23 April 2020: Daily Shiz

This kinda stuff really brings me down. What does it mean, why was it said, and why do such ignorant people get put in charge of anything?

WTF?

To counter that, I offer you these:

The following is an incredibly ridiculous and hilarious error:

22 April 2020: Daily Humor + Misc

Friends, Happy Earth Day.

If you haven’t already, run to watch Unorthodox on Netflix. It’s based on (closely at first, very loosely later on) Deborah Feldman’s eponymous memoir, which I read shortly after it was published in 2012. The miniseries is tense and excellent, albeit slightly unbelievable in just a few parts. That said, those moments don’t detract from the larger whole, and I highly encourage you to watch.

Before we get to funny, I wanted to share this terrific article on managing gender roles and dynamics during the coronavirus.

Humor:

More hilarious art recreations. Thank you, Susan! The harp player kills me.

This guy is so enormously wonderful and therapeutic to listen to. His rage is spot on! I appreciated the spitting and jacket unzipping.

Billie Jean and coffee. This is priceless.

:)

Shamefully true. And shame on you MS, GA, TN, SC, AL, Las Vegas mayor, and Texas Lieutenant Governor. It is NOT time to reopen, and certainly not because you need a tattoo or your roots done.

21 April 2020: Daily + Earth Day

Friends, when you receive this, it will be the dawn of the 50th Earth Day. I find this one especially sad as pretty much nothing has improved (yes, acid rain, and clean air and water acts sort of because they’re now being reversed and ozone holes and temperature rises and global climate insanity all around) and many things have gotten worse and/or more irreparable.

50 years. Fifty years of trying to call attention to caring for the only home we have. It breaks my heart. Today’s high was in the 60s and yet a serious freeze alert from both weather channel and local nursery sent me into the yard for a good hour covering everything I’ve grown with everything I own. Our yard looks certifiable: tarps, buckets, garbage bags, frost cloth, cloches, newspaper sleeves, you name it. I hope things survive. No one needs to see life snuffed out on Earth Day and six weeks into quarantine because in America, deaths are already at more than 45,000 and climbing rapidly.

For comparison, best estimates assert that roughly 58,220 Americans died during the TWENTY EFFING YEARS we wasted fighting the Vietnam War. So yeah, 58K in 20 years vs 45K in six weeks, and on April 21 south of the Mason-Dixon we’re girding for a freeze, and New York City is a pandemic epicenter and under tornado watch, and happy fucking Earth Day and General Life Day to you, too.

So, let’s chuckle.

Vroom, vroom, vroomy, vroom, what?

This tennis match is incredible. Rooftop to rooftop?

For all you Marie Kondo slackers.

Thank you, Natania Barron, friend of Dana Schwartz.

Which ladies are you?