the people have spoken, as it were

not that it matters, what with our fkd up electoral process and all, but hillary is ahead of trump in the popular vote by 1.7 million, so these execrable people will be leading the show --- factor in the v.p. and it all makes me a little nervous, and not just because i'm queer --- african americans have all been through this sort of crap over and over again for about the last 500 years and might be coping better than clueless people like myself who actually thought that the body politic and american culture in general were progressing, onward and upward, to a better place --- now, that illusion has been shattered, and my faith in the general goodness of mankind diminished considerably --- the money grubbers, white supremacists, and evangelical christianists are in charge now and will do all that they can to destroy all that has been built up over the last fifty years --- we will have our fascist government

speechless

how did we come to this? i sorta know and i sorta don't --- below is a rant this morning from a cousin ---- for the record, i never called her any names, but just kept asking what she thought of all the racism and what not surrounding trump --- she was also ill, i think, because i sent her little photo albums of the protests i attended

all this frightened, anxious, etc is a bunch of crap. Infuriating to me. Where is American's historic bravery, self confidence, and willingness to give someone a chance.....we used to be a proud, self reliant, strong people...now we have college students who have to go to 'safe spaces' and can't take their classes because of an election....where are we going? Thank Goodness for pickup truck driving, gun toters, someone is going to have to save this country when embracing change multicultrualism welcomed immigrants come to slit their throats, burn them in cages, throw folks off buildings, etc (all the things they're doing right now in other countries)...those folks are going to really cry and wish they had a big strong bully to protect them. Because it's going to take folks who don't cry like babies when they don't get their way to fight folks who want to kill everyone who isn't just like them.....I'm really done with this I am quite disgusted with the whole "I'm so afraid" movement. People in general are convinced that the Boogeyman is going to get them at every turn. That it's a wonderful thing to tell each other the duly elected president to be is Hitler ( but everyone they don't like is Hitler, it's quite overused, and thus carries no meaning, like racist). Let the people do something before you begin the constant bitching and whining. Once again, I'm done with this. You've called me enough names

i should have known better than to try with her at this late date: she has a disabled daughter and still gave trump a pass when he mocked the disabled reporter

then this, which is truly horrifying on so  many levels:

peak fall

yesterday and today have been purty fine --- cool and brisk, lows in low 30s, high in 50s --- getting some good work done, along with walks through the park to luxuriate in all the color

won't last

near-record highs, in the upper 70s again today --- but might be freezing sunday morning! wheeeee! i cleaned house and got groceries today so i can shut myself up, listen to the wind rattle the railing, and work on coochee all weekend

one gone, one to go

yesterday, john and i journeyed into the wilds of buckhead and signed a whole slew of papers to relieve us of ownership of 1127 regent st --- it was a good house, but after nearly ten years i think i would have been much better served if i had just taken that money and stuck it under my mattress --- but whatever, at least it's somebody else's worry now

big urnge

full flower!

this is not normal

i still am not sure who pulled together last week's protest, but last night some people calling themselves "motley rose" led a good one --- not as rowdy as last week, but a better route down p'tree --- angela was along and robert, too --- his first protest march

some enterprising soul managed to use a laser light to project "fuck trump" on the side of the crown plaza midtown --- not especially helpful all things considered, but some people are just too pissed off to care

worms

No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground?

shakespeare, richard ii

another one gone .....

the last five days have been a total mess of loss

"not my president"

it was a rowdy night, but despite teevee reports, no violence or property destruction or burnt up flags that i saw in several hours as a participant --- i just didn't have the stamina for five hours stomping around town and left after two

more sad

moving on

atlanner smells like a campfire but it's way worse in northeast georgia

i don't think anybody was as sad as obama's staff watching him welcome trump

shell-shocked

today has been a bleak and depressing day --- went to bed around 11 when i saw things tanking --- woke up at 2 to find out he in fact had won and the dow futures are off 900 points --- in the end, hillary won the popular vote, while losing the electoral college, and the dow was up 250 --- the world's petty tyrants are congratulating him --- everybody else is waiting to see what this really means --- what it means to me is that the forces of racism, misogyny, and stingy politics are in full control --- president, senate, house, and most likely the supreme court for the rest of my lifetime ---

and then nephew jeff's girl friend this morning:  "And Jeff is smiling. The epitome of uneducated white male privilege who didn't even vote, has never voted, is thrilled because he understands trumps supporters and simply thinks Clinton is "a cunt". I find all of this beyond terrifying"

followed by his thoughts on facebook:

i don't know him anymore












i'm not sure that i chose the right time to try to cut back on the anti-depressants, also --- and however

Nothing is ever properly unbearable, not least because we always retain access to the best escape route. 

what a nightmare

waiting for the apocalypse

“Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi,” Dorothy Thompson wrote. “Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them. Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.” Trump supporters are people who, were he to become president, would explain away the mosque firebombing or Attorney General Chris Christie’s “opening up the libel laws” against The New York Times, just as passive Nazi voters looked away from the “Don’t buy from Jews” graffiti spray-painted on the neighborhood grocery store. These people are lacking “something in them,” a moral code, and their very large numbers are a troubling indicator of a rot in the American soul.

and this . . .

there has been too much to digest of late ---

get it over with

in the 80s today, fifteen degrees above normal --- and dry as a bone --- maybe the weather will go back to nermal when this election is over

ashura

wonderful accident of streets alive today when we stumbled on the start of a procession commemorating the martydom of imam al-husayn, grandson of the prophet mohammed, at the battle of karbala in 680 CE --- that was the origin of the great sunni/shia schism in islam --- little girls passing out red roses to bystanders was kinda sweet, even if they had all of them and their mothers herded in at the back of the procession ---

stone mountain

a magnificent fall day, temperatures in the 60s! we did the 5 or 6 mile cherokee loop around the mountain, which is a nice little workout

skyviews for thursday

the last of the presidential debates last night made it clear that trump is toast --- especially his last line about keeping us "in suspense" as to whether he would respect the election results --- he ought to lose all fifty state over that alone, but he won't

 

near record highs in the upper 80s yesterday and today --- twenty degrees cooler tomorrow and maybe no more hot weather until may, if we're lucky

we have a contract!

fingers crossed that i soon will be a step closer to getting out of the rent-man business

the rude pundit

cutting to the chase

Instead of that, let's end with this: If you are voting for Donald Trump, you are a piece of shit. You are worthless, you are terrible, and I'm ashamed to say you are my fellow citizens. I have never felt that before about any election, and I've been through two George W. Bush wins. Well, one win. I don't want to reason with you. I don't want to convince you. I want you and your kind to dry up and become dust in the history of the nation.