Loose Leaf Notes

1. A spider web catches the fly and always catches my eye.

2. I had a dream with a poem in it that was titled “I Don’t Tell You My Dreams Anymore.”

3. Booking a hot tub in Hot Springs NC over the phone is like trying to get a ticket for a Grateful Dead concert back in the day.

4. May Your Dreams Be Filled with Rainbows and Your Wishes Come True HERE.

5. I call the below “The Hang Nail.”

6. “I gotta say, it’s a bad sign for America that when Trump said he tested positive for a virus, 60 percent of people were like, ‘Prove it.’ – Colin Yost SNL

7. “I come from people who anticipate the worst so this quarantine is right up my alley. My mother, every Sunday morning as we left for church, imagined she had left the iron on and that our house would go up in flames. I always assumed I would die young until I got too old to die young but I still have a lingering fear of putting my tongue on a clothespole in January and being frozen to it and firemen will come and yank me loose and I’ll speak with a lisp for years thereafter…” Garrison Keillor

8. To the tick of a clock / and the slant of light / the artists paint / their hanging hats / while the homebody’s plans /  gather dust / and the gold of silence / yellows like the pages / in a celebrated memoir / of someone else’s life – Read To Much of a Good Thing in its entirety HERE.

9. “I mean, what job do you have for four years no matter what? Show me one job. Like if you hired a cook and he was making people vomit every day, do you sit there and go, ‘Well, he’s got a four-year deal. We’ve just got to vomit for four more years.’” – Chris Rock SNL

10. “There’s a lot funny about this. Maybe not from a moral standpoint. But mathematically, if you were constructing a joke. This is all the ingredients you need. The problem is it’s almost too funny. Like it’s so on the nose. It would be like if I were making fun of people who wore belts and my pants just immediately fell down.”   Michael Che SNL

11. ‘Cause this fox is in the hen house / And bad news every day / And right there on Pennsylvania Avenue / The sheet-less KKK? And there’s models wielding microphones / Chasing maniacs around / And everything’s on fire / And there’s twisters touching down…  And if you think your vote doesn’t matter / Then you’re not paying attention / Yeah, everything they do they do to / Keep you from their invention… But we can do this if we try / Yeah, if we do this like it’s do or die / And we can do this if we try / If we do this like it’s do or die…Ani DiFranco, Do or Die (new song from upcoming album of the same name).

12. I saw a picture of the White House on Facebook with the coronavirus image hanging over it and the words “One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

13. Today’s soundtrack HERE.

__________Thirteen Thursday