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!
So that’s sorted; they’ll go see the fOlks afterward.
I think I am going to compose a rant, a long, excitable and childish rant about parasociality.
I tried something new at IHOP- the breakfast biscuits are nice, but quite salty.
Esther the Wonder Pig has died of natural causes, surrounded by her human dad and family friends, aged 11, at Campbellville, Ontario. She will be missed. Her shop is here.
Now for the test tickle
sorry if it has not worked well over the last few days. Should be okay now.
I don’t just contain multitudes, I hang out with them too.
The lone and level sands
I know what’s going on
but these are social beings too
and my grief must crack
to allow them safe passage
so one doesn’t speak of it
as much as one thinks it
tries to derive grace from nature
a trick, a trick, a trick
because nature’s not full o’ grace
it’s a slow-to-react and messy drunk
and we can’t leave the room
for a couple of hundred years
unless we go to space
which needs more tech
and money than I suspect
we can sustain for long
No one knows how but here and there
people survive
the nature
that I worship now
the only nature
I hope I use the day well. He’s got a pro-d day.
ORYCON SKED IS OUT
I could teach about three of those topics but I think I’m going to try to have a mix of singing and knowledge, after I red pencil the schedule with Cindy.
Slash/Back rewatch yesterday. Those Pang girls really are sumfin.
Suzanne was here and the enshinening happened.
Much love to my people this morning!
White Woman’s Chicken Coconut Soup
One chicken breast sliced into chunks
2 Litres chicken broth (used Western Family no added salt)
However much you want of thin sliced onions, cabbage, carrot, celery.
2.5 cm chunk of ginger, chopped into tasteable chunks
As much chopped garlic as makes sense to you.
Thai fish sauce – a few good hard shakes.
Black pepper to taste
Cayenne to taste. If you have a leftover hot sauce packet from takeout, that’ll work, just add a tiny bit at a time until you get the kick you want.
You can add galangal slices at the same time as the garlic, raw mushrooms in quarters, lime leaves, coriander leaves and prawns if you like. These all help ‘fill out’ the flavour profile.
Just barely bring it all to boil and turn down to simmer for 45 minutes or so. Add a can of coconut milk (do not boil the coconut milk, it goes strange) bring it to serving temp and devour. Immediately refrigerate any unused portion and consume within four days.
Normally you should lightly toast the aromatics in oil before adding them to a soup but in this case the recipe is trying to keep added oil to a minimum and also dirtying one fewer dish.
we were going to order out and then…. I made chicken sandwiches. Today I’m going to make chicken soup
s.62
Top C
200 bpm
4ths
G27
interesting whooshin’ rotor blade sounds
The news … and the weather
10 words on the next Brad and Omar story.
Alex is here and watching videos downstairs. It was so delightful to see Ryker yesterday as briefly as we did. He stuck his head in the collapsible cat house/toy and tried to run around with his head out one side and his butt on the other and me and Alex and Suzanne laughed until we were leaking while Ryker made grizzling WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING AT ME noises. He loved watching the pinball. And then he fucking headchecked Alex and practically broke the dear one’s nose. HE IS A BRUTe
I have a great deal on my mind and this is not the venue. I need to find something completely blameless and unexceptional to do, like running the dishwasher. I need to check if the downstairs drain is working properly, this is a lot of fucking rain.
that Keith and Paul just got back from Seattle. I gently pointed out to Keith that he hadn’t bothered to tell me he was leaving, but thanks anyway.
Still no Echo; I have to leave to pick Alex up momentarily and it will be in Jeff’s car I reckon.
All done. Alex had a ‘controversial’ conversation in the schoolyard today. He posits that a hot dog IS NOT a sandwich and a bowl of cereal is NOT soup.
Still waiting on the Echo.
and all is calm and he had a great sleepover
I’m just plugging away on laundry and thinking about leftovers, and songs, and oxygen.
When startled, I say, “Shit Fuck Cocksucker!” more or less all as one word. I hardly ever otherwise use the word ‘cocksucker’ in conversation unless we’re talking about ‘Deadwood’, which, if you’ve seen the show, you will agree is a special case.
“Goddammit all to hell.”
“Goddammit.”
“You have got to be fucking kidding me.”
“Please God make it stop.” This is always me being sarcastic, as the concept of a personal God, while useful, is not one I subscribe to. It’s said as all one word.
“Jesus Christ did a shark bite your fucking turn signal off.” Came up with this in traffic one day, it just came out my mouth.
“Shut the fuck up you fishfaced bawbag.” May substitute ‘fuckfaced’, ‘hairy’, ‘diseased’, ‘halfchewed’, ‘unmitigated’ and variants on ‘slimy’, ‘dirty’, ‘muck-encrusted’, ‘ugly’ and words which otherwise indicate total lack of charm. These kinds of exclamations are reserved for villains on tv shows. I have a tough time imagining saying it to someone in real life, for real.
“Christ wept.”
“Jesus, Mary and Joseph,” but I only say this when something unexpected and pleasant happens, and add whatever the unexpected and pleasant thing is.
“Christ on a crutch.”
“Fuck that guy right into the sun.”
“JESUS SAVES his roaches ’cause he’s thrifty.”
When I think someone is being an ignorant asshole, I may refer to them as a ‘witless mofo’.
If I think somebody is bringing a little too much toxic masculinity and too thin a skin to the everlovin’ discourse, I may just call him a ‘pindicked scold’. I am well aware this is a gendered slur. I try to be careful of the rooms and spaces I use it in.
I like ‘dickweed’, ‘shitheel’, ‘schmuck’, ‘cockwomble’, ‘bellend’, ‘dogdick’ (from the Russian vernacular). I’ve tried to get rid of ‘bitch’, but I still say ‘dirty great cow’ in reference to women I hold in disfavour a great deal more than I should which is candidly not at all. I may refer to a lazy incompetent as a ‘slack-ass(ed) ho’, too, so I drag sex workers into my misogyny when I swear sometimes.
above noted sign not technically true and provided for entertainment purposes only Sign Generator Here.
The above noted sign has a quite remarkable typo, and I added the PS Gritty says f you because Gritty is the popular and ecstatically chaotic Phillie hockey team mascot. He would say something like that. This is a cutified version of him.
Grittney, the feminized parody of Gritty (woman’s actually a Brit, which makes it even funnier)
Very much enjoying hanging out there. The folks are funny as heck and the vibe of BLOCK FIRST ask no questions means that everybody prunes fash and sexist assholes who deadname trans folks and antivaxxers and instead of ELON firehosing shitbags into your feed, it’s just trans artists and wife guys and Bostonian grandmas vibing gently together. Some of the younger ones are ‘horny on main’ as they say but me okay wit dis, they’re not making lewd suggestions to me personally and they label their porn so I don’t have to see it, so it’s all perfectly fine. Also: