"It wasn’t until I started doing dishes that I realized men in my family don’t do dishes.
At parties, I rarely saw Martins men helping out in the kitchen. Instead, our grandmothers, aunts and female cousins (all Portuguese and Argentine immigrants) would cook and serve the meal, and afterward the men would stack their plates near the sink like a Jenga tower before returning to the table, where they would finish their wine and pick their teeth as the women cleaned up.
I decided I would be a different kind of man."
~ N. Martins
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/style/modern-love-discovering-manhood-in-soapy-bubbles.html
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Hmmm.
I have to say
https://eand.co/americas-already-one-of-the-worst-places-in-the-world-to-be-a-woman-is-it-going-to-get-worse-6059a82ecacf
I feel more useful when I can do the dishes.
"I’ve often said that the best job I ever had was washing dishes at a small Italian restaurant just after college. I say I washed dishes. I also bussed tables and prepped food and, at the end of the night, would blow into the state-mandated breathalyzer on the owner’s car so he could drive home drunk."
~ M. Powell
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-washing-dishes.html
????
https://www.legalmomentum.org/women-and-poverty-america
????
https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/no-70-world-s-poor-aren-t-women-doesn-t-mean-poverty-isn-t-sexist
https://eand.co/americas-already-one-of-the-worst-places-in-the-world-to-be-a-woman-is-it-going-to-get-worse-6059a82ecacf
I feel more useful when I can do the dishes.
"I’ve often said that the best job I ever had was washing dishes at a small Italian restaurant just after college. I say I washed dishes. I also bussed tables and prepped food and, at the end of the night, would blow into the state-mandated breathalyzer on the owner’s car so he could drive home drunk."
~ M. Powell
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-washing-dishes.html
????
https://www.legalmomentum.org/women-and-poverty-america
????
https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/no-70-world-s-poor-aren-t-women-doesn-t-mean-poverty-isn-t-sexist
Ants, too.
Saying "JESUS CHRIST SAVES
(AndTHATisPartOfTheReason
WHYOnlyAManCanBe
THEVERYTOPMOSTLEVEL
ProfessionalVictimOfSocietal
INJUSTICE)
is absolutely going to motivate me to do the dishes
NOW.
And also, how many girls are going to become not-girls.
(AndTHATisPartOfTheReason
WHYOnlyAManCanBe
THEVERYTOPMOSTLEVEL
ProfessionalVictimOfSocietal
INJUSTICE)
is absolutely going to motivate me to do the dishes
NOW.
And also, how many girls are going to become not-girls.
Felt useful
A lady asked me in Spanish where the bathroom was. I pointed.
"In the back...a la derecha."
"In the back...a la derecha."
Musica
...a la playa...
https://genius.com/Ioona-vamos-a-la-playa-lyrics
(yo quiero ir
a la yurta
del bosque)
Vamos
https://genius.com/Pixies-vamos-pilgrim-lyrics
https://genius.com/Ioona-vamos-a-la-playa-lyrics
(yo quiero ir
a la yurta
del bosque)
Vamos
https://genius.com/Pixies-vamos-pilgrim-lyrics
Today
Loss
Hurts
Holy
Lower Back
Pain
& Front Ache
Heart
Pelvis
CBD oil
Heating Pad
Dream of a refuge
In some trees
Sing
Hurts
Holy
Lower Back
Pain
& Front Ache
Heart
Pelvis
CBD oil
Heating Pad
Dream of a refuge
In some trees
Sing
There are a lot of nice young men
For example, yesterday when I bought a Chicago dog, I met one who was extremely friendly and gave great customer service. I spent very little money, but this did not matter. Another time, when I brought a scoop of chocolate ice cream, that young man who gave out the samples and rang me up at the register was very nice to me. He told me since my item was so small, he did not want to charge me any sales tax.
Schön und interessant auch
I have an old German textbook from my grandfather lying around here somewhere...
https://www.spektrum.de/news/magic-the-gathering-ist-turing-vollstaendig/1645896
https://www.spektrum.de/news/magic-the-gathering-ist-turing-vollstaendig/1645896
Here's a poem
For you.
http://literalmagazine.com/loose-woman/
Because of some boxes that were left on the curb, including a messy book written in and highlighted by someone else, which I gave away years ago.
And that was...intentional?
Did someone give up their violent hyper-macho video games?
http://literalmagazine.com/loose-woman/
Because of some boxes that were left on the curb, including a messy book written in and highlighted by someone else, which I gave away years ago.
And that was...intentional?
Did someone give up their violent hyper-macho video games?
Comes, goes, comes back
Even though the person who brought in 2 boxes of books and violent video games put up a sign offering to give them back, I think they are for us. This is because one of the books is one I gave away.
Cisneros' Loose Woman....I gave it away because I got it used, and it had been highlighted and written in by some other person. I didn't like all that, so I gave gave it away years ago.
Now it seems to have returned.
Cisneros' Loose Woman....I gave it away because I got it used, and it had been highlighted and written in by some other person. I didn't like all that, so I gave gave it away years ago.
Now it seems to have returned.
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Saturday night small town excitement
In the left ear, country music(?)
DOUBLE BASS
In the right ear, sea shanties(?)
HAMMERED DULCIMER
Two different "traditional music groups"
Practicing in the park at the same time.
It is new again
One poem, one hour.
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/poems/uriel.html
Or perhaps some other unit of time.
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/poems/uriel.html
Or perhaps some other unit of time.
Another book club candidate
It's
"embedded" ~ R. Cooke
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/23/lisa-taddeo-three-women-i-wanted-explore-desire-not-sex
a lot.
I am sure if the universe weren't trying to make me think you could be reborn in another body, it would have been fun to discuss this one.
"embedded" ~ R. Cooke
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/23/lisa-taddeo-three-women-i-wanted-explore-desire-not-sex
a lot.
~~~~~
I am sure if the universe weren't trying to make me think you could be reborn in another body, it would have been fun to discuss this one.
Practitioners of humanity
Young men, teenage girls, military guys, pregnant women, doctors, &
"Injured dumbass is still doing a great job..." https://mobile.twitter.com/dberceli/status/1129746479898402817
"Injured dumbass is still doing a great job..." https://mobile.twitter.com/dberceli/status/1129746479898402817
Friday, June 28, 2019
Uno...dos...
Sia...Gail Dines...
https://mobile.twitter.com/Sia/status/1143264673531224071
Sidenote: Out of the thousands of (mostly but not entirely) young people I have worked with over the past seven plus years, approximately zero percent go on to become (fill in the "appearance-based career" blank).
https://mobile.twitter.com/Sia/status/1143264673531224071
Sidenote: Out of the thousands of (mostly but not entirely) young people I have worked with over the past seven plus years, approximately zero percent go on to become (fill in the "appearance-based career" blank).
I wonder what the shaking is
A.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/27/angela-merkel-seen-shaking-second-time-just-over-week-germany
Reminds me of when a healer told me that shaking is a natural response to releasing stress and trauma.
https://traumaprevention.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/27/angela-merkel-seen-shaking-second-time-just-over-week-germany
Reminds me of when a healer told me that shaking is a natural response to releasing stress and trauma.
https://traumaprevention.com/
E.W. on Ambassadors
"Today, the United States lacks a presence in nearly 40% of world cities with populations over 3 million, many in the rapidly growing Indo-Pacific region.
