R.I.P. The Sweet’s Steve Priest. I remember Tripp telling me The Grifters we’re rehearsing a cover of Ballroom Blitz for a show somewhere. I was bummed out that I never got to hear it. ......
Soooooooo.. Some former student of S___'s posted a story claiming S____ once told the class it was ok to use the N-word (student in question is a black girl) and that the students were made to reenact scenes from the book which included interactions between a slave-master and his slaves. Yeah, the fucking book was To Kill a Mockingbird!! Anybody recall any slave-masters in that one? So now the story has gone viral and has been picked up by Medium. S____ has been crying all weekend. She's never used that N-word EVER. S____ said this former student was a mean girl and a bully who often lied to get what she wants. So we don't know what to do. I want to fight back but S___ says that's just playing into it so she has set up a meeting with the head of the school this week to try to clear things up. UGH!! Really do not need this shit right now.
I think my favorite response to those has been "When you get on a bus and the driver asks you to buckle up for safety, makes sense to do so. When the busdriver starts shooting and killing the passengers, probably time to unbuckle.
Not all Dairy Queen employees shit in the soft serve though! Most of them would never dream of doing that, though they are aware of those who do, don't speak up about it, and will serve you cones from the tainted machine.
:Yeeahhh... I've been meaning to look up the background on those photos. There's solidarity, and then there's gross photo-op land.
I think sometimes it's better not to pretend that we are all the same, but to project more "We are white people in suits, but we get it and we are going to use our white people in suit powers to actually fucking do something this time."
My dog was a real dickhead yesterday. Decided mid-product demo that he Would Not Be Still anymore. Ate Simon's dinner off the porch table when we turned our heads. Pissed on the carpet.
He's usually awesome, but it's like the dog terrible twos up in here this week.
Our newfound cat is doing ok. The vet says she's in good health, except for her teeth. We've been giving her pain meds and antibiotics, and see seems much more confortable now. The rotten teeth are going to be extracted next week and my stepdaughter is going to adopt her after that.
Sure you say abolish the police now, but who are you going to call when someone breaks into your house and you need someone to come over an hour later and shoot your dog?
I've also seen a lot of variations on a similarly scathing grim note, where right wingers will ask a woman "Well who are you going to call if someone rapes you?" and the women say a variation of, "Someone did rape me. I did call. The cops didn't do shit."
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We did a cover of No You Don't once.
That's what is called a false equivalency: protestors aren't risking getting the bug because they want to grab a beer at the bar or go to the beach!
I think sometimes it's better not to pretend that we are all the same, but to project more "We are white people in suits, but we get it and we are going to use our white people in suit powers to actually fucking do something this time."
He's usually awesome, but it's like the dog terrible twos up in here this week.
Is there a domesticated animal uprising happening?
ENTERTAIN ME, HUMANS. I am young and energetic.
I've also seen a lot of variations on a similarly scathing grim note, where right wingers will ask a woman "Well who are you going to call if someone rapes you?" and the women say a variation of, "Someone did rape me. I did call. The cops didn't do shit."