly stomped to death by those 70 dark-eyed virgins supposedly waiting for them in Paradise.