The Pentagon is nearly 40 times bigger than the State Department — we employ more people to work in military grocery stores than we do foreign service officers. That has real consequences. Too often, our underinvestment in diplomacy and development causes our leaders to default to military action, instead of treating it as a last resort."
https://medium.com/@teamwarren/revitalizing-diplomacy-a-21st-century-foreign-service-2d9d195698f
"Professionalizing our Ambassadors
Trump has perfected the act of selling swanky diplomatic posts to rich buffoons. In the Trump administration, $1 million buys you an appointment to the Bahamas — even if you’re not quite sure what that means. For $2 million, you can become Ambassador to the United Nations. Trump nominated a real estate lawyer accused of sexual harassment as ambassador to Romania. His South Africa nominee is a handbag designer. In all, Donald Trump has appointed political cronies to nearly half the available ambassadorial positions — far more than any president in recent memory. As a result, opportunities for career professionals are severely limited."
"The practice of auctioning off American diplomacy to the highest bidder must end."
https://medium.com/@teamwarren/revitalizing-diplomacy-a-21st-century-foreign-service-2d9d195698f
The Pentagon is nearly 40 times bigger than the State Department — we employ more people to work in military grocery stores than we do foreign service officers. That has real consequences. Too often, our underinvestment in diplomacy and development causes our leaders to default to military action, instead of treating it as a last resort."
https://medium.com/@teamwarren/revitalizing-diplomacy-a-21st-century-foreign-service-2d9d195698f
"Professionalizing our Ambassadors
Trump has perfected the act of selling swanky diplomatic posts to rich buffoons. In the Trump administration, $1 million buys you an appointment to the Bahamas — even if you’re not quite sure what that means. For $2 million, you can become Ambassador to the United Nations. Trump nominated a real estate lawyer accused of sexual harassment as ambassador to Romania. His South Africa nominee is a handbag designer. In all, Donald Trump has appointed political cronies to nearly half the available ambassadorial positions — far more than any president in recent memory. As a result, opportunities for career professionals are severely limited."
"The practice of auctioning off American diplomacy to the highest bidder must end."
https://medium.com/@teamwarren/revitalizing-diplomacy-a-21st-century-foreign-service-2d9d195698f
Some extra detail
for deciding if/where to donate...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/how-to-donate-to-help-migrant-children-at-the-border.html
"The easiest way to verify a charity's legitimacy is to look it up on a watchdog site such as Charity Navigator, CharityWatch, BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Great Nonprofits. These sites rate nonprofits and allow you to find out more about the organization and how donations are spent."
~ M. Leonhardt
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/how-to-donate-to-help-migrant-children-at-the-border.html
"A legal aid organization, the Florence Project, provides free legal services to detained immigrants in Arizona. An estimated 86% of those detained have no legal representation while going through immigration removal proceedings, the organization says.
In addition to donations, the Florence Project also accepts volunteers. If you live in Arizona, you can help out directly as a translator, researcher or pro bono attorney if you're qualified.
The organization receives a three-star rating from Charity Navigator (out of a possible four stars)."
~ M. Leonhardt
History:
https://firrp.org/who/history/
Children's Program:
https://firrp.org/what/the-childrens-program/
Integrated Social Services:
https://firrp.org/what/integrated-social-services/
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/how-to-donate-to-help-migrant-children-at-the-border.html
"The easiest way to verify a charity's legitimacy is to look it up on a watchdog site such as Charity Navigator, CharityWatch, BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Great Nonprofits. These sites rate nonprofits and allow you to find out more about the organization and how donations are spent."
~ M. Leonhardt
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/how-to-donate-to-help-migrant-children-at-the-border.html
"A legal aid organization, the Florence Project, provides free legal services to detained immigrants in Arizona. An estimated 86% of those detained have no legal representation while going through immigration removal proceedings, the organization says.
In addition to donations, the Florence Project also accepts volunteers. If you live in Arizona, you can help out directly as a translator, researcher or pro bono attorney if you're qualified.
The organization receives a three-star rating from Charity Navigator (out of a possible four stars)."
~ M. Leonhardt
~*~*~*~
History:
https://firrp.org/who/history/
Children's Program:
https://firrp.org/what/the-childrens-program/
Integrated Social Services:
https://firrp.org/what/integrated-social-services/
The Female Body & News in the World
Superintendent Biakpeh described the move as a huge outcome for Liberians.
“Our future goal is to see an overall abandonment of Bush School activities in our country,” Biakpeh added: He said a law must be enacted and properly implemented to ensure that every girl at risk is protected.
“The government needs to show strong commitment and prioritize the issue about Bush School activities in Liberia.”
Also speaking, Mary Larteh, Paramount Chief of Jorquelleh District in Bong County, said bringing an end to Bush School activities is possible, but there needs to be means of survival for those who already consider initiation as employment.
“They do it not out of love, but out of custom and ignorance,” she added.
~ Admin
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/front-slider/liberia-traditional-leaders-agree-to-suspend-bush-school-activities/
“Our future goal is to see an overall abandonment of Bush School activities in our country,” Biakpeh added: He said a law must be enacted and properly implemented to ensure that every girl at risk is protected.
“The government needs to show strong commitment and prioritize the issue about Bush School activities in Liberia.”
Also speaking, Mary Larteh, Paramount Chief of Jorquelleh District in Bong County, said bringing an end to Bush School activities is possible, but there needs to be means of survival for those who already consider initiation as employment.
“They do it not out of love, but out of custom and ignorance,” she added.
~ Admin
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/front-slider/liberia-traditional-leaders-agree-to-suspend-bush-school-activities/
"U.S. Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs"
"Pleasure to meet with former President
@MaEllenSirleaf
and discuss our shared goals to promote education and increase women’s leadership in all sectors. She is an inspirational and powerful voice here in #Liberia and around the world."
~ M. Royce
https://mobile.twitter.com/eca_as?lang=en
Etc.
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/news/liberia-president-weah-acknowledges-challenges-in-meeting-with-us-asst-secretary-of-state-for-education/
~ M. Royce
https://mobile.twitter.com/eca_as?lang=en
Etc.
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/news/liberia-president-weah-acknowledges-challenges-in-meeting-with-us-asst-secretary-of-state-for-education/
My body is very *screams*
Does the young "Chandelier" dancer do a little "Wuthering Heights" kind of wave when she is in the curtains on the "Ellen" show.
2 M's
It is no more?
http://www.sgvtribune.com/drowning-in-debt-monrovias-mt-sierra-college-closes-for-good
I spoke with a young man once who told me this was a good school for him...
Time for more art and communications types to look for new employment.
ELSEWHERE
"Speaking to FrontPageAfrica Thursday, the Vice President lamented: 'Today, the male-dominated Liberian legislature, passed the long-awaited Domestic Violence Law, but removed a very critical component; the section which made Female Genital Mutilation illegal under our laws. As a champion of the rights of women, I categorically denounce this decision. FGM is a violation of woman’s right to choose and human rights; which affects her physically and emotionally for the rest of her life. I therefore call upon the women of Liberia to join me in raising our voices to condemn this practice.'"
