I miss that dress. I don’t miss those glasses, or how raggedass my eyebrows are.
Jeff and I have started a rewatch of Castle. Gosh doesn’t Nathan Fillion look young and slender!?
Author: Allegra
Born when atmospheric carbon was 316 PPM. Settled on MST country since 1997. Parent, grandparent.
the boys
So I spent money on line again, but I got TWO unboxing experiences, one with Paul and one with Mike.
The device is called a GoSun Go and it’s a 2 pound solar oven. Paul and I boiled water for tea and shared a cup. It was most pleasant. Later on in the afternoon I asked Mike if he wanted it, he said yes but he didn’t want to have to lug it back since he walked over, so we pretended to unbox the previously unboxed one and he started thinking about what he wants to cook on the beach.
Jeff and I went for a walk in Hilda Park yesterday morning. I wore my face shield, but there was nobody in the park and with the wind and sun, which was continuous, I didn’t really feel scared of no virus.
Rex Murphy talking about how Canada is not a racist country when every inch of it is built on land stolen from the Indigenous nations is quite the thing.
one little hug
I am slightly less touch deprived than I was yesterday because Katie gave me a hug when she came by on Sunday. Alex didn’t want to visit, but I got that photo…
Weather is horrible for May. We’re getting a summer that wasn’t, our first in about ten years.
My racism, inherent in not wanting to get lumped in with all other white people, still exists because based on my life and works I’ve been an ally for about 4.5 seconds. My moral disgust with whiteness takes the form of mild inconvenience, not an ongoing threat to my life.
I want to avoid the dangers inherent in ‘being a white person working on my anti-Blackness’ but as far as I can determine, the biggest one has always been becoming too numb to support anti-racism with daily, concrete, considered and faithful action.
katie and alex
those are jellyfish masks from the Aquarium, a fundraiser to keep buying fish for the otters
not in public
saw a typo so egregious I was moved to type:
fix the typo or face the unreckonable fullness of my colon and my spleen
such horrific vistas are mine to conjure, these words are the sand of my playspace
Now normally when one is trawling the internet, one leaves typos alone. There are variants on alone, such as private messaging, where you can address someone out of the glare.
But when it’s a newspaper, nope, no holds barred.
pOp will likely burst out laughing
These two pictures were taken 20 seconds apart using exactly the same preset camera defaults.
when people look a certain way, or don’t look a certain way, remember that even without makeup, you can do amazing things to how people look
who let that cat in here?
cassandra busts a move
I haven’t said much about the revolutionary actions taking place at the moment because nobody asked me to. However: I support the protesters, I abhor the actions of the people firing into crowds of protesters, acab, brace for disproportionate reprisal actions across the US… and two generations of social justice actors picked off by coronavirus in jail when they’ve been rounded up on literally trumped-up charges. Crucial to keep an eye on specific actors and try to prevent them from ‘disappearing’. By the fascism playbook, that’s next.
and Black and Indigenous activists are coldly aware that disappearances are ongoing from colonialism and liberalism.
shlepping trip
I am very happy that I’m home, but it’s also lovely to have FOOOOOOODICLES and treeeeeeaaaticles.
Walmart was a ghastly ordeal but I didn’t have another place to go for the stuff I needed.
My Vancouver Aquarium masks arrived (including one for Alex) but paypal refunded my money. I’ve now sent two emails to the address associated with the purchase but Pauline, whoever the fuck she is or isn’t, was only prepared to give me a website address WITH NO CUSTOMER SERVICE EMAIL.
faaaaack
this one’s for mOm
http://chowhonlam.com/ is the artist
history is happening too fast
Trump’s had one of his tweets deleted from twitter, since it was basically him declaring war on protesters and rioters and threatening to shoot them all
hierarchy of white supremacy
more fractals
Kima pulls a flailie down Denman St
Check out this incredible Rube Goldberg machine WITH BIRDSONG
oops yeah no
simply glorious day
Paul, Jeff and I walked in Robert Burnaby Park; I collected trash (wrappers and butts mostly) and fogged up my shield.
picked up sushi for lunch and then Keith made vodka Caesars for the boys & we had a socially distant meal on the back deck. Keith seemed in quite good spirits and owned as how he’d like to go back to school when all this is over.
later in the day Mike came over and gave me food and I gave him a shield and we hung around and talked on the back deck – he walked over, and it was just so pleasant to hang around and listen to the menfolks quietly talk
