A little more of the Rock today

 

Monday Morning Cornbread

 

Question: How does Rand Paul differ from Marc Bernier, Phil Valentine, and Dick Farrel?

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Florida radio host 'Mr. Anti-Vax' dies of COVID-19

 We should take this seriously. If this man was a Catholic, is he going straight to Hell as a suicide? I know that suicide used to be a mortal sin. 

The Rock at 10:30 this morning

 

Well, I have just finished the full draft of a 2-part chapter. This puts me well over half-way in RACIAL RECKONINGS

 

I. Jefferson, Cocke, and Indian Treaties; the Sims Settlers

II. Cousin Thomas in the White House then Monticello; the Widows Sims in a Frontier Cabin then a Hut roofed by tree bark--Barksville

This was a very hard one to write. The remaining ones should be much shorter. 

IS IVERMECTIN PROTECTIN' YOU? NO MORE TAPEWORMS! You can die worm-free. Hard not to be sarcastic about anti-vaxxers.

 

A police captain who refused the vaccine and took the anti-parasitic ivermectin to combat COVID-19 dies from the virus

A police captain who refused the vaccine and took the anti-parasitic ivermectin to combat COVID-19 dies from the virus

A police captain who refused the vaccine and took the anti-parasitic ivermectin to combat COVID-19 dies from the virus

 

Yesterday when a scarf was definitely needed

 

Pelicans feasting

 

The Beaumont Journal August 20, 1959--I'm a week late, but I can count. More than 62 years now?

Alive, and two or three days away from a good draft of Thomas Jefferson and The Sims Settlement. Still writing.
 

New York Times today-Gretchen Reynolds--Irisin in Aged Mice and Irisin in Aged Okies

 Blood clot and Valley Fever and Vertigo (and diagnosis of Lymphoma and threat of enucleation from great ocular oncologist) be damned, I have been trying to get back some stamina. Flexibility may be a dream too far. Yesterday I did 2 miles in a new post-illness record of 47 minutes. Does that beat Roger Bannister? Well, he was not nearly 86. And yesterday I ran 500 strides. Ran? Lurched? And solved a problem about telling the Jefferson-Sims story. Maybe with self-produced Irisin there is life after Valley Fever and Blood clots, what with anti-fungal pill and needle every day still. If you think I am going to read the NY Times beyond Gretchen Reynolds today, you are wrong.

I've spun wheels for three weeks ago because I was keeping hands mainly off the man who should have been the main character, Thomas Jefferson

 This was pure reversion to humble self-effacing Okie.

The book is about kinfolks and racial reckonings.

In the chapter I was working with the Sims family of the Sims Settlement and with William Cocke, the man who served in 4 state legislatures and married the Widow Sims.

I could not get the story told right. 

Jefferson was contradictory toward Indians, tolerant toward the Waffords but intolerant toward the Sims Settlers.

Then I realized this morning that I had to focus on the main character, TJ. After all, he is one of the kinfolks, cousin through more than half a dozen families including the Tuckers and McGehees and Branches and Carrs and Randolphs and even the Simses (though with the Sims connection you have to go back 2 generations, in England). As I say, no matter how squalid your living conditions may have been in the 19th and 20th centuries, if  you came over here to Virginia in the 1600s, you are kin to almost everyone from the old times.

And treating Jefferson as one of the cousins who needs to come to a racial reckoning is what solves my problem.

I was stewing, though, too respectful and not wanting to drag in a star. Now, having Cousin Colby officiate at the wedding of the Siamese Twins, that was not dragging in two stars. What was important was the damnation of Cousin Colby.

Birthday girl 40 years ago

 

Finished refreshing sourdough starter and (separately) made some rosemary skillet bread for breakfast

 

As covid-19 surges in Mississippi, some people are ingesting an unproven livestock dewormer. Hurray for Ivertectin!

 Well, of course we are taking a horse dewormer. Tucker told us to, on Fox News, and our other oracles on Fox News also told us to take Ivermectin. It's relatively cheap at the  Quality Freed Supply, and it allows me to make a personal choice. I personally choose to take whatever my guys (and girl) recommend on Fox News. Besides, which of us has a really clean gut to start with? You probably don't know that you might have a tapeworm that has been there since 1967. You don't need to be a masked man to take Ivertectin!

Birthday wishes AMP

 

Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick is a cinch for his own TV show--maybe even JEOPARDY--or just as a Stand Up Comedian

 

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says 'African Americans who have not been vaccinated' are driving covid surge.