~ R. Sieh
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/news/liberia-vice-president-slams-passage-of-domestic-violence-law-blow-to-fight-against-fgm/
http://www.sgvtribune.com/drowning-in-debt-monrovias-mt-sierra-college-closes-for-good
I spoke with a young man once who told me this was a good school for him...
Time for more art and communications types to look for new employment.
ELSEWHERE
"Speaking to FrontPageAfrica Thursday, the Vice President lamented: 'Today, the male-dominated Liberian legislature, passed the long-awaited Domestic Violence Law, but removed a very critical component; the section which made Female Genital Mutilation illegal under our laws. As a champion of the rights of women, I categorically denounce this decision. FGM is a violation of woman’s right to choose and human rights; which affects her physically and emotionally for the rest of her life. I therefore call upon the women of Liberia to join me in raising our voices to condemn this practice.'"
~ R. Sieh
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/news/liberia-vice-president-slams-passage-of-domestic-violence-law-blow-to-fight-against-fgm/
Apt food metaphor
"...she went to her bread-and-butter response: that a 'thinner and thinner slice' of the country is getting ahead and that this needs to change."
~ D. Montanaro
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736451302/5-takeaways-from-the-first-democratic-debate
~ D. Montanaro
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736451302/5-takeaways-from-the-first-democratic-debate
PSULDPPOT
Pre-Shedding of Uterine Lining Dysthymia Punctuated by Painful Ovarian Twinges:
"You should take your special CBD oil."
"You should take your special CBD oil."
Thursday, June 27, 2019
"Scrambled egg" lol
How about that...
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/yesterday-beatles-song-story/
When the cashier says "My mom would jump you for that shirt" (it says X Files) and the CEO who acts like 12 year old will be reborn ....
Getting bored of bothersome things is the next step to the step above the step you're on.
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/yesterday-beatles-song-story/
When the cashier says "My mom would jump you for that shirt" (it says X Files) and the CEO who acts like 12 year old will be reborn ....
Getting bored of bothersome things is the next step to the step above the step you're on.
This one is going to be in my house
N. Ali introduces What We're Told...
N. Ali: "I'm not sure about you but I've always been someone who..."
https://twitter.com/TheaDickinson/status/1144218688947703808
https://twitter.com/goodpropertea/status/1144179235214508033
https://twitter.com/the_female_lead/status/1144168490963820544
https://twitter.com/thegentlewoman/status/1144164375005192192
https://twitter.com/ava/status/1143949210422632449
https://twitter.com/FionaSturges/status/1144141373878296576
https://twitter.com/VikingBooksUK/status/1144139100485771264
https://twitter.com/NimkoAli/status/1144120489314586625
https://twitter.com/wynnebrendan/status/1143935124226150400
https://twitter.com/NimkoAli/status/1143933289658540044
https://twitter.com/hannahwitton/status/1143923792915423232
https://twitter.com/NimkoAli/status/1143799846085771264
https://twitter.com/HollyBranson/status/1143793592982523904
https://twitter.com/NimkoAli/status/1143780690745540610
https://twitter.com/WEPMiltonKeynes/status/1143774439626170368
The universe gave out an assignment
Find / make Jollof.
https://www.africanfoodmap.com/recipes/recipe-3/
If I ever want to eat again.
Which of course I will eventually.
https://www.africanfoodmap.com/recipes/recipe-3/
If I ever want to eat again.
Which of course I will eventually.
Feelings
A: Sad songs til it passes.
B: If it's not too hot, a long walk and talk later with your inner x-year-old.
B: If it's not too hot, a long walk and talk later with your inner x-year-old.
Gonna hafta drink so much water now
Digestive system: You need to stop doing this to us at inopportune hours.
2 a.m. Question
Are there stats on kids who became orphans due to mothers dying in childbirth from complications of FGM?
"'Birds of the same feathers fly together': midwives' experiences with pregnant women and FGM/C complications - a grounded theory study in Liberia." Tarr-Attia CK, et al. Reprod Health. 2019.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30764836/
"Pro Women, Girls’ Groups Want FGM Abolished in Liberia"
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/news/pro-women-girls-groups-want-fgm-abolished-in-liberia/
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/vote-for-woman-how-africa-got-its-first-female-president/518874/
????
"'Birds of the same feathers fly together': midwives' experiences with pregnant women and FGM/C complications - a grounded theory study in Liberia." Tarr-Attia CK, et al. Reprod Health. 2019.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30764836/
"Pro Women, Girls’ Groups Want FGM Abolished in Liberia"
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/news/pro-women-girls-groups-want-fgm-abolished-in-liberia/
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/vote-for-woman-how-africa-got-its-first-female-president/518874/
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Sudden trigger
(O)(O)
https://gay.medium.com/its-like-candy-c8686d9b2d50
Department Store Salesman: "Little girl! Do you want me to spray some perfume on your balloon? It will make it smell good!"
Little Sis: "Uh...okay..."
Spray bottle: "SHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
DSS: "It's called Obsession!"
More than Middle Aged Patron(ess) passing by the balloon several moments later: sniff sniff GRIMACE
1986 CK Obsession ad
https://gay.medium.com/its-like-candy-c8686d9b2d50
Department Store Salesman: "Little girl! Do you want me to spray some perfume on your balloon? It will make it smell good!"
Little Sis: "Uh...okay..."
Spray bottle: "SHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
DSS: "It's called Obsession!"
More than Middle Aged Patron(ess) passing by the balloon several moments later: sniff sniff GRIMACE
1986 CK Obsession ad
Maybe or maybe not
Considering attending a big dorky cat convention for the first time ever.
Do cats really like to travel and meet strangers? My cat would hate it.
"Not all cats!"
I don't know why but the Mirror, Mirror thing sounds hilarious.
^*;*^
https://www.catconworldwide.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CatCon-2019-Directory.pdf
^??^
http://theangrymushroom.com/
Do cats really like to travel and meet strangers? My cat would hate it.
"Not all cats!"
I don't know why but the Mirror, Mirror thing sounds hilarious.
^*;*^
https://www.catconworldwide.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CatCon-2019-Directory.pdf
^??^
http://theangrymushroom.com/
Maybe this will be in the library
What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway) by Nimko Ali.
"Ali spoke to 152 women across 14 countries in the course of her research; many she encountered through her campaigning. It wasn’t hard to get them to open up since, she says, 'every woman I’ve ever met has a story to tell.' In the end, 42 made it into the book, all of whom appear under pseudonyms."
~ F. Sturges
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/21/nimko-ali-interview-talking-isnt-shameful-fgm
"Ali spoke to 152 women across 14 countries in the course of her research; many she encountered through her campaigning. It wasn’t hard to get them to open up since, she says, 'every woman I’ve ever met has a story to tell.' In the end, 42 made it into the book, all of whom appear under pseudonyms."
~ F. Sturges
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/21/nimko-ali-interview-talking-isnt-shameful-fgm
Asleep or during waking hours
The brain had to do some work...
"In 2017, two Detroit doctors were indicted for allegedly performing FGM on at least nine underage girls. The case brought the issue into the public eye — and challenged assumptions that the U.S. ban of FGM, passed in 1996, was working. Six others, including the girls’ mothers, were also charged for their roles.
