The obligatory-
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We're a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we're not too hungover we've been bailed out we're not too exhausted from last night's (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it's PhilJD's fault. I would never make fun of LaEscapee or blame PhilJD. And I am highly organized. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. -Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141) So today, in honor of the Preakness at Pimlico, we have a special video selection That I'll discuss more thoroughly below the fold.While it's called 'The Race for the Black-Eyed Susans' they're never ever used because they don't bloom until June or July (of course Climate Change will change all that). What they are really is Viking Poms, a chrysanthemum relative. They do still paint the Jockey's colors on the weather vane and award the Woodlawn Vase, reputedly the most valuable trophy in sports (over $4 Million).
No they don't get to keep it, they get a half size replica while the original remains under guard at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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