Jeanine Finn

Photo of the Hollywood Bowl at dusk from up in the cheap seats.

Had the immense privilege of seeing Jesus Christ Superstar last night. If there had been a roof at the Bowl, it would have been blown off.

Sitting on the hillside with a few thousand folks watching incredible talent was a complete joy.

Thanks, artists and crew that make this happen. 🩷

Oh nooooooo. That is incredibly disappointing.

Saturday mass was always “guitar mass” at my parish growing up and we were out of there in under 50 minutes EVEN IF there were tambourines happening that day.

Oh absolutely - the data science majors get into that for sure. But it seems some of the general stats logic could be made more trans disciplinary.

Some of our majors require Calc 1 and 2 before even beginning with some of that stuff and that seems way too late.

Understanding the statistical logic is not super mathy.

Molly Ivins had a column about feeling defeated and she quoted a Holocaust survivor featured in Shoah who said “if you could reach in my chest and taste my heart you would die from the bitterness of it.”

She said “They are allowed their bitterness. The rest of us are not.”

Get it together Dave.

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

What in the Napoleonic Dragon Air Force??

I am so sorry. That’s horrible.

With my vertigo situation I sometimes have trouble discerning these things …but that was definitely an earthquake!

How crazy and disturbing! I’m so sorry!

Bring Talia’s swords back!

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Sociology - which ended up being way more important to me in grad school.

It was an 8am class (I was desperate for a social science credit) with Clark McPhail. His pioneering research on public protests and why protests turn violent (spoiler: cops) is something I think about almost daily.

I think there’s something about feeling like the social contract is broken. “Everybody is cheating everyone else so I better get in on that.”

I wouldn’t be surprised if scams and cons increase as a society gets more overtly fascist.

on the one hand we should want people to change their mind so we can stop what's happening now. On the other hand there need to be costs for the ghoulish behavior that got us here, as these people absolutely will do this again given half a chance

Fundraiser for one of the staff here:

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Text from Mychal reads: “People feel so safe behind their keyboards to attack you when you speak up. Do not let that stop you! Words ARE hurtful, but they ARE temporary. Words of hope for those who need you and your voice are far more lasting. Support is so much louder than toxicity Those libraries I love taught me to speak up for my neighbors who need me. Speak up for Gaza, for Palestine, for Sudan, for the Congo, for FAR too many more people that need us to be their voice, to prove to them they are not unseen 💚” Post as an example for Mychal’s words are: “Bye Mychal. Gaza is a gd war zone not a tourist resort and its every woe is because of Hamas. Grow tf up and learn something in those libraries you love.”

Libraries raised me. Libraries are third spaces. Libraries are so much more than just books… libraries are community. Libraries teach us, encourage us to come together in joy, to come together to help our neighbors. Libraries know there are times where we turn up the volume on our library voice 💚

My son is 6’3” — his sister is 5’1”. The standard deviation among People
Who Came Out of My Body is wild.

I got induced the day after my son’s due date at the end of a long hot Texas summer. That little dude was close to 9 lbs and I needed a margarita real bad.

An act of the Texas Legislature over a decade ago required all syllabi at the state unis be in a publicly accessible portal. To keep track of the leftist indoctrination.

Once again, Texas leads the way.

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The dyes aren’t the problem.

He’s so so good.

You have no idea how angry I am.

I don’t argue with strangers online anymore.

I have lived too long in deep red states and seen the difference between an evil piece legislation that takes school lunches away from 10,000 kids versus a slightly less evil bill that takes lunches away from 5,000.

I don’t buy that harm reduction is the problem. Kids should eat.

IME even Californian Newsom voters (for governor) mostly think he’s an opportunistic sleazebqll.

Substack is getting zero of my dollars.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok"

Oh yeah? Well, I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
Closer I am to fine

Everything I’ve heard about him sounds like he was just the most decent guy. My GenX self is feeling deeply mortal today.

As a new GenX mom in the early 2000s running into some of these types at the playground (with the anti-vax conspiracy theories a constant talking point around the swingset) shocked me.

I’m no longer shocked but just fucking exhausted.

It’s all just so stupid. My kid is transferring to one of the “bad” ones from her CC because it has an entomology major which has been her dream field since forever.

So, stay racist you ignoramuses…my kid’s going to have an amazing time studying grasshoppers.🦗