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"1940scooking #1940sfood #ww2rationing #ww2recipes"
1940s Cooking
Sunday, May 24, 2026
One of these days I'm going to get way more mysterious.
And less "chatty around some people closeted English professor" who wants to push the envelope a little because oh my God why should I be the only one who has to feel called to get out of my comfort zone?
"Omnichord version of 'Allison Knew'"
billie_conge
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXmc3p-Bbh8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
PJ Harvey - "Send His Love To Me"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rsUIl7qVzYw&si=M5uheN5LT1XZTdCI
Mitski's "Your Best American Girl" at 10
Yeah, it probably needs to feel more fun.
The kids in Ecuador were a little different, though.
"Being asked to help dampens the joy of doing good, according to children in multiple countries"
"A study of 6-11-year-old children across 5 countries found that children believed individuals are more willing to help and share when they decide to do so spontaneously compared to when it is requested of them. However, how much requests diminish this perceived willingness varied across cultures. The research was published in Developmental Psychology."
Vladimir Hedrih
It can be a very sad and painful life.
Ovarian cysts exist.
"ICE Is Ignoring Woman’s Life-Threatening Ovarian Cyst—and Her Condition Is Getting Worse"
One with more money might have a nice swimming pool.
A good time to lift some light weights and go for a walk on a a kind of brisk morning!
Skating Polly - "Little Girl Blue and The Battle Envy"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0B4Nn9_9YHg&si=uN-s-oaxCB0wMvwO
Skating Polly - "Hail Mary"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v2ahvxACX5Q&si=kudTbdMD6T3QtO0F
Skating Polly - "Camelot"
I made it to the end of "House of Dolls!"
Made it to the end. Happy Sunday.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
Fella has real "Fed up older sister" vibes.
At the beginning of Chapter 19.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
Good line.
"Hippocrates of Concentration Camp Universe! Prescribe this patient his cure!" (Page 233)
It's an ancient movement: Let them read your diary for free.
The cool thing about a diary is that different people will relate to different parts of it. You get more information back just by putting some information out in the universe.
That whiteness of the sheet talk on pages 218 and 219 makes me think of Wallace Stevens.
"Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."
~ Wallace Stevens
They haven't been on a hunger strike though.
"TWO PORTIONS OF BREAD"
Can you believe that some rich people are spending money to look like they've been on a hunger strike???
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
"ICE Detainees At NJ Prison Launch Hunger Strike, Refuse To Work" | Newark, NJ Patch
Earache? Things could be worse.
"You don't know how to handle the Germans."
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
Overachievers ♥️ hard things.
How did this become another one of your "Catalyst for healing your pain" projects?
There will be more opportunities to ask for help from other sources though
Unfortunately, if you have come from people who are too immature to talk about the abuse that was embedded in their family and yours, that's an awful experience.
I did well for myself that night.
One time, at night in the parking lot of a Barnes and Noble in Ann Arbor, I said "No" to a good looking guy who wanted to borrow my phone. "No! I'm on the phone." I glared at him. He ran away. My mother was on the other line, saying who was that and telling me to get away from him. Something was wrong with him. And I had just been in the bookstore looking at a book when these weird sexual thoughts came into my head, but not like I wanted them or like they had anything to do with what I was reading. So I just told myself I was going to notice and acknowledge that had happened. Then he showed up in the parking lot. After I said no to him, he ran over to another couple and asked for help but I could tell he was acting. Hopefully he got help with whatever problems he had and never assaulted anyone. One can hope it worked out that way.
People need to take breaks when they're processing all that trauma.
So, I decided to take a break from my torture novel.
Scrolling on the wilds of internet again.
Well, I think so and so is very talented and...
Jesus Christ, it's like a giant f****** snowball with rocks in it just hit me.
Fix yourself. I don't know what you need to do.
Probably a lot.
I mean, I guess the universe just needs me to say no.
If I feel like reading about Nazis and rape and evil misogynistic dominatrixes helps protect me from falling into whatever decadent and irresponsible lifestyle you've fallen into...
"The House of Dolls by Ka-tzetnik 135633" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/771394.The_House_of_Dolls
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
So safe and so in the past, compared to what's going on right now.
"London exhibition reveals scale of Nazi slave labor"
Sigh! Our ailing culture. So many suffer so much, just so a few can get access to more!
"Lawmakers, clergy call for humanitarian release of release of woman in Texas detention center with ovarian cyst"
The ovarian cysts of life.
Imagine what life might have done to someone to make reading a weird and disturbing book like this more appealing:
"The House of Dolls by Ka-tzetnik 135633" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/771394.The_House_of_Dolls
And a better alternative to replicating whatever your temporary survival strategy of success is. (It's also going to look very old-fashioned really soon.)
It's a very f***** up book.
I can understand why it's painful to admit that there are problems.
