is here. I’ve got nothing to report, but I’ll try and write something that’s not too outrageous. I don’t want people to think I’m an extremist. After all, going to church now appears to indicate a desire to join a white nationalist movement. This morning’s news is pretty boring. TV show host Shaun Hannity has sold his Long Island home for 12.7 million. Shaun already has a 3,800-square-foot townhome in Palm Beach Florida with water views, which he bought in 2021 for $5.3 million. My house is still bigger than his new one though. Hannity’s old house was sold fully furnished, so you’re also getting all his couches and rugs and chairs. You could almost pretend that you are Hannity living there. You’re living with all his stuff. It’s bizarre, but then TV people are weird. I know because I worked in television for five or six years on and off. I’ve been on both sides of the camera if you will. Will you?
Colmes and Hannity
I’m not really a fan of Hannity, I have to say. Whenever I look at some interesting Youtube story, which rarely comes on at Fox these days, there’s fucking Hannity at the end of it, shilling his stupid show. I preferred it when he co-hosted a show with Alan Colmes. They were like a latter day Abbott and Costello, although not quiet as funny. I used to call the show Hannity and Corpse, but then sadly Colmes actually became a corpse IRL when he died of lymphoma in 2017, and that was the end of that. We’re stuck with just Hannity now and the world isn’t quite the same anymore.
This morning over at the Mongolian basket weaving forum they’re saying that it’s not looking good for the Tories in the upcoming UK elections. Recent polling has shown that a quarter of all conservative voters thin that the party should lose every seat. That seems a bit harsh, but it’s easy to understand with perfect clarity. Someone commented, “since Thatcher they’ve looted this country blind, it really pisses me off when they get a handsome advance on a book deal and then fuck off to a comfy job in America after spending a while fucking Britain, Sunak apparently is packed and ready to fuck off to a nice job in California, he’s done his bit to fuck Britain and he’s out of here.”
The circus is leaving town
Is that what’s happening? I don’t know. In France, Macron has spat the dummy and called a snap election after his party got reamed in the recent EU elections. They say it’s to not let Le Pen have a chance to win the presidential election in 2027, but I don’t know how that will work. The ‘Far Right” aka sane, reasonable, rational people seem to be waking up.
An appeal for sanity. It’s not hard.
Finally from the BBC, “Denmark has recalled several spicy ramen noodle products by South Korean company Samyang, claiming that the capsaicin levels in them could poison consumers.” Capsaicin is the chemical compound in chilli peppers which creates the burning feeling. When humans eat peppers, the capsaicin is released into saliva and binds on to receptors in the mouth. No shit. Last week I made some chili relish. I had a bag of different kinds of hot peppers bought from the supermarket. I knew a couple of them were very hot. If you look at the chart below, some of them were right in the top row. What I didn’t realize was how fucking hot they were. I took a tiny sip of the liquid and it felt like molten metal was on my tongue. Sheeeit!
Plants can be sneaky. I was transferring some of last night’s band practice video to a computer hard drive, and this overwhelming smell seemed to suddenly be in the room. I thought it might have been coming from outside, but when I went out all I could smell was someone smoking weed. Finally, I realized that it was the snake plant that was in the window. It had started flowering, which it has never done ever, or at least in the 7 years it’s been sitting there. People say it smells sweet with a vanilla like scent. You could have fooled me. Smells like teen spirit? Maybe.