Saturday on Substack - 30.IX.2023 - Farewell September

As leaves begin to fall...

It’s been another week of nonstop stuff. The kids had Monday off for a teacher in-service, and then they had Wednesday off because there was no power to the school on Wednesday morning. The power company estimated that the outage would be fixed somewhere around 10:30am, which might have been manageable, except that when at least some of the bathrooms need power to work (automatic flush, I guess). It turned out the power was on by 9:30am, but it’s not like they were going to call back the kids after sending them home. I haven’t managed to write much as I’m still juggling multiple projects here offline.

Writing

• Sunday Gratitude - 24.IX.2023

Music

• The woman here is currently recording under her actual name again (Elle Cordova) but she’s got some of the most innovative lyrics of current songwriters, often incorporating science or science-fiction elements:

• Random typing on my keyboard - I played the song and guessed they are Albanian, and I think I’m right

• It came from the ‘90s cafe - Ace of Spades

• I had an online friend way back when who worked at a record store and we did an offline music exchange and this was one of the songs, though I think a different version.

Listening

• This is NSFW but very interesting. I have a good deal of respect for Bill Maher, though I think he’s wrong about a lot, and the interaction between him and Jordan Peterson is amazing.

• The best thing on television right now - Jordan Peterson’s series on Exodus (pt 11)

• Tucker Carlson at the Center for Christian Virtue:

  https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1706685262430880076?t=AR8OndQh1fqY48gPY7r6AQ&s=19

• Since there was discussion of this woman and of UFOs and stuff over at Rod Dreher’s substack: Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka, American Cosmic’s Breakaway Civilization |417|

Reading

• It's not just a meme anymore: The LA Times wants you to try out pod living and the pictures are nightmare fuel | Not the Bee - Insane!

• Encountering ethnic diversity in Russia:

  Ethnic diversity in Russia

• Michael Gambon, dead at 82

• A Eulogy for Emma

• Poll suggests decline in American Christianity directly linked to collapse of marriage and fatherhood - Not the Bee

• The Pokémon x Van Gogh’ Art Collaboration is so cute! – Churape's Dungeon and Stuff | You can’t make this up…

• Rittenhouse's Surviving BLM Attacker Run Over by Black Driver – PJ Media | Another episode of “bizarre news”

• Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 11, 2016 – Decidedly Grim

• Religious Identification Among Democrats Crashes 20 Points in 20 Years - Breitbart

Laugh a little

• Sure you would, Al!

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Learning

• You will never guess why people weigh more in Illinois than Indiana - Not the Bee | And I thought it was just having to put the weights of the governors in the average and gravitational pull and everything!

• Learning a little bit about Tuva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva. To most people, Russia seems fairly monolithic, but there are all sorts of different peoples and languages that are indigenous to the Russian land that are not Russian at all. I had a course in college where we did a little bit of study to the different peoples and regions of Russia and it was really, really interesting.

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• The Cubs’ Second-Greatest Moment (9-28-1938) - Chicago History Today | I finally understand what “Homer in the Gloamin’” is!

• Digging In: Why Don’t Americans Eat Mutton? - Modern Farmer

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I hope your week has been good! Did I miss anything interesting?

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