Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Thanks Nobel Prize Committee for the Canadian Poet. Now how about a Canadian Statesman? 000
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are major problems with the organ donation system, including pressure to “harvest” prematurely. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | What I Found Out About Organ Donation Shocked MeThe organ donation industry has routinely violated ethics standards. 050
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Googled it, it’s fascinating. And I cover this object 120
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Over explaining is a amateur’s mistake. She won’t last. 020
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Trump could be sending American troops into Ottawa and The Economist would be advising Carney to avoid an all out war-war. 011
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 08/08/2026He was an influential and generous mentor to Lucille Ball, among others. She considered him one of the kindest men she ever knew. 040
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 04/08/2026“This world he cumbered long enough; He burnt his candle to the snuff; And that’s the reason, some folks think, He left behind so great a stink.” 030
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Check out a film called Providence, if you can find it. Stellar cast and David Warner in top form. 000
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 27/07/2026No health insurance, no pension plan, no paid sick leave, no paid vacation—running a small business is just the best. 020
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Always loved this Orwell remark on Huxley: “The holier that man gets the smuttier his books become.” 020
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 19/07/2026He still looks for them on the Ed Sullivan Show. 1121
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 17/07/2026If Lee Remick ever gave a bad performance, I never saw it. 161
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 11/07/2026This will do nothing to hurt Trump and could cause you major trouble. 000
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 10/07/2026“Insurers better at saying no” they are already expert at that 010
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I’m old and they used to call it the Holy Ghost which made me afraid of birds for a while! 020
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Zucchini is the Jekyl and Hyde of vegetables —sometimes tasty and sometimes bitter as hell. 220
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Careful, don’t anger the roundabout worshippers . 110
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 18/05/2026My first car was a used 1960 Rambler American. Loved that car. 170
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Had the cardiac ablation done via catheter. Far less invasive than older methods. Five years in sinuous rhythm now. 120
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Unfit public servants are not a new invention. 000
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Left to right, the ancient Egyptian Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards. 020
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Singular is apt, though Tuesday Weld comes to mind as a sort of tougher cousin. With the limpest role in Virginia Woolf, Dennis somehow turns in the most impressive performance—to my thinking at least. 020
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I like to think of the parents—having parted with serious cash to send their child to drama school—watching said child debut as a corpse for ten seconds on television. 000
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I did factory work before I became a cubicle meerkat. However characterless the office environment, it was far preferable to physical exhaustion and danger. 010
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 14/04/2026One of the few public spaces not dedicated to getting and spending. 080
Blithe Curmudgeon @mikec1040.bsky.social · 14/04/2026He’s proud to be an asshole, but the crazy charge really gets under his skin. 030
