Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for December 08, 2017

The car is an extension of the Bubble of Privilege. Looking out the window is like watching TV.

If you don’t get out and participate, it won’t be real to you.

Some of us have never been outside the bubble of adversity.

Bubble Of Privileges, just add a son.

Hey, I just received my first notification next to the bell inside a big red circle. It was from Randy B. I think it means he replied to one of my lame comments. THE LAME BELL TOLLS FOR ME.

No two snowflakes are alike.

John Edwards said there are two Americas. Harris and Klebold said they were in one of the nine circles of the infernal America. Obviously, nine is better than two, and it allows also for mobility between infernal realms… which is nice.

Marginalia: John Edwards the lawyer politician, not John Edward the psychic spirit medium, although the former is known to channel spirits of the dead in open court in such a manner as to put the latter to shame.

What is a public dog park?

I was always confused about how few of us there were, until I heard that we were the 1%.

It reminded me of a story about a guy named Ampere, who discovered that two wires carrying a current would exhibit magnetic interaction, being moved apart or closer depending if the currents matched direction, though each was entirely isolated from the other. That however, would require another force at work, like electrical force, but beyond our known and measurable forces, with our lives being the conduits for the energy in transit, and some energetic field effect being generated locally in the process.

The most obvious case of ballerina envy since Alexandra Feodorovna found out about Mathilde Kschessinska – shame on you, Tee – shame shame

“We’ve always encouraged young people: take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business,”

~Mitt Romney

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“Gee, why didn’t I think of that?”

~Julian Castro

P.S. (and apropos of nothing in particular)

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that Sally Forth’s rapidly expanding rebellious side is sneakily infiltrating the strip?

Tax breaks for the One Per Cent paid for their dance lessons.

Ironically, living in that ballet bubble means never getting to say, “I’m having a bubble tea.”

I’m sorry.

As long as you did not command the driver-peon to Stop! your limousine at the one or the other, it’s all okay. You are still One of Us. But be careful. If you become contaminated by the plebeians, you will be ostracized. No ballet for you then! You’ll be out in the swamp with the frogs….

Brek-ek-ek-ex, coax coax!

Thanks for the Stan Freberg clip. I found another one. Great old commercials. All new to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bx4LBz8Xy4

What is Applebee’s? What is a public dog park? (Apparently, Teresa IGNORES her non-American fans when referencing places known primarily to Americans only. For Shame!!)

Down In The Boondocks by Billy Joe Royal.

The ballerinas had been unaware of death and deprivation until they left the house. They were so shocked by reality that one became a holy woman, one became a holy terror and the third started her own ballet company.