Still 2 months of hurricane season left
fuzzilla, you okay?
Yesterday TikTok was just full of absolutely horrific Hurricane Ian content, particularly coming from Fort Myers. Holy shit am I relieved Louisiana dodged that one. One of my oldest pen friends lives in Florida and I was worried for him--I worry for him every hurricane season--because he isn't young (he's a good 20 years older than me) and his wife has MS. However, he lives in West Palm Beach, which is on the Atlantic side of Florida, so I'm going to assume he's okay unless I hear otherwise.
He's also a native Floridian, so he deals with hurricane season with considerably more aplomb than I do. But I'm great in an earthquake!
Phil is still in the hospital but we expect him to be discharged soon, possibly today but maybe tomorrow; hospitals always need more beds on the weekend so they like to turf anyone who isn't actively bleeding out on Fridays. He can move around on his own now, if not very swiftly or for very long, but he's still on a catheter and has an appointment with the urologist on Monday.
Mom just stopped having to drive him to the wound care clinic twice a week for follow-up on his head injury and abscessed leg. Honestly I don't know what we're gonna do once she can no longer drive.
In less grim news, Lizzo played a rare crystal flute that used to belong to James Madison. Madison, in addition to being a founding father, was also an unrepentant slave-owning shitbag who didn't even have enough conscience to grudgingly grant freedom to the people he owned in his will, once he could no longer benefit from their forced labor. Instead he left them to his wife, Dolly Madison, who sold them off to other plantations to pay the debts Madison left, where they presumably died in servitude. Oh, and he's also the asshole who came up with the 3/5 compromise.
Lizzo is a large Black Queer woman who doesn't give a shit what racist incel chuds think of her body and who also somehow manages to make playing the flute, an instrument that normally isn't the least cool woodwind only because the clarinet exists, cool. She was invited to play the flute by Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress who, fun fact, is the first Black woman to hold that office.
LIBRARIANS!
Anyway, suck it, Madison. Hope you die mad about it, LOL you're already dead.
Yesterday TikTok was just full of absolutely horrific Hurricane Ian content, particularly coming from Fort Myers. Holy shit am I relieved Louisiana dodged that one. One of my oldest pen friends lives in Florida and I was worried for him--I worry for him every hurricane season--because he isn't young (he's a good 20 years older than me) and his wife has MS. However, he lives in West Palm Beach, which is on the Atlantic side of Florida, so I'm going to assume he's okay unless I hear otherwise.
He's also a native Floridian, so he deals with hurricane season with considerably more aplomb than I do. But I'm great in an earthquake!
Phil is still in the hospital but we expect him to be discharged soon, possibly today but maybe tomorrow; hospitals always need more beds on the weekend so they like to turf anyone who isn't actively bleeding out on Fridays. He can move around on his own now, if not very swiftly or for very long, but he's still on a catheter and has an appointment with the urologist on Monday.
Mom just stopped having to drive him to the wound care clinic twice a week for follow-up on his head injury and abscessed leg. Honestly I don't know what we're gonna do once she can no longer drive.
In less grim news, Lizzo played a rare crystal flute that used to belong to James Madison. Madison, in addition to being a founding father, was also an unrepentant slave-owning shitbag who didn't even have enough conscience to grudgingly grant freedom to the people he owned in his will, once he could no longer benefit from their forced labor. Instead he left them to his wife, Dolly Madison, who sold them off to other plantations to pay the debts Madison left, where they presumably died in servitude. Oh, and he's also the asshole who came up with the 3/5 compromise.
Lizzo is a large Black Queer woman who doesn't give a shit what racist incel chuds think of her body and who also somehow manages to make playing the flute, an instrument that normally isn't the least cool woodwind only because the clarinet exists, cool. She was invited to play the flute by Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress who, fun fact, is the first Black woman to hold that office.
LIBRARIANS!
Anyway, suck it, Madison. Hope you die mad about it, LOL you're already dead.
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