Started his THE AGE OF ANGER, early on very impressed, a cogent discussion of today's world.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Russellville
An escape from the world, no doubt about it. Like living in a hotel in Switzerland. Write, read, play ukulele, eat at one of three options (or at home), let weekly housekeeping deal with mess, watch nightly movies that appeal to me, bake bread for strangers, hop the MAX, walk to Starbucks, play games or join groups, or hide in secluded spots inside and out ... I expect to love it. But I worry about Harriet. Hard to please. And having a bad day.
Sick at heart
Krugman writes that Trump or the Republic will be gone within the year. Sounds about right to me.
More protest + more Trump response = martial law
Seems inevitable to me. Then what? In revolutions, often what matters is which side the Army is on. I have no idea.
More protest + more Trump response = martial law
Seems inevitable to me. Then what? In revolutions, often what matters is which side the Army is on. I have no idea.
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The challenge
The anti-Trump resistance will fail if we don't ditch establishment Democrats
http://gu.com/p/5zzef?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
xxx
And it should be led by women.
http://gu.com/p/5zzef?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
xxx
And it should be led by women.
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Danger zone
Lessons of Holocaust being forgotten, says Prince Charles
http://gu.com/p/5pvzp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5pvzp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
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Monday, January 30, 2017
Sourdough
First try, much went wrong ... Continued to check taste ... Do better next time.
posted from Bloggeroid
The bottom line
"Precisely because the problem is one of temperament and character, it will not get better. It will get worse, as power intoxicates Trump and those around him. It will probably end in calamity—substantial domestic protest and violence, a breakdown of international economic relationships, the collapse of major alliances, or perhaps one or more new wars (even with China) on top of the ones we already have. It will not be surprising in the slightest if his term ends not in four or in eight years, but sooner, with impeachment or removal under the 25th Amendment. The sooner Americans get used to these likelihoods, the better."
http://pubx.co/xaWxJx
http://pubx.co/xaWxJx
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Good morning
The Muslim ban has brought the US close to constitutional crisis
http://gu.com/p/5zte7?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
xxx
Many, many predicted disaster from a Trump presidency. Not many this quickly -- though HRC did. Are there enough sane Republicans in Congress to deal with this before he declares martial law?
http://gu.com/p/5zte7?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
xxx
Many, many predicted disaster from a Trump presidency. Not many this quickly -- though HRC did. Are there enough sane Republicans in Congress to deal with this before he declares martial law?
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Sunday, January 29, 2017
Martial law
Some weeks ago I predicted T would declare martial law this summer. Alas, likely sooner than that.
Trump v. Clinton
Those progressives who saw no difference between T and C look like imbeciles now. However, there is a broad perspective in which this makes sense, and history could make it so. What this perspective ignores is present tense on the ground human suffering, as with refugees and immigrants. Some progressives get so abstract and theoretical, they become blind and deaf to the tears and cries right in front of them.
For the record, Trump. is considerably more inept and dangerous than Clinton.
Unless a new progressive coalition is led by women, I have little hope for its success.
For the record, Trump. is considerably more inept and dangerous than Clinton.
Unless a new progressive coalition is led by women, I have little hope for its success.
I am not your Negro
Upcoming documentary on James Baldwin, as good as any American writer in my lifetime. Just preordered script.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
No surprise
Trump isn't surprising me, unfortunately. He is being himself. Those, especially progressives, who saw no difference between Trump and Clinton, or who thought the office would change him, were blind to reality. There's a lot of it going around.
And Putin won't change either. Once a KGB officer ...
But his supporters continue to surprise me. And depress me.
And Putin won't change either. Once a KGB officer ...
But his supporters continue to surprise me. And depress me.
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A humane country
“To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength.”
— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on Twitter.
— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on Twitter.
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Fixed!
Asked myself, what did I do differently? Had countdown titles with no post. Added post, fixed. Logic rules.
Temporary "fix"
Reduced days on start page until I figure out how to get column back, content of which is now below posts. Bummer.
Waiting game
... next 3 or 4 days, waiting for appraisal report. If cool, rent storage for H's remaining downsizing, to deal with ASAP at R, and rent a 1 BR, our new home, and begin moving boxes. Once we rent, we'll have a meal ticket, begin using it.
Knock on my wooden head - which is getting sore.
Knock on my wooden head - which is getting sore.
Friday, January 27, 2017
Spin
The progressive press, by and large, is pretty pathetic, spinning the news as egregiously as their rightwing counterparts. Give me the BBC.
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Observation
"That’s right: we now live in a world where overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic global warming is available but Trump declares the evidence does not exist, and a complete lack of evidence of voter fraud leaves Trump insisting voter fraud exists.
Reality hasn’t been turned upside down. It’s been twisted inside-out."
--PoliticusUSA
Reality hasn’t been turned upside down. It’s been twisted inside-out."
--PoliticusUSA
Thin souled
'Trump doesn't care about culture': how will his presidency affect the arts?
http://gu.com/p/5nk49?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5nk49?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Literary awards
I've received awards during my career, I've not, and on several occassions I've been a judge, giving awards to others. Some thoughts.
Hands down, the most satisfying awards are those I did not apply for. The others turn writers into marketers, a perversion of literature and its support.
Most awards would better support literature by being a lottery. This would remove personality and politics from the procedure.
Awards are not about writers and literature. They are about judges and personal taste.
Awards with entry fees make a bad situation worse.
The quickest, easiest way for a new arts organization to gain credibility is to give an award. A shameful reality.
Since awards are a crapshoot, respect for language and honesty would make them a literal crapshoot, that is, A LOTTERY.
Hands down, the most satisfying awards are those I did not apply for. The others turn writers into marketers, a perversion of literature and its support.
Most awards would better support literature by being a lottery. This would remove personality and politics from the procedure.
Awards are not about writers and literature. They are about judges and personal taste.
Awards with entry fees make a bad situation worse.
The quickest, easiest way for a new arts organization to gain credibility is to give an award. A shameful reality.
Since awards are a crapshoot, respect for language and honesty would make them a literal crapshoot, that is, A LOTTERY.
Sodom
Finished my novel. Salinger said an artist's only task is to aim for perfection by his own standards. By this ruler, I've done the best work I can do with this book. Can't do better.
I'll still write. A memoir of ideas long brooded. Short stories, where I began.
And one hoop to go.
I'll still write. A memoir of ideas long brooded. Short stories, where I began.
And one hoop to go.
Bigger picture
Speedy universe expansion challenges Einstein’s theory
http://gu.com/p/5nzgv?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5nzgv?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
Slow cooking, all day long
Turkey legs in oven, tomato sauce on stove. Good smells today!
posted from Bloggeroid
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
International humanity
Dutch respond to Trump's 'gag rule' with international safe abortion fund
http://gu.com/p/5nt2y?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5nt2y?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
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California rules
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/25/1624918/California-is-not-turning-back-not-now-not-ever
Sanest state in nation. I miss it, still consider it home, get teary eyed watching game in Rose Bowl and seeing San Gabriel mountains, my front door view growing up.
Sanest state in nation. I miss it, still consider it home, get teary eyed watching game in Rose Bowl and seeing San Gabriel mountains, my front door view growing up.
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Slow motion
Watching the political scene is like watching an impending disaster in slow motion and hoping for a last minute rescue.
posted from Bloggeroid
What I look forward to
Writing regularly again.
Practicing ukulele regularly again.
Engaging fantasy of living in a hotel.
Meeting new people.
Riding MAX (stop at doorstep) to new places.
Watching movies in Russellville theater.
Baking bread for new customers.
Explorations unknown.
Practicing ukulele regularly again.
Engaging fantasy of living in a hotel.
Meeting new people.
Riding MAX (stop at doorstep) to new places.
Watching movies in Russellville theater.
Baking bread for new customers.
Explorations unknown.
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Moving forward
Waiting for appraisal to be scheduled.
Received tentative closing statement. We're in better shape than I projected.
Russellville is ready for us.
This is great. Trump is horrific. Zero sum universe.
Received tentative closing statement. We're in better shape than I projected.
Russellville is ready for us.
This is great. Trump is horrific. Zero sum universe.
posted from Bloggeroid
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Fear and deep sorrow ...
... about the political climate. The arrogance of Clinton camp, taking rust belt for granted when on the ground staff were screaming she was in deep trouble, turned the election. She lost it herself.
And now we get tests of courage: who steps up against challenges that erode already damaged parameters of free speech, equality and choice?
And what about the conflict between the hidden tyranny of corporate power and the visible tyranny of a mentally ill con man? Some say the former will use him - and dump him. We'll see.
Come on, Russellville!
And now we get tests of courage: who steps up against challenges that erode already damaged parameters of free speech, equality and choice?
And what about the conflict between the hidden tyranny of corporate power and the visible tyranny of a mentally ill con man? Some say the former will use him - and dump him. We'll see.
