George and I have now watched the first two seasons of the made-
for -Amazon- Prime series "The Man in the High Castle".
The moral ambiguity is enough to badly confuse our stuffed Vampire (Vampy, in the first image he is back on meds).
The
second image shows Chief Inspector Takeshi Kido of the Kempeitai (the Imperial
Police). He is stationed in Japanese ruled San Francisco and is the most
compulsive obsessive character in this alternate universe (in which the
US lost WWII) where many other people are also compulsive obsessive.
He orders people killed. Orders people tortured and risks his life to save Japanese civilization also. He is however, NOT, by a long shot, the most morally ambiguous character. This is cross posted to the Weiss Chronology.
Image one is before the completion of said frame.
Image two is the same perspective after the completion of the frame.
Image three is Beth and George and Wile E. relaxing after the completion of the frame (which took about 10 minutes).
Wiley is advising us on where to put some of the devices he really wants in the Sukkah, for example,
the rocket,
the giant spring.
the catapult
the cannon
Lev made the mistake of wishing the professor a 'Good Sabbath'
"Well",
said the professor,
"A mythopoetic whole of idealized poststructural context could be considered 'good' according to convention. But, that paradigm will be only weakly semiotic without robust dialectic."
Lev inquired, "That's jargon?"
"Yeah." said the professor.
"Incompehesible jargon?" asked Lev.
The professor said, "Is there another kind?"
The professor has described our Passover Seder as a 'Retro Simulation in which we deal with historic trauma by normalizing it through ethnic solidarity'. Once he said, 'ethnic foundation mythology'. George asked which he meant, 'ethnic solidarity' or 'ethnic foundation mythology'.
The professor answered, "A little of column A and little of column B" (a common line used in the animated show 'Archer').
When George (who thinks the Professor is trying to make 'most annoying stuffed animal' status) asked if we were supposed to understand him, the professor said, "You first have to accept a deconstructed worldview".
That didn't help much.
Lev (once known as Labor Bear) doesn't think the Professor understands his own sentences (image w Lev and the Professor also has Diane's flowers).
A few days ago, I was about to make a matzoh dressing (also could be called a matzoh pilaf).
I got out one of Ann's cookbooks and was frustrated at the skimpy table of contents. As I finally got to the matzoh stuffing page, Lucy (the doctor who looks at medicine as a business, not a calling) said,
"Why don't you just Google it?"
I did and used a variation of the James Beard Foundation's recipe.
Then Lucy said,
"That will be $500 for the referral"
Later, after several short reminders of her fee, she told me,
"By the way, you can pay through Paypal"
I'm thinking of getting a restraining order (or as they call it in MD, a protective order).
I had seen a stuffed animal platypus at someone's house (actually during a shiva minyan).
A few days ago, while getting some kitty litter in the grocery store, I saw a parent and child platypus stuffed animals for sale and bought it (it was discounted for members of the grocery discount club).
I looked on line for platypus names. Billie was a common choice because the gender of a platypus is difficult to determine and Billie is a gender ambiguous name which highlights the prominent bill of the platypus (see image of actual platypus).
George pointed out we don't have a stuffed animal in the education industry, so the adult Platypus is named Professor Plum.
The Professor (sometimes we leave out the 'Plum') is Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies (keeping the ambiguity) at a prestigious university that is not named (furthering the ambiguity). The Professor once won the Burns award of outstanding achievement in the field of Excellence.
Also since that industry is highly incestuous (I'm sure most people in the industry would deny it) we gave the child platypus the name of Billie (again gender indeterminate). Billie is the administrative liaison for the Gender Studies Dept. and also assistant to the Professor Emeritus of Gender and Ethnic Studies.
Lucy is our stuffed animal physician (named for Ann's mom whose middle name was Lucille).
Lucy has taken what some might call a dark turn. She regards medicine as a business, not a calling (In the image she is checking accounts against here written notes).
Lucy is repelled and outraged by those who think otherwise.
When Lucy heard about the CVS Minute Clinic not charging Beth for a consult (this was on April 16), Lucy could barely contain her indignation.
"What kind of example are they setting for the profession?" she exclaimed.
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These images are all related to the post in the Weiss Chronology regarding the Blizzard of 2016.
In the first image, myself and UGA are shown near the street part of the driveway.
UGA wants us to be constantly vigilant when we pull out of the driveway in these conditions because the visibility is restricted by the high snow mounds.
The next image is Christmas Reindeer and me. Mr. Reindeer doesn't get a lot of posts but since the weather was so polar, I put him in. Mr. Reindeer was inherited from Ann's mom (as was UGA). He plays, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" when you push a button on his hoof.
This is after the Blizzard of 2016 (Jan 22-23) which is subject of a post on the Weiss Chronology.
Vampy likes to welcome the stranded. One type of stranded are pedestrians.
However, the night of Jan 24 Vampy was thwarted by the end of the shoveled walkway.
Vampy decided to welcome stranded motorists instead. In the second image, he is at the end of the driveway, waiting to offer hospitality.
Of course when they come in he has Igor help them to their room.
Then they are invited to get comfortable and come down FOR dinner.
Vampy says, after the invite, "Heh. Heh."
Panda was with us on our Las Vegas Trip (the blog for that is here).
Two of the venues we visited stood out for their lack of art.
One was the Hoover Dam which had some paintings but they were only of the Hoover Dam.
The other was the Atomic Energy Testing Museum which had only one painting (yes - only one). It was by an otherwise unknown painter (or as Panda might say, a "Painter").
Panda has so very much to teach these people.
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