I got an email from Robert Reich last night, subject line, “I’m Terrified” and that made me think, “you know I kind of am, too”. By the current crisis, or politics, or whatever the hell is happening our country right now. So much scary and infuriating stuff this week, starting with Jacob Blake, then three … [Read more…]
Friday we went to the Madison symphony and it was pretty empty. There was one older woman wearing blue surgical gloves. Corona virus fears, or I guess the new correct name is Covid-19. Long as they don’t start calling it Captain Trips. That was one of Stephen King’s worst ideas, calling a disease Captain Trips … [Read more…]
Gawd, I started this post a week ago … thinking I’d write about Fall food. It’s just the ever present dread, and the news is so awful – omigod Pittsburgh … and letter bombs … and executive orders to take away natural born citizenship. Not to mention iSchool and advising week, 35-30-minute appointments with students … [Read more…]
It could’ve been foreshadowing of what was to come in my yoga class, where of course the teacher was going to talk about well being. Or it could’ve been the weather – which is back to “normal” for late February in Wisconsin, cold, snowy, sunny. Or maybe because I was happily thinking that plans I’d … [Read more…]
I thought of this on Saturday while walking to yoga … remember the end of King Kong, “It wasn’t the airplanes?” 1933 Original 2005, with Jack Black So, I want a shirt with Hillary Clinton’s face on Kong on the Empire State, maybe a little like this David Bromberg album cover: And then the caption … [Read more…]
Take today, fer instance: I went out for a walk, and it’s a beautiful sunny day – but that just filled me with dread and grumpiness. Because it’s FUCKING FEBRUARY in Wisconsin and it’s not supposed to be 50°. Or Friday: After reading friends and friends of friends facebook posts about how they’re dealing with … [Read more…]
It was sunny today, and cold. I walked up to the city county building to do some training so I can work on early voting at the library on Saturday, and there was a girl in front of me with Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead and other hippie-dippie embroidered patches on her backpack. I was … [Read more…]
Stop your mind with dirty snow. Jefferson Airplane, Ice Cream Phoenix, track 9 on Crown of Creation. Early January, what should be the brutal time of winter here in Wisconsin, is a little weird this year. Yes, it’s been brutally cold, but only for the last few days: on Monday & Tuesday it was in … [Read more…]