stand with ukraine wine

Oh, grow up. I know which of my friends would buy this shit.

Activism through wine drinking. 😂

80’s friendship memory

Thinking about Chrysler/Dodge (something I wrote elsewhere), decades ago the woman who worked the door at the big gay nightclub on Arnold Street (Wham/Encore!) asked me if she could take me out to lunch the next day in her new car. She wanted me to see it.

She was real sweet, and we liked each other, but I assumed I was just another one of the thousands of faces she saw at the door. Why me?

Even though I didn’t understand the invitation, I readily accepted. She showed up the next day at my place in her new Dodge Diplomat.

It was nice, and I paid many compliments to her for the kind invitation and her car purchase.

All the while I was asking myself who TF would buy a 1980’s Dodge Diplomat, especially a new one. I thought it was weird. Not my car, not my purchase, so if that’s what she wanted, I was pleased for her.

We had a nice lunch out. Fun! Wonderful woman who seemed to care a lot about people. I think she was straight but did tons to see the crowd through the 80’s AIDS horrors.

https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Dodge_Diplomat

we are programmed to receive

pink champagne (sparkling wine) on ice
we are all just prisoners here
of our own device

mastodon / twitter

I just want to connect with people.

With the controversies happening over Twitter (IDGAF, really), a lot of people are trying Mastodon, which can kinda/sorta resemble it.

I’ve been on Mastodon for awhile. I can be great. It can be tedious. It takes some work and getting used to. I access through a very nice “instance” (server) that I found after several that didn’t work out.

I use a web browser on desktop and the Tusky app on mobile.

Holler if you want to find me on Mastodon.

Simpler information:

https://joinmastodon.org

More detailed information:

https://mastodon.help/en

retekess shortwave radio

Super secret $20 Chinese spy radio just in from Amazon. It might be a threat to democracy. Not sure.

play store “news” app suggestions

Google Play Store:

NPR and NBC as app suggestions. OhhKay. 🙄

claxton fruit cake

Sitting here nibbling on a Claxton fruit cake.

It says to serve chilled. Helps to take the bite out of it.

Good or bad, they are certainly available.

fitness walk to liquor store

The supermarket salad, plus walking to get all of it, makes this a real health and fitness maneuver. Those bottles are heavy.

It brought out my rippling biceps to carry all that. 🏋️🍸

(image: bottle of triple sec, bottle of amaretto, box of salad)

city recycle

“If you contaminate recycling three times within a six-month period, your recycling cart will be removed for non-compliance with recycling guidelines.”

I’d be OK with that. I’m not rinsing things out nor driving glass in a car to a recycle station.

war huh – ¿para que sirve?

Subversive! Lock me up.

These recently arrived to my house.

— What Every Person Should Know About War

— The Greatest Evil is War

Both by Christ Hedges. I have read several of his books. His work with incarcerated people is good.

Chris Hedges: ‘The Greatest Evil is War’ at consortium news