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badgerbagSemantics, Gender, and 'Cis' - a very good post!
Fredrick Douglass speech from 1852 4th of July! Great!
Yesterday hung out all morning wiht rae_beta. We poked around in the garden. I was walking super well and am really, really happy with that. Actually I"m a bit terrified to lose it, because it was convenient and I get to beetle around so much quicker doing things as they occur to me to do instead of planning "getting up now" trips out of bed. I folded a million loads of laundry and fixed the dishwasher and put stuff away and then we made wreaths out of lavender and gossiped. By the time we hit the salvadorean place for late lunch I was back in the wheelchair. Then I had a nap, she took off, Rook came home, Moomin came home, Zond-7 came over, Rook fell asleep.
Zond7 and I went out to see his current favorite comedian (or one of them) Maria Bamford in San Jose. She was even better in person than in video clips! I highly recommend you go and see her or watch a whole DVD length performance ! She was great! David Garcia was very good too. I wasn't too into the other guy Larry something, though he did okay. Z. has spent months looking at comedian clips and so I have benefited from his massive effort of filtering and only have to watch Stew Lee, Maria Bamford, and Tig Nataro. Other good ones will be reported as discovered!
We thought about hanging around San JOse to analyze its weird trying to be cool "scene" but were both too tired to stay out. Came home and I had sort of a fight with Rook. That's all I'm going to say about that I guess. This morning we all went off to the parade which was amazing as always. There are so many different and often slightly pathetic parade participants. Like there'll be two people holding up a banner and then a little knot of other people behind them. Maybe with funny hats on or deelybobbers or riding in a classic car with the name of a local business hung off the back. There were shriners in little cars (and segways) and marching bands and girls with batons, a slightly smaller than usual falun dafa contingent, a lot of small groups of either military branches or odd "Lodge" or veterans groups (my favorite definitely the pearl harbor survivors on top of a huge truck, all very old, happy, and wearing hawaiian shirts) The floats this year weren't as good as some previous years - the theme was Music and somehoe that didn't lend itself to extravagant floats. the best was the one done up like a fake pink cadillac with fins, a jukebox, actual human dancers, giant root beer float, burger, hot dog, and fries. Like, each fry a huge foam thing as big as a person. Hilarious. That was the only float that could rival the best year which was Highway 280 where every one made floats with landmarks from the highway. And isn't that a weird theme for a parade??? The ultimate best thign from this year was "Recology" which was a big shiny red garbage truck and about 12 dudes with metal trash cans who did a sort of dance routine with their trash cans. They ran quick march to the back of the truck, and then up again in front, clashed their cans together in groups of 4, twirled the cans around... Holy crap. It was sexy and hilarious. I was laughing so hard!
The outfits of the Chico Bavarian band were worthy of note. Black suede shorts with tassels and embroidery! Really amazing!
Grupo Folklorico dancers, all ages!
Nothing better than Los Trancos Woods marching band tho, fantastic outfits that filled me with love and awe, all running around and playing kazoos and stuff.
Rook's classmates are coming over for backyard bbq. it's hot out but we both watered the patio and i'm hoping it'll cool off in an hour or so... as long as I don't actually have to cook anything... I'll cut up watermelon or make smoothies maybe.
I'm exhausted too but resting up and can certainly be social for a while longer!
maybe a smoothie now and a chess game with Moomin...
Moomin in "journalist hat", in tie dye waving a flag
Fredrick Douglass speech from 1852 4th of July! Great!
The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.
Yesterday hung out all morning wiht rae_beta. We poked around in the garden. I was walking super well and am really, really happy with that. Actually I"m a bit terrified to lose it, because it was convenient and I get to beetle around so much quicker doing things as they occur to me to do instead of planning "getting up now" trips out of bed. I folded a million loads of laundry and fixed the dishwasher and put stuff away and then we made wreaths out of lavender and gossiped. By the time we hit the salvadorean place for late lunch I was back in the wheelchair. Then I had a nap, she took off, Rook came home, Moomin came home, Zond-7 came over, Rook fell asleep.
Zond7 and I went out to see his current favorite comedian (or one of them) Maria Bamford in San Jose. She was even better in person than in video clips! I highly recommend you go and see her or watch a whole DVD length performance ! She was great! David Garcia was very good too. I wasn't too into the other guy Larry something, though he did okay. Z. has spent months looking at comedian clips and so I have benefited from his massive effort of filtering and only have to watch Stew Lee, Maria Bamford, and Tig Nataro. Other good ones will be reported as discovered!
We thought about hanging around San JOse to analyze its weird trying to be cool "scene" but were both too tired to stay out. Came home and I had sort of a fight with Rook. That's all I'm going to say about that I guess. This morning we all went off to the parade which was amazing as always. There are so many different and often slightly pathetic parade participants. Like there'll be two people holding up a banner and then a little knot of other people behind them. Maybe with funny hats on or deelybobbers or riding in a classic car with the name of a local business hung off the back. There were shriners in little cars (and segways) and marching bands and girls with batons, a slightly smaller than usual falun dafa contingent, a lot of small groups of either military branches or odd "Lodge" or veterans groups (my favorite definitely the pearl harbor survivors on top of a huge truck, all very old, happy, and wearing hawaiian shirts) The floats this year weren't as good as some previous years - the theme was Music and somehoe that didn't lend itself to extravagant floats. the best was the one done up like a fake pink cadillac with fins, a jukebox, actual human dancers, giant root beer float, burger, hot dog, and fries. Like, each fry a huge foam thing as big as a person. Hilarious. That was the only float that could rival the best year which was Highway 280 where every one made floats with landmarks from the highway. And isn't that a weird theme for a parade??? The ultimate best thign from this year was "Recology" which was a big shiny red garbage truck and about 12 dudes with metal trash cans who did a sort of dance routine with their trash cans. They ran quick march to the back of the truck, and then up again in front, clashed their cans together in groups of 4, twirled the cans around... Holy crap. It was sexy and hilarious. I was laughing so hard!
The outfits of the Chico Bavarian band were worthy of note. Black suede shorts with tassels and embroidery! Really amazing!
Grupo Folklorico dancers, all ages!
Nothing better than Los Trancos Woods marching band tho, fantastic outfits that filled me with love and awe, all running around and playing kazoos and stuff.
Rook's classmates are coming over for backyard bbq. it's hot out but we both watered the patio and i'm hoping it'll cool off in an hour or so... as long as I don't actually have to cook anything... I'll cut up watermelon or make smoothies maybe.
I'm exhausted too but resting up and can certainly be social for a while longer!
maybe a smoothie now and a chess game with Moomin...
Moomin in "journalist hat", in tie dye waving a flag
~K~