Last Sunday we took a day trip to Chicago for the opera, a cool staging of Mozart’s Magic flute, that looked very 1930s Deco with singers in silent movie white face makeup. I thought it was a remake of an actual jazz age production, but it’s 21st century, in that style. The production was designed … [Read more…]
This weekend my me time on Saturday morning turned into work time, so no weekend blog post. Friday morning my walk was the hellebore walk. I put the pics on Instagram and made a banner for the blog. Everyone liked the pics on Insta, but I still feel like I’m in a terribly not reflective … [Read more…]
It’s the first day of classes at University of Wisconsin today, and I’m sitting at the kitchen counter still in pajamas, doing a little work email, drinking coffee, and listening to public radio which is full of stories about campus response to Covid, including liability waivers and a few words from a student at UW-Eau … [Read more…]
OK how the F does our so-called president get to say that cities will burn if we elect Biden when it’s happening now, on his watch?!! Not to mention using the White House for a partisan campaign event … ? What was that about dining? Well, my freezer was starting to get too full, so … [Read more…]
So in the last couple weeks, we’ve started doing a few things we have not done since before the pandemic. We’ve had small groups of friends over, no more than 4 so a total of 6 people counting us, and only outside. I got a haircut – but just the short kind, 15-min. bang trim, … [Read more…]
Here in Madison, on Tuesday evening about dinner time, a Black man went into a Capitol Square restaurant with a bullhorn and a baseball bat, saying basically, “I’m here to F**k you up”, and when he got arrested, other protesters got violent and eventually pulled down the Forward statue, and Hans Christian Heg, who was … [Read more…]
And, start listening to Black people. A while ago, probably at least five years, maybe six, because it was when he was living in Chicago and that was 2013-2017, I bought my son Al the Thug Kitchen Cookbook. I naively, unawarely, no doubt, thought it seemed suited to his sensibilities, as a young, hip, white … [Read more…]
It was a quite different type of Memorial Day this pandemic year. Normally we have people over for a driveway picnic, and there’s lots of cooking and eating going on. Looks like last year we had our driveway picnic on Sunday, and then had indoor hotdogs on Monday. Sometimes the picnic gets kinda big, 12-15 … [Read more…]
I usually don’t get too political in this space, but this morning my first update from the New York Times was to say that Clinton and Trump are tied. Utterly horrifying to me, because I’m sure that any success Trump’s enjoying is based on hatred and fear and racism, pretty much the same as Brexit. … [Read more…]