Complaining the way people can be heard these days. Not raging, just complaining. This book should not have been called THE FOUNDING OF ALABAMA.

 2.0 out of 5 stars

 Not a worthy tribute to Frances Cabaniss Roberts

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2021

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I am very disappointed with this book and will probably expand these comments later. There are ways of honoring the early female scholar than this book. Alabama could have used the introductory tribute and Roberts's dissertation without calling the book THE FOUNDING OF ALABAMA. How can you have a history of the founding of Alabama without treating (for example) William Wafford (or Wofford)? The title of the book is misleading--I did not get what I paid for. So, there was a mistake or (you would not want to think) deceit in packaging. Then there was a failure of well-intentioned editorial labor and publication staff. I know about making notes work when they are stuck in the back of the book. You can do it. Northwestern University Press helped me make notes in MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE accessible. We put running heads in the notes. I open it now to 512-513 and see the running heads: "NOTES TO PAGES 111-117" and "NOTES TO PAGES 118-123." We might have done even better by putting chapter titles in the notes rather than just having "Chapter 5" on 513 but the running heads give all the information immediately needed. Now, the FOUNDING OF ALABAMA thwarts Roberts's desire to be conscientious and clear. You are reading in the chapter "Early Beginnings" page 35, so the book is open to 34-35. Great--you have "Chapter 1" facing "Early Beginnings" so you feel in good hands. On 35 you want to read the note numbered 112. Heaven help you! You go back, find Chapter 1, and start looking. There are running heads "200 / NOTES" facing "Notes / 201." Note 112 is not there. Ah! Note 112 is on 204! So you have to write down "page 35" next to the note so you can find it again expeditiously and mark p. 204 on the running head so you know that 112 refers to something on p. 35. Then if you are going to be consulting this passage again and again you have to go back to 35 and make a note that 112 is on p. 204. No reader who has paid a very seriously high price should have to do this work which the editors and the press ought to have done. So the desire to pay a tribute to Frances Cabaniss Roberts has been tarnished by packaging -- misleadingly entitled and rendered appallingly difficult to use. I am seriously disappointed. I want what I paid for and wish what I actually got was more usable.

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Hershel Parker With Andrew Costner and one of just Andrew Costner (1913-2001)

 

Photo did not want to load a .MOV file--we will see

 

 HOW CAN HE REMAIN SO SLIM? HE STILL HAS HIS 32 INCH WAIST, DOESN'T HE?

Ted Cruz, in a Captain Morgan pose, once reportedly finished 3 beers 'in a matter of minutes' on Joe Manchin's houseboat

It's strange. Even Willie says Kankakee wrong, and Willie has been everywhere over & over again.

 

Is Hollywood Doing Fine With Oklahoma?

The Matt Damon film “Stillwater” is one of the rare times that the state gets some degree of a movie spotlight.

Matt Damon as an Oklahoman abroad in “Stillwater.”Credit...Jessica Forde/Focus Features

By Mekado Murphy

Aug. 4, 2021, 2:16 p.m. ET

There’s a moment early in the new Matt Damon drama “Stillwater” that made me both proud and a little disappointed.

Damon’s character, Bill, is an unemployed Oklahoma oil-rig worker interviewing for a new job when he mentions my little-known hometown, Shawnee. Exciting! But then he mispronounces it.

It’s a subtle difference that perhaps only an Oklahoman would take issue with. He puts the emphasis on the first syllable (SHAW-nee), but we put the emphasis on both syllables. It’s a whole thing how various towns in the state are pronounced in ways you might not expect: Miami, Okla., sounds like the Florida city until you get to the last syllable, which isn’t “mee” but “muh.” The town of Prague rhymes with Craig.

Does anyone know what this little plant is?

 

So funny. I knew about this controversy years ago and totally forgot it because I did not read anything by RJ Ellory. Then I tried his books.

 I could not see what Michael Connelly had seen. What was so good about RJ Ellory? I could not see what writers I respected were saying about RJ Ellory. I did not like the most famous of his books--not at all. What was wrong with me?

It is a terrible thing to doubt your own literary judgment! or to be made to doubt Connelly's!

Crime writer caught out posting fake online reviews of his books is now exposed trying to change his life story

·        RJ Ellory used pseudonyms to try to remove negative stories on Wikipedia

·        Author 'permanently blocked' from editing on the website

By LARISA BROWN FOR THE DAILY MAIL

 

Bodies by the Rock

 

Looking north--bodies bodies