Lit Lover: June 2019

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Bubbles?

"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

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

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.

Felt useful

A lady asked me in Spanish where the bathroom was. I pointed.

"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

Today

Loss
Hurts
Holy
Lower Back
Pain
& Front Ache
Heart
Pelvis
CBD oil
Heating Pad
Dream of a refuge
In some trees
Sing

I can listen to these later!

Nussbaum & Luiselli
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/emily-nussbaum-on-the-tv-revolution-and-valeria-luiselli-on-the-border

Also, going to read this now...
https://lithub.com/on-john-wayne-cancel-culture-and-the-art-of-problematic-artists/

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

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?

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.

Saturday, June 29, 2019

It's gypsy music

NOW

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.

Today's light(s)

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.

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.

Outdoors Indoors

O: Deflated pool toys
I: Boxes of books and games

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

Friday, June 28, 2019

Sound shift

Meditation Singing Bowls

bon ap

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).

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/

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

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/

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/

"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/

To feel better

D. Summer ~ I Feel Love
It seems very long...

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/

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

PSULDPPOT

Pre-Shedding of Uterine Lining Dysthymia Punctuated by Painful Ovarian Twinges:

"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.

How amusing on a planet

https://sheenaofthejournal.com/productivity/8-ways-to-use-tracker/

Pang

Oh
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/sunglasses-day/

My prescription ones

This one is going to be in my house

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.

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.

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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..."

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

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

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.

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.

Pencil Paint Pencil

Color Therapy

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...

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Good Eagle Story.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-mooseheart-bald-eagles-family-tragedy-tt-06182019-20190618-yu5ypp2gjfbybfuykjtsdz3h3m-story.html

Perhaps for them

too boring.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/06/22/major-newspapers-largely-leave-new-report-sexual-assault-trump-their-front-pages/224009

Because a brain makes one dream about bizarre subject matter

Brains do that.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/28/teachers-told-look-signs-fgm-cutting-season-9715875/

Often.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/06/526766230/female-genital-mutilation-what-it-does-to-a-woman

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.

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.

Good morning.

You should be able to enjoy living life as a girl.

:=)

Sorry, weird dreams again.

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.

More needlecrafting.

Less t-shirt chewing...but sometimes can have fun with pictures.

Triangles

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

However

This is feminist perhaps.

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.

Hier

Ik besta op een tussenplaats.
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

Death is interfering

with fun again.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Horse-Dies-While-Training-at-Santa-Anita-30th-Death-of-the-Racing-Season-511677621.html

For some reason.

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

sə(r)ˈprīz

Zanny Begg ~ The City of Ladies

I am seeing

A...
https://splinternews.com/the-revenge-of-the-poverty-stricken-college-professors-1835381061

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."

And a dog

What would be a good dog?

https://nj1015.com/tvs-top-20-famou-dogs-of-all-time/

Also employed?

A sometimes wannabe therapist...

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

"Saturday Night Law of Humility"

What is that.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/24/norway-happiness-denmark-weekend-saturday-night-law-of-humility

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.

I. Love. Tree. Shadows.

Still can't frickin believe it.

The CRYSTAL SHIP

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-platform-holly/

was one of those.

^^^^^^^^^^

compulsively

http://www.ninjajournalist.com/entertainment/pet-shaming-signs-tb/6/

X

http://www.ninjajournalist.com/entertainment/pet-shaming-signs-tb/7/

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

Despues del solsticio

Minerals

2 + 1

https://mobile.twitter.com/tishjames

&

https://twitter.com/NY1noticias/status/1142200779765424129

b/c

https://pix11.com/2019/06/21/ny-ag-state-will-not-cooperate-with-pres-trump-ordered-ice-raids/

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

A Large Snakc:

2 meatballs, one saucer legume penne, vodka sauce

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-platform-holly/

vino

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.

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."

https://www.chewy.com/sentry-hc-petromalt-petroleum-free/product-reviews/56505?reviewSort=NEWEST&reviewFilter=ALL_STARS&pageNumber=1

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

Personal milestone

Chewed on zero items of clothing today. Going to do something nice later.

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/

Multigogical

online
https://upcea.edu/pedagogy-andragogy-and-now-heutagogy/

offline
https://etale.org/main/2013/04/23/a-primer-on-three-gogies-pedagogy-heutagogy-andragogy/

anyway

micrisimofictisimo

A's: dibs on which one's gonna die off next!
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.

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

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...

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.

No wonder I still don't know how to play it

However...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613489/magic-the-gathering-is-officially-the-worlds-most-complex-game/

Other people do...

Stripe-ily

Depicted

https://www.fastcompany.com/90367577/this-is-one-of-the-simplest-and-best-climate-change-graphics-weve-ever-seen

Kilts

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-scotland-s-35-year-kilt-ban-backfired-in-spectacular-fashion

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

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...

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!

Universe: I need a retrieval

The CBD oil turned up and now I want my old prescription sunglasses.

Replacing those is even more $$$.

icecream

ICE

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/activists-explain-why-migrant-justice-is-climate-justice

CREAM

Wanted for the housing insecure locals

Important voice in the right package to deliver a message.

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.

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/

Ceremonies

For the patriarch
For the maid to the patriarchy

Whoa...whoa...

Taxes... https://www.dailynews.com/2019/06/19/los-angeles-wants-to-tax-landlords-for-vacant-units

Well, she's not in LA, really. https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/louise-linton-steve-mnuchin-trump/

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

"#calor #WeFeedYou"

"Acceptable Shade"
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/

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

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

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/

Maslow's hierarchy meets a place

Bottom

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/how-solve-los-angeless-homelessness-crisis/591976/

of the Pyramid.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

It seems.

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.

"Lava"

= the verb

https://abc7.com/society/lava-mae-helps-las-homeless-population-by-providing-showers-/5349554/

"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

Make art

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."

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

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

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

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."

Then vs. NOW

Who is even on the dime

How

Mysterious

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 a ~~semi~~ severely distracting visual.

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

Monday, June 17, 2019

Couldn't see it

NASA

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/969/june-2019-the-next-full-moon-is-the-strawberry-moon/

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

!!!!!!!!!!!!

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/

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/

Sunday, June 16, 2019

Time to sleep.

End the day on a fine mental health note.