Did you tell her the part when the Enterprise gets sucked into The Black Hole and Darth Vader rides in on the Death Star and saves them from the Cylons but then the Predator and his xenomorph allies attack only to be defeated by Buck Rogers? 🤣
@lisasass.bsky.social too long for Scrabble, not fun nonetheless.
We need to talk about chatoyancy more in this world …
lol, that I is an A, so I guess I need to work on that! 😁
The recurring nightmare that prevents me from writing the Great American Novel.
A piece of gridded paper from a notepad, on which is written in cursive with sepia ink, "The ability to detect fallacy is one of the things that makes democratic life decent." A quotation by Martha Nussbaum. Pen next to the notepad is a TWSBI Diamond 580 in Affogotto, inked with De Atramentis sepia brown ink.
Midday musing:
I'm trying to write more in cursive, seeing as I have these pens.
An observation: writing in cursive and printed can be very different experiences, even with the same pen, ink, and paper.
Another observation, I prefer broader nibs.
A further observation: good luck reading this!
Wink wink, nudge nudge ...
"Choke on an eel" really sounds ... euphemistic.
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There should be more historical treatments of very early women aviators, Ruth Law sounds fascinating. Biography, historical novel, a film or documentary even!
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I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised that the attorneys with whom I work like to ... relitigate settled matters.
This is my experience as well, compounded by AI slop. I only keep an account for the folks who that is their only online presence, but really wish I could nuke the whole thing. I visit it less now.
Need to work this into a new OOO message ...
My new OOO message: "Your email has found me with some ladies at cards, so it would be a bad time to speak."
The borders are event horizons.
This ends with cheese wiz on documents, doesn’t it?
Queen Toolbox dozes by my feet.
Sorry, “Awakening of Spring”
Selfie of middle aged man seated on sofa holding a CD box set of Rued Langgaard’s symphonies. Kitchen is behind him.
Listening to Langgaard’s symphonies in comfy sweatpants on a calm rainy post-camping Sunday afternoon, accompanied by her Highness Toolbox the Tuxedo Cat, first of her name.
If unfamiliar with Rued Langgaard’s music listen along with me to his 2nd symphony, appropriately “The Arrival of Spring.”
My grandmother used to say in her austere German accent: “Sometimes too much is too much!”
Thanks.
Thank you, well said.
It’ll be ten years since his killing in June, but grief still flares up at the strangest times.
Photo of my brother Heath Janssen holding my son sometime around 2012, under a red awning. Heath was killed by a drug addict driving under the influence in 2016.
I wish I went camping as an adult with my late brother.
We were close in age and were holy terrors in the woods when we were kids.
After the army, his back and knees never fully healed and he couldn’t do camping, but we can dream circumstances might have been otherwise. He loved the woods.
Just sitting by a campfire thinking the big thoughts …
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… and yes, I am the sort of dork who brings two fountain pens and a highlighter to the woods for a camping trip, just in case I need to write a memo to the bears or something …
Source: Joke Hermsen, “A Good and Dignified Life: The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg”, translated by Brendan Monaghan (2020)
Text: “What’s clear to both Arendt and Luxembourg is that a consumerist, capitalist society is incapable of taking care of the world and the people inhabiting it.”
I’m camping this weekend and instead of a hike I decided to sit and read.
I’m reading a book comparing Rosa Luxemburg with Hannah Arendt. It’s not really that great, but sometimes there’s a quotation from one of them or a line by the author that reminds me that women were telling us all along.
Drop your crime fighting Catholics