Truth. Also turns out I block all Raffi haters. Life is too short for that energy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_3P...

Caprica is streaming, and this makes me so happy! My fav show for years after it ended. Better than BSG which I also liked. I still want their paper-esque screen computer. E-sheet.

The Damned got done dirty here. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

TIL that a Baltimore Oriole experiences disappointment when flying to a hummingbird feeder, realize it's not for them, fly to the other, doubling down on letdown, but still glance toward them as they fly away. Also why the words hope, and spring, get put together so often, and not always with us.

My fav sonnet. For my son Aaron, who died 27 years ago today. "If I could write the beauty of your eyes," my writing philosophy tbh. As I wrote this, a baby cardinal flew into the window. It's mother dutifully waited to see if it was ok. They flew away together, and tbh my parenting philosophy too.

In that photo, he's playing a teenager. I'm sick of SNL and their reliance on p*do jokes. I only saw three skits last night, I kept falling asleep, and of those three, two had p*do jokes. "Handsy" isn't a cute word. Teachers shouldn't grab kids crotches, even in comedy. Normalizing is horrid too.

There are auroras behind these.

Just now when writing to a friend about Alistair Macleod, the first green hummingbird came to the feeder. Bodes well. Also I love confluence in things I love.

This came up on my FB memories from 10 years ago. I'm still surprised by her voice, nothing what I expected. youtu.be/bxbT-86ehGo?...

A moment of wind. Love when you can hear it coming towards you.

Bigger Audio Dynamite.

For part of today, I'm going to (re)read several of the 274 tagged posts I wrote back in the day on LiveJournal. So very glad I chronicled some of their lives there. ♥️♥️💕

He owns a gun he'll never use and keeps it on a side wall to observe other's reactions to it. He keeps a wall mirror behind his desk so everyone he meets with sees themselves as they interact with him. (Just one scene but I love it.)

I've never had a rejection and an acceptance stacked in my email before. Huzzah! 💓

Sarah Yeoman, American, Totem, 2014, watercolor, 32 x 22 in

We are watching EBM vids tonight it seems. youtu.be/XRGRsYg_fro?...

Surprised but not really, that when planting 5 hostas, I discovered an animal's little tunnel. I patched up the opening, moved the plant over an inch. I don't mind repairing the tunnel, I just didn't want something jumping out. It'll be nice shade for whosever's that was. The nearby bee surveilled.

Congratulations to the incoming poet laureate for Iowa, Paul Brooke! paul-brooke.com

Please tell me 1-5 of your fave nonfiction books. Some of mine are: Currently, Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp (not done but I know it'll be on the list) The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein Mabou Pioneers - A.D. MacDonald After the Ice - Steven Mithen Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes and Richard Howard

Quote with a photo you've taken of some public art. (I couldn't decide which.)

That was the most trying Napowrimo I've ever done. Wells shouldn't be this empty, but good lord, this time it/I was. Fodder for revision is my only takeaway, and might eventually work out. 🤷‍♀️

In honour of Ulysses Grant's birthday, here's his copper bathtub tucked away beyond close viewing in Galena IL. Truly cool town (nothing! has changed since the 1860s, all the buildings, architecture intact), and neat old house and comprehensive exhibit.

Looking forward.

A moment of peace.

Stormy stormy tonight. 🌪️9 miles south of us. Good now, just regular storms.

You, from a different decade, looking skeptical in Montreal.

I swore 🤣 Wordle 1,768 6/6 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I'm ready. ::waits::

Every admin assistant/secretary/staff person (who was the one who actually ran offices/businesses but we don't talk about that) who's had to do this over the years, all their work hidden from their bosses who never cared to know what they do, has feelings on this issue.

Blue is the colour of life IMO. We're all the beneficiary of light breaking in that spectrum of wavelength. 💙

I've never read a review, or learned any fact, about this show, that'd ever make me want to watch it.

New Pope lore drops. 🤣 If the Albini reply was true, I'd be three Bacons from the pope, not beating my two Bacons having had a nun teacher in high school that went to high school with Pope John Paul II.

I always forget Chris Evans was in the movie Sunshine. Surprised every time I rewatch. Like just now.

This is what energizes revision. I want to hang out, see what they're up to.

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

If you aren't, you really should watch The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins with Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe. The newest character's name is perfection and quite a zing. Played by Anna Camp. Love love this show.

I know that isn't what they are for, but the red balloons atop Integrity are a festive touch! 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 Congrats to all involved!

How The Shock Doctrine" The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, overlap is fascinating, and scary. A case of the story never changing.

If the Counting Crows and the Beastie Boys had a baby.

"and the deaths of several community-bridging males." Helpers are targeted first and not just chimps. www.scientificamerican.com/article/two-...

RIP Afrika Bambaataa www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoXG...

Why libraries were/are so important. Poverty kills access even if the books were slightly available to purchase.

I'd rather write my own weird whatever it turns out to be, than use AI. I hear my voice in my writing and I prefer that. Don't they all miss hearing their own voice, hear themselves, in their writing? I don't get it. I guess it comes down to what you value. Preferring self erasure. MMV

All the photos of moon craters now available reminded me of the work done by artist Bettina Forget. "Out of the 1,578 catalogued and named craters on the lunar surface, 32 are named after women – that is barely 2%." So she drew them. www.bettinaforget.com/bettina-port...

I contend that all physicists are poets, and all poets are physicists. (Amusingly, I've been given flowers and chocolates more often by physicists than I have from poets.)

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II

I've got to watch this. Will it be better bad than 10.5 Apocalypse is the question?!

My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.

I truly wish Microsoft would change Word so that ctrl c content doesn't disappear when the doc is closed. Just lost the better version tomorrow's Napo poem.

This was my library when I was a kid, went every single day in the summer. #LibrariesChangeLives That gorgeous place taught me about beauty in all forms, esp books. Never saw any ghosts but purportedly they lived there. I was very lucky to have had that special place. www.flickr.com/photos/90638...