WLBOTT film critic Clemetine DuCinema, starting just yesterday, has already made a big impact on the film world. She has announced the first WLBOTT Annual Film Festival. This year’s theme: Boy Meets Tractor – A Celebration of Soviet Cinema. The Program Steel Hearts and Sunflowers (1954) He swore allegiance to the state… but also to […]
Category: Agriculture
Following yesterday’s detasseling BLOTT, we would be remiss if we failed to relay the tassel confusion that occurred at Texas A&M University several years ago. As the official Event Coordinator for Texas A&M‘s commencement, Callahan ‘Cactus Jack’ Kleberg had one job: order tassels. Being an agricultural school, Cactus Jack thought they were corn tassels. You […]
Dear Tess, I write to you from the edge of my sanity—and the edge of our cornfield. My name is Mabel H., and I am the wife of a third-generation corn farmer here in northwest Iowa. My husband, Virgil, is a man of few words but many routines. Every summer, like clockwork, he begins what […]
From Elder JJZ: On a more serious note[1], really interesting connection between Japan and the establishment of the rice industry in Texas. We know many of the people or descendants mentioned in this article . They put up with a lot of bad stuff in the 1900’s but aren’t bitter, made a good life for […]
Just curious: how many liquor stores can I rob before I get punished? I’m guessing at least 35. The judge who presided over tRump’s criminal trial, Juan Merchan, issued a sentence of “unconditional discharge”, meaning the president-elect will be released without fine, imprisonment or probation supervision for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying […]
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The Women of the Fields
Today we celebrate the dignity of labor – The Women of the Fields. The GleanersThe Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting […]
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On-Form Eileen
On-Form Eileen features promently on the back page of the St. Cleve Chronicle (Friday, January 7th, 1972) This accomplishment was archived by Jethro Tull on the album “Thick as a Brick.” A little background….. The Cover Art World Enlightenment does a great job preserving the newspaper. You can view each page (and each article) on […]
WLBOTT engaged in a epic quest yesterday, fully consuming the corporate offices (hence no BLOTT). We were in search of the Lost Texas Driver’s License. Phase I: Panic Phase II: Fear of Consequences If you’re not wealthy or well-connected in Texas, you don’t drive without your license. Phase III: Sally Talks Us Down “Everybody just […]
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The Harvest
We are blessed by the WLBOTT sweet potato harvest. As our dedicated followers remember, UC#4 and UC#4-SU planted four sweet potatoes during the totality of the solar eclipse. For the harvest, we enlisted the help of Texas Elders and an Argentinean Agricultural Attaché. One of our harvesters was an Argentinean Agricultural Attaché. Following the harvest, […]
Dear Tess, It gets so lonely out her on the back 40. I need me a life partner. Can you help? I don’t have that internet thing, so I’ll have to meet a woman the old fashion way – at a church pot luck. I’m open minded – what religion has the best match making? […]