Frank Patrick

“What a jam. What a mess. What a pickle. What a fix.” - Arthur “Big Guy” Carlson, Station Manager, WKRP

“Never confuse movement with action.” - Ernest Hemingway #QOTD

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

One of modern civilisation’s great moments. THE SWEDISH CHEF RAPPER'S DELIGHT

Stumbled across this looking for GIF. Is this really Torres from NCIS?

Not fair to Cheesecake Factory... Didn't have to go there... Could have just said cheesy.

Cordoba, Spain #Transportation #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

RIP Walter Koenig. While most will remember Chekov in Star Trek, for me, his legacy character is the complex Alfred Bester from Babylon 5.

“Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew…” - Jack Gilbert #QOTD

Well…then what does make you an American?

It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them

“The oppressed has only one solution: to deny the harmony of that mankind from which an attempt is made to exclude him, to prove that he is a man and that he is free by revolting against the tyrants.” — Simone de Beauvoir

Ocean City, NJ #Transportation #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

What are the penalties for working with a sanctioned Russian energy company?

“It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.” - Dame Rose Macaulay #QOTD

Hong Kong, 1996

#MediaDiet 10/18-24/2026 - Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius, S1 (2026): PBS - 90 Days: The Other Way, S8 (2026): TLC - Slow Horses, S6 (2026): AppleTV+ - The Brutalist (2024): HBO/Max - The Gold, S2 (2025): PBS

Apollo’s chief economist finds that there is still no measurable impact of AI adoption on corporate America outside of big tech. Revenue per employee and profit margins are rising for the Magnificent Seven but flat for the other 493 S&P 500 companies.

Hong Kong #Transportation #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

Hong Kong #Transportation #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

“If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.” - William Shakespeare #QOTD

With this crew policy is nothing but politics.

So they're starting with the same script that worked so well in Iran?

I'm happy that the American prisoner was released from Russia, but the deal to achieve that was not artful at all. The deal sucked.

First film you saw at the cinema: Around the World in 80 Days (1956). Surprisingly young at 5-6 years old. Thought it might have been The Voyage of Sinbad, but that was released two years later.

I double-checked with New Jersey’s ballot tracking tool…my ballot is confirmed as received. I was confident in it as I used a Dropbox, but if you used mail, it might be worth checking in whatever state you’re in.

"As of this morning, instances of connectivity loss at speeds of 161 km/h are still being observed. There is currently no confirmation that these restrictions have been lifted," a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 23." kyivindependent.com/analysis-ukr...

Back in the 60s, Shell gas stations gave away free serrated “steak knives” with a fill-up. They were better than most serrated knives available today. But after 50 years of cutting food on hard Corelle plates, they get worn to where they barely cut anything but my fingers.

When I first saw the Warhound headlines, I assumed it was about robotic “dogs”. When I discovered the actuality, it sounded like some sadistic villain in a bad movie.

“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” - Proverbs 13:12 #QOTD

Russians decided to fire dozens of missiles and cluster munitions (war crime) into residential buildings and shopping malls. Those missiles were launched hours after Trump’s envoy told Putin he was a humanitarian.

F..k this s..t

Tommy Tuberville pledged in 2020 to donate his Senate salary to Alabama veterans & families. An investigation found no evidence he did. The pledge is worth roughly $1 million. Asked about it, he had staff remove him, then called the media socialists and communists. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

The elections supervisor says he has filed a formal complaint with the FBI.

Pretty good indication that his crew is losing, although even if they do pull it out, no one will ever see that $5,000.

At least when Reagan and Bush Sr ended the Cold War it resulted in the demise of the USSR. Thanks to Trump’s crush on Putin, that’s on the way to being undone. Maybe Hegseth wanted Ike’s globe so he could identify the borders of the USSR.

Flu shot today. ✅

Replaced the timing belt ln my better half’s 2000 Toyota Avalon. Good for a third 100,000 miles. At the rate she’s driving in retirement, that’ll be a solid 20 years.

“The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. #QOTD

“Religious” guys are the biggest liars. (No surprise…they do it for a living.)

Heinous

When planning your vote, don’t forget election drop boxes that can be found in many districts. In New Jersey near me, they seem to be out front of every municipal building and county seat.

#WindowsOnWednesday Outside of Bangkok, Thailand 2008

This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

WTF is the rationale for this insanity? (Hmmm…did I actually answer my own question?)

Happy Hagfish Day!