#LateShow #StephenColbert
"We're Live, And We Sound Good Man" - Paul McCartney On The Beatles Playing The Ed Sullivan Show
The penultimate show
And before that.
Friday, May 22, 2026
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Don't eat fruit after a bat has eaten it: Ebola advice from a doctor's five-year-old
#Ebola
RantWoman finds it calming to acquire the information here and to focus on ways to make a difference.
Dr Cameron
Listen to a few key points and then if you live in the west and don't have time to watch the hole video, go away and don't worry.
(RantWoman encourages readers to stay on.)
Wash hands. Don't Wash bodies
Temperature checks
Surge equipment and supplies even when conditions are very difficult.
Bats bite the sweetest fruit and then kids pick up the contaminated fruit. DON'T eat fruit that has been bitten by a bat.
Talking Ebola at bedtime.
Ebola is a Disease of compassion
Synopsis:
Ebola in Africa is probably going to get worse
US could help by having been prepared and being able to surge in relevant supplies but current administration has squandered leadership, undermined relationships.
Risk low but not Zero in the US: travel bans are partly performative. We only roll the dice so many times before they come up snake eyes.
Known first death in April was a nurse.
Fear that leak into Tanzania, South Sudan, Rwanda
Wash hands. DON'T wash bodies
Virus in blood, vomit, bodily fluids and lurks in semen even if a man is asymptomatic
Have you seen Ramzan Kadyrov's cat?
#Chechnya
This video dates from 2016. The description says so, in spite of the contemporary time stamp. Plus even with RantWoman's bad eyes, John Oliver looks younger than he currently looks when, for example, saying goodbye to Steven Colbert on Late Night
Ramzan Kadyrov is known for many NOT FUNNY things so be warned before wandering into the world of lost cats, lost cat memes, and a "fragile electoral victory" by someone who got 97% of the vote.
As for whether or not the fugitive feline has been found by now, the flow of "Is This your cat " memes has completely subsided. Twitter / X shows no new postings since 2020 and Instagram shows nothing current. So even though RantWoman is flirting with a #GAAD rant about her experience with Instagram, Kadyrov's channel is off the hook for that at least.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
The Dark side of Iceland? You mean besides long winter nights?
Iceland
Today RantWoman is displacing an urge to go off on all kinds of daily news topics toward ...Iceland videos. Before you click, RantWoman loves this narrator's voice for resonance with darkness but RantWoman HAS OPINIONS about some of the topics.
A plunge into the shadows? A dance with the supernatural? YES! Not just endless hikes and gorgeous natural vistas? History! Myth! Yes! Bring it on.
Limited Product availability?
Fair warning, but Icelanders are by all accounts quite happy even without the level of frenetic consumerism possible in other places. Honestly, plan ahead but readers who cannot live without every little thing on hand and deliverable within 3 hours at a click of an Amazon order might want to consider whether Iceland is the destination for you.
RantWoman on the other hand might need to grapple with some clothing size concerns before travel but would be THRILLED not even to have to think about rampant consumerism for a whole vacation. RantWoman is also happy to practice just COPING. Wouldn't RantWoman be a FUN traveling companion?
You can't disappear into a crowd.
Cue Jason Aldean's "Try that in a small town" and every reaction video on the internet. Also triple bonus reminder NOT just to act like an ignorant clueless tourist.
The WEATHER: well documented. Highly variable. Dress in layers and always make sure to have a water and windproof outer layer. RantWoman lives in Seattle where people have been known to wear parkas for the Fourth of July and where every spring and fall means a dance of how many and which layers for the sweet spot of both temperature control and water resistance. So RantWoman thinks preparing sounds manageable.
RantWoman has also lived in enough snowy places to be REALLY firm about learning abou snow driving before trying to drive in Iceland. Visitors from, say, places where temperature are above 30degrees C all summer should definitely take note of both weather concerns and driving issues covered extensively elsewhere.
Fashion trends: a lot of people wind up chasing the same item or consumer goods. Oh well. Have fun about it or about sticking out if that happens.
Beer was banned until 1989
Fun history of wine and beer. RantWoman is wondering what the Vikings drank?
No TV on Thursdays AND in July
Ask about the history of TV in Iceland. Don't just plug into a "glowing box" for a YouTube fix.
Dogs were forbidden in the capital
Working dogs are one thing.
As a measure to prevent tapeworm
But Reykjavik is cat city!
Who needs bad photography when there is VOLCANO DATA?
Iceland #VolcanicActivity
Below please find RantWoman's periodic contribution to social media generated by Really bad photographer | Icelandair US .
Just give RantWoman volcanoes. Some of the ones around the Puget Sound are getting restive but no c=spewing anything yet. So off to Iceland it is. for some nice info about volcanoes about to spew.
Nah. Not a lot of photography, but BOY aren't those charts fascinating! So please enjoy a bit of a fractured timeline and the opportunity to binge watch volcano behavior videos
Just for variety
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Tacoma Museum of Glass Low Vision Tour May 31, 10:30 am-1 pm.
RantWoman LOVES the Museum of Glass in Tacoma
Admission to Museum of Glass Tacoma
RantWoman definitely encourages readers to check out
Blind & Low Vision Tour
Sunday , May 31
10:30am–1pm
Free, with required pre-registration
Join Museum of Glass docents and learn about glassblowing and selected exhibition pieces as you visit the Museum’s Hot Shop and galleries.
MOG’s newest tour offering has been specifically designed to serve the Blind and Low Vision community. This tour includes a visit to the Hot Shop, docent-led gallery discussions of art pieces from current exhibitions Paul Stankard: Beauty Beyond Nature and Kids Design Glass with the use of tactile images, objects, and 3D prints made to replicate the shape and feel of glass art pieces, as well as a hands-on presentation in the Museum Store. Registration is limited to 20 participants.
It is our goal and aim to make the most inclusive and immersive experience possible for the Blind and Low Vision community.
To register, please contact Elisabeth Emerson at eemerson@museumofglass.org or 253.284.4713
Registration required by May 23.
Things RantWoman LOVES
RantWoman loves the building shape evocative of native american shapes.
RantWoman loves the walkway over I5 from the Sound Transit bus stop. The walkway is marked by large glass sculptures and then by display niches full of smaller sized works.
RantWoman loves the hot shop, the demonstration point for many glassblowing techniques. RantWoman is definitely thinking about what it would be like to put on a welder's mask, grab a stick full of very hot goo and get all creative.
RantWoman loves the display hallway where younger kids' work is displayed.
RantWoman loves the workshop shere visitors have the opportunity to experiment creating small pieces of their own. Full Disclosure Rant Woman as part of the panel of visually impaired people who weighed in to help shape the Low Vision tour. When we got to the workshop, museum staff was worried about whether people were afraid of getting cut handling small pieces of glass. Everyone on the panel said something along the lines of "The risk is worth it," though we also suggested laying out the glass pieces in single layers. RantWoman does not remember what she made on her tour but definitely enjoyed putting together some kind of glass mosaic.
An easy day trip from Seattle on the Sound Transit bus. After the tour, a couple simple dining options across Commerce st.
Sorry: RantWoman knows driving directions exist but is a big fan of public transit.
For now, Iceland is RantWoman's internet happy place
Iceland
RantWoman has many things she needs / wants to distract herself from, so...Iceland it is.
Readers who just want a pleasant, somewhat price aware somehow reassuring video, please enjoy.
Readers hankering for some authentic RantWoman reaction ramble with a dash of ranting, see you on the other side.
Yay! Downloadable PDF!
Yay! Honest discussion of prices and budget options though check for your current year's pricing
Lagoons, lagoons, lagoons: all the ways Iceland offers to lightly steam oneself in geothermally heated pools sound glorious for achy bodies. RantWoman has childhood memories of an annual winter time Rant family trip to a hot springs pool in the mountains of CO. Swimming in the warm water was especially delicious when snow was falling. So all the ways to soak oneself sound wonderful--until on thinks of dry skin. RantWoman would have to look for some local option to avoid turning into a very flaky and shriveled prune.
As for doing the Blue Lagoon first thing when one gets off the plane, probably not. RantWoman has enough experience with international travel and jet lag to think more about falling asleep in a bed and saving the swim for another time, perhaps on the way out of town, though that leaves one with wet swimwear in one's luggage. Put a pin in that as a problem to solve.
Yes, Yes, cash free, prepay for mobile service, and the right apps for weather.
RantWoman loves the idea of the Fly bus from the airport. RantWoman will opine separately about driving: if travelling in the wintertime, either make sure your driver is comfortable driving in bad weather, snow and ice, or sign up for tours. RantWoman will look for more info about tours or options to hire a local driver.
Camp sites sound great if one is feeling hardy but if one, say, needs a CPAP machine, one will need either some kind of solar battery or an option one can plug into. RantWoman has no idea whether one could get a portable solar collector with the needed capacity. Never mind whether one could count on enough sunlight to fully charge before bedtime.
Camper vans! Camper vans! Fun to know these exist.
Puffins and whale watching? Puffins' high-contrast plumage just sounds like fun. RantWoman is ambivalent about even trying whale watching. RantWoman can see whales just fine up close on videos. RantWoman occasionally dines with friends at the home of one person with a view of whales swimming by in the Puget Sound. RantWoman takes others' word for it that the whales are even there.
Light and dark: high summer is exhilarating. Short daylight periods in the winter are good for...sleeping! RantWoman once spent a lot of a winter trip to Russia just sleeping. Between the jet lag and most of the surrounding conversation being in Russian sign language, not one of RantWoman's zones of even bare minimal fluency, RantWoman found it surprisingly easy just to sleep. Iceland might be a long way to travel just to catch up on sleep, but add plenty of time lounging in lagoons and RantWoman can imagine not being the only person on the planet who could imagine a winter napping tour.
PS Who can pass up year-round fresh tomatoes?
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