This is a post about a small thing that’s really a big thing. The small thing is that Beyoncé changed the lyrics to a song – she removed the word “spaz” from the song “Heated” on her newest album, because it’s derogatory to people with neural issues. This is following a similar move by Lizzo,
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The fall of Roe v. Wade
Obviously, I’m crushed. Outraged. Livid. Repealing that basic civil right after 50 years is a crushing blow to women’s rights. It’s a crushing blow to democracy. But it’s not just that. The hood has come off the GOP complex, and they have revealed unmistakably the misogynist, white supremacist, homophobic, anti-democratic foundation of Republican’s beliefs. Right
Read on »Night Flyer – Allison Russell
Night Flyer by Allison Russell Outside Child Album This song just blows me away. One of the best country music songs of the last 10 years. Lyrics excerpt: I’m the wounded bird, I’m the screaming hawk I’m the one who can’t be counted out I’m the dove thrown into battle I can roll and shake
Read on »Vego Modular Raised Beds
We are replacing the garden beds I built in 2012 with steel modular raised beds by Vego Garden. There will be four of 4′ x 8′ beds (replacing the three we have now) and they will be 17 inches tall, which means they will be much easier to plant in now that we are getting
Read on »Neighborhood Mailing Lists
I spent an inordinate amount of time yesterday trying to find the old Yahoo Groups site our neighborhood used to use as a mailing list. I wanted to search up (as Scout* phrases it) some of the past inter-personal squabbles for a writing project. The group was at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ONSneighborhood/ but has been archived and as
Read on »Old garden beds
These are going away here in the next couple days. We’re replacing them with Vego Steel garden beds. I built these in 2012. See photos of the building project below.
Read on »Hello Rhubarb
I’m excited to see you.
Read on »Respect
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority.” And sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an
Read on »Mid-March snowfall
A little light snow for the end of winter. I hope.
Read on »Sprucing things up around here
Doing a little house cleaning. I moved from my old web host to DreamHost. They are less gross politically. And I’m tired of paying a fortune for and dealing with errors I can’t solve. I’ll be attempting to clean up my old site images in the next few weeks and to rethink what I want
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