C. McGuinn Freeman

Oh god yes. After we moved to California we'd fly them all the time (MKE is as close to home as ORD), and along with all the actual amenities, that the flight crews had thick MKE accents always cracked us up.

Oh! It's not good!
But maybe flying here in a private jet, or driving an RV pulling an SUV isn't helping.

The Burial of Black Genius (a.k.a. D'Angelo Lives!) Questlove honors his friend and collaborator D'Angelo: "He was one of the last pure artists in Black music.”

I read this over the afternoon. So beautiful it brought me to tears. Please read. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Not a criticism! Just expressing my irritation as a laptop internet person that the following is not available and IG is getting more and more garbagy all the time 🤷‍♀️

FYI it's only available on mobile ...

Anyway: it’s an American tradition. www.startribune.com/trump-admini...

So much fun!
The fly fishing folks here are wigging out because bass are moving upstream in the Yellowstone. In this essay I will examine the inherent racism/classism in trout supremacy ...

Mine is getting a hard prune once it goes dormant, it was very sprawly this year.

My Chicago fig is in a pot, but boy howdy did it provide me with a good month or 6 weeks of little, but delicious figs this summer.

Boise is just rotten with whole subdivisions full of California cops now ... this surprises me not at all.

You might need a pair of "computer glasses" -- the regular progressives assume you'll be reading by looking down, where the computer glasses correct for looking straight ahead at a 3-6 foot distance.
But don't forget you're wearing them and try to drive to the store!

It's very annoying that all the things they tell you are good for your health do, actually, improve your stupid health numbers.

It's one of those books I find myself thinking about all the time, and that the eels were triangulating with white capitalism enslaving people from and to places for which they didn't even have maps is just going to sit here in my head for a bit.

And now I'm thinking of Leanne Betasamsoke Simpson's "Theory of Water" and her discussion of the eels, who travelled back and forth to the Sargasso Sea ...

I would always prefer a good flour tortilla to the gross white bread BBQ joints give you.

There seems to be a sudden collapse in availabilty of frozen veg in general. The variety has gone WAY down, and most of the options from the Big Frozen Veg companies seem to be the ones with sauces etc ...
As a small household who relies on frozen veg (doesn't go bad) I'm really bummed about it.

It's really not my responsibility. I've sent her articles. She refuses to believe it.
Of course, since she's the 2nd of my father's ex wives he's left in my care, it will be my responsibility. Let's just hope her money holds out.

That I have been absolutely unable to convince my stepmother, who is only 8 years older than me, that this is true makes me crazy. Especially since I'm her only relative at this point.

Book distribution center closes without warning in Momence, leaving hundreds unemployed Just months after losing one of its largest employers, Momence is reeling again. This time it's after the sudden closure of a major book distribution center.

They were based out of a small town in Illinois, gave no notice, just locked the doors on their employees: abc7chicago.com/post/baker-t...

The only way you could do this is to just not think about All Of It. Boy howdy.

Yesavage started in single A at the beginning of this season?!? And he's pitching in the World Series? This well?!?
Sometimes I just love sportsball ...

Right back at you. So glad you're through this part. ❤️

I'm constitutionally incapable of heating up soup without adding more stuff to it and winding up with more soup than I started with. By spring, I swear, I'm eating a homeopathic dose of everything I've cooked for weeks.

I'm so glad to hear you came out of surgery okay. I've been checking in periodically to see -- and yeah honey, everything's going to hurt for a while.
It's been Virgin of Guadalupe city all day here for you. ❤️

I wrote a whole piece for Big Sky Journal back in the day, for their annual Fly Fishing issue, about the absolute fun and joy of catching bluegill on fly rods up in the Missouri Breaks.
And the fly fishermen were OUTRAGED. I had soiled their sacred issue with bluegills!
One of my proudest moments.

I have writing to do, writing about mending and making actually, but since the wind has died, and the temps are nearly 60, I think I have to go put a coat of primer on the porch posts Chuck fixed for me last week.

Exactly! Misplaced energy.
And we won't "know" because the deal hasn't been done. I mean, I suppose we'll know the worst case, and I was about to write that those of us on the subsidies know what the retail is on our plans, but then, thought no, most people only know what they pay.

I thought more of them didn't vote at all, but of that cohort where I was wrong, nearly all of them voted for Trump, for utterly incoherent reasons.

I mean, I would very much like to know how much my insurance is going to cost me next year, but do they even know? Got to have that fun "we should do anything we need to do before the end of the calendar year" chat with my doc yesterday. All this Greatness here in America. So Great.

Blue Jay (rotated), by Helen Frankenthaler, 1963, 📸 by @haffeyphoto