And I think if some people were actually curious about and interested in more people succeeding, they wouldn't act so much like the white people in this book that they're never going to read:
"My Place (An Australian Classic)" by Sally Morgan
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1144682.My_Place
And their whole, "Wouldn't you be lucky to be able to live like one of us" ridiculousness is not helping. Taking a longview, actually, no.
Those doors close. Other doors open.
If your ability to fit in and look out for number one is the best thing you've got going for yourself, that's fine, but I also think there's other people out there who have more to share and say, and perhaps they will be the ones who will teach me how I can change and do better for myself instead.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
For real.
I wish more people my age (and older) were better at asking themselves deeper questions and were more curious about how other people are doing.
Started a long time ago. Maybe will change for some people.
"When did it all start?"
streetlighteyesdontdie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYsoMOoRq2o/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It really is a collective thing...
Like, if the collective wasn't so collectively damaged by the white supremacist patriarchal culture, a lot more people would be more curious than they seem to be about others, and they would act like they care a lot more about a much wider variety of people, and that's just how the universe is acting about our culture at the moment.
I don't really care if online things mess things up because maybe it's for good reasons that it's messing things up.
Other people are still too shallow and insensitive and gossipy, but I type and read too freely to suit their needs, so discovering that is part of the peril of participating in the human experience.
Maybe musicians or maybe physicians who are in touch with their feelings could help, or keep her in their prayers?
She's a musician in need of medical care!
"Lawmakers, clergy call for humanitarian release of release of woman in Texas detention center with ovarian cyst"
Building up some self-esteem in the whatever phase of this cycle by reading about a better acting person.
Women who seem to care about other women and don't make you feel like hurling yourself over a cliff:
"U.S. Rep. Angie Craig calls for release of woman in ICE detention with large ovarian cyst" • Minnesota Reformer
Be on the lookout for more of them. That's what's for better for you tonight, for mental health reasons.
Good luck in the next life, "genetically blessed" insensitive ones.
Also, tonight I saw someone who looked like the really rich guy's white South African mom again, and I don't even know if that was actually her or her sister or some other person related to them or if it was just someone who happened to remind me of them and I'm never going to find out and that's fine.
I and my special genetics seem to need way more protection from disappointment than this, but it's pretty interesting nevertheless.
"Hundreds of ICE detainees launch hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall"
Krystal Knapp
This is good. I also have to look for somebody with the metabolic syndrome who has lots of jokes to share.
"When you are tired..."
michellesuicomedy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYUxZCkI1wF/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Friday night self love"
michellesuicomedy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYYQc0JIhVn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"A banter with my mom"
michellesuicomedy
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYr0wcwlr_H/?img_index=2&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe outer space wants us to care more about all the other starseeds.
I want outer space to know that I tried, and to help me figure out how to feel better, in spite of PCOS intersecting with perimenopause. Also outer space, I cannot fix the stubborn people who seem to like certain aspects of patriarchal white supremacy if it suits them, so I'm not going to try to do it anymore.
One could call this a form of love.
"Teenager taken by ICE released; hundreds gather in Menemsha rally" - The Martha's Vineyard Times
https://www.mvtimes.com/2026/05/23/teenager-taken-by-ice-released-hundreds-gather-in-menemsha-rally/
All the different words for different types of love or snowflakes...
Seems like a wider variety of human beings would be more equally valued if society wanted us to value them.
Maybe people need to upgrade their notions of what LOVE is.
"The things we do for LOVE (of fitting into the Patriarchal White Supremacy as best as we can so we get whatever we can out of it) will be burning out so that hopefully something much better will be able to flourish very soon."
I feel like collective shallowness leads to outcomes like this kind of person doing what he does.
"'Clear Racism': Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans"
It's just weird that she can't get released as fast as other people can; look at all these articles!
What will make her feminine medical emergency appealing enough???
So special and pretty and sensitive!
Locked away in a facility for four months with an ovarian cyst; medically tortured with the help of the tax payer money of the better off at being wilfully ignorant in service to the cause of being so much more noble and caring for the truly special, according to this Violent Patriarchal White Supremacy.
Probably because those are the ones that we're going to be able to sell to the people who have the money to buy them.
Maybe we have enough songs about how pretty and special and sensitive the white guys are. Maybe it's actually to the point where it's kind of like a lie that keeps getting told over and over again.
Hurtful people are not going to be the ones helping.
Maybe self-parenting is necessary. Maybe it involves admitting that the selfish, insensitive about racism and poverty, emotionally immature, uncaring people are not going to be very helpful, instead of constantly deluding yourself that maybe they're going to act like they want things to get better for others. Also, maybe the Mexican ice cream shop is a better place to be today.
Overall, the lack of compassion leads to worse outcomes for women. It feels physically painful.
"Pedro-Francisco saw medical staff seven times and went to the emergency room once, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, but she never received the surgery her doctor ordered.
“Her condition has worsened because she has still not received the surgery that is needed, that is urgently needed, and her body is continuing to suffer with this cyst that needs to be removed,” said Amy Fischer, director of refugee and migrant rights at Amnesty International."
