November 26, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Welcome to The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
I remember those back in the day! No really, they were supposed to be candlesticks. Except it was mayo instead of whipped cream. And a cherry on top.
Think we are making this up. Oh noo-noo-noo-noo-noo-noooooooo. Just feast your eyes on this
http://www.thekitchn.com/the-candle-salad-a-retro-recipe-to-make-you-blush-food-history-192197
They were the rage at my grandmother’s table. Yes, I’m old.
1Enjoy, dear JJ! And no, I don’t know where you live!
2Loved the piece, but some of the commenters were obviously annoyed, especially the person who “prays for Democrats” on Thanksgiving. I pray the republicans are granted their just desserts, and I don’t mean pumpkin pie.
3Happy Thanksgiving and thank you. I’ve sent a link to several friends who, unlike me, will be spending eternity…er….Thanksgiving with Republican relatives.
4To quote Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station: “A government of the people, by the people, and for the people is only as good as the people.”
We’re in deep trouble. Happy Thanksgiving anyway.
5Happy Thanksgiving to You, Bubba, and your entire family, Susan!! May your sojourn away from the shop be peaceful and quiet with only the occasional squabble over who gets that last piece of pie!!
I am most thankful this day because I now have a new left knee … it’s just a day or 2 over 2 weeks old now! If pecan pie would make the swelling go away, I’d rub a whole pie all over my knee!! LOL
Love & Hugs to every Salon Patron!!!
6Happy Thanksgiving and Joyous Football, everyone!
Your ten suggestions for hacking off snacilbupeR relatives was priceless. So good, it almost (keyword almost) made us wish we had some crazies coming to dinner. Instead, we make do every year with good family, friends and fun.
7We always talk about having the ‘crazy uncle’ show up and ‘play the Trump card’ but what I’ve never seen is what someone (Liberal) does when she is the ‘Crazy Aunt’ in a room filled with Republicans. Never been a problem for me personally, my own family, which was basically my two mothers, was pretty much Eisenhower Republicans for much of my growing up — and Eisenhower Republicans might, in some areas, been to the left of Clinton Democrats. After Claire died, my birth mother, Billie, drifted more and more towards my own Social Democratic position. (We’d even listen to WBAI tgether when they were the central clearing house for protest information — we heard both the Schwermer-Cheyney-Goodman disappearance and, later, Stonewall as it occurred, cursing — at least I was — that I couldn’t find the money even to get into NYC where I could have joined in the hunt or the rebellion.)
And my in-laws were mostly Democrats, if not the most Progressive kind. (My brother-in-law shocked the family by claiming to have turned Republican during the middle 90s — Reagan-like rather than on Cruz control — but we never liked him anyway. After my wife’s parents moved to Florida and we moved into her old house — the b-in-l moved upstairs and we got the downstairs half — we went ten years without exchanging more than ten words — his choice, not mine.)
But some of you — particularly the Southern ones — must have been in the position of the only sane person at a table filled with Republicans, and I’ve never heard how you handle than one.
8Btw, Marcia, we might talk knees at some point — I’m at the SUPARZ level with replacement the next step. I know I’m not allowed to go through the main entrance — or they’d be required by law not to use the word beauty for at least five days, but it is nice of JJ to let me serve as dealer for the card game in the back room for the spouses of the clients, so we can talk there.
9When President Obama pardoned the turkeys this year he remarked, “There are a lot of turkeys trying to wend their way into the White House.”
A few in the crowd tittered, and he added, “You got that, did you?”
10Somebody wrote that “Winning when you’re not supposed to is exponentially more fun than winning when you are supposed to.” Let us be thankful for crazy underdogs that manage to come out ahead.
11Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
I will give thanks today (and everyday) for JJ, and her dedication to this space.
She keeps some of us somewhat sane in a world gone somewhat mad.
Eat, Drink, and Football!
12Old Mayfly, President Obama is superb at comedic timing! His remarks at the correspondents’ dinners are among our favorites. Literally. We have them bookmarked to enjoy and repeat.
My perennial favorite was his response to the suggestion of having a drink with Mitch McConnell: “Why don’t YOU have a drink with Mitch McConnell.”
Jane and I wish love to everyone at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. throughout the holiday season and into the New Year. Love and peace to our beautiful First Family, today and always.
13Thanks for the link, Tom. It and Susan’s essay now grace my FB page.
Here’s wishing a very Happy Thanksgiving to all the staff and patrons at TWMDBS!
14Tom –
OY, that salad!
But instead of a cherry on top, it really needs a pair of apricots at the base. And a bed of curly parsley, instead of the lettuce leaves.
15Lunargent,
Mmm mmm-hmmm. Sounds and looks delicious in my mind. But, gosh, I think I’m gonna pass on that one and have me some pecan pie instead. Thenkyewverrrymuch.
16Prup (aka Jim Benton) … knee talk is fine since now both of my knees have been replaced. The right one 4 years ago. The left on Nov. 10th … Will be graduating from the walker to the cane very soon!!
If I have to go to jury duty, I do have to report knees!! LOL
17I don’t fly, so that’s not a problem. I’m just hoping I’ll never have to have anything else replaced … EVER!!!
Prup. I was that guy. The only Democrat in a room full of Republicans, about 8 of them. Yeah, I do have some Republican friends. During the evening I made a disparaging remark about G W Bush and one of them said “Don’t care what you say about W, I think he’s the reason none of us have to learn Arabic.”
18My response was, “That was the worst insult to our armed forces I have ever heard. To think that there is any force in the Middle East or all of them together that could put us in that position is a grosse insult.”
It got very quiet in that room.