No Kings 2.0

It’ll be around 60º and mostly here in Boston on Saturday. A good day to protest, amirite? The main Massachusetts No Kings protest will be on Boston Common from 12-3 p.m. but there will be hundreds of other rallies going on throughout the state. Plug in your zip code or address at the No Kings Find Event page for the protest closest to you.

The last No Kings protest in June drew several million people across more than 2,000 locations. This time, more than 2,500 cities and towns nationwide are hosting protests. (source) 

Safety and Prep Tips:

Safety, Security, and Digital Preparedness for a Second Trump Administration – This guide is not specifically geared to tomorrow’s demonstrations but contains a LOT of useful info and tips.

"No Kings" protest: What to know about your rights, safely protesting – This concise bullet pointed list by attorney Naomi Zikmund-Fisher, is very good. She’s a legal observer and board member of the Detroit and Michigan National Lawyers Guild chapter. 

• Go to your No Kings demonstration with a friend.

• Check the weather forecast before you leave home. Dress in layers.

Items to bring:

Jesse Duquette

• Water
• Sunglasses
• Mask
• Hand sanitizer
• Tissues
• First aid kit
• Snacks
• Hat to protect from the sun and help cover your face
• Any emergency medications you might need (inhaler, eyedrops, Tylenol, etc.)

Pat Bagley

IF you bring your phone (and I know everyone probably will), keep it turned off or in airplane mode. Have a faraday bag? Use it. Disable all of your phone’s high tech features (face recognition, fingerprint, etc.)

• Wear comfortable, protective shoes!

• Be aware of what’s happening around you.

• Do NOT engage with MAGAts and other random chaos agents, tempting though it may be. They're just looking for a fight. They'll play victim the minute the cops show up and they'll be believed.

• Police sometimes use escalation tactics – move away. Avoid getting boxed in against walls, buildings, or barricades.

• Keep your arms free at your sides rather than pinned to your chest. Use a wide-spread stance to maintain your balance.

Stay calm. Breathe deep.

In unity, there will also be No Kings (or No Tyrants or No Dictators) protests held in São Paulo, Brazil; Saipan – capital of the Northern Mariana Islands; Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa, Canada; Paris, Nice and Lyons, France; London and Bristol in the United Kingdom; Rome, Turin and Milan, Italy; Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico;  Medellin, Colombia; Grenada, Spain; Stockholm, Sweden; Zurich, Switzerland, and Gibraltar. 

Stephan Pastis

Surveying

My understanding of the news out of Israel/Gaza is that Israel has broken the ceasefire. Netanyahu’s pissed because all the hostages have not yet been returned. Here’s the problem with that – Israel bombed the shit outta Palestine. Bodies are buried under massive amounts of rubble. Israeli and Palestinian bodies. Special equipment needs to be brought in to dig up and recover the remains. This is reality. Still, Netanyahu is retaliating by halving the number of aid trucks allowed in. Also, no fuel or gas will be allowed in. Sounds like a real Mad Max scenario.

Because peace is not the absence of violence. Peace is the presence of equitable justice. Not just a truce or lull, but the flourishing of human dignity for everyone.
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If what you worship is only “no rockets, no bombs, no tension,” then this moment may feel like peace. 

But if what you seek is justice—for all people—then this moment is just a breath, not a breakthrough. A necessary pause, yes. But not a resolution.
~ Mo Hussein 

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How many Venezuelan boats, which may or may NOT have had anything at all to do with drugs or drug trafficking, has Prez Pedo and his pet alky Kegsbreath blown up so far? 

At least five.

Claiming without proof that the regime of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, has deliberately flooded the U.S. with drugs and criminals, Trump went on to say that he is considering following recent U.S. military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean with similar efforts on Venezuelan territory. 
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...experts have argued that drug cartels are not engaged in “hostilities” against the U.S. — the legal standard for armed conflict — because selling a dangerous product is different from conducting an armed attack.

