IN OTHER NEWS - Yes, this Thursday the 10th, I will reveal my menu and ice sculpture techniques, since I got so many impatient questions from you about how I won my artistic battle of the freezer on July 4th. . . . I thought I’d also catch up on Thursday with what I’ve been reading and watching this summer. I was asked to serve on 2 film juries, (Frameline and Jewish Film Fest) which is such a treat, and I have a couple of highlights to share. … Birding News: is there any greater pleasure than finding a road that’s been washed out for 2 years with no repair in sight, which then becomes a home for an abandoned telephone pole, aka, perfect osprey nest? Plus eagles clocking nearby trying to steal, steal, steal! Raptors like this are not everyday where I live. I plopped down on a broken patio chair I found in the bushes near the lagoon, and had the best Sunday I’ve had in a long time. The leftover pork same from our bbq may have helped! Also, Starling, you left your Dead bottle here and Larry, the Sun Ra bootleg is on constant rotation in the car, which is best CD player I’ve still got.
One of the interesting things I’ve been reading lately is a history of how “home swimming pools” proliferated not because of the wholesome intentions you might guess, but because in the 60s, thousands of public pools got drained and closed due to hysteria about “integration” — black and white kids sharing the same swim lanes. Same with private swim clubs, they also skyrocketed after segregation was banned.
Why the pleasure of swimming , which I love so much, has been blighted by the “toilet fears” that grip Americans in all their bigotries— makes me endlessly sick.
Did you know?— this is NEW— that the entire Master’s Swimming organization in North American, has banned “trans” participation in their programs and competitions?
Yeah, that’s what’s wrong with swimming these days, right? FUCK YOU MASTERS. Are there going to be locker room checks now to make sure I’m a real all-American woman? I’m so disgusted.
Great piece! I note the milk carton you feature shows Johnny Gosch as the top profile of the two kids. He went missing in Des Moines, IA, and if my memory serves, was the first missing kid to be featured on a milk carton. Anderson Erickson Dairy is/was a Des Moines area based dairy. Their campaign was so successful at getting exposure that it was quickly replicated nationwide. I don’t believe he has been located to date.
What yanks me by the Fine Hairs is how conservatives/Republicans have always-and-everywhere possessed the unholy need to find an enemy to be dubbed "The Other," to be used as a tool to foment fear and loathing among those for whom critical thinking isn't nearly as exciting as horseshoes and NASCAR. The segregation issue was no longer gaining ground, so they chose abortion as the new target. After that, Anita Bryant preached "Gays bad, Florida oranges good." Now the trans community is in the crosshairs for no reason save that they are "different" plus it garners votes from uncompromisingly ignorant, and we all know the Right deals with diversity. If I asked these pathetic MAGA minions to describe exactly what harm comes to them-and-theirs from gay and trans humans, I would get either biblical nonsense or some word-salad-based non-answer about traumatizing their children---much akin to how the specter of gay marriage threatened their own shaky matrimony.
All this from a spray-on clown who leers at own daughter.
IN OTHER NEWS - Yes, this Thursday the 10th, I will reveal my menu and ice sculpture techniques, since I got so many impatient questions from you about how I won my artistic battle of the freezer on July 4th. . . . I thought I’d also catch up on Thursday with what I’ve been reading and watching this summer. I was asked to serve on 2 film juries, (Frameline and Jewish Film Fest) which is such a treat, and I have a couple of highlights to share. … Birding News: is there any greater pleasure than finding a road that’s been washed out for 2 years with no repair in sight, which then becomes a home for an abandoned telephone pole, aka, perfect osprey nest? Plus eagles clocking nearby trying to steal, steal, steal! Raptors like this are not everyday where I live. I plopped down on a broken patio chair I found in the bushes near the lagoon, and had the best Sunday I’ve had in a long time. The leftover pork same from our bbq may have helped! Also, Starling, you left your Dead bottle here and Larry, the Sun Ra bootleg is on constant rotation in the car, which is best CD player I’ve still got.
One of the interesting things I’ve been reading lately is a history of how “home swimming pools” proliferated not because of the wholesome intentions you might guess, but because in the 60s, thousands of public pools got drained and closed due to hysteria about “integration” — black and white kids sharing the same swim lanes. Same with private swim clubs, they also skyrocketed after segregation was banned.
Why the pleasure of swimming , which I love so much, has been blighted by the “toilet fears” that grip Americans in all their bigotries— makes me endlessly sick.
Did you know?— this is NEW— that the entire Master’s Swimming organization in North American, has banned “trans” participation in their programs and competitions?
Yeah, that’s what’s wrong with swimming these days, right? FUCK YOU MASTERS. Are there going to be locker room checks now to make sure I’m a real all-American woman? I’m so disgusted.
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2021/02/15/public-pools-used-to-be-everywhere-in-america-then-racism-shut-them-down
Great piece! I note the milk carton you feature shows Johnny Gosch as the top profile of the two kids. He went missing in Des Moines, IA, and if my memory serves, was the first missing kid to be featured on a milk carton. Anderson Erickson Dairy is/was a Des Moines area based dairy. Their campaign was so successful at getting exposure that it was quickly replicated nationwide. I don’t believe he has been located to date.
Whoa, Sunset, good catch!
There are books and movies. It’s quite a convoluted tale of intrigue, and a mystery that remains unsolved.
What yanks me by the Fine Hairs is how conservatives/Republicans have always-and-everywhere possessed the unholy need to find an enemy to be dubbed "The Other," to be used as a tool to foment fear and loathing among those for whom critical thinking isn't nearly as exciting as horseshoes and NASCAR. The segregation issue was no longer gaining ground, so they chose abortion as the new target. After that, Anita Bryant preached "Gays bad, Florida oranges good." Now the trans community is in the crosshairs for no reason save that they are "different" plus it garners votes from uncompromisingly ignorant, and we all know the Right deals with diversity. If I asked these pathetic MAGA minions to describe exactly what harm comes to them-and-theirs from gay and trans humans, I would get either biblical nonsense or some word-salad-based non-answer about traumatizing their children---much akin to how the specter of gay marriage threatened their own shaky matrimony.
All this from a spray-on clown who leers at own daughter.
THANK YOU!