KEYS AND PENNIES COVERED WITH TOBACCO
Neil, many years ago, played an album by Megan Mullally (Karen from Will & Grace) for me. It’s surprisingly good, and when I saw it on Apple Music this morning I got excited and played one of its songs for Michael. It happens to be one of the saddest songs I know. I remain struck by a few things: her nuanced delivery and lovely voice. At the time, I didn’t even know she sang much less had an album.
Read more“According to news reports, the [bomb] threat was in response to a planned Rainbow Story Hour, featuring a book by an LGBTQ author.” What to say to your child when Christian nationalists threaten to bomb his library 👆Example of why I’m more of an anti-theist than atheist. #RecoveringChristian
Read more“DEI bans: Conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum” Speaking of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which I do, it’s under attack by (guess who) members of the GOP. The mere mutterment of the phrase DEI is just too much for some delicate, racist snowflakes to take. Say DEI around GOP politicians and they’ll act like you just forced them to view an entire Robert Maplethorpe exhibit all Clockwork Orange style (neither being cultural references they would understand or appreciate).
Read moreEveryone needs to understand what Project 2025 is. This newsletter covers it. Here’s my referral link. https://project2025istheocracy.substack.com/?r=bx50p&utm_campaign=referrals-subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
Read more(This post contains fucks.) Today I Learned: Gov. Noem is seen as a leading contender for the GOP vice presidential nomination alongside Trump. She also brags about shooting a puppy (not kidding this fucking sociopath fucking shot a puppy dead and boasts about it) and later, a goat. Mortifying.
Read moreToday is our eighth anniversary. Michael presented me with this beautiful bronze statue this morning. I can’t even tell you how very grateful I am for him.
Read moreThe church claims to have been fighting poverty for 2,000 years. Poverty is still here, yet the church became rich. - @walterrhein
Read moreDEFENDING DEMOCRACY: THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES (THEHILL.COM ARTICLE SUMMARY)
Main Takeaways: Rising Threats and Legal Backlash: Public libraries in the U.S. are facing increasing threats and censorship, particularly in states like Florida and Texas, where laws have been passed to regulate and restrict available materials. Despite these challenges, there is a notable pushback, with states like California, Connecticut, and New Jersey proposing legislation to protect libraries and librarians from these threats. Historical Significance and Current Impact: The article underscores the historical significance of public libraries as foundational to American democracy and intellectual freedom.
Read moreBEST NEWSLETTER ON SUBSTACK
I have a new favorite newsletter. Don’t worry, though, I still love Heather Cox-Richardson, but her writing style is a little bit, how shall we say, more refined than this gentleman’s? I’ll say one thing, though - he sure knows how to write one helluva post title 😊 everyone is entitled to my own opinion by Jeff Tiedrich
Read moreOHIO GOVERNOR MIKE DEWINE: THAT’S POLITIC$ 🤷🏻♂️
Well whaddya know… Title: Dark Money and Deception: Uncovering FirstEnergy’s Secret Support for Governor DeWine Main Takeaways: Secret Financial Contributions: FirstEnergy Corp. made a significant secret payment of $2.5 million in 2018 to State Solutions, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. This organization is linked to the Republican Governors Association and supported Mike DeWine’s gubernatorial campaign, highlighting the opaque nature of dark money in politics. Implications for Political Transparency: The undisclosed financial support raises concerns about the influence of corporate money in political campaigns, especially when the funds come from a company implicated in the largest public corruption scheme in Ohio’s history.
Read morePUNKPOST DELIVERS DELIGHTFULLY. AGAIN
I’m (obvs) frustrated by & furious with GOP/MAGA fascism, but I’m also quite fed up with Dems for not fighting back harder when Republicans do what they do. Dems keep reaching over the aisle to make handshake deals only to pull back a bloody stump and a Republican 🤷🏻♂️. I honestly don’t know who to write to or contact about my frustrations. Local headquarters? State? National? Newspaper editors? City council members?
Read moreLocation check in 🗺 — Fox in the Snow
Read moreKate Bush 10” ✔️ Kristin Hersh LP ❌ Donna Summer State of Independence mixes 12” ✔️
Read moreSpoonful Records is first. Want to find both releases here. Magnolia Thunderpussy will probably be next. Then Used Kids Records or RPM. This used to be an all day affair for me. I just wanna get in, get records, get out, catalog them, and put them on a shelf to never open them; that’s what I do.
Read moreHappy Record Store Day 2024! I’m out looking for two items 1) Kate Bush’s 10” picture disc of Eat the Music from The Red Shoes (one of the first songs I never heard by her thanks to a mixtape from Emily in HS) 2) Kristin Hersh’s Hips and Makers. I’m wearing red lip gloss and a Read My Lips t-shirt.
Read more🎵I just looked at iTunes and all the music I really love somehow turned 25-35 years old overnight. I don’t understand time. 25: Ágætis Byrjun, When the Pawn… 30: Live through This, Dummy, Grace 35: Doolittle, Raw Like Sushi, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, The Sensual World, All Hail the Queen,
Read moreIs there a way to see if a post is stuck somewhere in the ether @help ? I posted a photo with about a paragraph of text using Sunlit from the iOS share sheet, and it’s not showing up anywhere. I can’t remember all I wrote so I can’t replicate.
Read moreGiving Cowboy Carter a first listen. So far, I’ve gotten full body chills and honestly want to cry because what she’s doing is amazing. Her homage, reclamation, genre bending & blending, and inspired reinvention is easily advancing music’s agenda. It’s beautiful to see and hear.
Read moreArguably one of the finest ice creams in America. Darkest Chocolate Mouth-filling and palate-gripping with a pleasingly dry finish. The most amount of Fair Trade cocoa and the least amount of anything else. What’s a pint’s fair cost? $8.00? $10.00? Try $14.50. Jeni has gone and lost her damn mind.
Read moreWhat iPhone photo cutout?
Read moreIN 1864…
The all-Republican Arizona state Supreme Court decided in a 4-2 vote that a law from 1864 which bans abortion unless the mother’s life is in danger is in full effect. They gleefully proclaimed, “[P]hysicians are now on notice that all abortions, except those necessary to save a woman’s life, are illegal.” Here are some things I learned today that put this 1864 law into perspective for me. In 1864 A single man wrote the law that is about to be enforced in AZ AZ wasn’t even a state yet, it was a territory that would become a state many years later (1912) The Emancipation Proclamation had been announced only one year prior There were no cars, tv, radio, electricity, penicillin, birth control, anesthesia, space travel, or computers Women couldn’t vote Minorities couldn’t vote Doctors used horsehair for stitching wounds Doctors stored their instruments unwashed in velvet lined cases The 1864 criminal code’s reference to “miscarriage” was written within the context of male misbehavior The code focuses at length on dueling The law addresses poisoning (which is the part of the law being resurrected) The law also addresses cutting out tongues or eyes, slitting noses or lips, and rendering useless someone’s arms or legs Another law of the day made sure that “no black or mulatto, or Indian, Mongolian, or Asiatic, shall be permitted to [testify in court] against any white person” Another law of the day made sure that “all marriages between a white person and a [Black person], shall…be absolutely void” Another law of the day made sure that the age of female consent for sexual intercourse was ten years old I learned something else that put this 1864 law into perspective for me: it’s 2024.
Read moreSTATE OF THE STATE OF THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
I’m not at all sorry that I have a strong and sincerely-held belief that, no matter how well-intentioned it may be, a state of the state address by a state governor in a statehouse surrounded by state representatives and state senators and state cabinet members and state Supreme Court justices all paid for with state tax dollars should not begin with a prayer in Jesus’s name. There is no place for such a ritual in a public address.
Read moreI put together a quick playlist of some James Bond theme tunes.
Read moreMy old boss and mentor and now friend Beverly got this for me when I graduated from library school. It’s sitting now prominently in my office downtown.
Read moreAs he kisses goodbye in the morning, after having me set with coffee & water & meds & my lunch & getting my work stuff ready, Michael tells me, “Have a good day on purpose!” And I love him for it. Although if I’m ever to say it to someone, I will change it to, “Have a good hair day on purpose!”
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