~ Patrick Terpstra
"Immigrant detainee pleads with ICE to let her have surgery"
And the Wealth Gap is an awful, burgeoning, ugly problem too, which affects some kinds of people far more than it affects others.
"U.S. citizen stopped in Lafayette, shackled, and detained in Louisiana ICE facility
The U.S.-born woman presented ICE and Lafayette sheriff’s deputies with her state-issued ID and Social Security card. ICE detained her anyway."
This violent, patriarchal, racist, misogynistic culture's affect on some people is a very disappointing experience.
I think it is possible that some journalists are more caring than other human beings are sometimes.
They do not necessarily show it in a flowery way, but more in a "get the details down and tell the story and take the time and care to do it" way.
Why hasn't she been let out in 4 months?
"Andrea Pedro-Francisco, 23, was scheduled to have an ovarian cyst removed. Then ICE arrested her."
"Immigrant detainee pleads with ICE to let her have surgery"
"Pedro-Francisco, 23, is a house cleaner from Guatemala who came to the U.S. in 2019 where she had been living without legal status, according to ICE.
Her arrest occurred five days before she was scheduled to have surgery to remove a golf-ball sized ovarian cyst and have it checked for cancer.
ICE first sent her to Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, a for-profit detention center operating under a government contract.
Since it opened a year ago, Scripps News has documented complaints about lack of health care and other conditions inside Camp East Montana, a complex of tent-like structures quickly stood up on the Fort Bliss Army post last summer.
While there, Pedro-Francisco saw medical staff seven times and went to the emergency room once, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, but she never received the surgery her doctor ordered.
“Her condition has worsened because she has still not received the surgery that is needed, that is urgently needed, and her body is continuing to suffer with this cyst that needs to be removed,” said Amy Fischer, director of refugee and migrant rights at Amnesty International."
~ Patrick Terpstra
I wonder what makes them choose to release some human beings more quickly, and not others?
The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News | "Vineyard High Schooler Released from ICE Custody"
https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2026/05/23/vineyard-high-schooler-released-ice-custody
Today's a journey and so is tomorrow.
"A lot of emotionally intelligent women get labeled..."
claritywithclint
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYj-PFJBANE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
This is bad for the "fortunate" people too.
Both women and men do not benefit from this imbalance.
"400+ women ZERO men"
deliciousalex
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWMAVK4Cojk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's damaged, but it can still last a number of years.
I also wonder what happened with my picnic blanket, because I used to use it a lot, and I wonder if it's being used as often now.
And doctors used to recommend smoking cigarettes.
A reward for being good.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
People shouldn't act like this guy.
Hentschel the Moon.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
And also, the textbooks have changed, and will change again.
I remember some of those old textbooks!
"Back in the 1960s and 1970s..."
chervy.femme
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIBSRrkNzF5/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I think I would do best as a clothes sorter.
The physician role (medic) sounds very difficult to me.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
Well, the concentration camp survivor had creative writing skills, and he called on the assistance of Nike, and he was able to put out this book as a result.
I'm kind of glad that I have this side of myself that hasn't died yet.
Sometimes, I still can't believe that some people actually seem to think that a civil rights movement in a time of persecution is just supposed to feed their egos and their bank accounts without them changing the least little bit.
I feel like creative projects are good to focus on in times like these.
I think that some people might start to think of their lives as creative projects, and they can share different parts of their lives with different people so they can connect more deeply in certain ways, or have more curiosity about certain topics and learn more that way.
Going back to a safe space, I guess.
And the sad thing is, it's at least six times cheaper to buy an analog version of this book in Spanish then it is in English.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
Anyways, glad I'm not him. Ha-ha.
"John Mayer Says His 2003 Hit ‘Daughters’ Was 'Very Selfish'"
https://people.com/john-mayer-says-the-inspiration-behind-daughters-was-selfish-11954259
What....
"L.A. has its own mini 'Gardens of Versailles'”
https://secretlosangeles.com/los-angeles-gardens-music-summer-museum-roses/
Oh, it's the Huntington. I've been there a bunch of times.
As if they don't have enough land up there, huh?
"‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention
As Canada tightens asylum rules, refugees reuniting with family say they were turned over to ICE and jailed for months after failed border claims"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/23/canadians-refugees-rejected-face-ice-detention
Of course, there are worse rich people, like the people who own these detention centers and are getting richer off of what's going on.
"Guillermo Torres recalls bearing witness to the suffering of detainees at Adelanto when hunger strikers were mistreated for protesting, and says these conditions have not improved.
A program director at Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, he described a recent visit with a mother from Colombia who suffered a dislocation in her shoulder during her arrest. The GEO Group staff ignored her cries and pleas, he said.
“They denied her help and they told her that they couldn’t do anything, and that she had to put the bone back in place herself after screaming and crying. And that’s what continues to be at Adelanto,” noted Torres.
Immigrants in detention, meanwhile, are denied options for release on bond back to their communities. The bond system has been “systematically dismantled,” said Soto. “The Trump administration declared that anyone who entered without papers was ineligible for bond, regardless of their record, their family, their ties to the community.”
A February ruling ostensibly ended the Trump administration’s efforts to deny bond to immigrant detainees, though, according to Soto, “ICE and the immigration judges there at Adelanto kept applying it anyway.”
Ultimately community advocates want Adelanto and other detention facilities to be shut down.
GEO Group—along with private prison firm CoreCivic—is reporting significant profits from these operations. Both companies stand to benefit from the $75 billion additional funding set aside for immigration enforcement and detention centers under H.R. 1.
“We will continue to add our voices to … shut down this place,” Torres said. “And not only this place, but all these horrific immigration centers that should not exist.”
Li Lovett
"Hunger Strikers Protest Conditions at Adelanto ICE Detention Center" | ACoM
Maybe it's becoming more of a rich people problem at this point.
You're also going to have to start looking at the toxic patriarchal white supremacy mindsets living inside of the non-white people, because so many people who are joining ICE are not white!
Seduced into reading a newspaper article.
"Video shows ICE violently arresting Oregon farm workers and using facial recognition"| ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/ice-immigration-oregon-facial-recognition
The world wouldn't be as interesting without you in it, and that's also therapeutic to say to yourself in excruciatingly painful times.
Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best (Live on KEXP)"
I think it would be fun to see you try.
At least pick a man who's not feeling so blatantly entitled to act like a jerk towards the ones who are so different from him, why don't you?
Jesus, Paul.
"Paul was not issuing an economic manifesto. He was telling a group of eschatological freeloaders to stop being weird"
~ Derrick Day
"Capitalism, Socialism, And Christians Who Ignore Jesus"
"Paul was a genuine intellectual titan, a Roman citizen who wrote Greek the way surgeons use scalpels, and many of his letters contain passages of devastating moral clarity. His chapter on love in First Corinthians has earned its place in every wedding since Gutenberg invented bulk printing.
But Paul had a worldview. It was hierarchical. Slaves were to obey masters. Women were to be silent. The Body of Christ had members with different functions, some more dignified than others. He was a man of his time, which means he was also a man shaped by Roman patronage culture, where your value was inseparable from your productivity and your productivity was inseparable from your place in the social order.
Jesus had no such worldview. Or rather, his worldview was a direct assault on that one. He praised a widow’s two pennies over a rich man’s substantial donation. He elevated a Samaritan — a religious and ethnic outgroup — as the moral exemplar in what is probably his most famous parable. He positioned a child, the lowest-status person in first-century Jewish society, as the model for entering the Kingdom of God.
Paul’s theology organized people. Jesus’ theology disordered them — intentionally, radically, and with what one suspects was a fair amount of pleasure.
As one Christian minister and theologian writing for Radical Discipleship puts it, the word 'capital' simply means money, and capitalism is 'moneyism' — a system that strives to place money at the center of all human life. Jesus, according to the Gospels, said plainly: 'You cannot serve God and money.' The conflict is not subtle. It is definitional."
~ D. Day
Maybe pick a survivor story?
"Texas mother of 4 says 'no one is safe' after spending more than 6 weeks in ICE custody" - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-mother-speaks-weeks-ice-custody/
So pick one; or several that move you to acknowledge that they're doing the really wrong things with the tax dollars.
"Infected tooth led to death of man in ICE custody in Arizona, medical examiner says
Family says 56-year-old Emmanuel Damas complained about toothache for days before given proper medical care"
Brains of Our Elevated Culture can't process all 145,000 stories.
"Over 145,000 US children separated from parents since Trump’s ICE surge, study estimates" | US immigration | The Guardian
Gross negligence that doesn't even spark national outrage - should it be forgotten?
"She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing." - The Washington Post
On this path: "Crying" in otra idioma 🎼🥀🪽
"Rebekah Del Rio, 'Mulholland Drive' singer..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/s/SOOe8OCS1b
Mulholland Drive (2001) - "Llorando [HD]"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vI8c3eSIkQY&si=kqEbERgAHZj1-znt
"Crying (Album Version)"
Roy Orbison
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k_L_GZLa5ow&si=YWBL-cNlxOS7fnoU
Rebekah Del Rio - "Llorando"
Bubbling over with curiosity years later just because of what he chose to pay attention to.
"Riggs was a gay Cherokee playwright, born in Indian Territory in 1899. He was a disappointment to his father, a banker and a rancher. Photographs of Riggs show him to be a man of slight build, something of an 'egghead' with his glasses and premature balding. What was his experience with the hypermasculinity and heteronormativity of the West? Did he experience hazing and bullying as a rite of passage? Did he learn to 'stand it' in order to become an adult? Is he telling us something about the survival of his people, as each new generation has had to face a heritage of ongoing violence, denigration, and theft?"
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
This ritual reminds me of other problems that we still have difficulty addressing these days.
"'Charivari' dates all the way to medieval and early modern Europe, where it was a ritual used to punish members of a community who failed to conform to social norms, especially sexual norms. Targets of the charivari might include a widow who remarried, a wife who assaulted her husband, or a couple who failed to have children. In France, where the term originated, teenaged boys and unmarried men traditionally led the ritual, parading through the streets, shouting mocking insults, beating on pots and pans, and threatening violence. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England, these males would also attack local brothels during Lent. If the victim paid his or her tormentors off with money or wine, the charivari might end without these threats being carried out.
Apparently, until two hundred years ago, most Europeans thought the charivari was a legitimate and effective practice for curbing social deviance. It allowed for a public venting of outrage, with the opportunity for a “peaceful” resolution of a potentially explosive situation. In other words, it served as a kind of communal vent for blowing off steam… an exorcism of deviance. The victims were shamed, but then reintegrated into the community.
Here’s the thing: It’s actually a rape culture ritual empowering young males to assert their primacy and dominance in the community, and especially with regards to widows who dare to remarry, women who most likely were just attempting to defend themselves in abusive marriages where their husbands had legal rights to rape and batter, married women attempting to salvage some degree of bodily autonomy and/or freedom from compulsory serial pregnancy by practicing birth control or abstinence, and women who were prostituted. The historical roots of the 19th century Midwest shivaree were not in a playful hazing of newlyweds, but in a sanctioned, violent policing by gangs of young men over women who, in their eyes, were not sufficiently sexually subordinate."
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
"Sanitized and civilized"
"The shivaree as depicted in Oklahoma! has become sanitized and civilized, so that it is little more than an extension of the wedding party… kind of like when the bridesmaids and groomsmen sneak off to tie old shoes onto the back of the newlyweds’ car. The musical has transferred the scene from the dead of night to broad daylight. Shivarees are traditionally done in the dark. In the musical, just after the ceremony, the bride tosses her flowers over her shoulder, and then exits to change into her traveling clothes. The groom leaves to pack, and the men announce that they plan to have a shivaree. There is a vaudevillian interlude featuring a henpecked husband, and then the men return with pots and pans, making a racket. As the bride and groom exit for their travels, the men hoist the groom amiably on their shoulders… but whatever good-natured hazing they have planned is interrupted by the arrival of Judd Fry, the villain of the piece. Wielding a knife, Judd goes to attack the groom and a fight ensues that ends in Fry’s death. The shivaree has been reduced to a noisy, fraternal, daytime bon voyage party for the newlyweds.
The shivaree in Riggs play is something completely different. It is a terrifying artifact of rape culture, and it serves to traumatize and permanently alter both protagonists in ways that are resonant with the appropriation of Indian Territory. To understand its dramaturgical significance, it’s important to look at the origins of the custom:"
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
People don't seem to know how good it could feel to care more about a greater scope of humanity..
Like the difference between eating stale versus high quality food or clothes or art or whatever speaks to them the most.
There's so many different kinds of people...
One time I was really in the hot seat because I felt like the universe wanted me to talk to a Dean after a professor encouraged me to do so, and the Dean did not like what I was bringing to him, and he kept telling me all these things about myself like I was a bad listener, and in a way he was right, because other people told me don't talk to this Dean, but I ignored them, so I was a bad listener, but not in the way that he was implying. I guess that's another experience that's passing away.
These songs are both good in different ways.
I just imagine people surviving brutal changes and coming out better for it. And also, for some reason I have this happy memory of having orange herbal tea with my mother when I was very small, possibly 4 years old. And she did some embroidery and we watched television and I had so much fun drinking this herbal tea with her. Kind of like Heaven on Earth for a little kid. Very different from how I usually feel when I listen to these songs though. As a matter of fact, it might just be the memories coming back to me as a parallel experience alongside of listening to the songs. That can happen when you're in a calmer state.
Steely Dan - "Do It Again"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8&si=flEPePf8u2wrkDZz
tori amos - "do it again"
I like the kind of peaceful, calm feeling that's coming back.
It's as if the universe told me I had to drag out the skeletons (out of the closets.) So that happened. Maybe it will happen again in the future. But maybe it will never need to be that dramatic again. I know some things about how the Universe operates that I wasn't aware of before. Then the Universe decided to give me the calm and peaceful feeling after all.
I don't know. I kind of like how my life is going sometimes, even in spite of everything.
I really don't listen to this one as much as I listen to a lot of her other songs, but it got my head this morning when I was going for a walk.
Tori Amos ~ "Putting The Damage On Live"
But I also feel that ignoring some others who going through worse things is a disservice to my purpose in this life.
"We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people' | Russia | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/jailing-daria-egereva-plight-russia-indigenous-people
Friday, May 22, 2026
The universe is creative naturally.
Looking forward to some of the better moments!
"Hot off the press"
toriamos
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYnBOPEIGbt/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
🎶GUNS AND FUCKING ROSES is a much better thing to think about🎶
tetyanawrites
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYpCHTnhUog/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe conversations could make it more fun to compare experiences.
