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Mike Bevel
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I already believe your ghost story
"...having my gall bladder removed" is the last phrase I heard before I had to leave her to head over to the restaurant.
September 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
(My love affair with SDBO has been a ROLLERCOASTER)
September 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
SHE'S MAKING THEM WATCH A YOUTUBE VIDEO
September 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
She's now describing to these people the plot of the Twilight Zone episode where that lady has the bandages taken off and screams because she's beautiful, and because this is a world of ugly people.
September 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"I'm the Marian of my family"
September 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"They're, like, a monster family-- you know, Munsters"
September 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
she's now describing the plot to The Munsters
September 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
IF EVERYONE'S DRESSED UP THE NAKED ONE STANDS OUT

She said that. I love her so much.
September 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
She's going to a funeral next Saturday for someone's -- maybe her's? but how possible? -- ex-husband who went to the beach and collapsed dead
September 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
And Sperm Donor Blood Oath is apparently not doing great at her job
September 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Even better, I think these might be colleagues or former colleagues
September 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
She was oddly surprised that her Asian friend said she was going to China. "Why would you go to China?" she asked.
September 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
She's now forming the shape of a bird with her hands
September 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Now she's talking about quail eggs?
September 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Life is, like, so random." <-- direct quote
September 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It reminded me strongly of John Donne's "Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God." How'd the congregation handle that level of horniness so early on a Sunday morning?
March 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
He then proceeded to tell us that mosques are more beautiful than synagogues because -- another direct quote -- "Jews don't have their own art."

(This was back in the 'teens, and the past is another country. They did things different then.)
March 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Later, the guide told us that the synagogue was "abandoned" after Ferdinand and Isabella --& I promise this is an exact quote because I immediately wrote it down in my guide book--"invited the Jews to leave."
March 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Zach & I went to Spain many years ago, visiting Toledo as one of our stops. Our guide took us to the Synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca. "I'm sorry?" my Jewish husband said when we heard the name.
March 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
But Ferdinand and Isabella, who now see the Inquisition as their favorite new tool for consolidating power, write back, "What was that? We couldn't hear you over how great we're doing at the Inquisition." And Torquemada, unbothered and unrepentant, doubles down, convinced he's saving souls.
March 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reports of Torquemada's "zeal" reach Rome, & Sixtus realizes things have gone way off script. He issues a strongly worded papal bull, saying, "That was fun, but let's put away the Inquisition for now. You're *too* good at it and we'd like some Jews and Muslims left for other inquisitors."
March 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM