I finally got around to listening to Warriors, the concept album Lin-Manual Miranda and Elisa Davis adapted from the 1979 movie. Turns out it's dope as hell; when it was finished I immediately re-started it. Should I have been a Hamilton fan this whole time?!

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I described The Warriors (the original movie) as "goofy but awesome" in a Facebook ( Read more... )

I think I went a little too hard on Saturday. About an hour before I went to bed I reached over to grab something and felt an abdominal muscle pull and cramp. It felt like a sharp rebuke, like it was saying "I know laparoscopic gallbladder removal is not a big deal in the scheme of things, but you had your abdomen open in 4 different places and an ( Read more... )

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxoGbsS3pA1M4s7_-NpMfFJITB6lFDJA5P?si=afJ23kWwSundtUmzI think I now understand ordinary people in the Third Reich who just kept their heads down and waited for it to be over one way or another. It's not that they hated Jews or even wanted to be part of a German empire. I mean yes, that was a lot of them. But some of them ( Read more... )

Coincidentally or not, the week of the election my gallbladder started hurting more, and pretty much all the time. Then on Thursday morning I woke up very nauseated and couldn't keep anything down. I decided to give it a day, just to see if it was only a stomach bug or something. But when I felt no better Friday morning--worse, actually, because ( Read more... )

My brother went full nihilist in 2004. To him the invasion of Iraq was such a stupid unforced error that the fact that Bush still got reelected just made him permanently check out of American politics. This isn't a "privileged" position, either. David is disabled, and he's diabetic. Every 6 months he gets a letter from Medicaid informing him that ( Read more... )

JFC it's always something. We still need to replace the refrigerator, too ( Read more... )

The weekend was different because the stupid downstairs a/c died sometime late Friday afternoon, and no one noticed until we were sitting down to dinner and thinking "Gee it's kinda warm in here". Normally it wouldn't matter by the first week of November, but summer has continued to chug along in the south with highs over 80°. We've had precisely ( Read more... )

I'm on record making the generalization (which by definition means it does not actually define every person I'm making it about) that there are two types of adults, Halloween adults and Christmas adults. People are always surprised I define myself as the latter. I guess I still give off heavy Grownup Goth vibes, even though I'm now a fat old woman ( Read more... )

I got briefly interested in a Netlfix documentary about the Zodiac Killer, but a half hour showed it was just Robert Graysmith pushing his same old Arthur Leigh Allen theory to the next generation. All his timeworn distortions and exaggerations, plus a couple of new ones (I've heard at least 3 versions of that "it was chicken blood on the knife" ( Read more... )

We finally got someone to come out and trim the trees. The insurance company had been after us because some of the branches were really close to the roof or to windows. It had to be done, but I miss the way it looked having the water oaks and crepe myrtles encroaching on the house. Very southern gothic.

Saturday I made eggs and toast, had a ( Read more... )