The delivery service just started.
Down Memory Lane
Heated Scrabble Games At The Hess Household
Drones Deliver Library Books
3
Ups And Downs
Diane von Furstenberg’s Brand Is Left Exposed by the Pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/business/diane-von-furstenberg-coronavirus-crisis.html?referringSource=articleShare
Rock Bottom Remainders | Live Talks Los Angeles
https://livetalksla.org/blog/books/rock-bottom-remainders/
Stephen Miller’s Grandmother Died of COVID-19. Her Son Blames the Trump Administration. – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/stephen-millers-grandmother-died-of-covid-19-her-son-blames-the-trump-administration/
Worried About Crowded Flights? Know Where Your Airline Stands – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/travel/crowded-flights-coronavirus.html
Research Suggests Machu Picchu Was Purposely Built on Top of Intersecting Fault Lines | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/machu-picchu-was-purposely-built-top-intersecting-fault-lines-180973216/
Before, After, The Tooth
My tooth ache started in February. It was subtle. That didn’t stop me from getting it checked out. The dentist said it was a very big cavity in my upper left wisdom tooth. It had to come out.
We made another appointment to remove it. I never went back because of Covid 19. I was able to maintain the pain by chewing on the opposite side.
An oral surgeon removed the tooth yesterday. Easy as can be. Didn’t feel a thing and no problems today. If you need a great dentist, or an oral surgeon in Miami, call me. Dr. Allen Ressler and Dr. Eduardo Nicolaievsky.(Nico) run two separate practices that are a step in to the future. Filling out the forms proved to be the most difficult part of the experience.
Can you, Would You, Do This?

Rodham and Bacharach
One of the smartest moves I have ever made was to subscribe, and listen, to Mitchell Kaplan’s podcasts. His interviews with daring authors has opened up a whole new world for me without ever leaving my condo.
Today I was thrilled to read in Variety that an author Mitchell Kaplan featured June 26th, is going to have her book made into a movie on Hulu. I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m part of the in crowd learning all about her weeks ago. This is a very clever book. Author Curtis Sittenfeld provides an alternative life for Hillary as if she never married Bill Clinton. The story will surprise you. The Variety article also includes a Zoom interview that actress/comedian Amy Schumer conducted with Hillary.
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/hillary-clinton-rodham-hulu-series-1234713263/
Listen to Curtis Sittenfeld describe why she decided to write about Hillary Clinton. It’s all on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan on Apple Podcasts.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-literary-life-with-mitchell-kaplan/id1433854266?i=1000479749424
Update On What 92 Year Old Burt Bacharach Is Doing These Days?
Itching For Answers
Why are so many experiencing a rash of skin problems? Is it from Covid or just staying at home?
LOBOC’s Lois Whitman-Hess and Steve Greenberg go to an expert in the field to find out why are we scratching so much.
https://youtu.be/2WVGHOBhnyY
Steve Mandy MD, is an internationally known dermatologist. As a photographer, painter, and sculptor, Steve Mandy’s approach to cosmetic dermatology is fortunately with an artist’s eye.
He completed his residencies at Johns Hopkins University and University of Miami and earned a medical degree at George Washington University. Dr. Mandy is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology, a founding member and past president of the Florida Society of Dermatologic Surgeons and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. He is also a Volunteer Professor of Dermatology at University of Miami.
Known as the “Dermatologist to the Stars” while in Aspen, Colorado, he continued to hone his skills and artist’s eye toward the current procedures in cosmetic dermatology.
Today, his Miami Beach dermatology office is one of the most respected and admired practices in the United States.
https://youtu.be/2WVGHOBhnyY
Zoom’s Most Popular New Game Show
Let us know what you think?
The Second Episode of What The Heck Is That!?
First Episode of What’s The Heck Is That!?
From The New Yorker
Lexicon for the Pandemic
Maskhole: An individual who wears a mask in a way that makes it completely ineffective—e.g., below the nose, under the chin, on the back of the head.
Face naked: The state of facial exposure that occurs when an individual declines to wear a mask in public. For example, “Pence went all face naked to the Mayo Clinic.”
Body mullet: What most people wear on Zoom calls: a nice top and, below the waist, underwear or less. (“Business up top, party down below.”)
The NOVID-19: The nineteen minutes after a too-close interaction with a maskless stranger during which you experience a thickness in your throat and a certainty that you’re dying. This sometimes lasts longer if frantic hand washing, antiseptic gargling, and estate planning are not readily available.
Overdistancing: When the guy in front of you in line has a metric understanding of the six in six feet, allowing twenty feet to open up between him and the next person in line, which then allows others to interpret that next person as the end of the line and to cut in front of you.
Domino distancing: When the person behind you in line stands too close, causing you to crowd the person in front of you, and on and on until everyone dies.
Emotional distancing: Deciding that now really isn’t the time to make big decisions about a relationship or, for that matter, to have a conversation about it.
Covideo: A short video featuring a quarantined individual’s child doing something adorable and/or profane, the public sharing of which falls somewhere between cute and a cry for help.
Stockholm syndrome: The assumption that everyone would be just fine without any government restrictions.
Someday, Noneday, Whoseday?, Whensday?, Blursday, Whyday?, Doesn’t matterday: Days of the week.
Parenting: The ability to figure out why the PlayStation isn’t working with the Wi-Fi.
Body Zoom-morphia: Finding your own image on a group video call so unappealing that you are unable to focus on anything else.
Quorumtine: The minimum number of family members necessary to decide what to watch on TV.
Pan-demic: A potentially dangerous increase in the baking of bread in a quarantined home.
COVID-30: Formerly COVID-15; the amount of weight gained by an average adult during quarantine. Sometimes related to a pandemic.
Helter shelter: That moment in the quarantine day when everything seems dirty and chaotic and you feel like saying, “Fuck it, let’s go outside. I don’t care if we die and a bunch of other people do, too.”
Flattening the curve: Trying to fit into your jeans after three months of sweatpants. (See COVID-30.)
Germophobe: Formerly, crazy people (e.g., Howard Hughes); now everyone except crazy people.
Going viral: No longer used.
The Price Of Success
One of the best things on Netflix. Our adrenaline is still rushing sky high from the excitement and energy of this documentary. If you love music, be prepared to flap your wings.
Am I the only woman who feels that NBC Dateline correspondent Andrea Canning was completely unprofessional when interviewing two detectives on air for several hours? This 47 year old, mother of six (yes, six), is absolutely gorgeous and fit. She has icy blue eyes that is a huge draw on TV. Yes, I am envious but I am also very annoyed that any woman would wear a dress that short revealing parts of her that scream “sex.” Did she keep her legs crossed the entire time? Who was able to concentrate on the murder? She makes Sharon Stone look like a Nun. If we want men to respect us, we can’t entice this way.
Reactions from Facebook when I posted this.
f
The Taste Of Coffee
Eliot told me he had a confession to make. I couldn’t imagine what he was going to say. He said he was guilty because he never realized how many Keurig coffee cups we use each week.
He hates the fact they they don’t get properly recycled in our regular trash. He wants to start washing them all and put them in the recycling bin. We pray whoever picks them up does the right thing. We have been recycling everything else for decades.
What The Heck Is That !?
DigiDame 