...I embrace new tech. It's just that I can sniff out the SHADY or SOON TO BE OBSOLETE new tech. My whole career was in cutting edge tech. Shit, I worked for Wellfleet/Bay Networks/Nortel--we were one of three that helped construct the cloud. I worked for Trip Advisor back when we were writing blurbs about the landmark attractions and seeding the website with user reviews, ya know, just to get it rolling. I helped start EditShare when it was…
Joe just came into the bedroom where I was sitting in front of my laptop. He said “What’s wrong?” Nuthin’. Just watched Stevie Wonder play at Obama’s Presidential Center opening. I just love the Obama family. And Stevie killed it! I love him so much. I ugly cried. Then Joe moved some furniture around in the bedroom so that my desk is in front of the window. It was one of the projects on the list. We live at the top of a big hill now, and out th…
Funny story. When I was in maybe 7th grade I was a member of Rick Springfield’s fan club. I got a letter “from Rick.” The penmanship of the letter was so cool that I spent actual time studying it, and it became “my” writing forever after that. I don’t know, I just liked the way the e and a looked. That was a long time ago. Rick looks great, though! 76. There's some debate about whether or not he had more work done than the facelift (at 24?!)…
Don't forget this. Charlottesville. This happened in 2017. It was horrifying. Look at these faces. They literally want to kill my friends. I wrote about it in an essay called "Say No To Every Nazi."
It begins:
"Right now in Trump's America, there are Nazi-like mobs marching for their right to rid America of "defectives" and "take back their country." They wear no hoods or cloaks. They fly Confederat…
“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it was acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates I still think about Amy, the woman I Unfriended over his first bout with Democracy ten years ago. She was a friend from Diaryland , back when the blogosphere was a relatively small community. In response to …
Good
morning. I found this “going out top” on Facebook Marketplace. Can I just say?
At no point in my adult life would this thing ever have fit me. God
bless the woman who could “go out” in this top. Where you going in this,
girlfriend?🤣
I share the playlist "Hot Horny Amateurs" every summer. It's a great one for listening to when it's hot out. Because I made it when it was hot out. ---------------------------------------- Volume 2, Episode 1 Summer Sunday Series: Hot, Horny Amateurs 1:27 Mobile Home - Slide Boo Radley - The Franc Graham Band One Of These Days - Bourbon Princess Way Down - Groovasaurus You Get That - Slide Tit For Tat - Asa Brebner Gin & Tonic - Andr…
Earlier
this afternoon I was watching The Mentalist on Hulu, and Patrick said
to another character, “See you in the funny papers.” I nearly gasped.
Terence Burke used to say that. Thing is, today’s heat and humidity had
me thinking about Terence. “He would love this,” I thought. He really
liked weather like this, it was cray cray. But to be thinking about
Terence and then suddenly hear his favorite way to say “good bye”? See
you in the fu…
Yesterday evening I
was sitting out on the porch with my book ("How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive" by Craig DiLouie ) while Joe was cooking dinner. Gradually, it began to smell like my mom's cooking. I was compelled by the aroma to come inside,
and Joe met me at the door, looking accomplished. "It smells so good, baby!" I said. "You can smell it all the way out here?" he said. Indeed, I could. And this Sic…
“You’ve gotta respect everyone’s beliefs." No, you don’t. That’s
what gets us in trouble. Look, you have to acknowledge everyone’s
beliefs, and then you have to reserve the right to go: "That is fucking
stupid. Are you kidding me?" I acknowledge that you believe that, that’s
great, but I’m not going to respect it. I have an uncle that believes
he saw Sasquatch. We do not believe him, nor do we respect him!”
―
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Well you guys, unpacking is going sloooowly. And weirdly. For example, I haven't unpacked my mouse pad, of all things. I thought I packed it in my laptop bag where it would be right handy, but it wasn't in there when we got here and I set up my desk. Weird. I can't find it. However, I did find my high school/college journal. Right, like that was useful. BUT! As it happens, the journal makes an excellent mouse pad. It's the fabric …
Bone Gunn is a Boston artist I met one day over 15 years ago totally by accident (in the hallway at work, of all places) who blew me away with
this one. “Is It Fear” is the name of the song. I find myself listening to it every
so often. The genius behind Bone Gunn is Bryan Kane , who may or may not have moved out of Boston. I suppose I could just ask him. We're Friends on Facebook.
