38 mass shootings in 24 days suggests a need for reevaluation. I do not trust the people elected to govern to do this reevaluation as they don't seem clear on law, history, governance, citizens' daily experience, or even gun mechanics. I don't have a solution. But this is self evidently not okay.
Does it bother the people found guilty of seditious conspiracy that the people who also ought to be charged with seditious conspiracy are instead running legislative committees? Or are they glad that some version of the storming of the capitol has been successful? Do they feel burned? Do they feel yay more insane racists to represent my views in the form of government I openly oppose? Loyalty to their immediate people, both cause and leadership an abstraction? What’s actually in their hearts?
dumpster diving alert: if you are in Brooklyn and want a more or less intact Nilus Leclerc Dorothy 24" 4 shaft table loom, I saw it in a dumpster outside 570 4th St, 11215.
EDIT: loom is now inaccessible or gone, see next post. Please don't boost this any more.
Covid day 15. Can work with many naps. Miss other humans. When I let myself think about it, I seethe in fury at being really sick for a fortnight and having zero neighbor support, for the second time in 3 years. There is a better way to,live, and I will find it. But not today. Kid completely recovered, which is, of course, nothing to sneeze at. But I will!
I sort of get plague fatigue now. I sort of get why people have just decided this is no longer an issue.
I have been sick for almost two weeks. I’m lonely and miss my boyfriend and I need help.
I would like to say — hey, I’ve done my part but now this positive result is becoming an inconvenience. I mean, I’m not saying that, but I want to.
It is extremely unfun being this sick. I am completely freaked out by how much work I need to do that I’m not doing. I did however manage to take care of an equally sick kid who is now better, and 10,000 pets.
Also I need to find a place and way to live that makes up for the fact that I have no family or community-minded neighbors.
But not today.
Ancient Sumerian Sex
So now I can finally share some Sumerian erotica
This is A kunĝar to Inana aka Ploughing With The Jewels. It starts off with Inana and her husband Dumuzid having an argument that basically boils down to "My dad could beat up your dad" but the arousal of lively debate soon becomes physical arousal. Ploughing here is used as a metaphor for coitus, which is still pretty intelligible to us today. A little less obvious are the jewels, which refer to Dumuzid's semen.
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.4.08.09
I am inky and impatient; a writer of books such as Corrido and Flea Circus and coming soon Klingon Confidential. You can find my recent nonfiction here https://www.hilobrow.com/author/mkeifetz/. I teach writing in a media studies department. I get dogs and they get me. Other creatures not so much.