It’s delicious. And they’re playing an Aaliyah Remix— I had her jams on replay in college! My night is complete.

Jamican Food Truck… plantains & curry chicken 😋 #foodstr https://nostr.build/av/8e23e1df315872c6ab289db87684e25b68981ed6b3497f9dd00f574c3ab97e13.mov

DJ hour 🫧🎶 #summer #pittsburgh #thursdayvibes https://nostr.build/av/8faa9baced1e4515b25509782350062e844b86c2e1c54b9b9e1d72b6db91cb9c.mov

great book! “Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot.”

Gillian Flynn is a great a writing “unreliable narrators” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/04/top-10-unreliable-narrators-edgar-allan-poe-gillian-flynn

You’re amazing— thank you! I prefer following hashtags vs. following too many users. Helps me focus!

thanks for the zap! I subscribed to his youtube channel— will be on the look out for more videos!

“INTERVIEWER

So many of your books, fiction and nonfiction, are explorations of the lives of very poor people. What makes it possible for you to cross the boundaries of social class so gracefully?

PONIATOWSKA

I think of the Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington. She was my great friend and I wrote a novel about her, called Leonora (2011). She was born into an upper-class English family and was even presented to the queen, though she took along Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza to pass the time waiting in the line of debutantes. Typically, young women of her class were expected to marry someone rich and titled, but she rebelled almost from childhood, was expelled from two schools, and finally found her way to a good art school.” #ElenaPoniatowska

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7147/the-art-of-fiction-no-238-elena-poniatowska

Love this. He’s a great teacher— it’s a gift to be able to break things down & explain them clearly. 🙌🏼

Settling in a comfy chair on my porch to feed the local mosquitoes (or I need to get a sweater) & finish up these amazing essays by M.M. Bakhtin. They’re excellent. #bookstr

GN or GM 🥂📖

Very cool. I’m being lazy— need to try this.

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yikes— I see this happening as well.

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Not sure! No squeaker ☺️ https://nostr.build/av/040384e3e38ff4181dd8fa84a434631c95d63199e495b7075b580008980eced5.mov

I’m buying books & sticking with squishmallows instead!

I’m shopping for a kid’s birthday at a children’s store—& I don’t understand this… 🤣

Remember the episodes when Floki ran away with a group of Vikings… it’s been awhile since I’ve watched that show! 🎥

New movie coming out… but this history has been pushed into the present for awhile now by those who cared.

“The Times’ veteran reporter on things nuclear, William J. Broad, went on to summarize Oppenheimer’s life story and his downfall at the height of the Cold War: “Until then a hero of American science, he lived out his life a broken man and died in 1967 at the age of 62.” But, even in 1954, it was clear to most readers of the trial transcripts, leaked to the Times that spring, that the security hearing was a kangaroo court and that Oppenheimer had been publicly humiliated for political reasons. The “father of the atomic bomb” had to be silenced because he was opposing the development of the hydrogen “super” bomb. Ever since, historians have regarded him as the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.

So why now, sixty-eight years after the infamous security hearing, and fifty-five years after Oppenheimer’s death, did the Biden Administration find the courage to do the right thing? Governments rarely apologize for their errors. How did this decision happen? True, the director Christopher Nolan has a major motion picture coming out this summer called “Oppenheimer.” But, contrary to popular myth, Hollywood’s influence in Washington is limited, particularly when it comes to the nuclear-security establishment.

Here is the wholly improbable story.”

Oppenheimer, Nullified and Vindicated https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/oppenheimer-nullified-and-vindicated

*me 🐝

On my 2nd trip to Accra to visit my in-laws (my father-in-law is a scientist & was working in Ghana) — we toured Elmina Castle. It haunts me to this day. History is important— it reminds us of the terrible atrocities humans are capable of, the progress we have made & what we need to do to maintain freedom. I’m not afraid of history nor do I feel it holds be back but rather pushes me forward. My son is in these pictures from 2010– he’s taller than me now! I still get chills when I look

at the photo of us in the “Room of No Return.”

If you travel to Ghana— I recommend you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmina_Castle