Still recovering from the FOOD!
In fact, the entire week has been one large feast!
Not that I am complaining, mind you.
Chris rounded the week out by popping in last night with Stuffed Crust Pizza and chat!
Of course...the coast braced all week for Hurricane Dorian...and we were so very fortunate.
Sadly...The Bahamas were not.
With a great deal of Grand Bahama Island still underwater, and many of the outer islands (including Freeport and the ONLY airport) totally destroyed.
The death toll is quickly rising and is now at 43 people as they search the debris with cadaver dogs.
It is expected to go much higher.
Kept in close touch with our middle (Lennon) and was relieved when Dorian took that northward turn and headed farther out into the Atlantic and up the east coast.
His area is low and susceptible to flooding anyway.
Just after some early rains.
In the midst of everything...and continuing even this morning on Twitter (seriously) we had a Trumpian Meltdown of Biblical Proportion.
Let's go back to the beginning to really appreciate the full experience.
On Sept. 1, Trump erroneously tweeted that Alabama was amidst the states which would be affected by Hurricane Dorian.
An honest mistake.
Prior to this there had been many projection and spaghetti maps.
It was immediately followed up by a tweet from NOAA stating that
Oh noooooooooooooooooooo...he doubled down on the whole affair...NOAA was the one who was wrong...he was right...the weather center was FAKE NEWS!!!
I know, right???
Several days later he would still be on about his rightness...this time bringing a visual aid in the form of a cone map.
Original Cone Map
To which the rest of us said "IS that a fucking Sharpie Bubble over Alabama now???"
And the press...bless their hearts...tarted it up to ask
"The Official Map of Dorian's Projected Cone of Aug 28th Appears to have been Altered by a Sharpie, Sir...Do you know how this happened???"
To which Trump responded
(seriously...there is footage and audio)
"No I do not...no I don't...no I don't"
With his voice lowering and his eyes downcast like asking your child if he knows how the lamp got broken in the living-room.
(...coincidentally...this was almost verbatim what he said after being asked about the signed checks and payoffs that surfaced to Stormy Daniels and his other adulterous affair...)
Hey...at least he is consistent...right?
And some of the Memes that came out of Sharpie-Gate were pretty priceless...and entertaining...
Sadly...he is STILL on about being RIGHT...even though Dorian has since devastated the Bahamas...traveled the length of our East Coast...caused flooding and destroyed lives and structures there...and is heading into Canada as we speak.
Dorian's Actual Path
The above memes...mostly comic relief...because if you don't laugh about the absurdity of it...you would surely cry...but-
NONE of this is fucking normal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The POTUS shouldn't be altering weather maps and calling NOAA fake news. He shouldn't be doubling and tripling down on a mistake which he has blown to a full-fledged lie...complete with a Sharpie Bubble.
Forget about simply being mistaken...this is certifiably INSANE.
Seriously.
WTF?
Moving on...
The Movie this Week
The narrator of the story a Lab Mix named Enzo.
Human life and behaviorism as observed by a dog.
Excellent...thought-provoking feel good piece of cinema.
Highly recommended.
Sorry to say I can't say the same for
The Book of The Week
This whatever-the-hell-it-is-trying-to-be...ISN'T...okay?
The cover reads like a hate letter to an EX...it spills over into the inside front and the back as well.
The contents are even worse.
Seriously...to be honest...I didn't even finish the thing.
And somewhere along the line the author decides to take on why everything that can possibly go wrong is because of "blackness"
Specifically, her blackness.
She even brings pages and pages of racist art she has both garnered and created herself to PROVE this point.
Perhaps, Kara, it isn't your blackness...or your obvious lack of written and artistic ability, that is to blame for your problems. Maybe it is your piss poor attitude, and outlook on life.
Obviously...I view the time I did spend on this book as time I shall never regain.
Not Recommended.
For anyone.
No...it is not because I'm white...it just really sucked.
The high point this week?
FALL!
Maybe not on the calendar...but it has arrived all the same.
Cooler nights...clear blue skies...mums and apples...cinnamon pumpkin spice everything!
Finishing the floors today and then rewarding myself by beginning Fall Decorations in the house and maybe an apple cut up and drizzled with soft caramel and sprinkled with Spiced Pecans!
And a Pumpkin Spice candle, of course.
More anon...