i have worked out my halloween costume… i bought a red midi spaghetti strap slip dress at a vintage clothing store… only $26… i will go as a devil in a red dress… red devils horns, dragon head cane, red sunglasses, red dangling earrings, red lipstick… red boots, pink-red stockings… this will be the first time in i can’t remember how long that i will have a halloween costume!…
the storm is gathering in washington and flowing out across the country… liberal, centrist and conservative outlets are all sounding the alarm… it promises to be category 5…
i passed by the public library in my home town this morning and spotted a sign opposing censorship and advising the reading of whatever you want… literature and art is under attack especially from conservatives (liberals do it too, just not as much historically and certainly not in the present moment)… censorship is never a good idea… a society can’t critique itself effectively if that critique is censored…
it is said that protest turnout needs to reach 3.5% of the population to turn back authoritarian rule… 7 million is 2% of 340 million, the population of the united states… we are more than half way there…
note to americans…
when 47 says he could invoke the insurrection act, but chooses not to… we should translate it to… “i would invoke the insurrection act but i don’t have the support of the generals”… yet…
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it is unbearable to watch the trampling over and destruction of everything that is sacred… though a materialistic, capitalistic society holds nothing above exploitation and trampling… what seems laughable is that a lot of this is the tip of a spear the shaft of which is christian fundamentalism… an epically secular approach to the world in which nothing seems sacred… i despair that western civilization is anything worth preserving for the future…
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last night we went to see/hear actor/musician/playwright jeff daniels… the last time i was so mesmerized by a performance was betty carter at lincoln center, not long before she died… it is a rare ability to enthrall people… he was smart, funny, warm, honest… at least as far as i could tell on the honest part… my wife used the term authentic… i would tend to agree… i recommend attending any performance of his you are lucky enough to be near…
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we have been suffering here in the united states… i only wish we were at the end of it, rather than the beginning… i think it will get much worse before we can hope to welcome something better… i hope to live to see the better…
this morning i listened to fleetwood mac’s rhumors album… a sublime album… very feminine forward… love and love lost songs… reflective of the tempestuous love lives of the band members, especially stevie nicks and christine mcvie… it put me in a powerfully good feminine mood… i was reviewing and screen shot saving images of beautiful-to-me women on behance… a morning ritual to affirm and inspire my inner feminine… the music and images together were an amazing self reinforcing loop…
what half a terabyte of memory looks like these days…
that kind of amazing moment when you are listening to an album and loving it and you pick up your smartphone and send a message to the artist who is a friend… and she writes back:
Thank you for this message- it made my night. Sometimes making art feels like screaming into the void (as you know!) so it’s nice to be reminded why I do it.
i am wearing my new gathered smock dress, bare shouldered, warm fuzzy black speckled sweater over the top… i love the way i feel in this dress… i love the way i look in this outfit… something about how swishy, flowy fabric feels around my legs as i walk is so wonderful…
my first step in developing a set of high quality dedicated to their purpose devices… next up is a compact leica camera and then a minimalist phone…
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today i am grateful for the things i got done…
tomorrow i am looking forward to finally getting my new shoes all the way from australia!…
i am on the cusp of ordering a dedicated music player… considering the fiio m21… next move, a dedicated compact camera from lieica… then what?… anyone else traveling down this road?…
today i am grateful for the things i got done…
tomorrow i am looking forward to finally getting my new shoes all the way from australia!…
today i was grateful to be home, a new pair of bose noise canceling headphones and a delicious dish of melanzane a funghetto
tomorrow i am looking forward to stormy weather, catching up, and picking up some new shoes from the post office…
decades ago, when i was in grade school?… middle school?… whatever grade i would have been studying american history… i had a teacher who told us america was a nation in decline… i remember how unsettling that was…
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SAY NO TO CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM… said her t-shirt… i am told her name is peety… she told me her parents were italian immigrants who were in italy during ww2… they lived through fascism… they taught their children to never let it happen again… she says hell no to fascism… peety owns the hardware store and isn’t afraid to loose customers because of her politics…
we are ratcheting up to a moment of confrontation between blue states and red states… we are having the ground prepared for extrajudicial killings… we are breaking international law… the administration is moving us down the authoritarian road rapidly… what the administration is doing is wildly unpopular but they don’t care because they don’t plan to hold free and fair elections in 2026…
i finally realized why people put milk in coffee… to mask the bitterness of bad coffee…
“Facts don’t matter. What people believe matters.”
Kelly Ann Conway
To push the administration’s narrative, Trump held an “Antifa Roundtable” at the White House this afternoon. There, far-right influencers tried to make the case that “antifa” is real and has harassed them, although as The Guardian noted, many of those influencers feed their media channels by confronting protesters and filming the responses they’ve provoked.