It is illegal for the military to deliberately target civilians who aren’t directly participating in hostilities — even suspected criminals. (source) 

Prez Shit for Brains' stupidest son has BIG important thoughts about his daddy’s illegal ops.

"Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl.” (source) 

A.   No WAY Beavis has one friend, let alone four.
B.   Extrajudicial killings – he’s advocating war crimes. How very Trumpian of him.
C.   Venezuela plays virtually NO ROLE in the Fentanyl trade. Most illicit fentanyl in the U.S. comes from Mexico, not Venezuela, and is made with chemicals from Chinese labs.

Additionally:

InSight Crime, a think tank focused on crime and security in the Americas, said in a September report that it found "no evidence to date that Tren de Aragua is involved in transnational drug trafficking." The gang’s criminal activities center on human smuggling and trafficking, extortion and "micro-trafficking," the selling of drugs in neighborhoods where the gang has a foothold.

Therefore it’s "exceedingly unlikely" that the people killed in the U.S. boat strikes are Tren de Aragua members, Smilde told PolitiFact.

The government hasn’t provided evidence about the boats’ passengers or contents. (source)  

Fun Fact:  Eric's ugly daddy unconditionally pardoned the biggest illegal drug dealer in the world, Ross Ulbricht.  

Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in for selling drugs and fake IDs online, money-laundering conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy, soliciting six murders-for-hire and he got two life sentences plus 40 years, without the possibility of parole.

All his sales, drug and otherwise, were anonymous, using bitcoin. His empire was worth approximately $1.2 billion when he was busted. That amount of moolah? OF COURSE Trump pardoned him! He probably wants to BE him.

Ulbricht’s from Texas – home of fellow criminals Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton.
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In better news, polar bears taken over an abandoned research station on Kolyuchin Island (right next door to Alaska) in the Chukchi Sea. I’m glad the bears are getting some use outta the joint. Click on the link for pics – the bears are awesome.

Speaking of Alaska, Kipnuk is one of the many towns devastated by the high winds and surf from Typhoon Halong.

A $20 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to Kipnuk was killed by Trump. It would have gone towards bolstering Kipnuk’s flood defenses.

The tyrannical soul is never satisfied.
~ Plato

Young Slimeballs

You’ve probably read about the leaders of the Young Republican groups in Kansas, Arizona, Vermont, and New York whose disgusting Telegram chat was exposed.

They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.  (source) 

Politico has seven months of rancid messages from these unfortunately extant, vile human specimens.

Here are the names of people on these chats:
     William Hendrix – Kansas Young Republicans Vice Chair
     Alex Dwyer – Kansas Young Republicans Chair
     Peter Giunta – New York Young Republicans Vice Chair 
     Bobby Walker – New York Young Republicans Vice Chair
     Joe Maligno – New York Republican General Council 
     Annie KayKaty – New York National Women Committee
     Michael Bartels – Senior Advisor to the council of United States
     Luke Mosiman – Arizona Young Republicans Chair

Apparently there’s a “war brewing” amongst the 40 and under set in the US Fascist Party. The Fascist Old Party – The FOPs, formerly known as the Republican Party or the GOP (Guardians Of Pedophiles). Apparently one side is very much PRO elderly, dementia ridden, fluorescent makeup caked, loaded diaper wearing, international embarrassment Trump. The other side wants to chart a new path with fresh candidates.

The boys (and one girl) caught out in this series of miscreantic texts are all, apparently, pro-Stinky. They just love their deranged, pedophile prez.

Kansas Vice Chair, William Hendrix has now been fired from his communications job in the office of Attorney General Kris Kobach. FAFO, eh? What about Alex Dwyer, the Kansas Young Repub’s Chair? Does he still have a job?

