Settler words&music in S'ólh Téméxw, (leanpub.com/upsun) living where privilege meets precarity in MST country. she/her/they———– Novels: Midnite Moving Co., Upsun; Sweep Off Those Waves coming soon, Hair Sinister after that. —Restore All Indigenous Lands!
I tried once before to write a song about the backstory of griffins, but I think this one will work out better, being in a minor key. Lyrics when they come to me. On track for a 14 song month, per FAWM.
Church today. I am not feeling very inspired, but I’ll feel differently after church. Oh, yeah, I forgot… we’re rehearsing.
Gonna go to Gateway, yes indeed
Gonna take that ride
Gonna go to Gateway, yessirree
Gonna take that ride
Maybe I will hit the jackpot baby
Find my ticket among the stars
Maybe I’ll keep my head down baby
Wiping tables in the Blue Hell bar…
Gonna go to Gateway, o yeah
Gonna take that ride
Gonna go to Gateway, unh hunh
Gonna take that ride
Maybe I will meet some aliens
Find some fancy tech that’s o so rare
Maybe I will take a loser trip
Spend my last minutes fighting for air
Gonna go to Gateway, understand
Gonna take that ride
Gonna go to Gateway, that’s the plan
Gonna take that ride
Can’t call this plan courage
when it’s the only option that I’ve got
I’ll do cause I have to, the day is coming fast
I’ll find out what I get for what I bought.
In a spectacular outburst of insanity, I may buy a takeout/café. It’s in a part of Edmonds that is very dead for restaurants, but in about three months the new rec/community center will open and there will actually be more traffic. I’ll be talking to the current owner on Monday. It’s a really good deal for the kitchen equipment though… looks like it’s all going for about 30 cents on the dollar.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND The Impossible, but not if you’re scared to drown. The lead child actor, Tom Holland, is so good that it is obvious he will have a long and illustrious career, and Naomi Watts and Ewen McGregor are simply wonderful as the parents. It’s about the Boxing Day tsunami.
The gun lunacy in the US just boggles n croggles me. From CNN.com:
According to the FBI, in the entire country in 2011 there were just 201 justifiable homicides committed with guns by private citizens. There are over 300 million guns in America, which means that about 1 out of every 1.5 million guns was actually used for lethal self-defense. According to the National Weather Service, your chance of being hit by lightning this year is a mere 1 in 1 million.
The paucity of training in statistics and how to understand them is obviously part of the NRA strategy. If you scare someone, they are at a disadvantage for staying rational. It’s a fact of the human brain. In fact, the ability to force one’s brain into staying rational while scared out of your tiny mind is one of the things that distinguishes humans from critters. Not everyone is so gifted, though.
I came up with another lovely line for my notebook last night. “Darwin backed into a meatgrinder and assembled something from the chunks” (with respect to an ugly critter from a video game, but could be more widely applied… Jeff is playing Borderlands II and there’s some UUUUGly critters.)
SO TEMPTED to go with Tammy to New Orleans in March.