Yes, that’s from Emily Dickinson, and it’s about winter, but tonight I’m wondering if summer twilight ever makes you melancholy? It does me. “The light of evening, Lissadell, Great windows open to the south, Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful, one a gazellle:.” Yeats is remembering Eva and Constance Gore-Booth, and evenings he spent … Continue reading A Certain Slant of Light →

So now we have a Harvard Alum in the family and she’s getting Harvard Magazine. But she ain’t home right now, so..we’re getting it. The cover story is Defeating Disinformation. ok, no, I can’t read it all. I got as far as “..so when Stop the steal turned violent on January 6…” Oh riiiight, the … Continue reading What does “disinformation “ mean and how is it different from LYING? →

…..that’s what king Lear says when one of his termagant daughters breaks it to him that she wants him to give up his retinue of knights ‘n’ squires and jolly good fellows in whose company he’s used to cavorting around. The daughters have to feed and house this crowd every time dad visits, and even … Continue reading Reason Not The Need! →

He’s BAAAAAAACK!! Didja see Trump last night in Ohio? Didja see the overflow crowd? Who else could draw a crowd like that on a sweltering summer day in a non-election year? It was a reminder that Covid elected Ol’Jo[k]e. (And sooo, right on cue, the WHO is now telling us we hafta mask up again … Continue reading The Don’s Early Light →

I know what these things are. They aren’t craft, they’re creatures. We don’t even know what kind of fantastic life forms live on the ocean floor. ( More people have been in space than to the ocean floor.) Lok at the playful, capricious way these things behave! They’re like hummingbirds, or like insects drawing near … Continue reading UFO report →

..in my experience at least. This morning I was rereading some of our old posts and comments. I think we’ve boldly gone where no man has gone before. And I do mean “man”: we have had various no-holds-barred discussions about masculinity and femininity in which I don’t think any other gents of my cyber acquaintance … Continue reading Ain’t No Blog like OUR Blog →

okay I’m lazy and just…so battered by Bidenitis…can anybody just TELL me: is the “For the People” act, which would have federalize election law and guaranteed Dem hegemony— is it dead? Is this over? Did we, thanks to the efforts of GOP senators, actually win sump’n? And, please take pity and answer yes or no, … Continue reading Am I Dreaming? →

Mortality sucks. Who set things up this way? So we can love and love—and still lose? Does love ever save anybody? ( I mean, even save ‘em for a little while, of course, since we’re all mortal ). Maybe from suicide, it can, but probably only if love itself caused the suicidal despair. When we … Continue reading Hurts So Good →

Um, yuh. You won’t believe this, but I admit to not liking certain peoples and customs just because they’re different from you and me! I know, right? This is absolute anathema, the worst thing I could say. Truly hopeless! Depraved. Jurassic. Well..I don’t give a fuck! This is promoted by an article I just read … Continue reading “Just Because They Aren’t Like Us..” →