Current excuse for infrequent postings here: I’m on another book deadline, which means my computer time is going to real (albeit not immediately renumerative) work.
Once this is out of the way, I’ll again be out in the field seeking gainful employment. (Remember, I’m not looking for something to write about. I’m looking for someone to work for.)
And I’m so much more than a writer. I shoot and retouch digital photos. I design graphics and web pages. I enter data, process words, and do many of the tasks every office needs getting done.
Meanwhile, in the outside world in recent days:
- Mardi Gras came back to Pioneer Square, albeit in wimpy inside-the-bars-only form, on the same day as International Women’s Day. I see no conflict between the two traditions. That’s because to me, women aren’t just different from men. They’re different from other women. Some will want to be the next Miss Marple. Others will want to be the next Miss September. Some will want both. Some will want something completely else.
- Neo-vaudeville performer and promoter Hokum Jeebs was stabbed to death in an apparent botched burglary attempt at his West Seattle home. News coverage of the tragedy focused on two supposedly scandalous facts about this jovial, nostalgic local figure: he grew his own medical pot supply, and he had a thing for dangerous looking younger men. In my view, neither of these were all that scandalous. Though it’s a shame he apparently took the latter passion to the point of inviting his suspected killer into his life.
- Madison is revolting. The city where The Onion began (and from whence most of the original Stranger team hailed) became America’s biggest non-fake news story. It’s all because the right-wing politicians there had the guts to dare to be total suckups to billionaire campaign donors, and used deep dirty-tricks chicanery to try to force Wisconsin to become another Mississippi. This power grab shall not hold.
- Japan was attacked, not by a cute movie monster but by the earth itself. Many people deserve your thoughts today.