But despite the case providing evidence that FGM was indeed taking place on American soil, the Michigan district judge ruled Congress had overstepped on states’ rights by enacting the statute in the first place. All FGM-related charges were dismissed, and the federal ban was thrown out.
With the DOJ refusing to appeal, banning FGM is now up to states."
~ M. Mikael Debass
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/gy48vj/female-genital-mutilation-is-happening-in-the-us-these-survivors-are-fighting-to-stop-it
PA
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ilona-schumicky/pa-senate-passes-bill-make-female-genital-mutilation-felony
Headline
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/28/teachers-told-look-signs-fgm-cutting-season-9715875/
"In 2017, two Detroit doctors were indicted for allegedly performing FGM on at least nine underage girls. The case brought the issue into the public eye — and challenged assumptions that the U.S. ban of FGM, passed in 1996, was working. Six others, including the girls’ mothers, were also charged for their roles.
But despite the case providing evidence that FGM was indeed taking place on American soil, the Michigan district judge ruled Congress had overstepped on states’ rights by enacting the statute in the first place. All FGM-related charges were dismissed, and the federal ban was thrown out.
With the DOJ refusing to appeal, banning FGM is now up to states."
~ M. Mikael Debass
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/gy48vj/female-genital-mutilation-is-happening-in-the-us-these-survivors-are-fighting-to-stop-it
PA
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ilona-schumicky/pa-senate-passes-bill-make-female-genital-mutilation-felony
Headline
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/28/teachers-told-look-signs-fgm-cutting-season-9715875/
If you are ever in the area
"I want to go back up North and stay in that beautiful cabin ensconced in the redwoods."
"It was very beautiful, but I don't see it listed."
"And now I remember how depleted I felt one day, and later I realized that the exhaustion happened around the same time that a birth was occurring elsewhere, and I needed to recover, and it was nice to be surrounded by all those trees."
"That special cabin is not listed, but there are many other nice places to stay..."
"It was very beautiful, but I don't see it listed."
"And now I remember how depleted I felt one day, and later I realized that the exhaustion happened around the same time that a birth was occurring elsewhere, and I needed to recover, and it was nice to be surrounded by all those trees."
"That special cabin is not listed, but there are many other nice places to stay..."
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Are they? Still?
Maybe I will check when/if I feel better.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-homelessness-presidential-campaign-20190610-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-homelessness-presidential-campaign-20190610-story.html
That many, hmmm.
"Statewide data shows that California has 129,972 homeless residents, the second-largest in state history after the Great San Francisco Earthquake struck in 1906, which resulted in more than 200,000 people losing their homes overnight, according to the letter."
~ J. Jacobo
https://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-takes-full-responsibility/story?id=63656930
SIGH
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/06/25/bubonic-plague-in-los-angeles-is-california-on-the-verge-of-becoming-our-first-thirdworld-state-n2548969
~ J. Jacobo
https://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-takes-full-responsibility/story?id=63656930
SIGH
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/06/25/bubonic-plague-in-los-angeles-is-california-on-the-verge-of-becoming-our-first-thirdworld-state-n2548969
Cute products
Bought these non-Keto items at the not-so-99-cent store and watched a girl get arrested in the parking lot.
Why is she posing like that and smiling on the back of the car? Oh, she has her hands cuffed.
I got tortillas because a girl told me how to make an egg on a tortilla in a pan without breaking a yolk, and I thought I might use a smaller tortilla to try it.
Why is she posing like that and smiling on the back of the car? Oh, she has her hands cuffed.
I got tortillas because a girl told me how to make an egg on a tortilla in a pan without breaking a yolk, and I thought I might use a smaller tortilla to try it.
1st try
Ah well
Yesterday's lettuce leaf wrap was better than today's.
I mean yesterday the wrap was solid and crunchy; today it was floppy. But it was okay.
Will forgo the cupcake.
I mean yesterday the wrap was solid and crunchy; today it was floppy. But it was okay.
Will forgo the cupcake.
Pencil Paint Pencil
Color Therapy
a-ha - Take On Me
Sia - The Greatest
Penny and Sparrow - Don't Wanna Be Without Ya
a-ha - Take On Me
Sia - The Greatest
Penny and Sparrow - Don't Wanna Be Without Ya
Eyes
I really need the universe to a) send me a dream about how to find my prescription sunglasses or b) send me a dream about letting go of them if they are gone.
Then I will either a) wear also old prescription contacts more with non-prescription glasses or b) get new *gasp* glasses...
Then I will either a) wear also old prescription contacts more with non-prescription glasses or b) get new *gasp* glasses...
Monday, June 24, 2019
Is it a battle or...a dance???
Two songs!
Chandelier + The Girl You Lost to Cocaine.
I might finally finish this show tonight:
https://boingboing.net/2019/06/23/shocking-bad-hat.html
Chandelier + The Girl You Lost to Cocaine.
I might finally finish this show tonight:
https://boingboing.net/2019/06/23/shocking-bad-hat.html
Reeeally wanna read more
about Miss Cheerleader USA 1964.
In addition to this, I mean.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html
I got BF to read it. And he said...
"Sometimes I am glad I was a loner as a child."
In addition to this, I mean.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html
I got BF to read it. And he said...
"Sometimes I am glad I was a loner as a child."
Oh the bad old '90s
I can't believe that when I was in junior high, a girl my age told us (my friend and I, and an adult) that a teacher at her school made her sit on his lap and said suggestive stuff and to my knowledge no one filed a complaint because the attitude was like that's just what happens sometimes when girls become teenagers. WTF????
I remember thinking that I was lucky I could fit into an old pair of jeans of hers. They were black and skin-tight. I never would wear them today. She gave them to me, and I wore them constantly.
LOL
"Regardless of season or latitude, everyone was dressed for a Seattle winter."
https://cookiesandsangria.com/2013/10/08/90s-fashion-myths-vs-realities/
I am sorry that half of the pictures on that site are kaput.
I remember thinking that I was lucky I could fit into an old pair of jeans of hers. They were black and skin-tight. I never would wear them today. She gave them to me, and I wore them constantly.
LOL
"Regardless of season or latitude, everyone was dressed for a Seattle winter."
https://cookiesandsangria.com/2013/10/08/90s-fashion-myths-vs-realities/
I am sorry that half of the pictures on that site are kaput.
A "kids" thought
Kids look up to teenagers a lot and absorb a ton of information from them.
I have vivid memories of my childhood babysitters, who were mostly teenage girls.
I also remember camp counselors from two time periods: 5th grade (the whole class went to an "outdoor school" for a week) and a summer "science" camp at age eleven or twelve? Those counselors were mostly age 14-16.
This one was bossy. That one dated guys way too old for her. She sure could sing and dance around a campfire.
https://www.highlineschools.org/academic-programs/waskowitz-outdoor-education/outdoor-school
Yay, Washington state ;-)
https://www.pacificsciencecenter.org/summer-camps/
I must return! I have not been there in 20 ****ing years!!!!
Song Memory: sowing the seeeeeeeds...
That's mixed up in there somewhere.
Oh. I have that summer camp to thank for my love of Jojoba shampoo. I just...shared some with a girl??? And I really...liked it???? And the tradition of sharing stories outdoors...