Anyways, a lot of us have been repressed and oppressed, and a lot of us are just waking up now in different ways, according to our biological inheritances and our life circumstances. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few decades.
Prince Cinderella, My Friend.
My friend, do you have the feeling that the patriarchal ladies and gentlemen have honestly been giving you the absolute best advice that you're ever going to get in this lifetime?
Pretending everything's fine just doesn't seem to be the logical choice for this brain at the moment.
What are they thinking.
"NC Republicans have lost their damn minds"
pullupspastapolitcs
Nature AND Nuture. Let's allow more kinds of people to flourish, shall we?
Sometimes, I honestly think that my biological make-up, combined with my specific set of circumstances, and the emotional aftermath of having certain encounters with the violence in our patriarchal society, must have made believe that I must identify with the marginalized, oppressed and forgotten people more in this life then the average person seems to want to.
"They don't go away just because you act like they're not there," is what I feel like saying to some people. Even if a marginalized and oppressed person dies, their spirit lives on and might come back in another body, and other people are going to live out those destinies too. I feel like we need to embrace change as a collective to allow more different kinds of people to flourish in their lifetimes on this planet.
Creative people can be the best, most innovative protesters!
"The results of the protests..."
kimiyasajjadi
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYpqRxICIJi/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Some of the more fortunate ones need to get better at having fun with giving away their money, maybe.
Look what I just noticed about this book that I bought for an extremely low price at a library used book sale.
I used to want to take that class. I didn't feel that I could take it, but now, for less than a freaking dollar, I have access to the textbook!!! Those college textbooks were incredibly expensive. And I've given away my old textbooks, and I hope that somebody else got great joy and benefit from obtaining them.
I wonder if I can get more into spring cleaning if I can think of it as though I'm a rich person giving away their money.
That is a thought.
I should try to make more money soon.
So I can travel!
"the best tour guides have honesty and ABBA"
sohotheatre
letsdoubledutch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYpDNn2jz_4/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
And now, three versions! 🎶
Sara Bareilles - "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Live from Atlanta)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ozd2ja7mAgM&si=QB-T8TzGW5pcAXra
[Video] Sara Bareilles - "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Live Cover)"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/s/jJ5f7trQ8D
"Sara Bareilles sings 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' at the Kennedy Center"
And here's another thing.
If the powers that be feel...I mean, if the alien intelligences are of the opinion...that I don't need to actually meet and converse with someone right because they are convinced that I already know that type of individual well enough, then I guess I'll just make it easy on myself and choose to agree. However, I just think there a bit of a stunted growth spurt thing that's going on, and some people are getting trapped in developmental stages in which trauma occurred, and they haven't fully healed from those stages yet, but whatever, maybe I'll have a different opinion later on...
This is very pedestrian and rough...
However, I think it's possible that someone like Diane de Poitiers had a bunch of different influencers all shoved into her at one time, so it's like, you can't just blame one person if you start to feel like that influence has touched you, as well. It's kind of like with Benjamin Franklin. He probably had a bunch of different influencers shoved into him all at one time, too. So, people who are like them, who don't become successful, might have ended up going into insane asylums or something. It's like, they have to be what they are, but they also have to have the circumstances that help them become what they are. They're not just a product of themselves, but also of the circumstances that they found themselves surrounded by.
807,000 is really not that many subscribers in this day and age.
"US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website | US immigration" | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/dhs-bolo-ben-palmer-parody-ice-tip-website
"The alert was headlined 'online immigration impersonation' and noted that Palmer, who is a US citizen, 'operates a satirical website impersonating a submission form, which acts as a mechanism for reporting suspected illegal aliens.' The Bolo included a screenshot from Palmer’s spoof tip website and two screenshots from his YouTube channel, which had 807,000 subscribers at the time it was captured, along with his photograph."
~ Aura Bogado
Well I didn't actually subscribe to it either. Anyways, I am taking the time to read about it now, however.
I feel like the universe spent a lot of time convincing me I should pay attention to certain individuals that we can all read about.
And it felt like, some of them couldn't really listen until I paid more attention their beastliness, that Wicked King and his eldest feminine servant Diane de Poitiers! I don't know what is wrong with people. What is wrong with people?
This line is good. It makes me remember that it's good to make things!
"At the cobblers' table, Vevke forgets for a while the hurt buried deep in his heart."
Page 14
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
Seriously, why are more people not talking about this?
"The DHS bulletin was issued by the department’s Nashville field office in February, about a week before the Washington Post profiled Palmer after a kindergarten teacher reported one of her student’s parents to Palmer’s supposed tip page on spurious grounds, thinking she was communicating with the government."
~ Aura Bogado
"US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website" | US immigration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/dhs-bolo-ben-palmer-parody-ice-tip-website
Uh - oh. They did this to that guy.
"US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website" | US immigration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/dhs-bolo-ben-palmer-parody-ice-tip-website
Back to my finely tuned taste for the literature that seems to appeal to me in this particular era.
