fascinating Guardian story (from 2017!) about the astounding amount of planning for this somber day: ‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
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a modern-day witch casting spells in front of the BBC & everyone: Florence + the Machine, Free
The Guardian: Barbara Ehrenreich, author who resisted injustice, dies aged 81
“She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.”
Goldfrapp, Road to Somewhere
Walking down the Mercer Street, been a long hot summer
Rain like daggers coming down on me
Get a feeling it’s too late, but alone, together
Could be we might start it up all over again
Saturday’s beer: Brouwerij Bosteels’ Tripel Karmeliet
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lovely evening for some soccer
The Onion: Underwhelming Fantasy Novel Starts With Map Of Ohio
Huber Heights, hell yeah
donated to Movement Voter Project’s Texas Fund. really like their emphasis on building for the long-term, beyond the next election (but also hope this helps the next election 😅)
no, you watched Valley Girl tonight
is this movie in 3D?
no, but your face is
I’m not a “self-motivation hard-case”, as he calls it, but the feeing of escape from giving up on something tough described in this Raptitude post is one I can sure recognize. what an insight
this piece about “people recalibrating their relationships to their jobs” was ok, but what struck me was disagreeing with Maeve here:
Maeve… worries that she will never earn enough. “A hardback book is 20 quid, a pint is a fiver – so many pleasures in life are so expensive.”
new post: One Year On: How We Do It, in which I acknowledge that it’s been a year since our tragic loss, and try to give a more full answer to “how are you, really?” than I can in casual conversation
amazing. ‘Like a public shaming’: a night with the eco-activists deflating SUV tires
“Why do you need an SUV, especially in New York? It’s a vanity thing. You have freedom of choice, sure, but you don’t have freedom from consequences.”
new from Metric: Doomscroller
is a 10 & a half minute song a little long, especially for the first song on the album? NOPE
I can’t seem to shut it down
until the worst is over
& it’s never over
Saturday’s beer: Chile Line Brewery’s Salty Dog Stout
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solid, but a little smokier than I like
a beautiful summer day, albeit on the warm side, waiting for the salmon on the grill
mind. blown. The secret history of the anti-abortion movement:
debates around abortion have been entangled with race panic from the start. The fight to criminalise abortion may have successfully passed itself off as a moral crusade, but its origins are rooted in a political one
finished Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear 📚 thought it might be pretty woo-woo, and I wasn’t wrong, actually. but it’s also pragmatic and canny, and the writing is so pleasant to spend time with. really liked it; it’s a keeper
Saturday’s beer: Chile Line Brewery’s Stoked
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A souvenir from New Mexico: appreciative of the thought but not a fan of smoky
You can take away a right through legal means, but you cannot take away the belief in that right so easily
Rebecca Solnit, Women’s rights have suffered a grim setback. But history is still on our side
Saturday’s beer: Lorelei Brewing’s The Mer-Dude
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brought this Russian imperial coffee milk stout back from our recent trip to Corpus Christi. good stuff
Warpaint, Champion 🎵
Elif Batuman, in Either/Or:
“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past”: I didn’t like when people used “sweet” about non-sensory experiences. Why were we in my mouth all of a sudden?
Lazy Beach Brewing’s Molinillo
“Mexican Hot Chocolate Milk Stout” -> yes… “Ancho chilis, cayenne” -> mmm, a bit much
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Mustang Island, TX
sunset, Mustang Island, TX
Saturday’s late-night music video: Lorde, Supercut 🎵
in my head I do everything right
Saturday’s beer: (512) Brewing’s (512) Tripel
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love a good tripel, and this is a good tripel 🍺
finished reading The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O’Connor 📚 it was interesting to read a book backed by science that supports & explains much of what we’ve learned elsewhere about grief. thinking of grieving as a special kind of learning is a key point
Saturday #2’s beer: Dogfish Head Brewery’s Utopias Barrel-Aged World Wide Stout
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this is the stuff 🍺
“Saturday”’s beer: (512) Brewing’s Gin Barrel Wit 🍺
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Jenny Lewis, The Next Messiah (live) 🎵
if we ever have to justify to aliens that they shouldn’t wipe out Earth, I say we just show them Jenny Lewis. case closed