My humble requests this evening (through tomorrow), in order of importance:
Request No.1: I’m not killed.
Request No.2: No trees crush my house.
Request No.3: No trees fall down in my yard.
Request No.4: We don’t lose power.
Fucking wind. #wind
My humble requests this evening (through tomorrow), in order of importance:
Request No.1: I’m not killed.
Request No.2: No trees crush my house.
Request No.3: No trees fall down in my yard.
Request No.4: We don’t lose power.
Fucking wind. #wind
I have no answers to our ongoing crisis, but this is where I am. Doing what I can do with the tools available to me.
#Writing #Medium #Life
https://abitdodgy.uk/clowns-to-the-left-of-me-c552fdcc621c
Every year, without fail, I am surprised by my own birthday. This is not a fishing exercise or a bit of mock humility. It’s almost pathological. I’m heading up the road to visit my 82-yo mother today to celebrate, but yesterday, I didn’t think about it once. This morning, I was alerted because I began getting social media notices. It’s like not even the date alerts me.
I don’t think this is that unusual, but every goddamn year?
Fifty-eight. Ugh.
P.S. The snow is already gone.
@WarnerCrocker Looks like 6-8” for us, which is a big deal—for about a half day. Probably shut schools down for tomorrow and then back to normal.
Snow is still rare enough here that it feels like a holiday. Unfortunately, no one else thinks so. Feels like a party.
Picked the wrong week to stop huffing glue.
I guess I have to finally admit that maybe the Eagles were better than I thought all season. What can I say?
Although, I thought they’d more or less play like this all year and they didn’t. Good time to peak, I suppose.
“If I had never seen Janet Bonney reenact the mouth-to-beak resuscitation of her hen Number Seven, who had been frozen solid in a snowstorm, then was thawed and nursed back to life—the hen was hand-fed and massaged and encouraged to watch doctor shows on TV—I might never have become a chicken person.”
~ Susan Orlean, “On Animals”
That’s a pretty interesting opening line. #Writing
I did something I haven’t done in decades. I bought a new computer and did NOT migrate my old computer over. I actually just installed the software I needed and went to the trouble of copying over plug-ins and such. I’ve done the basics and not sure what I’ve missed yet, but I’ll bet not much. Just copying over a bunch of useless junk.
So, yes. I’m proud of myself.
I’m losing the ability to give a shit. Seriously. It’s an avalanche of bullshit I can’t possibly be expected to hold back. Completely unnecessary pain, suffering, and death, blah, blah, blah. Just another Thursday. We’re not even out of January.
This looks interesting but I can’t take any more stressful television series. Real life is plenty hair raising. I don’t need to be chased. #PrimeTarget
I had a good meeting in Philly this morning. Don’t know if it will become a new piece of business but I feel positive about it. We shall see.
I actually thought Buffalo had a shot. #NFL
Columbia is the name given to many places and institutions in the US due to the name Columbus. Not entirely sure why that ever took off.
Colombia is the South American country.
They are not interchangeable.
I have over 3k followers on Threads, 99% of whom I inherited from my 30k Instagram followers. I get almost zero engagement from my posts there.
I have eight followers on Bluesky with slightly more engagement.
Both seem like a huge waste of time to me.
Unfortunately, Mastodon is not conducive to my business. It’s only good for social posting, which is fine.
I’m left with LinkedIn, which always struck me as little more than a networking platform. Which is also fine, I guess.
Make a mental note of all the corporations who immediately abandoned all initiatives that support equality and diversity the minute it was deemed acceptable. You can ignore their pleas from here on out. They don’t care about their own people, let alone you. Never did. But now you have proof.
You can use them if that’s what is required, but they have zero loyalty to you and you should free to feel the same.
I work with brands to foster loyalty. This is not the way.
Often, I find myself thinking about complicated, existential issues that are so gargantuan, so difficult to frame within the tiny context of our lives, that I find myself overwhelmed. Growing authoritarianism. Income inequality. Climate change. Genocidal violence. Even the efficacy of an online writing platform. The scale of it all is so beyond our comprehension that it loses any relevance to the random Tuesday in which we find ourselves.
#Writing #Philosophy #Medium
https://medium.com/ellemeno/lets-get-small-f98a8555b2ad
Quit your whining and get back to work.
#Medium #Writing
https://davidtoddmccarty.medium.com/why-im-still-on-medium-48726e7d6693
It’s really sad watching the Washington Post and the New York Times slowly die. The Post has given up on fighting for democracy—for storytelling. Storytelling is what I do. We needed them to investigate wrongdoing, report the truth, and keep power in check.
“All of America” my ass.
Just simple greed and capitulation.
#Journalism #Media https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/113838897099824560
@WarnerCrocker It was 18ºF here when I woke up. That’s pretty damn cold for us. Average is 41º.
Burr is playing Dave Moss, the character played by Ed Harris in the movie. Also in the production are Kieran Culkin in the Al Pacino role, and Bob Odenkirk as the Jack Lemon character.
I’ll never be able to get, or afford, tickets, but I’ll bet that’s a fun show.
https://playbill.com/article/kieran-culkin-bob-odenkirk-bill-burr-to-star-in-broadway-revival-of-glengarry-glen-ross
#Broadway #Theater #Mamet #BillBurr
Writer. Journalist. Raconteur.I live in Cape May, New Jersey, USA, where I write about politics, culture, science, history, religion and travel. I look a bit like if Hagrid ate Harry. I hate bullies no matter what side they’re on. I'm kind, until you push me. Three kids. Seven grands. Running out of fucks.Phillies. Eagles. Liverpool.Pizzaiolo Extraordinaire.Publisher of four @medium pubs: Ellemeno, Rome,, Hopping Frog Studios, and A Bit Dodgy. Signal: dtm.13
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