1. What seemingly small injury can be extremely painful?
A paper cut when you are slicing/using citrus fruits, like a sliced lime or lemon.
2. You have a six -hour drive and you can only listen to one artist. Who are you listening to?
I have a couple of Wilco box sets that can keep me entertained.
3. What have you been genetically blessed with, and nerfed with?
A quick wit, inherited from my grandmother. And small hands/fingers.
4. What was the most bizarre conspiracy theory your high school had about a teacher?
I am not sure. There was a lot of teacher turnover growing up in a boom town and folks would be teaching one year then suddenly took a job as a coal miner or heavy equipment operator to make a lot of money. There were more conspiracies about students then there were teachers.
5. It is day 40 of the second Trump administration. How has it effected you?
Technically my life hasn’t changed at all yet but shit, we are barely in this thing. We still have three and a half more years a head of us and that is a lot of room for mass destruction. I fear none us will recognize the place by the end of 2028.
1. A broken toe. A small injury like that can make your life miserable for maybe six weeks.
2. Hard question. Elvis Costello. He’s prolific, and has explored many genres over the years.
3. Blessed with intellect, humor, great teeth and a tremendous ability to grow hair. Nerfed by clumsiness, and borderline autism.
4. In middle school, there was a persistent rumor that Miss Graziani, a PE teacher was actually a man. It was preposterous then as it is now. Middle school kids can be so mean.
5. I have absolutely no new work coming in, so the chaos has disrupted most markets. And it’s nearly impossible to look at the news. The media has capitulated that this is the new normal, and I should just get used to it.
1) Banging your shin on just about anything. It is relatively short lived, but blazing in pain level. There are not enough expletives to use when it happens.
2) Probably U2. Lots of diversity in their cannon of work.
3) Genetically, I would say heart issues are not a big thing in my family, nerfed with cancer and dementia. I haven’t gotten either, all but one or two of my elders got one or both.
4) Not many conspiracies that I didn’t discover were true. There was the atheist teacher who taught it in a history class, the hippie lit teachers who used to get high with students, the principal and his pink (or was it salmon) suit that was gay. Looking back, the 70s and 80s were prime for what today is just normal stuff, but back then would of been conspiratorial.
5) I already have had to make stringent guidelines for my own news and social viewing. I knew going into this that chaos was the goal and it is really easy to go down that rabbit hole trying to push the actual facts in a flood of crazy. On a good note, I am back on task with really looking into, fact check and do deeper investigation on issues that I would normally gloss over if I didn’t have to worry about our democracy and future. Then I go an try to use that info by hitting my head repeatedly against a dull wall of denial and ignorance.
1) When you cut your fingernails too short.
2) Metallica, they have the volume in their catalog to not hear too many repeats.
3) Empathy and a genuine want to care for others, nerfed by not taking care if myself and a frequent level of interaction with people I can’t stand.
4) I either never paid enough attention to the teachers of my youth or because I left every summer I was not included in the rumors and allegations.
5) I am growing more enraged at each and every atrocity thrown at the country. I am an island of sanity surrounded by Trumplicans. I am a democratic, atheist with a brain who struggles to keep quit when facing stupidity in Florida, I am in danger.