When the music's over

Air temperature 13 F, calm, clear sky for the newspaper walk. Moon and planets performing as expected. Now we can move beyond the abomination of "seasonal" semi-music everywhere. I mean, even Handel gets tiresome on third full-length performance of "The Messiah" in one week . . .

Promoting promotion

Book View Cafe is holding a sale, 25% off everything. Go thou and buy, support your local author, etc:

https://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/

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They have pulled the plug. Giant Inflatable Santa has been taken off life support.

Well, crap

Apparently the Book View Cafe site has crashed again.   Hostgator has proven unreliable.