Come on, Russellville!
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A predictable direction/disaster
Resurrection of Keystone and DAPL cements America's climate antagonism
http://gu.com/p/5nbyf?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
xxx
How much will it take before Hillary-hating progressives realize Trump is far, far worse? Will they belatedly work to stop him?
http://gu.com/p/5nbyf?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
xxx
How much will it take before Hillary-hating progressives realize Trump is far, far worse? Will they belatedly work to stop him?
Reality
Two shocks rattling in my brain: a mad man in the WH; and we actually sold the house. Feb 27 should be first night sleeping at Russellville.
A good place to disappear!
A good place to disappear!
"I prefer not to."
Herman Melville's Bartleby and the steely strength of mild rebellion
http://gu.com/p/5j239?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5j239?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
Monday, January 23, 2017
Wooden head
Knock, knock! Reached post inspection agreement on house sale! Leaves only appraisal to screw it up. Looking damn good.
Orwellian
CBS News confirmed reports that President Donald Trump brought a studio audience to his visit with the CIA on Saturday. The news agency reports that an official said the visit left a wake of “unease,” “made relations with the intelligence community worse,” and was “uncomfortable.”
xxx
Progressives who disregarded or under-estimated the danger of Trump hopefully now are resisting this sick madman. They did NOT give T the election but their energy is needed now. This is an historic crisis and we've just begun.
xxx
Progressives who disregarded or under-estimated the danger of Trump hopefully now are resisting this sick madman. They did NOT give T the election but their energy is needed now. This is an historic crisis and we've just begun.
posted from Bloggeroid
Cheddar bread
Earlier cheese breads just ok but this is really good. First with artisan flour using la cloche.
posted from Bloggeroid
Character
Don't any of Trump's inner circle or supporters, don't any elected Republicans, care that a lying conman, possibly mentally ill, is President of the United States? Has the national character shrunk this low?
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A tough week ...
... of negotiations, I expect. Ends up the potential buyers made their offer above listing without ever seeing house and property in daylight. Amazes me. So they and agent came by yesterday. Also had inspection results, not yet shared with us. They clearly want house but at what final price?
Appraisal should be soon as well.
What happens, happens. I'm impatient to move but not panicked to sell.
In a week or ten days, we should know where we stand.
Appraisal should be soon as well.
What happens, happens. I'm impatient to move but not panicked to sell.
In a week or ten days, we should know where we stand.
posted from Bloggeroid
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Letter of the moment
November 29, 2016
Dear President Obama,
We are writing to express our grave concern regarding the mental stability of our President-Elect. Professional standards do not permit us to venture a diagnosis for a public figure whom we have not evaluated personally. Nevertheless, his widely reported symptoms of mental instability — including grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality — lead us to question his fitness for the immense responsibilities of the office. We strongly recommend that, in preparation for assuming these responsibilities, he receive a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation by an impartial team of investigators.
Sincerely,
Judith Herman, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Nanette Gartrell, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco (1988-2011)
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (1983-87)
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Community Health Systems
University of California, San Francisco (2005-2013)
Dear President Obama,
We are writing to express our grave concern regarding the mental stability of our President-Elect. Professional standards do not permit us to venture a diagnosis for a public figure whom we have not evaluated personally. Nevertheless, his widely reported symptoms of mental instability — including grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality — lead us to question his fitness for the immense responsibilities of the office. We strongly recommend that, in preparation for assuming these responsibilities, he receive a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation by an impartial team of investigators.
Sincerely,
Judith Herman, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Nanette Gartrell, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco (1988-2011)
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (1983-87)
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Community Health Systems
University of California, San Francisco (2005-2013)
Saturday, January 21, 2017
The Glass
Half-empty: Only a violent revolution, as in the past, can remove the corporate power brokers and lead to a genuine redistribution of wealth and freedom. The two party system is impotent. There is no genuine revolution that is peaceful.
Half-full: Women, by their biological differences, are perfectly placed to create and lead a revolution not driven by testosterone and warrior myths, which might lead to methods and results never seen before. They are the last peaceful alternative and hope.
Half-full: Women, by their biological differences, are perfectly placed to create and lead a revolution not driven by testosterone and warrior myths, which might lead to methods and results never seen before. They are the last peaceful alternative and hope.
The march
Best thing about it, cut across labels and stereotypes, included women and men, poor (including homeless) and rich, blue and white collar, straight and LBGTQ, all races, American and international, probably the most widespread and diverse connected protest marches in human history.
I heard someone dismiss the marchers as naive, elite women. He either is very uninformed or his misogyny is showing.
Of course, the question is, Now what?
I heard someone dismiss the marchers as naive, elite women. He either is very uninformed or his misogyny is showing.
Of course, the question is, Now what?
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Glimmer of light
'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance
http://gu.com/p/5mjkd?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5mjkd?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
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YouTube saves the day again
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=FSYgi1aGNlA
Unplugging toilet without plunger.
Unplugging toilet without plunger.
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Protest and violence
Yesterday, typically, protest in Pdx deteriorated into violence. Today a much larger protest, organized and led by women, was 100% peaceful.
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Historic
Voices from the march on Washington: 'You better pay attention to us now'
http://gu.com/p/5mjc7?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5mjc7?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
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As historic as "I have a dream" ...
Trump's first 24 hours bring global protests, a dark speech and uncertainty
http://gu.com/p/5mj7e?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5mj7e?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
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Fantastic!
The women are doing this right, AROUND THE WORLD! Can they maintain the energy? The Women's Freedom Party?
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Hope
Millions of women marching around the world! If they can sustain this energy into an international movement, focus on biology where men cannot take over (body issues, biology defining politics), they could lead a powerful progressive movement. "The upside of the downside," as Gloria Steinem put it.
But you have to stream this historic event on the net because CNN thinks it's more newsworthy to watch Trump sit in church. Shameful!
But you have to stream this historic event on the net because CNN thinks it's more newsworthy to watch Trump sit in church. Shameful!
posted from Bloggeroid
Media
Why is a president going to church news? Why more important than hundreds of thousands of women marching around the world?
posted from Bloggeroid
Friday, January 20, 2017
Then v. Now
“One of these is a presidential inauguration in 2017 for a man named Donald Trump and the other is from 2009 for a man named Barack Obama. Can you tell which?”
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Thursday, January 19, 2017
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
My fish stew
Salmon, sausage, clams, mussels, shrimp, my Italian tomato sauce, white wine, clam juice.
My, my.
My, my.
Pride & perfection
Started rereading my novel Sodom, Gomorrah & Jones. The best executed work I've done, the distance between goal and deed very, very small. And enough positive feedback, including reviews from strangers at Amazon, to tell me others respond appropriately. Great satisfaction to revisit this. The structure is perfect. The content is intensely personal. Almost no one has read it, but almost no one has tasted my bread either. Perfection and
popularity are two different things.
popularity are two different things.
posted from Bloggeroid
Portland today
... really sucks. A far cry from the bohemian European-feel of the 1980s, when two theater directors and a composer were on the city payroll, when "this is the way Greenwich Village used to be," according to my NY agent, when daily free concerts and shows filled Washington Park through the summer ... how fortunate to have experienced this!
Comes to mind after driving for groceries in rush hour traffic, thaw in full swing. Worse than LA when I was there. The new tech suburb of Silicon Valley.
Best to say about it: great time and place to sell a house!
Comes to mind after driving for groceries in rush hour traffic, thaw in full swing. Worse than LA when I was there. The new tech suburb of Silicon Valley.
Best to say about it: great time and place to sell a house!
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Reeducation
Once I've disappeared into Russellville, I plan to revisit some of the works that influenced me over the years.
Danzig, Number: the Language of Science
De Rougemoint, Love in the Western World
Brown, Love's Body
Berman, The Reenchantment of the World
Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
Dos Passos, the USA trilogy
Weill/Brecht, Mahagonny
Listening to West Coast jazz along the way.
Eager to begin!
Danzig, Number: the Language of Science
De Rougemoint, Love in the Western World
Brown, Love's Body
Berman, The Reenchantment of the World
Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
Dos Passos, the USA trilogy
Weill/Brecht, Mahagonny
Listening to West Coast jazz along the way.
Eager to begin!
posted from Bloggeroid
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
TS on football training
Another great post, two in a row. TS can be engaging in a thoughtful way when he takes time off from bashing Hillary.
http://roundbendpress.blogspot.com/2017/01/training.html
http://roundbendpress.blogspot.com/2017/01/training.html
posted from Bloggeroid
Monday, January 16, 2017
Retrograde
At R, I'll do my writing on the Alpha Smart. That's practically going back to the typewriter! Perfect.
Social Media suck
Too many goddamn folks like to hear themselves pontificate and social media encourage them. This discourages reflection. Discourages silence. Feeds universal dumbing down. We're already dumb enough!
Oops
Tried driving out of here. Big mistake! Lucky to get back safely after around the block.
