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Cigarettes. Records. Books. Free expression. Wife. Kid. Baseball. Cats. Social contract. Cigarettes. Instruments. Self-agency. Dogs. Black tea. Plurality. Espresso. Radical Humanism. Pragmatism. Oh: cigarettes.
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I don’t watch television but keep seeing this. Same that Canada is not. Shameful.
We’re not the lumpen proletariat.
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Beautiful. Thank you. Worry all day when she’s at school. Vague gnawing.
Solidarity X
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One: I’m sorry that happened. Gross and inexcusable.
Second: what state are you in? Be as vague as you’re comfortable with. I’m in So California.
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Joyous, purely celebratory cross-cultural DANCE party. I can’t imagine a better ‘fuck you’ to fascism than rejection-by-refusal to be dour and defeatist. My town went OFF and I couldn’t be prouder of seeing so many members of the FUCK YOU Party. We’re everyone. And it showed yesterday.
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If my wife had ever wanted this…well, I don’t think we’d have married.
Dudes—which I’m technically included in—are the most insecure, possessive, jealous, and embittered bunch of dudes you could ever hope to (not) meet.
It’s not all of us. No friend has that binary cleaving.
Thanks, morons!
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Violin takes talent.
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I have been a book collector all my life. I have a pretty hefty collection of signed rarities.
That said: DAMN! You have EXCEPTIONAL books and errata on here. Fine work! Pleasure crossing paths and an instant follow.
Cody.
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Fantastic and underappreciated rec, like most Japanese prog.
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I’ll bet you one Expos franchise I am 0.00% incredulous even if I found out it was via a process of playing darts on ketamine. Or by a committee of magical frogs. Either is standard operating procedure here in the United Stasis of Authoritarianism these days.
Yep. Pretty sweet. (Fuck me—)
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That was my exact question/suspicion. History, however recent, is transient right now. Disposable. Malleable & fit to taste. Lewis is elemental to anyone over a certain age, likely Gen X and up. I really fear that this lack of prologue is resulting, and will worsen, into avoidable nightmares.
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I got them seeing his sign. It’s contagious!
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Control the language, control the narrative.
It’s amazing people still fall for these linguistic traps/fail to see agendist motivation. Then again, reading isn’t what it used to be. Critical thinking had never been our strong suit.
Education is the only approach. Like yours here. Non-pedantic.
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Hey, I always pull for the Jays and still protest the Expos being gone! No?
:)
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The Poppins one is brilliant!
Wouldn’t be home without the hottest effing day imaginable, right? Jeez. Im still sweating.
Solidarity X
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Esp the book or movie cause they’re both terrible. Otherwise:
¡VIVA!
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Yay. Kind enough to schedule it for my daughter’s 12th birthday. She’ll be excited again (she was today).
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Your husband wins my sign prize.
Bravo. X
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How did the guy get that amazing floating Trump balloon?!? The craft on-hand made me proud.
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It’s a daily thing. It’s constant resistance and rejection. Today has been performative, but know that every day MILLIONS of people are working to grind away the edifice of hateful, nationalist shit to yank out the heart of that evil empire.
And then? Baseball season just started! Yay!
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So perfect. So MISSISSIPPI with awesome style, however unintentional.
And my hip hurts too. No shit.
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Oh, yeah. Hah. We’ll figure out a way. That’s what we do. You know, rather than blame innocent and unrelated people of different ethnic origin or religious affiliation. Or…
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Clarifying: she means Trump, not Al Green [ed.—]
;)
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48 here. Teacher/writer. Thought that was the mission since day 1. Now I’m positive.
Fun stuff.
Solidarity, man.
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Use internet, non huge corporate sites. BBC America, Al-Jazeera, The Guardian US. Here.
We’ve been fighting since day 1. I adore Canada and have been to yr country numerous times.
Please: have faith in us. We need it and we won’t fail. X
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The smoothest, northern soul groove impeachment serving ever? ‘Let’s Not Stay Together?’
We need a Smokey co-write. Guaranteed hit.
