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I heard Rick Derringer's Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo cover on satellite radio this morning. And I immediately thought that the only person I "know" who might have an anecdote related to that song is @lifesgrandparade.

#one hit wonders #rick derringer

There is a narrow planter box along two sides of the patio that is above the garage. GLP and I rebuilt half of it last fall because it was falling apart. We haven't had great success with veggies in the boxes so this year we decided to plant a bunch of zinnias.

All of the tallest ones were started from seed in the spring. The lower bushier ones we got at the garden center around Mothers' Day.

#zinnia

What do we call complaining about people who complain?

"Social media"?

#complaining

It’s not about warmth or a soft pillow. The real reason your dog sleeps pressed against you goes back tens of thousands of years, to a promi

This isn't a surprise to me but it was a feel good read in a dark world.

All of my dogs since Heike (mid-20s) have slept in bed with me: Heike, Hilde, Happy, Buddy, Hobbes, Yoko, and Fiia. Some of them starting out in bed and moving to the floor.

Thinking about Heike...she would start out the night in the bed and move to a dog bed on the floor after an hour or so. Most nights I wake up at around 3am and then fall back asleep (sometimes after ruminating for a bit). Whenever I would wake at 3am and open my eyes to check the time, Heike was nearly always standing at the side of the bed very still and she was looking at me. I would pat her head and she would very quietly walk back over to her dog bed and lay down to go back to sleep.

#dogs

I'm not a regular instagram user just because it wasn't something I was very interested in rather than from some sort of moral argument.

I don't use facebook.

I use WhatsApp a little bit for specific groups of people where that is the only communication platform.

But whenever Meta/Zuckerberg behaves in a shitty way it is a reminder that participation in those platforms funds that bad behavior. It's why Zuckerberg has a compound and a plane and enough cash to donate to the authoritarian administration to grease the skids for their continued bad behavior.

#ugh

Bde Maka Ska last night at about 7:30pm. The smoke was still settling over us. We are on the west side of the plume and we seem to be getting sort of waves from horrible to not so bad but it all smells like burning wood.

Probably not the best night to sail on my friend Eric's boat but it didn't look so bad when we left for the lake.

The mood seems to match with the slow rolling political / governmental apocalypse that is unfolding.

#smoke #bde maka ska

I didn't see the game yesterday but just looked at a 2min highlights video and it seemed like they were really stretching to find bright spots for the French side.

#world cup

Examining the techno-libertarian heroism that's unravelling our world

Our world was built by and for The Hero’s myth. That myth is a myth of initiation through trials, death, descent and ultimate victory. It’s the myth of a lone man, cast out from normalcy and tasked to prove himself. But colonialism has populated its wilds. Modernity has neutered the lineages and life-ways that once held its initiatory core intact. Hollywood and Marvel put the hero on a dopamine treadmill. And, late stage capitalism gutted his moral heart. There’s is a particular version of the hero’s journey being told at civilizational scale — through the escapades of tech billionaires and political elites and the ideologies of those who believe that intelligence confers the right to power. It’s a Hero’s Journey that sounds and tastes like the well worn monomyth. It moves through the same sequence of wound and calling, descent and return, ordeal and apotheosis that Joseph Campbell mapped in the myths of a hundred cultures. But something has happened to it on the way through the machine. It became the story of the techno-libertarian, the surveillance capitalist authoritarian, the power-drunk narcissist convinced he is the hero of his own story, regardless of who he tramples on the way to the top. The grammar is intact; the values have inverted.

This is very, very good.

#samantha sweetwater #hero's journey #coopted

Pesto from the herb pot in three acts.

Served the GF pasta/pesto with grilled lamb loin chops and a simple lettuce salad.

#what's for dinner

Our wonderful next door neighbor, Julie, is gone for two weeks to be at her cabin with her daughter and son-in-law. It is also the height of raspberry ripening and she has quite a patch. She was having a neighbor friend pick for her and that person is out of town this weekend so I picked today and got about a pint of these beauties.

#raspberry

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Trying to keep up with our amazing first world culture!

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As you might imagine from the New Yorker, it's a really well written, informative article with a subtext about perimenopausal and menopausal women and the confusing and limited healthcare options they have.

#new yorker

Trying to keep up with our amazing first world culture!

#new yorker

Calling @trinilikesalt! How are you feeling about a Spain Belgium being even at half?

#world cup

We are most of the way through Season 5 of The Bear. I thought the season had a rocky start with the writers going for the easy plays. But I thought they got their footing by Episode 3 and the conversation between Richie and Carm in Episode 4 is some of the best writing I've seen in a very well written show.

Richie: "Be a fucking human being. Ask somebody how they are doing. Tell them they're nice. I don't know."

Amazing commentary on how much we are with other people but we act like we are alone, on our own islands. And there is so much tenderness in it.

There's a scene with Sydney and Richie in Ep 6 that also is so beautifully done. It's a standoff and both soften, just a little, and Richie knows he fucked up and Sydney knows he fucked up doing his best.

So many great characters. Delicate scenes about having to hold the memory of trauma and the love at the same time.

Two episodes left and we will likely see them tonight.

#the bear #season 5

You have a decent chunk of cheese in the fridge and when you unwrap it you see a bit of bluish surface mold on the face (not just the rind). What is your response?

I act like a toddler and throw the whole chunk away.

I act like an adult and cut off the mold and eat the rest of the cheese.

I don't eat cheese for cultural/spiritual/animal welfare/food sensitivity reason

Voting ended onJul 13

#cheese

Why we lose

I had never heard of Dave Portnoy but he is wrong. And so is Chris Cillizza (who's journalism I know and like).

I think the US youth development is not as bad as what is being portrayed in the article. We might be biasing for size but I'm not sure that is really a problem. Well over half of the USMNT play in top European leagues (more than Mexico, more than Canada). The quality of play for MLS has improved immensely in the last decade or so.

I think what everyone gets wrong about US soccer is that progress to winning a World Cup is linear and that the US should always be a top contender. That the quarterfinals, semifinals, or finals is ours to take. That money always buys championships. And that when we don't advance to the quarterfinals it's time to wring our hands and talk about the failure of US soccer.

I think the USMNT did great. Look at the other teams that washed out in the round where they lost. They played a flat game in a knockout round in the midst of a stupid scandal. They showed some brilliance in the qualifying round. They wanted to go farther. But it was a good showing.

It's US exceptionalism.

#usmnt