Yeah PNW people like camping! That's the impression I got.
I have vivid memories of my childhood babysitters, who were mostly teenage girls.
I also remember camp counselors from two time periods: 5th grade (the whole class went to an "outdoor school" for a week) and a summer "science" camp at age eleven or twelve? Those counselors were mostly age 14-16.
This one was bossy. That one dated guys way too old for her. She sure could sing and dance around a campfire.
https://www.highlineschools.org/academic-programs/waskowitz-outdoor-education/outdoor-school
Yay, Washington state ;-)
https://www.pacificsciencecenter.org/summer-camps/
I must return! I have not been there in 20 ****ing years!!!!
Song Memory: sowing the seeeeeeeds...
That's mixed up in there somewhere.
Oh. I have that summer camp to thank for my love of Jojoba shampoo. I just...shared some with a girl??? And I really...liked it???? And the tradition of sharing stories outdoors...
Yeah PNW people like camping! That's the impression I got.
Wine (a little bit)
Good to know.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/18/heres-list-organizations-are-mobilizing-help-separated-immigrant-child/
Reminder: even if the picture is two years old, it is still unsettling.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/18/heres-list-organizations-are-mobilizing-help-separated-immigrant-child/
Reminder: even if the picture is two years old, it is still unsettling.
Pleasant evening sandwich
Crunchy lettuce wrapped cheeseburger!
White Egret flying leisurely over intersection
Brown guy in all white including backwards white cap but with black sneakers
skipping & dancing on the crosswalk shortly thereafter
$3 to "Homeless and Hungry" in army fatigues
Library book & another Tajin-dusted mango cupcake!*
*Actually it was too much sugar, and I left a big chunk of icing in the box, but I am impressed with the idea.
*Actually it was too much sugar, and I left a big chunk of icing in the box, but I am impressed with the idea.
Felt like...
Some nicely dressed church people were very rude to me yesterday. The woman driving the car did not stop at the crosswalk. I was the pedestrian. I needed to cross. Then she got a very angry look on her face because two cars pulled out in front of her. She was stopped on the crosswalk waiting for cars. I was waiting for her to move her car so I could use the crosswalk.
No, maybe those cars pulled out in front of her so she could let a pedestrian cross, as she could have done in the first place. I walked around her and the crosswalk. She had to wait because of two cars.
Then in the store she looks like she's following the man she is with all dutifully. Maybe he's gonna meet with his friends at the misogynistic Bible Study down at the coffee shop later.
They probably go home and treat their sons better than they treat their daughters too.
No, maybe those cars pulled out in front of her so she could let a pedestrian cross, as she could have done in the first place. I walked around her and the crosswalk. She had to wait because of two cars.
Then in the store she looks like she's following the man she is with all dutifully. Maybe he's gonna meet with his friends at the misogynistic Bible Study down at the coffee shop later.
They probably go home and treat their sons better than they treat their daughters too.
I also enjoy humor
That is a very funny M.P. clip about the "anarcho syndicalist commune."
:-D
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/halloween-fright-boys-dressed-as-girls-are-still-really-scary.html
SIR.
:-D
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/halloween-fright-boys-dressed-as-girls-are-still-really-scary.html
SIR.
Sunday, June 23, 2019
over there...over here...
There...
Here: Twice as many excited kids, more girls, one adult, and "fireworks" in the parking lot.
Here: Twice as many excited kids, more girls, one adult, and "fireworks" in the parking lot.
This summer
will include yarn and needles and hooks...
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2019/06/knitting-website-ravelry-bans-users-from-showing-trump-support-says-its-support-for-white-supremacy.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2019/06/knitting-website-ravelry-bans-users-from-showing-trump-support-says-its-support-for-white-supremacy.html
However
This is feminist perhaps.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/women-autoimmune-diseases-pregnancy/591901/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/women-autoimmune-diseases-pregnancy/591901/
Atmosphere
of a place.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bobs-javajive
More on yelp.
"I used to work on this database that was like an early version of Yelp."
A car dealership in Tacoma. (Instead of in Seattle...a show about it).
That big coffee pot diner could be where the salespeople drink and try to forget how to be stoic.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bobs-javajive
More on yelp.
"I used to work on this database that was like an early version of Yelp."
A car dealership in Tacoma. (Instead of in Seattle...a show about it).
That big coffee pot diner could be where the salespeople drink and try to forget how to be stoic.
Hier
Ik besta op een tussenplaats.
Het zal veranderen omdat het moet.
(Feeding English words into a translator again.)
Het zal veranderen omdat het moet.
(Feeding English words into a translator again.)
Interessante vrouwen
Onlangs sprak ik met enkele vrouwen die een traditie van genezing in hun gezin hebben. Ze waren zo jong als 20 en zo oud als mijn leeftijd. Ze hadden veel achtergronden, waaronder Mexicaans, Cubaans, Haïtiaans en Kaukasisch. De meesten van hen moesten de strijd overwinnen met hun eigen familieleden die ze niet accepteerden. Ik was blij om vrouwen te vinden die genezingspraktijken nastreven. Niemand is perfect en iedereen leert.
Ever since I visited the Netherlands many years ago
I thought, it would be fun to learn Dutch.
Ik woon samen met iemand die in het begaafde en getalenteerde programma op school had gezeten, maar ze vertelden de ouders dat ze er maar één konden nemen, dus ging zijn broer in plaats van hem. En zijn hele leven wist hij niet tot hij ouder dan 40 was, toen zijn moeder het hem vertelde. Hij zei: "Ik dacht dat ik niet goed genoeg was."
Colored pencils, cultural references...
And
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2019/05/30/727877948/penny-sparrow-takes-a-romantic-look-at-reincarnation
Can you believe all these holidays are today
https://www.checkiday.com/6/23/2019
America's Kids Day
International Widows Day
Let It Go Day
National Hydration Day
National Pecan Sandies Day
National Pink Day
Pink Flamingo Day
Public Service Day
Runner's Selfie Day
SAT Math Day
Typewriting Day
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2019/05/30/727877948/penny-sparrow-takes-a-romantic-look-at-reincarnation
Can you believe all these holidays are today
https://www.checkiday.com/6/23/2019
America's Kids Day
International Widows Day
Let It Go Day
National Hydration Day
National Pecan Sandies Day
National Pink Day
Pink Flamingo Day
Public Service Day
Runner's Selfie Day
SAT Math Day
Typewriting Day
On a strange TV note
Haven't seen any episodes of Westworld but they have been watched downstairs while I was sleeping.
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Constant task
Laundering. Laundry rooms. Laundromats. Hampers. Detergent. Mesh Bags. Stain removal products. Wool dryer balls.
Like for some reason I can imagine a character staring at all the clothes flopping around through the round window of a laundromat machine and listening to "Chandelier."
Like for some reason I can imagine a character staring at all the clothes flopping around through the round window of a laundromat machine and listening to "Chandelier."
Also employed?
A sometimes wannabe therapist...
https://brickelandassociates.com/break-man-rules-talk-about-trauma/
https://brickelandassociates.com/break-man-rules-talk-about-trauma/
Lovelorn Lovelurk
An interesting character who is very good at his job a lot of the time but there is an inner fragility which constantly threatens to crack his composure...darts his eyes about a lot when he gets very nervous. It is almost as if unresolved childhood trauma is lurking in the background...suspicion is heightened when he baselessly accuses an employee of something unspeakable...