Wait for the thaw.
Wait for the thaw.
Trump supporter
On the radio, in an alternate universe. Thrilled, because Trump has already brought more jobs here than Obama did in 8 years. Thrilled, because after years of divisiveness, Trump will unify the country.
That's what he thinks, expressed with great passion and joy. Too many like him, and it's hopeless. This guy clearly would pick up a gun to defend his savior.
Which brings this to mind.
Most of my adult life I've considered the most important human question to be: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW? Epistemology. (Hence my short story, "The Epistemological Uncle").
Our schools ignore this, by and large. A college philosophy class might consider it. I was lucky to have a renegade high school teacher, Paul Finot, who used a book entitled How To Lie With Statistics to broach the issue.
My own serious study over the years ended in two parallel concerns: the Scientific Method and Faith. In school and culture, we get too much of the latter and not enough of the former. But these are the yin and yang of knowledge.
That's what he thinks, expressed with great passion and joy. Too many like him, and it's hopeless. This guy clearly would pick up a gun to defend his savior.
Which brings this to mind.
Most of my adult life I've considered the most important human question to be: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW? Epistemology. (Hence my short story, "The Epistemological Uncle").
Our schools ignore this, by and large. A college philosophy class might consider it. I was lucky to have a renegade high school teacher, Paul Finot, who used a book entitled How To Lie With Statistics to broach the issue.
My own serious study over the years ended in two parallel concerns: the Scientific Method and Faith. In school and culture, we get too much of the latter and not enough of the former. But these are the yin and yang of knowledge.
posted from Bloggeroid
A hit
Harriet couldn't stop eating my oatmeal maple rolls. Making more (for me, ha ha) this morning.
posted from Bloggeroid
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Progressives ...
... who give KGB Putin the benefit of the doubt are naive, in my youthful experience as a Russian linguist in the Army Security Agency. This doesn't mean we should over-react but this dude plays hardball. Russia's Pussy Riot is right on!
posted from Bloggeroid
Cold!
Glad we got dug out yesterday. Need a trip to the store. Needs to get closer to 32, though.
posted from Bloggeroid
Bonanza
4 back to back Pac 12 women's bb games on TV this afternoon, including UCLA-Oregon. Beats the pro playoffs.
Strong/weak
There are things I do very well. Others, not so well.
Since Harriet's heart attack, circumstances have thrust my weaknesses to the forefront. At Russellville I can focus on my strengths again.
O may it actually happen!
Since Harriet's heart attack, circumstances have thrust my weaknesses to the forefront. At Russellville I can focus on my strengths again.
O may it actually happen!
Conflict
Trump will over-react against a considerable protest movement, which will flame protest, enrage Trump and ... what? Martial law?
When Trump is impeached, we get a theocracy.
When Trump is impeached, we get a theocracy.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
Good vibes
A neighbor phoned if we were ok, needed anything. Sweet. I baked them bread.
I hired help to dig us out. Mobile again.
I hired help to dig us out. Mobile again.
Friday, January 13, 2017
Snow, snow, snow
Going nowhere today but I need to do a couple of outdoor chores.
The last work of home ownership before Russellville.
The last work of home ownership before Russellville.
Brrrr
10 degrees this morning. Below freezing all day.
Catch up on paperwork, I guess.
Catch up on paperwork, I guess.
posted from Bloggeroid
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Women's BB
The superior game (no dunks). Tomorrow eve, Ore St at UCLA, Pac 12 network.
posted from Bloggeroid
Kid at Xmas
Too excited to sleep. I think we'll finish the deal this time. Knock on my wooden head. KNOCK KNOCK!
posted from Bloggeroid
Snow
Got out in it. Maybe 10 inches along our long driveway. Snowed in! Hopefully a shovel delivered tomorrow.
Food delivery a lifesaver today. Thaw expected next week.
Food delivery a lifesaver today. Thaw expected next week.
Snowed in
Later today, put on my boots and evaluate our isolation. No thaw for days. May have to hike to store before then.
posted from Bloggeroid
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Confirmation
... of my local professional irrelevance came today. Disappointing but not surprising.
posted from Bloggeroid
All this snow ...
... and no shovel, which I gave away when it looked like we were moving before winter. Talk about being snowed in.
posted from Bloggeroid
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Outrageous
The leftover tomato sauce. Will make a large batch and freeze dinner portions. Difference with "commercial" us huge.
posted from Bloggeroid
Progress?
Couple last night loved house. Artist wife loved art studio. Expect offer.