Bobby Walker is a New York Young Republicans Vice Chair and former communications director to Long Island Republican Peter Oberacker. He’s currently Oberacker’s campaign manager for Pete’s NY State Senate run.  Bobby, amongst other wildly stupid and indefensible things, joked about rape being “epic,” I think, with a campaign manager like Bobby, Pete can kiss that Senate seat good bye.

Looks like Peter Giunta, Bobby’s fellow NY Vice Chair, and their General Council, Joe Maligno, are unemployed now as well.

Giunta has pledged his love for Hitler, called fellow Young Republicans in other states faggots (Minnesota), inbred cow fuckers (Arkansas), fat, stinky Jews (Maryland), and said Rhode Island Young Republicans were “traitorous cunts who I will eradicate from the face of this planet.” Gee, he seems…stable. 

Arizona Young Republicans chair Luke Mosiman posted a comment encouraging the sexual assault of Giunta’s rival, Young Republican National Federation chair Hayden Padgett.

I can’t find anything at all on Annie KayKaty apart for the fact that she said “I’m ready to watch people burn now.” What a charmer.

Michael Bartels, is employed within the Trump administration (what a shocker) as a senior adviser in the office of general counsel within the U.S. Small Business Administration. He didn’t add anything heinous to the chats but neither did he object. You know the old saying, if a group of nine people sits with one Nazi, and they don't protest, then there are 10 Nazis at the table.

These hate mongering, full of themselves, asswipes are the future of the Republican party. I’m guessing that Stephen Miller is making phone calls and collecting resumes as I write this. 

Freedom is a constant struggle, not a destination.
~ Angela Davis

Honor Twist

What is the Presidential Medal of Freedom? It’s the:

…Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. (source) 

Recipients of the medal include:

Joe Medicine Crow – the last war chief of the Crow Nation, a World War II hero, writer, historian and the last living person with a direct oral history from a participant of the Battle of Little Bighorn (AKA the Battle of Greasy Grass) in 1876. 

Stephen Hawking – theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and frequent guest star on The Simpsons.

Maya Angelou – author, poet, performer, and civil rights activist. 

Margaret Hamilton – director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. She led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Guidance Computer for the Apollo program.

Medgar Evers – civil rights activist, soldier, and the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi. He was assassinated in 1963, at the age of 37, by white supremacists.

Ellen Ochoa – engineer, former astronaut, and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993, she became the first Latina in space when she served on a nine-day mission on the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Later today President Pedo will posthumously award that bigoted moldy turnip, Charlie Chiclets this highest civilian honor. Totally par for the course given that old Stinky handed out the Medal to right-wing clowns like Devin Nunes (but, strangely, not his cow), Gym (please-abuse-my-teen-wrestlers) Jordan, Antonin Scalia, and total hate mongering fuckwad, Rush Limbaugh. The Kiddie Rapist in Chief is also planning hand one out to his little purse-dog, Rudy Colludy but the date’s not set as yet.

What else could we possibly have expected from an imbecilic toadstool (not to diss perfectly lovely toadstools, mind you), who has the emotional maturity of a desperately insecure, mollycoddled 12 year old. Prez Epstein File rewards his heroes, crushes, and most faithful lickspittles.

Funnily enough, he twice tried to give Dolly Parton the Medal of Freedom. The first time she declined was because her husband was sick. She couldn't leave his side. The second time was due to COVID (not wanting to travel and be around a bunch of plague rats?). What’s she gonna say if he tries again? Thank you but I’m washing my hair that day?

Bill Belichick, the New England Patriots coach also turned Fart Man down but not until after ultra sore loser Trump unleashed his flying diarrheal monkeys on the Capital on January 6, 2021. I guess the coach was all fine and groovy with Donnie’s crimes before they got so obviously treason-y. Yup, old Bill would be in for some nasty publicity if he was seen getting too cozy with Traitor Trump. Bad for business. Gotta sell those sportsball tickets.

Froggies!