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Los Angeles here. No, Canadians, it isn’t us. We love you. Fuck our govt, but THEY are not US. Please try to remember that.
They are evil.
We are legion. And a lot of love. X
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Short answer: Palahniuk makes Ballard seem like Wodehouse in subtlety of subtext (there basically is none). I understand the long answer. And would’ve agreed w it at one time. Since publication? Ehhh. Chuck has had some shit. I admit it’s best to divorce art from artist, though. Hard case w him.
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And you have Love Shack as your handle. From literally where I’m sitting, I can see the self-titled and Wild Planet covers needing to be put back on shelves.
“Kate and Cindy
And Crystal and Candy…
These are the girls of the U.S.A.!”
X
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Of course. Chuck has done a lot to undermine any goodwill I can begrudge him in the intervening years.
Granted, that wasn’t your original point and I was being a snarky crank. Sorry, I do apologize. I realize, in the context, your validity: it’s the Pitt-Norton version that’s pop traded among them
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Real question, did Palahniuk?!?
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(In case they CAN see it in December)
‘You’re a traitor to you nation and all humans’
(Phew. Glad I got that said and insured. Sorry about that.)
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And I’m half Mexican, they can see my mother’s maiden name and blah, but my wife is as blonde/blue as you find and my kid was 10 at the time. So anyone thinking they’re indemnified cause of skin and hair: hell no. Race profiling is antiquated. Will they see my voting record this year? This message?
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My family—so, my wife, daughter, and I—go to Japan every year in Dec. This is the first year I’m thinking exceedingly strange thoughts: will the FAA get it together; will Japan even allow it; what will re-entry be like; etc. I can tell you that this early Jan, Immigration were PRICKS at LAX. Aggro.
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One can only hope the esteemed Mr. Ass Cork grows from this experience.
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That is an insane scenario on paper. I mean, it should be a no-brainer.
Unbelievable we lived to see this happen. (Thinking back on all the presidencies I took a participatory role in.)
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Good! Prepared means protected, or at least better protected. Not like we’re gonna be bummed if we don’t need them.
Solidarity, man
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Uncle Sam better stop hanging out in that rock n roll band, man.
Wave that flag…MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN!
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Before the inauguration, I got a new passport; passport wallet ID, and global entry from the DHS and TSA. Absolute pain in the ass, but I’m happier I did it. My family has all these documents and birth certs, marriage license, passports, etc in a go-bag in a safe. Including my ELEVEN yr old. Normal!
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Hey, fuck em all, Vera. They can never touch your heart. Love power over their evil shit. You—we—will be ok. I truly believe this.
Stay ok. Can’t be plugged in all the time X
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I can’t find this on that site. How far back need I go, months? Thanks.
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Sonofabitch! These evil bastards control the weather now. Noooooo!!!
“I’m going to Jackson…”
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I’ve never understood the Republican assumption that a liberal need be a shrinking violet. Or, gasp, even a well-armed, capable, and prepared individual that may just understand I’m dealing with fucking cult zombies.
I’m here. Going nowhere.
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Fuck em. Don’t give them the pleasure of your fear. Soul vampires feed on that shit. We’re ALL scared, but it’s the thing you bury under radical love and just REFUSAL to be cowed. It’s sick, but your fear is a win to them. FUCK THEM. I got your back, figuratively and, boils down, literally. X
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I find myself more consistently awed that we managed to evolve atop a planet so incredibly, impossibly complex made of natural systems no human can better. The cathedral of nature just kicks my ass w beauty. Had it happen recently watching snow monkeys in Japan mountains. OH my, that was ecstatic.
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An almost perfect movie. Honestly. DeNiro and Streep are stunning. And the IMMORTAL John Casale’s last!
For me, its genius is that the most discomfiting of the three Acts it’s staged as is the first, the wedding day of one of the principles. THAT is all tension. It’s brilliant. Unnerving? Very.
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Don’t bring my beautiful Deer Hunter into this!!! “You hear me, Michael? Mikey? There’s rats, Michael!”
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Roger that. I will email. Phone’s are awful for typing!
Cody