no late stage capitalism while i'm talking

[the_siobhan]

Congratulations to my American friends.

A good thing that came up here as a result of the attack on the US Congress; local activist groups have been trying to get organizations like the Proud Boys defined as hate groups for years. I wrote about it to my MP who is a member of the Liberal party and she posted a public letter in support of the idea. My MP is pretty useless and since nobody does anything in federal politics without the boss saying it's OK I'm taking that as an indicator that they are finally taking these assholes seriously.

Hopefully they don't all forget about it now that it's no longer in the headlines.

***

I am now completely recovered from what was definitely a cold. I would have thought going from "leave the house once a week" to "leave the house never" wouldn't have been such a big leap, but it's been genuinely difficult.

I did do some more painting. As I explained it to friends, "Can't leave the fucking house, might as well make the walls pretty to look at."

***

Dad and step-dad both gave me money for Xmas and I resolved that this year I would spend it all on myself instead of letting it leak over into catching up on bills. So I got a bunch of books, and I'm going to hit up the next Bandcamp Friday. And I bought these because I am an enormous goober and they make me happy.



I am feeling the December start to finally leech out of my system. It has always been a stressful month for me and this year it was just too fucking much. But I did it and I saw people I am related to on the computer screen and we caught up and it was all good.

I didn't write a single word after I finished hosting WED - it seems to be the first thing that gets jettisoned when my brain goes into overload - and this week I have finally been able to sit and scratch a few things out. I take that as a good sign.

Some day spring will come.

Comments

[china_shop]

WOW, THOSE SHOES ARE AMAAAZING!!

I'm glad you're starting to feel better/get some good signs. *offers hugs*

[anankastick]

Those shoes are adorable!

Glad the stress is leaking away--I hope the rest of January is restorative.

[inulro]

Nice Shoes!

[tiger_spot]

Hey, cool shoes. Also yay books and music and painting and strength to your sword arm keeping up the pressure on issues that we hope stay dropped out of the headlines.

[sabotabby]

Those are amazing.

[chasing_silver]

Super cute shoes and I'm glad you're better <3 My MP is Chrystia Freeland - she isn't ever in the constituency and is too busy running the country for Justin Trudeau so I don't ever bother with her. But yeah, the "party line" is a huge problem in federal politics, for sure.

[the_siobhan]

It's so frustrating! My MPs big campaign for election was all about how she is such a strong environmentalist. And then once she wins she has to come out in public support of buying a pipeline. I mean wut?

[brainwane]

I'm glad for the positive trends!

[houseof9cats]

Those shoes, tho!

I read this today:

"To write is to overcome a certain resistance: you are trying to wrestle a steer to the ground, to wrestle a snake into a bottle, to overcome a demon that sits in your head. To succeed in writing or making sense is to overpower that steer, that snake, that demon.

But if, in your struggles to write, you actually break its back, you are in trouble. Yes, now you have power over it, you can say what you need to say, but in transforming that resistant force into a limp noodle, somehow you turn your words into limp noodles, too. Somehow the force that is fighting you is also the force that gives life to your words. You must overpower that steer or snake or demon. But not kill it.

This myth explains why some people who write fluently and perhaps even clearly — they say just what they mean in adequate, errorless words — are really hopelessly boring to read. There is no resistance in their words; you cannot feel any force being overcome, any orneriness. No surprises. The language is too abjectly obedient. When writing is really good, on the other hand, the words themselves lend some of their energy to the writer. The writer is controlling words he can’t turn his back on without danger of being scratched or bitten." --Peter Elbow, Writing with Power

[(Anonymous)]

Hopefully they don't all forget about it now that it's no longer in the headlines.
They did.

I mean, your fucking dumb fuck PM is all *boooooo hoooo* Keystone XL is dead.
Your PM and my PM
sitting my the fire
Your PM and my PM
fell in the fire.
So dead.

Those sneakers: how long wll they last?