Welcome to my writing page! I write about things I care about, which may or may not be the things you care about… if it’s important, please be assured that I do not bring my views into my other work, vocal lessons, etc. : )
How did we get here? The adults are supposed to be driving this thing
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Stand up straight and walk Whatever bounces, bounces Whatever sways, sways
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BANANA Yellow, touch of brown You are perfect, to eat now Tomorrow, too late
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My name is Lori My name is Lori Lynner But don’t wear it out
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My name is Lori My name is Lori Lynner Who the fuck are you?
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POLITICS
Facebook, December 2020:
I know everyone is probably/understandably not in the mood to read a rant about political discourse right now, but in the immortal words of Strangers With Candy’s Jerri Blank, “I got somethin’ to say!”
Sometimes I tune in to F*x News to see what they’re talking about. The other day I subjected myself to a bit of Lou D*bbs, who still enjoys calling himself a journalist. He interviewed a conservative woman in the midwest who had received some threatening emails after the election, then made a sweeping condemnation of the perpetrators as liberals/rioters/looters/traitors… I’m surprised he didn’t call them demons, or at least Satanists. Then he encouraged viewers to go to his website, which he said was for “patriots only” and buy stuff like his new book “The Tr*mp Century”, which he said was “just wonderful.”
I also recently saw Tr*mp’s press secretary and Scary Barbie K. McEn*ny defend the White House holiday parties, where most people are unmasked, by saying “if you can loot businesses, burn down buildings, engage in protest, you can also go to a Christmas party.” WTF? Is she saying “we’ll show YOU the right way to spread Covid!”
My point is this: if we don’t want our country to continue to slide into an “Idiocracy” (thank you, Mike Judge!) we have to make our words count, and make sense. We have to address the actual questions, and give real answers. We need to stick to the subject. Not spin off, and make sweeping assertions, and obfuscate, and make a bunch of bullshit noise. We need to hold everyone accountable, even those that are on “our side.” We will all benefit from trying to be as intellectually honest as possible.
Do it for the damn children.
POEMS
Ode to Ron Glass
I didn’t know you I liked your smile and your eyes On the 70s T.V. show When I was a kid Finding my sense of humor
I haven’t thought of you In many years But now so many later You are gone
Funny The words you said Written by someone else Followed by a laugh track Brought to life by you
Funny The memory I have Not replaced by something else Your color, your voice From a small, vintage screen Could be so large
Funny I didn’t know you But you linger in my heart and mind
