Warren G Harding: "You had better."

G+ doesn’t include robust text formatting or link listing tools, so here’s the roster, with links back to the relevant G+ post:

20th Century

26. Theodore Roosevelt Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just TR being TR. Bonus TR #1. Bonus TR Caption Contest. Bonus TR Gallery.
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson Note: Not a true Woodrow Wilson. Just a professional facsimile.
29. Warren G. Harding Finger pointing Bonus.
30. Calvin Coolidge Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just Old Cal in his Indian Chief get-up.
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just an old guy looking at a globe. A big globe.
33. Harry S. Truman Note: Not a true Faceplam. Just Harry S and a bunch of Greek generals shaking hands over a globe.
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower Helen Keller Bonus.
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon B. Johnson Bonus #1. Bonus #2.
37. Richard M. Nixon
38. Gerald R. Ford
39. James Carter
40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H. W. Bush Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just evidence of the Crack Epidemic.
42. William J. Clinton Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just Slick Willy giggling about something.

21st Century

43. George W. Bush
44. Barack Obama Note: The Facepalm that started them all!

As usual, John Scane took the pictures.

LMA's Korean BBQ appetizer (rice, kalbi, korean veg, lettuce leaf). Paired with reisling.

MM's Guamian chicken salad (roast chicken, coconut). Paired with ... ?

LHP's Enchilada Unbound (masa, chili sauce, chicken, pico de gallo). Paired with cerveza.

TM's Chicken Pot Pie (chicken, veg, butter, cream, pastry). Paired with chardonnay.

TVM's Cheeseburger (ground sirloin, Roquefort, brioche) and JS's Mac'nCheese (rotelli, butter, gruyere, cheddar). Paired with merlot.

TVM's Ice Cream and French Toast (butter pecan, toast, maple syrup, bacon). Paired with ...?

DS's Ice Cream and Cake (vanilla, gluten free cake, chocolate). Paired with coffee.

Our theme was Spain. The usual rules applied (bring a dish, bring some wine). I’ve done my best to remember who brought what, but my memory is not as spry as I remember it used to be.

Photos (and mushrooms and asparagus) by John Scane. Visit him at johnscane.com.

VM brought the charcuterie and the cheese (not pictured). Paired with Cava.

MM brought these clams and the bread with which to mop up the sauce. Paired with... a Spanish white called... ???

JS and DS brought the mushrooms and the asparagus. Paired with Rioja.

ET made the paella. Paired with ... ???.

The hosts made the poached pears. Paired with Moscatel.

The food and the wine were beyond compare; only the company was finer. The music, all agreed, missed the mark. The host intends to correct that in time for the “Spanish Tapas” Dinner next month. Bring your castanets.

Here’s the photographic evidence.

ET's Appetizer. Fig, Honey, Prosciutto on bread. Paired with Lambrusco.

Mine and LMA's Pasta. Pancetta and Saffron Risotto. Paired with Torrette (Didier Gerbelle 2008).

J&D S's Grilled Talapia and ET's Asparagus & Zucchini Salad and ET's Grilled Asparagus in Prosciutto. Paired with lager (Peroni).

VM&MM's Tiramisu. Paired with Sweet Marsala.

I’m a terrible monetizer.

Alley. Looking north.

Alley. Looking south.

During the deluge, the alley flooded into my garage. The floor is five inches or so below grade.

Garage. Looking east toward the back wall of the house.

Garage. Looking west toward the driveway and the alley.

Purchased a pond pump and it’s out there now, pumping the water back out into the alley.

Robespierre, a frequent contributor at Fodor’s Travel Talk Forums online, suddenly stopped posting to the boards in July of last year. NPR’s All Things Considered did an essay on why he stopped and the reactions of his fellow forum posters.

Robespierre died. People he knew online — friends and acquaintances — knew only that he’d stopped posting.

Clearly there is a need for several web 2.0 services to fill this niche.

Notification of one’s demise sent to one’s online communities, automatically, via iBit, the Online Obituary service.

Funeria to host one’s online funeral services.

The bits and pieces of one’s online persona collected from Flickr and MetaFilter and twitter and World of Warcraft and so on and deposited and cataloged at Deathbook, the reliquary updated over time as the service’s worms crawl through the deceased’s decaying virtual corpse, grimly digesting all the accumulated errata and depositing it in DB’s vast servers, where, perhaps, the accumulation will fertilize the lives and thoughts of future visitors.