Alicia Lozano

Why isn’t  Donnie Demento visiting these supposedly war torn cities that he’s always blathering on about? Why is he in the Middle East instead? What’s that you say? He wanted to be in Israel for the release of the hostages taken by Hamas two years ago? It was a photo op. The Fanta Menace had to be there because it would make a great teevee moment for him. He’ll get lots of camera time.

Presidential priorities!

I guess actual war zones make better publicity shots than what’s happening in Portland.

I’m wondering – are the Portland protest frogs psychedelic? If you lick them, do you trip? I only mention it but LSD and Psilocybin have shown potential in easing the effects of Alzheimers. This could be beneficial for old Donnie.

And, naturally, this song’s in my head now.  Low Rider... 

Take a little trip, take a little trip
Take a little trip and see
Take a little trip, take a little trip
Take a little trip with me 

Has the Lying Lagoon of Loose Stools Administration tried to claim the Portland frogs, (which seem to be reproducing and mutating), are actually dangerous immigrant Poison Dart frogs from Central and South America? Not yet? Give 'em a minute.

Remember that time god ordered frogs to come up out of the Nile when Pharaoh was being such a heinous dick?

This is what the great Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials.
~  Exodus 8:1–4

What if, just WHAT IF there really IS a god and he/she/whatev's trying to save us from the vile, fallacious, greedheaded, insane barbarity of all things Trump and Trump adjacent?

Chris Pietsch

Portland called for an Emergency Naked Bike Ride. Despite the low temps folks were out there bravely, nakedly protesting with their biking helmets on.

SAFETY FIRST!

I only mention it but these are great ways to protest the utter inanity of Trump and his toadies. Fight their flaming lies and idiocy with sparkling, strong, balls out, ridicule and absurdity.

Things that have fallen off the headlines (or never made them) really fast:

• The South Carolina judge whose home was burned to the ground. 
• Governor Josh Shapiro’s home was firebombed on Passover.
• The staged assassination attempts on Trump. Look at the pics of the man's ear – there are plenty of recent shots. Cartilage doesn't regrow.  
• All the damned lynchings – Trey Reed, Cory Zukatis, Jayvon Givan, Javion Magee, Trevonte Shubert-Helton, Dennoriss Richardson to name a few. HELL no, I don't believe these men committed suicide by hanging themselves from trees!
• The assassination of Democratic Minnesota state rep Melissa Horton, her husband, dog and the attempted murder of her children. The same day, state senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were also shot and seriously injured in their home.

Vance Boelter, responsible for all this, has been arrested and indicted. He’d intended to murder a lot more people than that too. That night alone, he stopped by two other state legislators’ homes. And what’s the deal with his soon-to-be ex-wife? She was nailed, apparently making a run for the Canadian border with two handguns, roughly $10,000 in cash, and her and her kid’s passports. Why wasn’t she arrested as, at least, an accessory?

Our complacent, mostly doormat media isn’t gonna spend much, if any, time on anything that shines an unflattering light on Dear Leader and his vile administration. They don’t have the chutzpah of a naked bike rider in Oregon’s cold October rain or a person in a ridiculous inflatable frog costume. 

Windsday

Waddya know, for a lot of people, this is a three day weekend. Me? My job doesn’t give me regular days off – I snag ‘em when I can. What’s my gig? Recovery, staying alive and as strong and healthy as possible. Now that Plotkin and Doogie (I MUST remember to call him Dr. Miller to his face!!!) have cleared me for exercise, I’m getting back to it.

First things on the revised exercise routine list is buying shoes that fit better.

It’s normal for our feet to get bigger – wider and longer – as we age. It’s time for me to accept that I can no longer safely squeeze into a not-so-delicate size nine. //sigh// Lucky for me, metallic silver sneaks are back in fashion so I ordered up a pair. Also a pair of metallic silver penny loafers because – hey – these are very New Wave. Couldn’t you just see Debbie Harry or Ric Ocasek rocking a pair of these? Yes, yezzz, I'm still obsessed with the Silver Surfer. Dude had serious duende.

