HiddenEntries (A Wholly Owned Cynthia Publishing Company Subsidiary Blog)

You ever see the end of that movie The Loneliness of The Long-Distance Runner? Well, it’s an old English-British classic, and today life imitated art again, with your Three Lions gaining the ascendancy for the lion’s share of this Mundial 2026 semifinal against Argentina, only to start thinking too hard about what it means to succeed despite all the hardships already overcome, and then just lolling about to get pipped at the wire in an absurd finish. It’s not coming home, not this year anyway. Scrub on over to the 5:10 mark of today’s video lede to see how it all came to a shocking halt for Tom Courtenay in 1962, and for the England Men’s National Football Team today.

Here’s what happened the last time Spain won your Mundial. Scrub on over to the 0:43 for the shocking money-shot, with outstanding Al Bundy action from the legendary Francesc ‘Cesc’ Fabregas. Now that this year’s edition of la roja have booked their berth in the final, if they win the tournament’s last game on Sunday, they’ll get that chance to drink a beer with one hand and the other hand tucked into the waistband too!

‘IT’S COMING HOME!’…mebbe. Your England men’s national football team has reached the semifinal stage of your Mundial for the first time since 1966, which also was the year of their only championship. ENG-ER-LAND!

Why the F not? Good ol’ Mitch will pull himself up by his bootstraps or he will be dead. Either way, this proverbial ‘personal responsibility’ the rightwing Libertariats are so fond of insisting of everybody else, well, then, now it will be insisted upon the putative senior U.S. Senator of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky! PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY: GIVE ME BOOSTRAPS OR GIVE ME DEATH!

Hey! How’s your long holiday weekend going over there? Well, that’s good!

Federal Holiday today! w00t!

This was one of those first-birthday cakes provided for the toddler such that they can smash it with their hands, get their mouth messy from all the bakery-related violence and so on. Many happy returns!

Currently bereft of catchy lede ideas, so here’s some more of the jacarandas (blooming even harder this week!) for your viewing enjoyment. Currently sunny, breezy & mild out here in Southern California, much more comfortable than what the rest of the broiling & swampy country is going through. Regrets!

As we do right around this time each year at this here Web log, we are pleased to announce: ‘WE HAVE JACARANDA’. Right in the general sweetspot between Memorial Day & Independence Day (U.S.). Behold!

You are looking almost-live at the Executive Swimming Pool at the Home Office & World Headquarters of Cynthia Publishing Co., Studio City / Upper Nichols Canyon, Cailf. The pool’s crystal-clear appearance and organism-free environment make for safe, healthy & enjoyable aquatic fun in the Southern California sun during the warm & bright summer months.

As well, since it’s a swimming pool and since it’s Nichols Canyon and since it’s a swimming pool situated just a couple of hundred feet from Nichols Canyon Road itself, well, we would be remiss in not mentioning the passing of the all-time great artist David Hockney. David Hockney, RIP. RIP, David Hockney.