https://youtu.be/ILot8EIUin8 As a humanist and space enthusiast, my emotions are split over today’s headlines. America has solved the problem of being reliant on Russia for the transportation of their space cargo, but they still haven’t figured out how to increase the odds of customers being able to walk out of a Walmart alive. On theContinueContinue reading “Splash Down”
Tag Archives: pandemic of 2020
Thank You Red Wheelbarrow
https://youtu.be/e6e_rGWbFqs So many songs begging Ruth Bader Ginsburg to “hang on” until there is another democrat in the white house. This one caught my attention. SNL 2019. Thank you Red Wheelbarrow writers for accepting my poem, “Day 53”, for publication in This Uncommon Solitude your upcoming anthology of pandemic poetry. “We are honored to showcaseContinueContinue reading “Thank You Red Wheelbarrow”
Custom Fit
https://youtu.be/iX8GxLP1FHo They took your data. Then they took control. The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal. In select theaters and on Netflix July 24. I use to watch a show called “The Lottery Changed MyContinueContinue reading “Custom Fit”
Flexing Haircut 100
So, yesterday I caught myself flexing on the lady givin’ me a $25 haircut. Afterward, I walked out of the place and while driving home, examined a strange, yet familiar, feeling like something was wrong…(I’m a bit slow about these things) Then it hit me “OMG I was totally rude to the lady who cutContinueContinue reading “Flexing Haircut 100”
Day 74: Last Day of the Lockdown
https://youtu.be/pbLd3k_8_Fw “I have not been able to touch the destruction within me. But unless I learn to use the difference between poetry and rhetoric my power too will run corrupt as poisonous mold or lie limp and useless as an unconnected wire and one day I will take my teenaged plug and connect it toContinueContinue reading “Day 74: Last Day of the Lockdown”
Day 68: SAY THEIR NAMES
https://youtu.be/w6tH1gzPLpM SOCIAL DISTANCING | SOCIAL JUSTICE Video credit: The brief history of racism within the Minnesota police explained by reporter Rachel Maddow, MSNBC. #GeorgeFloyd This morning my bedroom is dark. An early morning thunderstorm blocks the sky. It formed over Seattle, traveled 90 miles to reach Bellingham at 9:12. It swipes across our landscape asContinueContinue reading “Day 68: SAY THEIR NAMES”
Day 65: One Hundred Million Suns
https://youtu.be/6zHhDduJcFk “What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.” Warren Buffett Guessing by the news last week, Whatcom County will be asked to shelter in place another month. I didn’t think we had it that bad. Of the 1055 deaths in our state, Whatcom has experienced only 36. Today the totalContinueContinue reading “Day 65: One Hundred Million Suns”
Day 62: Arguing with Myself
https://youtu.be/4KPVJY746SY Shower Thoughts from Twitter: If we saw souls instead of bodies, our definition of beauty perfection and our world would be so different. It’s been a few days. The days between entries of this Pandemic 2020 Journal have larger spaces between them. But I am still here, do not worry my five followers, doContinueContinue reading “Day 62: Arguing with Myself”
Day 58: God, is it over yet?
https://youtu.be/FJCS2XKHyzc Shower Thoughts: Being proactive is rarely rewarded because if your actions avoid a tragedy, there is no tragedy to prove your actions were warranted. Hello. Whatcha up to? Do you ever stare at the popcorn bumps in the ceiling and try to find shapes? Sometimes I do. This morning the sun is sleeping behindContinueContinue reading “Day 58: God, is it over yet?”
Day 55: Aliens and Hospitals
https://youtu.be/DqtjHWlM4lQ Shower Thoughts: It’s a compliment when family thinks of you as friends, and a compliment when friends think of you as family. So there is one conspiracy theory that the global economic meltdown was designed to finally 1) introduce us to aliens and 2) allow aliens to help us publically. I’ve had a goodContinueContinue reading “Day 55: Aliens and Hospitals”
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