Kate Hudson joins the 3-with-3 club

Actress Kate Hudson, who I admire GREATLY (just search my blog) for her talent, her sex appeal, and her overall high cute factor, clearly loves the men she loves deeply.   And she demonstrates that by having their children.

Kate, now pregnant with boyfriend Danny Fujikawa's baby (it's going to be a girl), has already had a child with Chris Robinson, followed by a child with Matt Bellamy.  So by having a child with Fujikawa, she joins the fairly exclusive celebrity club of women that have had children with three different men.  (Christie Brinkley is also a member.)

As I've noted before, having children with several different men is not the exclusive realm of celebrities -- in fact, it probably happens more often to women in lower-income circumstances, and that's quite unfortunate.  Kate is lucky to be wealthy, and that apparently her ex-partners and the fathers of her previous children are caring parents.  Not always the case in the lower-income circumstances.

Eruption at Piton de la Fournaise

Saw the news a couple of days ago that Piton de la Fournaise, likely the world's second most active basaltic volcano after Hawaii's Kilauea  (if you don't count volcanoes with lava lakes, which I'm not doing here) had erupted.  Might still be, I'm working on that. 

Here is an article about the eruption with a video.  You'll have to watch a couple of ads before watching the video, and the volcanologist in the helicopter speaks French, but despite all that, it's worth it.


Éruption du Piton de la Fournaise : les premières images vues du ciel !
(Eruption of Piton de la Fournaise: the first images seen from the sky!)


Article with pictures
Volcan - Vol au-dessus de la première éruption de l'année
(Volcano - Flight over the first eruption of the year)

Below are a couple of pictures I grabbed of this recent activity.

Visiting Mars

Every now and then I want to check in to see what the Curiosity Rover is seeing on Mars.  You can too, on the American Geophysical Union's "Martian Chronicles" blog (https://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/ ).

The most recent entry is entitled "Take Only Pictures, Leave Only Wheel Tracks", and it includes a pretty nice shot of the location that Curiosity is currently occupying.

Apparently the robot couldn't get stable enough to deploy its full instrument set, so they took this picture and moved on.

It's just alien enough to be real, yet otherworldly.

ANOTHER space hotel?

As long-time readers of this blog undoubtedly know --- well, let me start over, since I very likely don't have any long-time readers of this blog.

During the course of writing this blog, I have noted several different ideas, and some actual tentative plans, to put civilian humans in space, sub-orbitally or orbitally, in private spacecraft.  There have been several different plans discussed and designed.  One of the recent ones (which might have a better chance to come true than the others) was an add-on module to the International Space Station.

Now here comes another proposal.  I don't know how much of a chance it has to fly (as of now, they don't even have a launch vehicle identified), but hey, the proposal is on the table.

"Luxury Space Hotel" to launch in 2021

Now, if you don't remember why I am so interested in this topic, it's because I'm waiting for that one loving couple to boldly go where no one has gone before, and become the first members of the Higher-Than-Anyone Else Club.  Which is a lot higher than the Mile High Club.  A space hotel, whichever one gets into space in an operating state first, is a perfect place for this unique weightless docking maneuver.  So who's going to make the first reservation for the orbiting honeymoon suite? 

The world is waiting.

Romantic Paris

Recent newlyweds Brooks Laich and Julianne Hough took some time to visit Paris, and had some exclusive photography of themselves taken while they were there.

After getting married, Brooks made a return to NHL hockey with the Los Angeles Kings, played a few games, and then took the rest of the season off.  He's probably done -- he had a good run.  Now, with time on his hands, he can have Julianne in his ... arms.  And that's not a bad thing at all.

Here's a posed and romantic shot of the pair.

And here's a more casual shot, clearly taken by someone in the right place at the right time.  I think it's pretty likely who that was.

Did you hear what Ann Coulter called Donald Trump?

Ann Coulter is apparently more than a little bit disappointed in Donald Trump as President.

Ann Coulter: Trump is a ‘shallow, lazy ignoramus’

Yes, a little disappointed.

Later in the meeting, feisty Ann had this exchange:

“You’re a racist!” a young man yelled from the cheap seats.

“No, I’m sorry, the people bringing in Juanita, the maid, and underpaying her, are the racists,” Coulter shot back. “You are a moron!” she added—prompting a burst of applause. “You’re very stupid. I can’t argue with stupid people.”

Still such a likable and polite lady.  Really.

Pass the guacamole

Important news: it appears that the avocado shortage crisis has ended.

Don't worry, there will be plenty of avocados this year

"According to produce industry trade publication The Packer, avocado crops in California, Mexico, and Peru are expected to be "heavy" this year—at least partially due to the fact that they're an "alternate-bearing fruit," meaning that it's normal for crops to be heavier one year and lighter the next. 2017 was an "off" year with considerably smaller crops, but this year, US avocado volume is expected to reach 2.4 billion pounds—300 million more than 2017, according to Emiliano Escobedo, executive director of the Hass Avocado Board."

Well, good, that's one less thing to worry about.