I’m not saying you did anything “wrong” but the comment about academic fangs upset me. I’m not sure how that could not be pejorative. However if that’s how I’m coming across I’d rather know so I can tone it down. Though that means cutting a lot of who I authentically am off and shoving it in a suitcase. Which I am rather sick of. I had fun responding to his work, and C’s, and now I will feel less free with my responses because I do not want to hurt anyone’s feelings.
Except yours: F*** OFF!
What I’m Listening To:
“I was an open wound Looking for a good time A time that nobody could show me”
It dries up my mouth, it sucks all the moisture out of it.
Do you remember last year’s medication shortage?
Like a fisherman’s black boot …
Celebrate the bullet. If you’re not ska, you’re dead.
It’s a different version of the same cavil.
Did you see Hopper in Apocalypse Now?
What do you have? Oppositional defiant disorder?
Well, bless him, he’s looking out for us.
Due to disagreements a group of men sway public opinion and gain office operating with intimate friends.
Deliquescent means what?
Did you know osmium is the heaviest element?
I don’t know if they did claim it in their tax returns or not.
Woop, woop, wooooeeeeaahh!
Anyone who deals with abused and traumatized kids … sexual abuse speeds up their biological clock and secretes sex hormones.
Juan recommends the latest influencers.
Is that empty?
No study had ever followed mollusks in these conditions.
A bodily fluid spill kit?
We laughed as we watched the dog try in vain.
The rampaging sans-culottes wrecked churches.
Thank you for your order.
Lacking friends in elementary school makes a crucial difference.
Fevers, fevers and pustules!
It’s a complex and rocky time when friends can suddenly turn on one another.
Standby power is wasted electricity.
Allow the actuator to air dry completely.
There’s neither intelligence or support from family and peers.
Good morning, South Florida, I’m …
What I’m Reading:
“I promise you, I was here. I felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air—and I went on destroying inside it like wind in a storm.”
keep away ghost of a thousand eyes go back to hell where you belong i’ve seen your lips move out of sequence with the haunted sounds you dredge up why are you dragging a boat about your neck the river what’s left of it tells me it’s too late
What I’m Reading:
“Black milk of daybreak we drink it at dusk we drink it at noon in mornings we drink it at night we drink and we drink we dig a grave in the sky there is plenty of room”
“It’s always like that. Childhood makes us what we are.”
— Marcial Gala / The Black Cathedral
“The US was no longer number one. The ‘recyclable’ waste of other nations was shipped here instead. Migrants no longer rushed its borders. Countries had begun programs of de-Americanizing, severing ties with US companies and businesses, and levying fines and taxes in trade. Its most significant cultural artifacts, including the Constitution, the Declaration, were on loan to foreign museums, displayed in clumsily curated exhibitions that lumped them with British curios … how to raise a child in this time and place.”
— Ling Ma / “Tomorrow” / Bliss Montage
“I woke up and said ‘I have slept until now,’ and now I have stopped sleeping altogether.”
— Laurence Wieder / “These Anemones, Their Song Is Made Up As They Float Along”
“Emissions from the motor sector could have fallen by more than 30% between 2010 and 2022 if vehicles had stayed the same size, a report has found.
Instead, the size of the average car ballooned as the trend for SUVs took off, meaning the global annual rate of energy intensity reductions – the fall in fuel used – of light-duty vehicles (LDV) averaged 4.2% between 2020 and 2022.”
— Helena Horton / “Motor emissions could have fallen by over 30% without SUV trend, report says” / The Guardian
“‘Bad to the Bone’ plays overhead and embarrasses me. This is the worst first date ever, worse than the sad man with the trashed Firebird in his backyard.”
— Julia Story / “‘Bad to the Bone’ plays overhead and embarrasses…”
“Earth’s vital signs are failing … Record emissions, ferocious fires, deadly droughts and the hottest year ever.”
— Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General / COP28 introductory remarks
What I’m Listening To:
“Police dem Shoot you so young Police dem Shoot you so old Police dem Hard steel so cold Police dem Put in choke hold”
“Hope. It’s powerful; it can change things. But you’ve got to put yourself in the way of it, let yourself feel it. Let the power of it lift you up. That’s what you’re doing: putting yourself in the way of hope. Do that and anything can happen. Start from here!”
“She just didn’t like taking up space. Everyone occupies a certain amount of physical space according to their body mass, but voice travels far beyond that. She had no wish to disseminate her self.”
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