Perfect Quick Example
It’s a perfect quick example of what happens when Mercury is Retrograde (back into Pisces) along with Venus (retrograde as well), the fallout from the lunation?
The horoscope for 4.1.2025 had the original (corrected) text version, the first pass proofreader, and the final copy editor’s mark, all checked off.
In the planetary confusion, Tuesday morning, there were still a half-dozen typographical errors, had to be corrected on-the-fly.
Perfect Quick Example
“Good help is so hard to get these days.”
“Oh, heads will roll.”
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
Twisted little thriller. The premise seems simple, suppose you had a mate that deserved to die, and did.
You know, like “He needed killing.”
Only, despite the character’s best efforts, she didn’t do it?
dark side of the moon
“I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.”
— Pink Floyd
dark side of the moon
via Pink Cake
Turkish Coffee
From memory? Turkish Coffee is best done in a small brazier atop a stove.
Traditionally, it’s a copper conical shape with a brass handle. Not terribly exotic, just functional. Roasted coffee beans are ground super-fine, like dust or talcum powder, then combined with various aromatic herbs, typically cardamon, ginger, and cinnamon, then water is added, maybe two parts water per one part coffee.
The coffee is brought to a boil, let cool, then boiled a second time. As it cools, it’s served in a demitasse, a true Turkish coffee is supposed to served in an ornate one-ounce cup.
Zaatar in San Antonio missed the brazier, replaced with a more utilitarian stove-top pot, but the coffee, water, spices, and insulated handle were correct. As it cools, the fine grinds settle. Still found their way into my coffee (see Sagittarius), but it’s to be expected. Hint of cardamom. Not quite the correct cup, it close enough, and better yet, the right flavor.
It was flavor, plus the kitchen-battered pot itself that sold the coffee. Hot off the stove, fine grounds still roiling in the mixture, just good stuff, and not too sweet.
Turkish Coffee
Turkish Coffee
Pushing the Rock Uphill
Complain about the rock?
You’ll get a bigger rock.
Pushing the Rock Uphill

Sisyphus
Special at the Texas Grocery
Didn’t see it, but this about sums up what we all need to know about that, Men’s Hair Color and Astroglide on sale?
I got to look for that at my local store.
Special at Texas Grocery
#HEB
Just fitting, after British surrealist humor.
Satire and hot alien life-form sex scenes?