Oh for fuck's sake. I just asked Google a simple question about hanging a birdbath from the porch. I got the most useless and bizarre results. I scrolled for three pages in utter confusion...then I remembered the announcement in the tech pages for the changeover today: Google Search is ALL AI now. Wow, Google. Really? I really doubt anyone asked for this. I wonder what's going on this morning in the offices of the millions of MarTech SEO…
I saw a Facebook post today about this unicorn tapestry that someone copied onto a cookie cake. OH this unicorn tapestry! I love it. Actually, it's a series of seven tapestries called "The Hunt of the Unicorn." I went to college in NY, took art
history as a minor. My Art History minor was because of the Humanities class I took in
senior year of high school. I fell in love with learning about history
and civilization through its a…
I know it's been about three weeks since I've written, but I had a good reason. Guys, we moved! The apartment hunt is over! We ended up in Brighton , the town adjacent to Allston , the other of the juxtaposed neighborhoods of Boston. After 24 years, we are no longer proud longtime denizens of 02134, but proud new denizens of 02135. The two towns are always paired when talked about, as in "Allston-Brighton," so we didn't go fa…
There’s now an open source Name Him site for women to post their attackers. I support this. I keep thinking about this dad, driving me home after babysitting his daughter. This would be in Roxbury CT about 1985. Dark car. He’s talking to me, then he casually reaches over and starts rubbing my neck, then my leg, in a slow, sensual way. I didn’t even know what to do or say. I was trapped in the car. Roxbury, if you don’t know, is all woods and fiel…
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I watched Gunpowder Milkshake on Netflix yesterday and loved it! It's a woman-forward noir-esque action movie from 2021 with awesome fighting scenes. It's about an organized crime syndicate led by Nathan (Paul Giamatti) called The Firm who employs a whole army of assassins to carry out missions, including hit-woman Sam (Karen Gillan) who was brought up in the lifestyle from the age of 12. After one mission goes sideways, Sam finds hersel…
Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father during a family argument. It was April 1, 1984, one day before his 45th birthday. I was 14. My brother was 10 and played a lot of sports. I remember that because on that day, he had an accident on the field and my parents took him to the hospital. They sat in the waiting room. There were two elderly black gentlemen sitting across from them. My mom heard one of them say to the other, "You know, we lost …
I only learned
yesterday during the wildly successful No Kings protest that one of the latest Trumper talking points is that Liberals
are…ugly? lol. That they would even try this stance is both hilarious
and pathetic. As if the millions of normal caring “ordinary” citizens protesting this
ridiculous administration aren’t proof enough that this claim is patently
false, all it takes is looking at the lion’s share of Hollywood—movie
and TV s…
Jaws is my favorite movie, but to be frank, I hated the book. I don't like Peter Benchley's writing at all, may he rest in peace. The book portrays Ellen Brody as snotty and stuck-up, hating being "just" a cop's wife. In the book Ellen is from a wealthy 'summer" family like the kid who was with Chrissie, and meets Brody on Amity when she's young. She's written as a slut, and Quint knows her reputation on the…
This
is my ideal English Muffin. I call this "toasted." Joe calls it burnt! He
doesn’t toast them—he likes them just lightly heated up. Before Joe, a
lifetime ago, I lived with Hub—he also liked them just heated up! I could never get a properly toasted English Muffin outta either one of them guys! Now I just make my own. I
think a witch cursed me when I was born to only love men who were
hostile to nooks and crannies toasted golden…
This is throwing back to Mother's Day 2012, to the days when I used to occasionally do a video accompaniment to my blog entries, which I dubbed BLOGCASTS . This was in honor of my mom. I figure it's perfect for Women's History Month. It's called "What am I, an
a**hole?" and other Mom'isms." It's about some expressions that my mom,
all of seventeen when she had me, used to say. She is quite eloquent, and qu…
I have a Pandora station I listen to a lot while I'm writing or working on my blogs. So many times I've dug a tune that comes up only to find it's DJ Shadow. This morning it happened again, and I finally said to myself "I think I love DJ Shadow." I found some of his albums on YouTube. Great stuff. I'll have to buy some DJ Shadow.👍
These days if you Google for "hamster dance," all kinds of results come up, but you have to dig deep and know to search for THE Hampster Dance (deliberately misspelled by the creator). Created before Google. On a Geocities site. And completely, totally useless. In fact its gone, but some intrepid soul has recreated the Hampster Dance, much to the delight of, I suspect, mostly Gen X. You can find this recreated wonder at https://origina…
Google, why hast thou forsaken us? So it's pretty well known that Google has not been devoting that much dev time to Blogger in recent years. Oh, there's been some background stuff going on, like a new back-up system last summer. And about three months ago they did some Beta testing with new Google Search tools. With varying degrees of success. The first one was totally cringe, and if I had been one of the designated Beta testers I'd h…
I just posted this on Facebook: Hi guys. I just now created a FACEBOOK PAGE for my blog , Diary of a Low Budget Superhero. It would mean a lot to me if you would Follow, and even more if you would Share it. I keep almost leaving Facebook, especially after they torpedoed my original account that I'd had since 2008, and because of the AI, bots, and algorithms ruining things. But whenever I'm off FB, like the break I took Oct - Feb, I miss you …
So. We think we might have found a place, but it's been like almost two weeks and no word back about our application. I don't know what that means. The realtor, Angel, keeps telling me he'll "check with them." BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Dyin' here. But the hunt has been entertaining at times. I wish I'd taken a screen shot of that Arlington house with the awesome floors. They were a different pattern in every room, and…
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