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Friday, March 29, 2019

This "need a band" craigslist post, though...

This Craigslist guy is looking for a band to play a fundraiser and it is so bonkers I can't even. Where to start. What the fuck is "best to have the dad get in touch with me." What dad? Whose dad? Mentioning a "dad" seems to indicate this guy is seeking a young (like...really young) band that also has the kind of "history" and "following" that can fill a "hall" with a "super large parking lot." Those are rare. I can't name one right now.

There are. So many questions.∎
NEED TO RAISE $ FOR A ATHLETIC PROGRAM. I HAVE THE HALL AND THE SUPER LARGE PARKING LOT. I NEED A BAND WITH A FOLLOWING. YOU WILL NEED TO SHOW THAT YOUR BAND HAS A FOLLOWING. WE DO NOT WANT TO SPEND TIME AND MONEY ON A FLOP. BEST TO HAVE THE DAD GET IN TOUCH WITH ME. I WILL NEED HISTORY OF BAND AND GO TO SOME OF YOUR CURRENT LOCATIONS.

Sunday, March 10, 2019

So I've been having this recurring dream

So I've been having this recurring dream in which I need to be somewhere, but I can't leave. I'm never sure where exactly I am, and every time I have the dream the location is different. The locations and the specific reasons why I'm stuck differ. In one, I'm at a party in a house that feels familiar. More specifically, there is a party happening, but I'm alone in a back room looking for something to wear. It's dim, with some bright light streaming in from around the closed door,  otherwise the whole room is a shadowy red dimness. The room is full of stuff. Piles of clothes on tables, a rack of things on hangers, and boxes on the floor. I can't see well but, a far as my awake-self can tell, it never dawns on dream-me to look for a light switch. In that room, like in other versions of the same dream that place me in other locations, I root through boxes, piles, and racks trying to find what I need before I can exit through the door and join the party outside. I know I am expected out there at the party, and I want to go. I can hear the party. It's a dull roar, what my grade school teachers would call the sound of dozens of people all talking at once. I hear laughter and clinking. I hear the occasional voice rising above the din. It feels like I recognize voices in a general kind of way. In the back of my dream-self's mind I think about who might be out there and I keep trying to hurry up and find what I need so I can open the door and get  out there. I know I am expected out there, and I want to go, but I never do get out the door, not in any version of the dream. ∎

Saturday, March 9, 2019

Taking It To The Street

I keep seeing People post about the breaking point, as in when will these rich white assholes finally squeeze too hard, and once that happens: then what? Usually it sounds like, "If _______________ then that's it, we have to take to the streets!" What does that mean. Do what. So we all just go outside? I mean, we DO that here. I've already been to the Common with about a hundred thousand people in and around Boston, I think three times in the last two years. Of all the least helpful action ideas (and there have been some doozies) that's the standout. We're supposed to take to the streets? Also, doesn't it depend rather heavily upon what street? I think through all the possible streets where I might be when we're supposed to take to them, and if you live in a busy city, who says when we're taking it, and to which exact street, and upon arrival, do what. But I like to picture me with my mom, that's all the whole hella way in the woods. There's nothing there. It's the middle of the fucking woods. There's deer, coyote, and even bears come around. On clear winter nights it's a snow globe filled with ten billion stars and a slender winding road. I could see me and my mom "taking it" there once we get the Bat signal. I guess it'll be like a beacon of Maddow or something. Me and JoAnna, hiking out to the road. A billion tree frogs start bitching back and forth, bats zip overhead. We'd be standing like "Now what. Whose idea was this? Oh look, there's Pleiades."

Shrill, vaguely defiant calls for justice ill-defined. Are people getting worse, or is my tolerance for assholes simply gone? Because People are wearing me out. I don't know, you guys. The worse People get, the more I just can't People anymore. I'm Peopled out. ⭐

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Seeking Fox Boots

Help! I'm almost done making Ms. Fox, but she needs shoes. I'm thinking red cowboy boots, maybe a pair of saddle shoes? Who's got baby-sized footwear no longer needed? Email me. 🦊


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