UPDATING THE BatB UNIVERSE TO NOW

By cb mcwhorter

After the amazing hour we spent Thursday night discussing what would be different if our show was produced in 2019 instead of the late 80’s, I did a lot of extra thinking. BatB fans are unequaled in imagination, and ideas flew fast and furiously (oops, wrong fandom) and kept going at our family ( Read more... )

HAPPY WORLD CHOCOLATE DAY!!!

(One must always note the essential holidays...)

Give you liberty or give you death. It should acceptable to lose 2% of schoolchildren in order to keep the economy ‘open’. The elder generation should be happy to die for the financial welfare of the younger generations. The maladaptation of the first sentence would make Patrick Henry cringe. Don’t believe me? Read his writings. And remember that ( Read more... )

Ziva David is alive!!!

Squeeee!!!

Modesty is an interesting symptom. Comatose people have none, which really shouldn't be a surprise. As they swim up to the surface, certain stereotypical things happen. They alert to a familiar voice before they alert to a stranger. If I call such a person, I may not get a response, and two minutes later, the patient's son or daughter calls, and ( Read more... )

The Activities Director stopped me as I was leaving from a visit. A lady was singing hits from the 1940’s and dad was happily singing along. He barely noticed that I left.

“I have something for you,” said Activities Director. “He made it this morning.”

She ducked into his room and brought out a construction paper Valentine’s Day card, covered in ( Read more... )

While it wouldn't be anything profound, it must mean something that I have managed to wear out a popcorn popper. 

A manila folder with third grade spelling tests. A brown folder with fourth grade arithmetic homework. Two hairbands, one leather with brass horses on it and one blue with edelweiss embroidered on it. A golden bracelet, bent and corroded, with my family nickname etched on it. A hairbrush that was bought in London when I was 14, hand carved, with ( Read more... )

The lady is 68, but she looks 80. As an old professor of mine would say, she's already gotten a lot of her living done. She had a(nother) heart attack that resulted in cardiac arrest. The following code was long, but ultimately successful, if you call getting spontaneous heart motion successful. That was ten days ago. She hasn't waked up since. Her ( Read more... )

I've decided that Mother's Day is weird for me.

For the last five years, it's a day of odd relief. Not that I don't miss my Mom, I do. Sometimes more than I can stand. But I always hated Mother's Day. She lived in terror of being abandoned, and she'd start pressing about what I was going to do before any significant day like birthdays or Mother's ( Read more... )