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$10,000

To the 60th Senator to vote for a no political text spam bill.

In cash. To your door. In a brown paper bag.

Wow

I did not think Biden would actually step down. I thought he'd dig his heels in and then deliver a landslide loss in November.

This is quite the election.

WOTD: Malicious compliance

Malicious compliance (also known as malicious obedience) is the behavior of strictly following the orders of a superior despite knowing that compliance with the orders will have an unintended or negative result. It usually implies following an order in such a way that ignores or otherwise undermines the order's intent, but follows it to the letter.

Source: Malicious compliance - Wikipedia

Flaming Lips

As bands like to do these days, the tour is based on playing one particular album in full. So, first they played all of "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" (as seen above), then they did a set of songs from other albums.

Maybe it was the fact that the sun was out for all of Yoshimi, so the stage lights and other visuals didn't hit as hard, but the second set felt much more energetic. Once you could really appreciate the lighting, and how it interacted with all of the various inflatable on-stage props, it was a wild time.

The oldest song they played was "She Don't Use Jelly", which started the second set. And that's when they brought out the giant rubber balls for the audience to bounce around. We were in the fourth row, so there was plenty of hectic giant-ball action.

No opener and they played 2.5 hours. Quality.

They've come a long way.

RIP Brenda

Closet Case

A few days after her birthday (June 9), Pepper went into the closet in our bedroom. And, except for three brief trips, and her sneaky trips to the litterbox, she hasn't left. She spends all day and night, in the corner of the closet, under my wife's dresses.

If we go in to see her, she's happy to see us and she purrs and behaves just as she always did. She's eating more than she had been. She gets brushed and is very happy about it. But she will not leave the closet. On the occasions that she has, she spent only a few minutes out and then literally ran back to her hiding spot. She likes to be picked up, as long as we don't leave the closet.

So, she doesn't seem sick or in pain. She's just... afraid of the house.

Cats.

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Update:
Three weeks later, she's out. Over the course of a few days, she started venturing out of the closet for longer and longer stays. And now she's 100% out again. I'd like to think it was because I gently coaxed her to come hang out with me just on the other side of the closet door. But who knows. Cats.