He thinks he needs a girlfriend but actually what he probably needs is some very advanced form of therapy.
Lots of 80s music.
https://genius.com/Hall-and-oates-kiss-on-my-list-lyrics
He thinks he needs a girlfriend but actually what he probably needs is some very advanced form of therapy.
Lots of 80s music.
https://genius.com/Hall-and-oates-kiss-on-my-list-lyrics
Mean money
A show about a cutthroat car dealership catering to the cold and undemonstrative customer...set in SEATTLE.
https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/seattle/how-i-learned-to-love-the-seattle-freeze
NOTES:
Seattle salesperson when I was buying a futon and revealed I had just moved there from the East Coast, even though I was in 20 years old and cute and polite : Too many people are moving here nowadays. Thought I had in my head but didn't share: I grew up here, too. I am not an outsider. Seattle cashier looking at my credit card when I bought a book: Do you work for the Pentagon. Who worked there? That's a little intense, don't you think?
It could feature little pockets of friendliness among coworkers and then people get nervous and resume their safe and stoic habits.
https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/seattle/how-i-learned-to-love-the-seattle-freeze
NOTES:
Seattle salesperson when I was buying a futon and revealed I had just moved there from the East Coast, even though I was in 20 years old and cute and polite : Too many people are moving here nowadays. Thought I had in my head but didn't share: I grew up here, too. I am not an outsider. Seattle cashier looking at my credit card when I bought a book: Do you work for the Pentagon. Who worked there? That's a little intense, don't you think?
It could feature little pockets of friendliness among coworkers and then people get nervous and resume their safe and stoic habits.
Feeling
"Millions of people will enter this weekend filled with fear. Children who are U.S. citizens will wonder if their mothers will be ripped from home in the pre-dawn hours before church on Sunday. And why? So Trump can vilify immigrants as part of a political campaign. It's shameful."
https://mobile.twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1142135529787539456
https://mobile.twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1142135529787539456
A brain can read
"First rich boy"
https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html
Um...does no one at any of his companies or in his circle of family and friends ever tell him he needs help.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/10/18564625/elon-musk-vernon-unsworth-pedo-guy-tweets-defamation-lawsuit-trial-date-set
"Creeping rot"
https://www.twincities.com/2019/06/19/david-von-drehle-jeffrey-epsteins-scandal-of-secrecy-points-to-a-creeping-rot-in-the-american-justice-system/
https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html
Um...does no one at any of his companies or in his circle of family and friends ever tell him he needs help.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/10/18564625/elon-musk-vernon-unsworth-pedo-guy-tweets-defamation-lawsuit-trial-date-set
"Creeping rot"
https://www.twincities.com/2019/06/19/david-von-drehle-jeffrey-epsteins-scandal-of-secrecy-points-to-a-creeping-rot-in-the-american-justice-system/
Ever want to go back in time
And ask the girls in the college dorm TV lounge who were high-fiving each other at the end of his trial
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oj-simpson-twitter-25-anniversary-20190615-story.html
who does this on the anniversary of his wife's murder?
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/06/16/25-years-after-murders-of-nicole-brown-simpson-ron-goldman-murders-o-j-joins-twitter/
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oj-simpson-twitter-25-anniversary-20190615-story.html
who does this on the anniversary of his wife's murder?
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/06/16/25-years-after-murders-of-nicole-brown-simpson-ron-goldman-murders-o-j-joins-twitter/
Y R U eating all that
"Robot plane dies: THIS CANNOT STAND"
https://twitter.com/emrazz/status/1141941326553989120
super awesome
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/obama-others-warned-trump-pulling-out-iran-nuke-deal-could-n1020461
"palate cleanser"
https://twitter.com/emrazz/status/1142312934766469121
super awesome
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/obama-others-warned-trump-pulling-out-iran-nuke-deal-could-n1020461
"palate cleanser"
https://twitter.com/emrazz/status/1142312934766469121
I gotta listen to this song again
For my fourteen-year-old friend and I.
The Doors ~ The Crystal Ship
We were fourteen and it was the '90s.
The Doors ~ The Crystal Ship
We were fourteen and it was the '90s.
You have to refrigerate it
PICKY REVIEWER
sentry's version of Petromalt
By judy on Mar 27, 2018
Too runny....not a good version of the old original. the so called 'original formula' really is far from it."
Friday, June 21, 2019
The "Crystal Ship"...
had her own name...
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-platform-holly/
You never know what strange pieces of information will make their way to you...
https://genius.com/The-doors-the-crystal-ship-lyrics
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-platform-holly/
You never know what strange pieces of information will make their way to you...
https://genius.com/The-doors-the-crystal-ship-lyrics
D candidates' topics
"...the official measure of 40 million people in poverty doesn’t even begin to capture who is poor in this country. Instead, using the more accurate supplemental-poverty measure, we see that 140 million people—more than 43 percent of the population—are poor or low-wealth, meaning one emergency away from poverty. That figure includes 9 million children, 74 million women, 26 million black people, 38 million Latinx people, 8 million Asian people, 2.14 million Native and Indigenous people, and 66 million white people. It’s consistent with findings that about 40 percent of the country can’t afford an unexpected $400 expense."
~ G. Kaufman
https://www.thenation.com/article/poor-peoples-campaign-poverty-forum-democratic-candidates/
~ G. Kaufman
https://www.thenation.com/article/poor-peoples-campaign-poverty-forum-democratic-candidates/
micrisimofictisimo
A's: dibs on which one's gonna die off next!
shhh, hide the pool, one of 'em's coming
shhh, hide the pool, one of 'em's coming
It's just...LIFE.
It's always just life.
Preferably punctuated by trips to a pool (or park or beach) and to an icecreamery in the summer.
Preferably punctuated by trips to a pool (or park or beach) and to an icecreamery in the summer.
Sorry about getting distracted
“"Many issues are connected. The labor movement and coming together with
our colleagues is a fight for justice. It’s a fight for racial justice.
It’s a fight for equality.' - Steven Chapman, Miami Dade College."
https://splinternews.com/the-revenge-of-the-poverty-stricken-college-professors-1835381061
https://splinternews.com/the-revenge-of-the-poverty-stricken-college-professors-1835381061
I think it must be paused
The lecture on physics must wait.
There's the outside world intruding again.
https://splinternews.com/the-revenge-of-the-poverty-stricken-college-professors-1835381061
It's application time...stop getting distracted...
The headline sounds like the title of a detective novel, and I do think that's kinda fun.
But so dire!
"Many longtime adjuncts talk of jealously waiting for years for a full-time professor to die or retire, only to see the full-time position eliminated when they finally do."
~ H. Nolan
I think it used to be not quite so bad...
There's the outside world intruding again.
https://splinternews.com/the-revenge-of-the-poverty-stricken-college-professors-1835381061
It's application time...stop getting distracted...
The headline sounds like the title of a detective novel, and I do think that's kinda fun.
But so dire!
"Many longtime adjuncts talk of jealously waiting for years for a full-time professor to die or retire, only to see the full-time position eliminated when they finally do."
