Category Archives: Thoughts

📺 🏴󠁵󠁳󠁡󠁫󠁿 📺 Writer: Hello, Muse. I cannot overSTATE how happy I am to be with you once again. Muse: Hello? Writer: I would be devaSTATEd if we could not share this time together. Muse: Do you have something to tell me? Are you trying to make a STATEment? Writer (chuckles): Sometimes I amuse evenContinue reading “When You Can’t Go, Muse and the Alaska Made For TV Movie, Fiction”

Photos of the outside world. Alaska Magazine: 2024 Photo Contest Sponsored by Alaska Airlines. ~~~ Alaska in Alabama. Alaska Avenue, Leeds. Alaska Drive, Hueytown. Alaska Street, Gadsden. Any Alaska near you? [Searching For Alaska] Technical Details Phone Camera Currently ettending UChicago Graham School, Alaska: Indigenous, Russian, American. Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Fun fact courtesy of our guest contributor. In 1861 France invaded and conquered (most of) Mexico, and installed an Austrian archduke as Emperor of Mexico! This … random act of senseless colonialism … did not last long, and did not end well for the archduke in question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Mexican_Empire#Fall_of_the_Empire). Who, ironically,Continue reading “Los Pegasos, Guest Photos”

Awareness of the outside world. BBC: Planetary alignment 2025: This is what it really means when seven planets line up in the sky, O’Callaghan, 19 January 2025. ~~~ It’s cold. Again. I am so over this. Below freezing several times this week. High teens tonight. Yes, it’s colder elsewhere. A family member (waves hi!) isContinue reading “Cold Again”

Awareness of the outside world. Posted my last FB message yesterday. “I’m out. The algorithm has decreed that I need to see utterly horrible pet rescue videos. Hiding them does not help. Contact me via blog, email, or text. I read Bluesky & others but rarely post in those places. Ciao.” The politics did notContinue reading “Truck Mileage”

Awareness of the outside world. Why is the leader of the USA called President? Happy Scribe: What’s a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak | Mark Forsyth, TED Talks Daily, 2020. This is a semi-repeat. Last year was the video; this year, the transcript as well. In other news, I have thoughts on thisContinue reading “Bodywork Tuneup”

Books and the outside world. Boilerplate that I came across on a manuscript website, “International social justice movements and the debates that ensued prompted us to start considering the contents of our website from a critical point of view. This has led us to acknowledge that most of the texts in our database are Western-centered.Continue reading “Making The Materials, Book Making Class #2, Take 2”