In keeping with America’s tradition of honoring its war dead, we’re off to burn gas and avoid state troopers for the long weekend.
EUREKA, Calif. (Reuters) – Nine bare-breasted women briefly halted logging work near California’s contested Headwaters Forest on Friday in a protest against what they said was unconscionable logging of redwood trees. “These gorgeous young women were belly dancing. One logger actually got down on his knees and kissed the ground,” said Dona Nieto, a California activist who has staged several “Strip Tease for the Trees” protests. Nieto — a poet who goes by the name “La Tigresa” — said the protest interrupted logging work for about two hours at a point known as the “Hole in the Headwaters,” an area…
From Southern Ladies and Gentlemen by Florence King: “Neither can Aunt Pittypat remember that Richmond is 703 and Charlotte is 704, though this usually works out quite nicely, thanks to the Southern Wrong Number Syndrome: If one talkative Southerner dials a wrong number and gets another talkative Southerner, it may well be the start of a friendship. When I lived in Raleigh, I got a wrong number from a Silly Old Maid in Charleston, who after ascertaining that I was not her party, began to list all the people in Raleigh she knew. It just so happened that I knew…
Meeting the D’s & K’s in Pagosa Springs. Might get some white water rafting in!