Paul Mullin

Come to the kick-off installment of CROWD MOUTH LIT, at The Mountain Room in the Old Rainier Brewery (The Bar at the R!)

It's gonna blast!

#CrowdMouthLit
#SeattleLit

Live by the _____; die by the _____.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

There’s not one rule that says you can’t use kittens

On this day of bright summer, it's not Death I dread, but Cailleach.

Happy Bloomsday, all!

No official Seattle doings from my quarter this year, alas. But stay tuned for 2026!

#bloomsday
#bloomsday2025

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

Sometimes you have to repurpose what you’re proud of.

#SEATTLEDemocracy
#june14

If you want to help Ben with five minutes of your time and a little video of your view of the protest, DM me, and I will pass along his info!

Can you help? Are you going to a protest?

I am, in Seattle, though other Seattle P.O.V.s are welcome, too.

What about my New York Peeps? My Baltimore and/or DC family? LA? Chicago? Tacoma? Everett? Spokane?

My friend Ben Hillman is producing a No Kings Day Live protest video which will air on 6/14. They’re looking for volunteers from all over the country to make very short videos of local protests, with descriptions of the mood and scale of the scene, which will become part of the nationwide video.

NO KINGS Seattle · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Seattle”

How 'bout you?

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

#nokings

Books are time machines, and patience powers them.

I'm admittedly biased. I mean, I quote the song on the second page of my book THE STARTING GATE, but hear me out: the most Fleetwood Mac song of all (not the BEST, but the Most Fleetwood Mac) is "Hold Me."

(I have the receipts.)

#FleetwoodMac
#TheMostFleetwoodMacSongofall

“Giant sequoias, the biggest plants, have tiny seeds, so small that the ratio of their weight to the weight of the tree is the same as the ratio of the tree to the planet Earth."

From The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, by Matt Ridley

So if you’d like to look at it, let me know via DM. I’ll find a way to get you a copy. And I’ll welcome your feedback, should you care to share it. Maybe someday I’ll feel differently about pushing hard to share it with the wider world.

That said, I’m enormously proud of the piece. Writing it was, without question, the most fun I’ve ever had (writing, that is 😜.)

So, it feels fitting to share with you all at this time: I’m letting go of the book I’ve spent nearly 3 years writing. For now, I’m done. And I don't plan to invest the HUGE effort required to publish it. Call it a “soft spike”. It doesn’t feel right to keep pushing this particular rope.

Before it was called May Day, it was Beltane—a sacred midpoint in the pre-colonized Irish calendar. Like Imbolc, which falls between the Winter Solstice & Spring Equinox, Beltane sits between Spring Equinox & Summer Solstice. When the boundaries between worlds grow flimsy.

The EPA is firing employees focused on children’s health simply because their job descriptions include DEI. These 10 regional children’s health coordinators have worked closely with schools and local institutions to prevent and address environmental hazards that put kids at risk.

Hey Seattle Show Biz Peeps!

I have a filmmaker friend looking to hire a prop expert to “help create a couple of moderately elaborate pieces” for his next film.

Are you a props generating genius? Or do you know one? If so, DM me and I can put you in touch with my friend. This is a PAYING gig.

political comic of two ICE people restraining someone in white - no shoes - in chains... looks like an El Salvador detainee. Lady Liberty breaking the 4th wall says: "A president invoked wartime powers to deport hundreds of people to a foreign prison known for torture. There were no judges, hearings, or evidence provided. If he's doing this now... how long will it be before it happens to *you*?"

yep, I'm afraid so...

Read the signs.
And if you can't find them, write them.

Doesn’t the devil live for ever; who ever heard that the devil was dead?

Netanyahu takes 249 mile detour to avoid flying over Ireland due to arrest fears The Prime Minister arrived in Washington D.C. on Sunday night ahead of two days of meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump and senior U.S. officials

Up the Irish!

www.irishstar.com/news/ireland...

every one present must take good heed to dodge it when it swings, else it may box his ears and pitch him headlong overboard

Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...

Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...