I don’t go out much AND I’m not a shoe whore so going up a size isn’t going to set me back. It’s annoying, though the online shopping was fun.

Meanwhile in Evil Family news, Stinky’s youngest, Lurch, at the inexperienced and dunderheaded age of 19 is now in the running to head up TikTok. Donnie Demento has gone full-blown Mob about it too. (Realistically, he was already there.)

"To all of those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big." 

The Trump family – they’re like the opioid pushing billionaire Sackler family only egregiously stupid, absolutely flagrant in their cruel criminality, profoundly thick and genetically ignorant. What’s desperately sad is that so many (i.e., ANY) people worship them, believing every lie.

Hunter S. Thompson was right:

America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So was George Carlin: 

Think of how dumb the average American is. Now think half of them are dumber than that!

In completely unsurprising news, Ron DeHaas’s son, Thomas Wideman, has been busted and charged with four counts of using computers to commit a crime, three counts of child sex abuse, and one count of accosting children for immoral purposes. Wideman, 38, was caught in a sting op. He thought he was going to hook up with a 14 year old girl – a child – but was met by cops and detectives instead. 

Who is Ron DeHaas? He’s the co-founder of Covenant Eyes, an anti-porn internet accountability software program. It’s the one that Holy Mike Johnson uses with his son, ya know, to keep them both pure or some such shit. Daddy DeHaas naturally bailed out his pedo son. 

I’m at the point (okay, okay – I’ve been at this point for number of years) where if someone tells me they’re a Christian, I’m immediately on my guard. I assume they’re of the Trump brand of christianity. You know, white supremacist misogynists who hate all those who dare to be different in any way. People incapable of understanding or living by their very own rule book. Fer instance:

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
~ Matthew 7:12

Walk it, don’t talk it. Know what these Republican christians are really good at? Creating atheists. 

Back to Wideman, a lot of child abusers were abused when they were young. I wonder who sexually abused him. Was it Daddy Covenant Eyes or Wideman’s biological father OR someone else entirely?

Randomosity

I woke up with that Fine Young Cannibals song, She Drives Me Crazy playing in my head. Who knows why. Catchy tune. Came out 37 years ago. oof.

 Roland Gift, FYC’s lead singer and heart, is near my age (shockingly). He's still handsome and still creative. From what I've read he seems like a cool dude.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
~ Dante Alighieri 

I’m by no means wise but I’m certainly annoyed. Why? Apart from all that loss of time shit, and just for starters, that ridiculous ex-chat show host for Fox just announced that Qatar will have an air force base in Idaho. All Qatar had to do to get it was bribe Bozo the Prez with a luxury Boeing 747 and let him build a golf course/beach resort in their country. He's such an easy mark.

I only mention it but the people of Qatar are almost exclusively Muslim. Islam is the official state religion of Qatar, and Sharia law is a main source of its legislation. Idaho is infamously Islamaphobic and a militia heaven. WHAT could possibly go wrong?

One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.
~ John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet 

This would explain why it’s so hard for me to lose weight, wouldn’t it? There’s so many of me in here – I'm a crowded house. On that note – I was weighed at both my doc appointments this week. Thursday’s scale results were a full seven pounds lighter than Wednesday’s VERY disappointing number. HOW can this be? Surely, I didn’t lose seven pounds overnight. If I did, can I do it again tonight? Please?

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. 
~ Douglas Coupland, Life After God 

Is this really so? I think being “broken” is different for every single person. The defining qualities and intensities vary. What it means to be “fixed” is different too. I mean, it’s clear that people like Miller, Noem, Trump, Vance, Leavitt – all of those dangerous, destructive, hate-filled fucks are light years beyond broken. A return to a reasonably functioning decent human state is ridiculously unlikely.