~ H. Nolan
I think it used to be not quite so bad...
Wants and wants and cleaning the kitchen
Gonna see how much of a good lecture you can listen to (on the first try) before you probably switch over to a song...
Oh shoot, I wanted to pause it and see if he was talking about something relevant to the Muse song ("Isolated System") but I went back too far.
Oh shoot, I wanted to pause it and see if he was talking about something relevant to the Muse song ("Isolated System") but I went back too far.
A meet B
Ft. Sill meet Novel
https://mobile.twitter.com/LaScNo/status/1141636619893727233
History meet Fiction
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/10/the-wild-west-meets-the-southern-border
https://mobile.twitter.com/LaScNo/status/1141636619893727233
History meet Fiction
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/10/the-wild-west-meets-the-southern-border
Thursday, June 20, 2019
People...
"The crisis in Los Angeles County — where nearly 59,000 residents are homeless — is truly the product of California’s housing crisis, where wages have failed to keep up with rents rising ever higher because of inadequate supply."
~ P. Thornton
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-opinion-newsletter-homeless-myths-20190615-story.html
"When a 30-year-old decides she wants to buy a home and realizes it won’t be possible until she’s 73, California’s housing crisis starts to feel a lot like generational warfare."
They also mentioned...
~ P. Thornton
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-opinion-newsletter-homeless-myths-20190615-story.html
"When a 30-year-old decides she wants to buy a home and realizes it won’t be possible until she’s 73, California’s housing crisis starts to feel a lot like generational warfare."
They also mentioned...
Sad, but funny also
The name "Sasha" came into my head.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/4109265-people-making-a-difference-celebrity-hairstylist-gives-free-cuts-to-the-homeless/
He spells it differently though!
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/4109265-people-making-a-difference-celebrity-hairstylist-gives-free-cuts-to-the-homeless/
He spells it differently though!
Universe: I need a retrieval
The CBD oil turned up and now I want my old prescription sunglasses.
Replacing those is even more $$$.
Replacing those is even more $$$.
Men and women and kids are poor?
"Homeless Populations Are Surging in Los Angeles. Here’s Why. - The New York Times"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/los-angeles-homeless-population.html
The "I don't give a hoot about rising rents and stagnant wages, income inequality, hopelessness, housing insecurity, and the poor" people are making the most of their insular, small-minded lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/los-angeles-homeless-population.html
The "I don't give a hoot about rising rents and stagnant wages, income inequality, hopelessness, housing insecurity, and the poor" people are making the most of their insular, small-minded lives.
I s th is tr ue
"70% of the Nation’s Poor are Women & Children"
https://www.legalmomentum.org/women-and-poverty-america
????
https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/no-70-world-s-poor-aren-t-women-doesn-t-mean-poverty-isn-t-sexist
10+ years ago...
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2008/10/08/5103/the-straight-facts-on-women-in-poverty/
https://www.legalmomentum.org/women-and-poverty-america
????
https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/no-70-world-s-poor-aren-t-women-doesn-t-mean-poverty-isn-t-sexist
10+ years ago...
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2008/10/08/5103/the-straight-facts-on-women-in-poverty/
Who thinks like that
"We hope Hollywood can find either a strong and selfless Jesus figure or a blond actress who will reflect their values back at them to play the role of the homeless migrant character. Then the movie will really sell."
June can be sororal
She has...
https://kiriepedersen.com/about/
alot out there...
https://kiriepedersen.com/tiger-tiger/
Shade saves lives
"I lived in California for 15 years and I’ve never seen only 1-2 people in the fields. It’s a massive undertaking to pick and pack fruits and vegetables by hand. Correspondingly, there are big teams of people."
https://mobile.twitter.com/Shannon_Takla/status/1138807579922984961
A song is 20
At least he did not sing it like "I did it all for the non-worthless vagina."
'"Nookie' at 20: The Strange Life of Limp Bizkit's Unkillable Nu-Metal Smash | Revolver"
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/nookie-20-strange-life-limp-bizkits-unkillable-nu-metal-smash
'"Nookie' at 20: The Strange Life of Limp Bizkit's Unkillable Nu-Metal Smash | Revolver"
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/nookie-20-strange-life-limp-bizkits-unkillable-nu-metal-smash
"#calor #WeFeedYou"
"Acceptable Shade"
specs https://mobile.twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1136351180479582209
specs https://mobile.twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1136351180479582209
What
"deafening elitism"
~ E. Jashinsky
https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/18/taylor-swifts-need-calm-breathtakingly-elitist/
https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/18/taylor-swifts-need-calm-breathtakingly-elitist/
Re: the "late Fred Rogers" on Wednesday
"Here in Los Angeles, it is difficult for anyone with half a heart to step outside without being troubled to the bone by the sheer number of people eking out a life in our streets.
You can and should be outraged, and morally pained by the scale of human suffering in our 21st century American city. But some people are also called to action. And, if you look closely, you’ll find the helpers."
~ J. Wick
https://www.latimes.com/newsletters/la-me-ln-essential-california-20190619-story.html
You can and should be outraged, and morally pained by the scale of human suffering in our 21st century American city. But some people are also called to action. And, if you look closely, you’ll find the helpers."
~ J. Wick
https://www.latimes.com/newsletters/la-me-ln-essential-california-20190619-story.html
A lot of things
are those three words
https://ktla.com/2019/06/18/inhumane-disgraceful-and-dangerous-mayor-garcetti-responds-to-trumps-threat-to-deport-millions-of-immigrants
here & elsewhere.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Homeless-Mayor-Garcetti-Skid-Row-Cleanup-Plan-Sanitation-streets-of-shame-511528462.html
https://ktla.com/2019/06/18/inhumane-disgraceful-and-dangerous-mayor-garcetti-responds-to-trumps-threat-to-deport-millions-of-immigrants
here & elsewhere.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Homeless-Mayor-Garcetti-Skid-Row-Cleanup-Plan-Sanitation-streets-of-shame-511528462.html
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Go, Detroit
"As my Manhattan Institute colleague Stephen Eide observed in National Affairs, homelessness is not the product of poverty per se. Rather, homelessness is in no small part an artifact of being poor in a place where ferocious competition for a severely constrained supply of homes drives up rents. To offer one example of this dynamic at work, Detroit’s poverty rate is twice that of New York City’s, but because of its notably inexpensive real estate, it maintains a homelessness rate a third the size."
~ R. Salaam
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/how-solve-los-angeless-homelessness-crisis/591976/
~ R. Salaam
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/how-solve-los-angeless-homelessness-crisis/591976/
Hope things get better
Guess there was a reason that right before I moved out here, the man outside of the synagogue where I had attended a "clothing swap" told me he had come from LA & was living out of a bag.
"We"
"We just need more bathrooms. The situation is desperate. People are defecating on the streets. Communities that balk at seeing portable restrooms in their neighborhoods should realize this is not about sanctioning or 'normalizing' encampments; it’s about providing people who are already living in them with an alternative to using lawns and sidewalks as toilets.
This is a public emergency, a humanitarian crisis, a health threat — and it shouldn’t take years and years to solve."
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-homeless-public-toilets-20190618-story.html
This is a public emergency, a humanitarian crisis, a health threat — and it shouldn’t take years and years to solve."