And I hope he didn't reincarnate just to be put into another concentration camp.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
I feel like some people might be like that. They have experienced tough things in multiple lives. And it's not because they have to suffer on account of being wicked. It's because their soul is...I think there is some kind of Buddhist belief I read once about people coming back again and again, to experience hard situations...To raise the vibration of all of humanity....I don't know, exactly. I'm going to look it up later though.
What are the best kinds of songs for children to sing when they're in stressful situations?
Should they sing hymns? Should they sing silly songs? What kind of songs do you think they should sing if they're locked up and super stressed out right now, and they got to, you know, get some of that stress out of them, and chill out and feel a little bit better in spite of not ideal circumstances. What songs would you recommend? What are the top 10 songs?
Oh, the universe wanted me to bring up home care nurses, too.
Some person who's being treated badly in a detention center right now might become a home care nurse in the future. That's weird. Why are they supposed to know about that? Well anyways, I'm taking a break to eat lunch now. Thank you for growing this food for me, so I can eat it.
Please do not have a "rich guy going to visit Jeffrey Epstein's Island" mentality!
That mentality is the worst. Ugh! Also, you know, some women helped those guys do what they did.
What about having a gardener mentality instead?!
And then, you would be more likely to care about all of the plants. Not just that one in the corner that's going to bring you the most money from the richest who are willing to pay for it because that's just what their tastes are geared towards at the moment.
Maybe the slave owner mentality needs to die and get reborn as something better.
I feel like demanding people put out products for your satisfaction in order to prove their worth or humanity to you is kind of like a slave owner mentality.
What about love???
Are the fortunate people who are very busy with not caring about the immigrants absolutely sure that none of their grandchildren will ever fall in love with an immigrant, or fall in love with somebody who is related to someone who has been treated not very well in these times?
Why do you have to put out a product that costs money just to be considered "a real human being."
I don't know why some people seem to feel entitled to act like putting out a product is necessary in order to be acknowledged as an actual human being who is deserving of full human rights.
I think there's been some very damaging brainwashing that's been happening for a long time and it's no longer sustainable.
Because now lots of people, both children and adults, are being harmed in far more obvious ways, and still lots of other people are acting like they don't feel like they have to be the ones who care about that.
Even though they're the beneficiaries of lots of the labors of immigrants every day, they don't really care about those immigrants very much, do they.
It doesn't look like they care very much.
Wow, even Martha's Vineyard High School students are being affected.
"MVRHS students hold walkout to honor classmate detained by ICE" - The Martha's Vineyard Times
https://www.mvtimes.com/2026/05/22/mvrhs-students-hold-walkout-to-honor-classmate-detained-by-ice/
Well, people of all backgrounds can still strive to tend to their own mental health as they gain more awareness of various issues, I guess.
"Against the backdrop of Mental Health Awareness Month and the advancement of Congress’ budget reconciliation bill, hundreds of immigrants, community members, and allies gathered in the nation’s capital on May 20 for a peaceful march from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) headquarters to the Capitol."
~ Angelica Sedgwick Oun
"Mental Health Is Another Unfortunate ICE Casualty" | Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/22/mental-health-is-another-unfortunate-ice-casualty
The vast majority of people are not rich.
So how does a "Everyone who's not rich is worthless" mentality start happening in some people's brains?
Do you know of any people who are getting rid of all of their clothes that were made in other countries?
I don't see people getting rid of all of their clothes that were made in other countries.
Maybe there's outrage because it's cruel to people and a waste of money and it shouldn't be happening.
"Bridgeport father arrested by ICE agents at school bus stop draws outrage"
https://www.ctpost.com/connecticut/article/bridgeport-father-ice-arrest-school-bus-stop-22268629.php
I assume whoever bought this unlivable house is already well off and can renovate it.
"California’s housing market is so out of control that even a small, burned-out home goes for $1 million
The ranch-style home on a busy corner in metropolitan Los Angeles commanded the eye-popping price even though it’s clearly unlivable"
You can at least find out the country where your clothes were made.
You don't know the conditions in the factories. You don't know the age of the person who made the clothes. You don't know those things, unless you can find out in some other ways, but you can find out the country.
A lot like all of the "regular" people, who also can't seem to come to a consensus...
"Days before California’s June primary, governor hopefuls split sharply on ICE"
I have to sort through my clothes. I should find out where everything was made.
I think I should check both my chewed-on clothing and my not chewed-on clothing. And my clothes that I can currently wear, and the clothes that are too small for me at the moment.
Oh, that's where I saw Corrie Ten Boom's grave on Mother's Day.
"Santa Ana Considers Banning Police Officers From Moonlighting as ICE Agents"
Hunger strike happening in another part of the county.
"Immigrants launch hunger strike over conditions at SoCal ICE facility" - Los Angeles Times
CLEARLY UNLIVABLE
"California’s housing market is so out of control that even a small, burned-out home goes for $1 million
The ranch-style home on a busy corner in metropolitan Los Angeles commanded the eye-popping price even though it’s clearly unlivable"
Unlike these much nicer homes I strolled by in the morning. And another one I didn't take a picture of which probably had a child behind a screen who was not visible to me but nevertheless shouted out, "Hiiiiiiiiiiii!"
