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News Update Update

Bad News

That’s not a typo.

Over time, I’ve found that the weekly News Update has started to consume more time than I think it’s absolutely worth.  (If you disagree, and can’t see your life continuing with any meaningful existence without it, feel free to let me know.)

Basically, the Updates are a way for me to poke fun at what passes for “news” these days, especially so when I edit a headline to point out, for example, that the appalling Kim Kardashian has once again flashed her massive tits/ass to gain yet more attention for her clothing line.

But if I add up the total effort required to produce such an item — finding an article worth including, saving the headline (sometimes as a pic), saving the link thereto, making a pithy (thorry) comment, and multiplying that by 15 or so — it comes out to well over a couple days’ work (albeit spread out over a week).

I don’t mind spending that amount of time — or more — on writing a decent post on a topic which has captured my attention.  But to do all that work for a post which is eminently skimmable… I think you get my point.

So unless I hear differently from y’all (via email or comments, for those lucky enough to still be able to do the latter, don’t get me started), I think that the News Updates are going to become a thing of the past.

The only part I might consider keeping is the link-free , because that’s usually genuinely funny on occasion.

What you might see in its place is a series of stand-alone posts like this one:

Snow closes British schools and roads on first day back after Christmas as temperature plunges to -9.3C in south and warnings for ice and blizzards cover UK

Total time needed to create:  about 45 seconds, including the pic creation.  And there’s no link, because who the hell cares about the details?

Let me know what you think.  (And yes I know, it’s free ice cream to do with what I want;  but the reason for this website is twofold:  a rant vehicle for Kim, and entertainment for my long-suffering Readers.  Both are important.)

Quote Of The Day

QOTD

“Being single isn’t the easiest thing in the world but it’s objectively better than going to bed beside someone who you hope stops breathing in the middle of the night.” – Daniel Sloss

I don’t know who Daniel Sloss is, but I like the way he thinks.  If only I’d realized this when I was in my 20s…

Relative Value

Architecture, House & Home

Here’s an interesting exercise.  Let’s assume that you were looking to buy a new residence and had, say, about $950,000 to splash on it.

Do you go for Place A:

…or Place B:

Okay, maybe it’s a trick question.  While both places are listed for $950k, Place A is in Texas, USA and Place B is in Wales, UK.

Your choice in Comments, with reasons.

Modern Classic Beauty: Anna Gaël

Classic Beauty

So, I ask myself:  how did a Hungarian-born British actress / fashion model / war journalist end up being Anna Thynn, the Dowager Marchioness of Bath and Viscountess Weymouth, who lived for most of her marriage in Paris and not with her husband the Marquess?  And who was initially his mistress while still married to some French guy, and only later married him to produce some heirs?  (We’re not even going to talk about Alex, the 7th Marquess of Bath, who over time surrounded himself with about seventy mistresses (“wifelets”) at the family estate of Longleath.  No wonder Anna went to live in Paris.)

“Wait, what was that middle bit again, Kim?”

Never mind.  Here’s a short pictorial of said Anna Abigail Gyarmathy:

And in color:

Just in case you needed more, our Anna also posed for Penthouse Magazine, but managed to ruthlessly prevent those pics from being re-published after their initial appearance in print.

When she died in 2022, the world became a far less interesting place.

“How did you discover this lovely creature, Kim?”

I saw her in a bit part in the 1969 movie The Bridge At Remagen, as Anna Gaël.