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-homeless-public-toilets-20190618-story.html
For a good time
When you go to the bridge or other amazing place with your holy shirt, feel free to bring along an empty wine bottle and a print out of something interesting you've read. Or just quickly find an enjoyable read on the 'net.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sapient-nature/201201/familiarity-breeds-enjoyment
Roll up the paper. Paper has many uses...insert paper in bottle. Leave both. That way, you will be giving away not only a free piece of cloth...you will also be gifting the lucky recipient with a "message in a bottle."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sapient-nature/201201/familiarity-breeds-enjoyment
Roll up the paper. Paper has many uses...insert paper in bottle. Leave both. That way, you will be giving away not only a free piece of cloth...you will also be gifting the lucky recipient with a "message in a bottle."
Change of plans, maybe
Don't just throw those chewed-up, holey, Les Miserablesy t-shirts away in the trash...Maybe make art...
Maybe toss over a bridge
Free cloths
Maybe toss over a bridge
Free cloths
Simulation of an aerial view
"Black dots represent the locations of homeless shelters/services.
Tracts are symbolized based on the relationship between homelessness and the walking distance from the center of each tract to the nearest shelter/services facility.
Dark brown tracts have a relatively high homeless population but are farther away from shelters/services."
"The Relationship Between Homelessness and Shelters"
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Homeless-Cleanup-Encampments-511517262.html
Tracts are symbolized based on the relationship between homelessness and the walking distance from the center of each tract to the nearest shelter/services facility.
Dark brown tracts have a relatively high homeless population but are farther away from shelters/services."
"The Relationship Between Homelessness and Shelters"
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Homeless-Cleanup-Encampments-511517262.html
Distractions
Death
https://knock-la.com/in-los-angeles-homelessness-means-death-25a884ef595e
Rent
https://la.curbed.com/2019/4/2/18292624/los-angeles-rent-burden-worst-us
Insecurity
https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-food-and-housing-insecurity/
Empty
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/design-and-architecture/flying-taxis-coming-to-la-fining-landlords-for-vacant-units/are-las-new-luxury-apartments-just-sitting-empty
Encampments
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Homeless-Cleanup-Encampments-511517262.html
https://knock-la.com/in-los-angeles-homelessness-means-death-25a884ef595e
Rent
https://la.curbed.com/2019/4/2/18292624/los-angeles-rent-burden-worst-us
Insecurity
https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-food-and-housing-insecurity/
Empty
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/design-and-architecture/flying-taxis-coming-to-la-fining-landlords-for-vacant-units/are-las-new-luxury-apartments-just-sitting-empty
Encampments
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Homeless-Cleanup-Encampments-511517262.html
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Caritas in the simulation
In the park, a boy ran up to me, and he was smiling. I was eating a mango cupcake dusted with Tajin.
I said "Hello!"
His parents called his name and then he turned and ran in another direction.
He had two parents. And they were nice.
He ran over to a tree, saw something that upset him, and began to scream and cry.
He had parents to help him.
I was in the park for a while, and I came back with the second cupcake. I walked past a cupcake wrapper on the way in.
A girl ran up to me. "Excuse me. I just wanted to tell you that I love you."
"I am sorry, can you say that again?"
"I wanted to tell you that I love you."
(She used to say, "Where are your dads?")
"Oh, thank you. I love you too."
I said "Hello!"
His parents called his name and then he turned and ran in another direction.
He had two parents. And they were nice.
He ran over to a tree, saw something that upset him, and began to scream and cry.
He had parents to help him.
I was in the park for a while, and I came back with the second cupcake. I walked past a cupcake wrapper on the way in.
A girl ran up to me. "Excuse me. I just wanted to tell you that I love you."
"I am sorry, can you say that again?"
"I wanted to tell you that I love you."
(She used to say, "Where are your dads?")
"Oh, thank you. I love you too."
inoishudnasayit
Because it is not very enlightened.
https://shrink4men.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/is-your-girlfriend-or-wife-a-professional-victim/
But the name of that blog gave me asemi severely distracting visual.
https://shrink4men.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/is-your-girlfriend-or-wife-a-professional-victim/
But the name of that blog gave me a
Felt guided anyway
Last night I ate
https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/photo-gallery/45430812/image/45430813/Chocolate-Almond-Macaron
When I bought it, a man was telling a woman he would take her to any concert she wanted and she said she had to ask her husband first and he said her husband could come too because it's a coworker thing and she said things were getting too crazy, ha ha, he was good
https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/photo-gallery/45430812/image/45430813/Chocolate-Almond-Macaron
When I bought it, a man was telling a woman he would take her to any concert she wanted and she said she had to ask her husband first and he said her husband could come too because it's a coworker thing and she said things were getting too crazy, ha ha, he was good
Monday, June 17, 2019
Good to know for TONIGHT
"(also known as the Honey Moon, Mead Moon, or Full Rose Moon) got its name from the Algonquin tribes in eastern North America who saw it as a signal that it was time to harvest the wild strawberries in their landscape...."
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a28069069/strawberry-full-moon/
"The four mutable star signs–Sagittarius, Gemini, Virgo, and Pisces–are likely to feel this Moon’s influence the most."
~ K. Ward
!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a28069069/strawberry-full-moon/
"The four mutable star signs–Sagittarius, Gemini, Virgo, and Pisces–are likely to feel this Moon’s influence the most."
~ K. Ward
!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shiver
"But also enlightening..."
~ J. Thompson
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a23320626/infertility-race-survey/
MOON
http://thebrokenbrownegg.org/2018/03/treating-the-spirit-with-pulling-down-the-moon/
~ J. Thompson
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a23320626/infertility-race-survey/
MOON
http://thebrokenbrownegg.org/2018/03/treating-the-spirit-with-pulling-down-the-moon/
Whaaa
Jesus.
"Lady Nakintu, a childless old woman was once told by a pastor that 'childless people do not go to heaven.' She cried herself sick. No consolation, from the community women, could reconcile her with going to church ever again. She hit the bottle, drinking all sorts of booze and died two months after." ~ E. Nakkazi
https://www.iafrikan.com/2016/03/14/merck-gives-hope-to-infertile-african-women/
"Lady Nakintu, a childless old woman was once told by a pastor that 'childless people do not go to heaven.' She cried herself sick. No consolation, from the community women, could reconcile her with going to church ever again. She hit the bottle, drinking all sorts of booze and died two months after." ~ E. Nakkazi
https://www.iafrikan.com/2016/03/14/merck-gives-hope-to-infertile-african-women/
B/c nice name?
Why do you read about things you don't watch?
https://m.eonline.com/news/1049938/renata-just-had-the-best-meltdown-on-big-little-lies
https://m.eonline.com/news/1049938/renata-just-had-the-best-meltdown-on-big-little-lies
This is the second best time of the month
Strangely
https://twitter.com/goodbeanaltalt/status/1140448161191878656
Observant
https://mobile.twitter.com/learningtosubm1/status/1140250191389483008
Maybe someone was a girl in his past life.
https://twitter.com/goodbeanaltalt/status/1140448161191878656
Observant
https://mobile.twitter.com/learningtosubm1/status/1140250191389483008
Maybe someone was a girl in his past life.