Also, some crows on a telephone wire were being nice to each other, and I took a picture of them.
What a phenomenon!
I was feeling well enough to go for a walk this morning and at one point a disembodied child's voice called out, "Hiiiiiiiiiii!" I don't know if the kid was hiding behind something outside or behind a screen inside a house or what. I said hi back.
But curiosity is still the best.
I want to meet the people who were treated better by the system who still can be available and willing to listen and willing to cooperate and help work on creative projects and brave enough not to be in denial or run away and still be curious and able to have fun.
Something else to read about in these trying times: "There's a lot of innocent people in there."
"'I want to make people aware of how unfortunate it is that it's not just criminals getting detained. When I went to visit him, he's not the only one in there that's detained because his DACA has expired. There's a lot of innocent people in there, and it's just unfair. Even a lot of people out here are losing their jobs because their DACA is delaying so long,' Cristina Villa said."
~ Athena Jreij
"UPDATE: Federal officials comment on Palm Springs DACA recipient detained by ICE"
What an opportunity, if you're in the Chicago area.
"Anne Frank: The Exhibition at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry"
I heard about this $ car commercial shutting down a bridge recently.
I'm sure the rich and really out there, totally not locked up in any detention centers with the innocent immigrant children kinds of people got paid plenty of money for being a part of it.
And didn't the Patriarchal Societal Pain do really horrible things to the family and just get away with it? That's sad.
Only the Bible is read more.
I'm so glad Anne Frank wrote her diary, and that her her Dad survived the concentration camp against all odds, because her diary probably wouldn't even exist without him! That's what he did with the rest of his life. Promoted his daughter's diary. Went through a lot of hell doing it, too.
3 - 2 - 1, liftoff.
First, you had to know that people who shouldn't have been abusive could be and would be abusive.
Next, you had to know that people who should have stood up and helped you weren't going to stand up and help you.
And then, you also had to know that the people who were going to be so selfish that it was going to be a big shock to your nervous system were exactly that selfish and unhealed.
Time to learn more about healing because of what you experienced from learning about humans being huge unhealed jerks.
Sometimes people get desperate, and that's life.
Sometimes the unhealed "fortunate" people act a lot like the people who hurt them when it comes to how they treat others, but depending on how they do it, you might also feel like you just see that they have in their pysches a child who needed more love and they didn't get the tools to know how to ask for what they needed. So they figure it out the best they can, and they do what they feel they must do in order to obtain what they seem to feel they need the most.
Curiosity is the best.
I want to meet the people who were treated better by the system who can be available and willing to listen and willing to cooperate and help work on creative projects and brave enough not to be in denial or run away and still be curious and able to have fun.
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Going back to being offline now.
"Patriarchy..."
kirstyleephd
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYm5HZACHUy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Which one(s) can you relate to?
bynicolleofficial
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYgIgjlFIYR/?img_index=9&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Who..."
marmaladebleue
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYPy1XCMRie/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Well, who knows, maybe some people really want to now.
I hope some people can work on their problems more now if they really want to.
I hope this changes soon. Preferably for the better.
Liberal people being not that different from conservative people. You'd think that they would not want to act like a bunch of Lords of the Manor reincarnated, especially at the expense of the safety and well-being of other people's children. And in fact their own children too honestly. That's why the Cult mentality that so many grew up with is very dangerous. It's seduces them into thinking that really imbalanced behavior is just a normal way of life.
I highly overestimated some people.
I really thought a whole bunch of people who seemed like they cared in the past would literally be so moved and so determined to help the oppressed that they'd be at the very least playing a few concerts outside of the ICE facilities or something. Wow, that was stupid of me, wasn't it?
Patriarchal Culture has been a very bad and even sickening experience.
Partly on account of the fact that I actually have the wrong genetics for their cult, I will never really be able to know why some people had to turn themselves into shallow, abusive, insensitive, untrustworthy antagonists just because that's exactly how the Patriarchal Culture wanted them to behave.
Patriarchal Culture was more desperate to hold on to their Learned Behaviors than I was though? Maybe that's partly why they did it. I wish they had more courage to just do something new.
I don't think their safe path looks safe to me at all. Like it's not even a little bit safe. It's like so far from safe enough that I don't even think you could probably write a dissertation and still it doesn't matter because people don't change until they feel like changing.
And the people who've been given the most rewards for going along with a lot of what the patriarchal culture wanted them to go along with are going to change the last, probably. This has been a harsh lesson to learn.
I think all of these people should stay away from the vulnerable who deserve better. Because the vulnerable deserve so much better then more of what's just going to hurt them and make them worse off in this really imbalanced, unhealthy unwell culture.
I feel like I've tried and it hasn't worked and I was going to stop trying to have conversations with people who don't want to have them, and I'm going to go somewhere else.
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