What about the rest of us? Some can be or are constantly in the process of being fixed. (me...I'm in that camp) How many of us truly stay broken forever? Being broken is just too damn boring and annoying.

Kintsugi comes to mind – the art of repairing broken pots by putting the pieces back together with lacquer mixed powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. 
~ Virginia Satir 

I’m reminded of the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi – the acceptance of plans going awry combined with discovering the beauty of imperfection and aging (if I’m understanding it accurately). There’s a melancholic peacefulness.

And it's all right now
I learned my lesson well
See, you can't please everyone
So you got to please yourself
~ Rick Nelson, Garden Party

SHE IS ALIVE!

Had my two big back to back doc appointments this week and the good news is that I’m getting old. That is, of course, also the not so awesome news. I’m now increasingly suffering the slings and arrows of maybe not so outrageous decrepitude. More or less. Kinda, sorta. All things considered and shit.

That swelling in my ankle? It’s something about my veins. Or Venus or Venus de Milo or some such. Dunno, I was kind of distracted by my new PCP’s flagrant youth and his astounding resemblance to a younger, dewy version of Matthew McConaughey (who is, by the by, 55 years old now – sheesh!).

Anyway, ankle diagnosis – something, something, something, venous insufficiency, neurogenic dependent edema and sensory loss secondary to peripheral neuropathy or autonomic dysfunction associated with NF2, or secondary lymphedema. Nothing to write home about. 

So, I’m getting compression socks (joy – those things are SO fucking homely!), changing up and expanding my workout routine, going up a half size on my damn sneaks and otherwise keeping an eye on things. I’m in no pain and my strength is unaffected – I’m good to go.

Jen and I came up with a great idea to make my walks a little easier. Our driveway and the sidewalk leading down to the seawall are tremendously uneven. They’re broken up by the tree roots who’ve triumphantly broken free of the cement and asphalt. While I totally applaud the trees’ persistence and success over man, the fucked up path is a wicked fall risk for yours balance-impaired truly. 

The solution? A human sized hamster ball that’s also a hovercraft. My running, within the ball, would generate electricity to power fans which would create a cushion of air between the ball and uneven ground. Once I reach the smooth surface of the seawall path, I could retract the fans and just walk (still within my hamster ball). This would also eliminate the problem of being in the same airspace as potential COVID and other assorted disease carriers.

Fab notion, eh?! (NB: Hamster balls are NOT a good idea for hamsters!)

When I met with Plotkin, we briefly talked about Michie, who had once been a patient of his (she switched to another neurologist in the same department at some point). She came up in part because I wanted to let him know that she’s gone but also because he always asks about my moods – my emotional health. This is an important aspect of managing a nasty-ass disease like NF2. If I’m sad, angry or otherwise in my feels all the time, I’m not doing all the things to make life with this curse happy, easier or, at least, less stupid, painful, and debilitating.

Naturally, Doc P couldn’t say much about Michie but he did tell me that my case, my curse, is not at the same level as hers was. I’m relieved AND I feel guilty about that relief. Of course I do, I was raised Catholic. I feel guilt about just about everything whether it makes any damn sense or not – usually it doesn’t.

Godzilla? Grim Reaper?
…close enough.

He also said that it’s normal to fear you’re next when another NF2 sufferer, a friend croaks. This, with Michie, is the first time I’ve honestly had the look-over-my-shoulder-to-see-if-the-Reaper-was-behind-me vibe. 

Anyway, Plotkin gave me a clean (for me) bill of health, has me down for another zillion MRIs (six months from now though), and talked with me about a test run for some new closed captioning eyeglasses. Something like this, I believe. He’s signing me up!

And once again, I’ve got Dylan playing on the old internal turntable. This morning’s selection is, unsurprisingly, It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding), specifically the line:

…he not busy being born is busy dying 

‘scuse me now – I gotta get busy being born...get busy staying in the process of being born? EWWWWWWW, sounds messy!