More today. Very active market.
More today. Very active market.
posted from Bloggeroid
Limbo bimbo
Behind in a number of basic house chores. Too much vegetating. Catch up day.
posted from Bloggeroid
Oops
Sour dough experiment not going well. Dough dried out. But a little water resurrected it. Onward, see what happens.
Words of wisdom
From article in The Guardian by Jonathan Jones:
"Let's face it: art and serious culture are completely marginal to American life. Trump’s victory proves that."
Very sad but so true! I should have realized this as a young man and ... what?
"Let's face it: art and serious culture are completely marginal to American life. Trump’s victory proves that."
Very sad but so true! I should have realized this as a young man and ... what?
Monday, January 9, 2017
Artisan flour
Never going back. Well, not when baking my artisan breads. Superior f!our in every way, worth the expense. But now can buy it 7 lbs at a time. Saves a tad.
posted from Bloggeroid
Mellow
Great start to week. Scraped ice off car, slid out driveway, and did a few pressing errands.
Now for a quiet afternoon. No phone calls for showing today.
Now for a quiet afternoon. No phone calls for showing today.
Streep's speech
Thank you. I love you all. You’ll have to forgive me. I’ve lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read.
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said, you and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it. Hollywood, foreigners and the press. But who are we? And, you know, what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places.
I was born and raised and created in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Sarah Paulson was raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Italy. Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Ethiopia, raised in — no, in Ireland, I do believe — and she’s here nominated for playing a small-town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.
Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick ‘em all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. They gave me three seconds to say this. An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that, breathtaking, passionate work.
There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. Okay. Go on with that thing. This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution.
So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists, because we’re going to need them going forward. And they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.
One more thing: Once when I was standing around on the set one day whining about something, we were going to work through supper, or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, ‘Isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?’ Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy.
We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight. As my friend the dear, departed Princess Leia said to me once, ‘Take your broken heart, make it into art.’ Thank you.
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said, you and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it. Hollywood, foreigners and the press. But who are we? And, you know, what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places.
I was born and raised and created in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Sarah Paulson was raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Italy. Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Ethiopia, raised in — no, in Ireland, I do believe — and she’s here nominated for playing a small-town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.
Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick ‘em all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. They gave me three seconds to say this. An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that, breathtaking, passionate work.
There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. Okay. Go on with that thing. This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution.
So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists, because we’re going to need them going forward. And they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.
One more thing: Once when I was standing around on the set one day whining about something, we were going to work through supper, or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, ‘Isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?’ Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy.
We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight. As my friend the dear, departed Princess Leia said to me once, ‘Take your broken heart, make it into art.’ Thank you.
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Sunday, January 8, 2017
Ice storm today
That's what they say. Great film in such a setting.
Sketch sleeps peacefully, the foundation of my comfort.
Sketch sleeps peacefully, the foundation of my comfort.
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Scholarly hero
How ‘Sherlock of the library’ cracked the case of Shakespeare’s identity
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Lots of action
7 recent showings of house. Nice young couple today, said Pdx has almost nothing suitable for them, ours has little competition in this market of first timers.
Rather expect an offer soon. But suitable?
Rather expect an offer soon. But suitable?
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Friday, January 6, 2017
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Imported tomatoes
... from Italy on porch bright and early. Therefore sauce, 6 hr version. Already delicious, incredible canned tomatoes. I see another keeper coming. Semolina in house for pasta.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Looking good
Retirement restructure provides better profile than my estimate. This is very good news for the short and long runs both.
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New adventure
I make my own pasta but not as often as I should. Now am going to try making my own sauce. Found 12 hour recipe too time consuming to ignore. I like to be busy.
Future dinner: my own sauce on my own pasta with my own bread!
Future dinner: my own sauce on my own pasta with my own bread!
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Aging dough
A week in refrig now. Bake after another week. Sour dough clone? That's what the book says. First time trying it.
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
2 today
...as busy house market continues.
Cold spell! Not above freezing all week. But compared to elsewhere, very lucky!
Adds up to, Just get through the week.
New retirement structure becomes operative. No glitches, please.
Cold spell! Not above freezing all week. But compared to elsewhere, very lucky!
Adds up to, Just get through the week.
New retirement structure becomes operative. No glitches, please.
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Monday, January 2, 2017
Quotation of the season
"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
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Sunday, January 1, 2017
New Year's Olive Bread
Dusting of snow. Two house shoppers today. Third in a few days. Hot market continues. Third the charm?
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