I felt nauseated and angry all day yesterday. The political news is bad enough, but somehow, the Angelina Jolie news item threw me into a swirl of undefined anxiety. Yes, I had opinions about what she did, but I could hardly articulate them on Facebook. Worse, most of my FB friends… Read full post »

 Dateline: Washington, DC, 3/30/2025

Voting Reform Act Passed!

A historic bill reforming the voting process was passed today and will go to President Rand Paul's desk to be signed. "This bill looks to the future of America," said President Paul, "and it will… Read full post »

Yes, I am back at OS, now that it's working again, but the real reason I haven't been posting has been that I was too depressed to share my thoughts with anyone.  I did write posts, but I didn't want to expose the wretchedness I had sunk to. Luckily the holiday… Read full post »

I really hate to say this, but I can't get into Open Salon  9 out of the 10 times I try, and it doesn't seem to be worth it to stay. I've found that Our Salon works 100% of the time and has probably 75% of the OS folks I've friended here, so… Read full post »

  
Here’s a future scenario, one that could happen as soon as November 7th, 2012. The election returns are in and the Democrat - if it’s this year, that would be Barack Obama - wins the election by a slim but conclusive margin. In the small hours of November 6th, ordinary… Read full post »

I am amazed at the number of internet posts that - in the face of the terrible tragedy in Aurora - want to focus ire on a mother who brought her 3 month old baby to the movie. That baby was injured, but thankfully, was not killed. But given the amount… Read full post »

 

As Rachel Maddow says, the GOP agenda is “Jobs Jobs Jobs.” Except what they are doing - outlawing abortion and contraception - has nothing to do with jobs, right? Obviously. All those politicians are just knee-jerk responding to their religious nutcase base, Right? They&rsq… Read full post »

The more I read about the Eurozone failures, the US mortgage foreclosures and the Republicans’ push to cut spending for everyone but rich people, the more I hear Daddy scolding a 5 year old for spending his allowance on something he wanted, but Daddy didn’t like.

Germany is having a… Read full post »

Happy Birthday John! 

As promised some years ago, here is one of my photos of Providence taken in 1976.  (full res here)

 

Born on April 22, the same day as Immanuel Kant, Vladimir Lenin, Odilon Redon, Vladimir Nabokov,  Charlie Mingus and Bettie Page, no surprise that yo… Read full post »

What a stressful morning and it’s not even over!

I just had some plumbing work done in the shop so I got up way too early, they wouldn’t bill my landlord so I had to cover the huge amount due, and my ex is coming in this afternoon to visit… Read full post »

 

A dream I had last night, in three acts:

I was at the shop when two men, black men, walked into the shop with guns to rob me.  I was afraid and directed the leader of the two towards the cabinet where I kept the cash, while the other… Read full post »

One of my sisters called me today, very depressed and not seeing the point of life. Being a good big sister, I unloaded my best platitudes on her and hoped that one of them worked. It's interesting that I usually need to hear this advice as much as she does. So… Read full post »

 

I would prefer to ignore Herman Cain, a buffoon who has stumbled into political prominence without the intelligence to excel in anything but pumping up the media. I’m bored with the obsessive coverage of Cain and Perry, and the endless dissection of their flubs and faults. They a… Read full post »

I'm just sharing this along - it showed up on my Facebook feed. But it's brilliant. 

 

 
I went to see Lucinda Williams tonight. She was playing at an outdoor venue about a mile from my house, within staggering distance. That's relevant, since I went to see her to reconnect with who I remember I was once. The last time I saw Lucinda was at The Point,…

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We are in an era of know-nothingness. There are stupid-heads out there that astonish us with their petulant refusal to face reality. Rejecting scientific fact, making shit up, and lying through their teeth about global warming, public policy, news events and whatever they just don’t like. We ca… Read full post »

I filled several OS posts with my sadness at the end of my marriage and my longing for someone to share my life with. I’ve joined online dating services with no luck in meeting anyone locally. I’ve railed against the tendency of men my age to date younger women and bemoaned… Read full post »

Today is my day off, and I just had a beer, and may have another, and life is good, just for the moment. I broke even in May, June and July, the third, fourth and fifth months my little gallery has been in business, and that’s remarkable. I know the statistics… Read full post »

Salon and many other outlets are rolling around in the mud that they loved to shovel about Amy Winehouse when she was alive. Most of these writers are clueless, knowing little about making music and everything about wrapping themselves in borrowed celebrity while they dissect her life for pay. … Read full post »

 This was one of my unfinished posts, but I finished it this morning waiting for customers. I started it a few months ago, while Trump was still a candidate, that French guy and Ahnold got caught with their pants down and the economy was tanking. Not that much has changed, including… Read full post »

 

This is number 2 in my series of unfinished, un-posted posts. This was supposed to be a New Year Eve's post, and it doesn't quite make sense here in the middle of the year. In fact, it IS finished and I don't know why I didn't post it - just… Read full post »

--Hey! I'm in! maybe long enough to post something. I've been writing posts for over a year, and then leaving them in their folder, never to be finished. I decided that I would just post them all, as is, stopping where my thoughts stopped. Surely I had more to say, but… Read full post »

I haven't been around much lately, and it seems like I missed the latest upset or three so I guess it's ok. We all come to the whispering wall and hold up our joys, fears and frustrations and we hope for understanding. Sometimes the wall yells back at us instead. Sounds… Read full post »