Never quite got the hang of my Monday. The morning was filled with life’s little indignities. Like taking out the trash only to have the bag full of USED CAT LITTER tear open all over my icy back steps. And when I’d cleaned up that mess and made my way to the garbage bins in the alley…they were frozen shut. Felt like that really set the tone for the day. Good thing I chose to hunker down and work from home.
How about five good things?
- I’ve seen many of these before, but still: 12 Real Animals We Can’t Believe Aren’t Pokémon
- Kate Beaton of Hark A Vagrant brought me back to Janet Jackson’s “Nasty” (Nasty Boys). The comic is brilliant. And that 80s era Ms. Jackson is the one that is flash frozen in my mind. But my boyfriend was born the year after that song was a hit and missed out on its ubiquitousness. But I’d never seen / heard this era of Janet, or whoa, this.
- Listened to this new Kurt Vile song a few times over. Lovely.
- Last week’s news but it’s still got me scratching my head: “Hacked George W Bush paintings help us inch (slightly) towards empathy“
- Speaking of misguided “leaders” yesterday I woke to the news about the pope resigning. And so many pope jokes on twitter. And The Onion nailing it with this piece: “Resigning Pope No Longer Has Strength To Lead Church Backward” And this amazing Pope Vader portrait on pinterest.
I could probably benefit from a SAD lamp. The mid-winter February blues have hit me hard all of a sudden. Can’t afford any kind of get away right now. Well, only in my mind. And as much as I detest the prolonged heat and humidity I’m daydreaming about summertime. In happy fun summer news, Northern Spark is moving to St. Paul in June. I know I need to live in the NOW and all that jazz, even if the now is a frozen filthy slush-filled tundra. But it helps to have things to look forward to as well.
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