You can get so concerned that your mind starts to raceAs you doomscroll your feed at a break-necking paceAnd grind on for hours with your phone in your faceHeaded, I fear, toward a most useless place:The Waiting Place. …for people just waiting.Waiting for the plague to goOr the curve to bend, or the deaths to growOr the votes to count,… Read more »
We live in a trick-or-treating mecca. Perhaps the trick-or-treating mecca. Our Denver neighborhood, Central Park, is absolute insanity every October 31. Each year, we estimate (based on our candy count) how many trick-or-treaters we got — and from 2011 through 2016, that number was consistently between 1,000 and 1,250+ trick-or-treaters. You can see the madness for yourself in my time-lapse… Read more »
BIDEN ADVISERS:🎵 It might be nice, it might be niceTo have Dubya on your side 🎵 TRUMP ADVISERS:🎵 Think less (Trump!)Lie more (Trump!)Don’t let them know the ’rona had you close to death’s door (Trump!) PENCE:🎵 Shake hands with him (Trump!)Infect her (Trump!) TRUMP:🎵 It’s 2020, chumps!Take off your masksAnd vote for Trump! LEFTISTS:🎵 I don’t like BidenYeah, but Bernie lost. That’s just defeatist.And… Read more »
Ballots go out today in Colorado. So, here’s a friendly Public Service Announcement, in the all-caps parlance of the ‘roid-raging superspreader-in-chief: ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOUR MORE YEARS! VOTE! (FOR JOE!) Some of you see Biden as the “lesser evil.” I disagree, but I get it; I’ve felt that way in past elections. However, relying on other people to vote… Read more »
My initial thread on this topic, from Monday evening: I’ve tried to resist the more speculative theories… but the “information” and stonewalling from the WH has become so manifestly sketchy, I just can’t anymore. So anyway, with that said… this is interesting https://t.co/mmJgotRhyf — Mile High Brendan (@MileHighBrendan) October 6, 2020 I keep circling back to my tweets from last… Read more »
So … I haven’t posted anything here in like four months … I let my lockdown diaries blog project wither & die … I have plenty of nuanced, longer-form thoughts about a variety of important topics that I would theoretically like to blog about, but I never simultaneously have both the time and the motivation … etc., etc. … But… Read more »
I dreamed last night that I turned on the TV and saw, to my surprise, that the men’s basketball national championship game was happening — between a major-conference team (I think Villanova?) and, shockingly, the Lafayette Leopards, out of the Patriot League. Lafayette’s stunning participation aside, I was surprised to see a title game happening at all, because, even in the… Read more »
Monday, March 16 Day 4 of my Pandemic Lockdown was also, in a sense, Day 1 of the New Normal: the first weekday with the kids home from school, and me officially working from home for the foreseeable future — thanks to Sunday’s e-mails from my employer, which had flipped normal work-attendance practices on their head by indicating that I… Read more »
Friday, April 10 With Easter two days away, and Becky at home for the second straight day (after four E.R. shifts in five days from Saturday-Wednesday), she and the younger girls did some egg-decorating Friday morning, using the Cool Whip & food coloring method: Whipped cream was featured again at dinner time, atop the 8-year-old dessert chef’s jello creation: In… Read more »
Thursday, April 9 The coolest thing on Thursday was the 8pm howl, which our seventh-grader & I experienced (and participated in) from Greenway Park in Stapleton, where we could hear the howling more loudly than from our front porch. Here’s a video: Earlier Thursday, it was Day 3 of DPS’s official online school, and I snapped some pictures of the… Read more »
