13: Home
1. Looks like Biden is coming into home plate, or as a friend on Facebook said, “It ain’t over until the fat lady sings, and I’ve yet to sing.”
2. The day before the election, I posted on Facebook: I hope the post-election violence prediction is like Y2K. Some of us prepared for the worst but nothing happened.
3. “Donald Trump is like your little brother flipping the Monopoly board upside down when you get the property on Pennsylvania Avenue he wanted.” -Keith Boykin, CNN commentator/author Keith Boykin, responding to Trump falsely declaring victory and talking about stealing the election when votes were still being counted
4. I wore a mini skirt for Halloween, as in “Minnie” Mouse’s favorite outfit. See HERE.
5. We got haunted by a Drag Queen Bat. See HERE.
6. It was the first full moon on Halloween since 1944.
7. The use of “drag” in this sense appeared in print as early as 1870, but its origin is uncertain. One suggested etymological root is 19th-century theatre slang, from the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor.
8. I say I’m an Independent in the same way I kept my maiden name through 2 marriages. When I was old enough to vote, I lived in Massachusetts where you declare your political status. Not being much a joiner, voting for the best person as an Independent sounded right to me. I still identify that way, but after voting for several presidents over the years, I realized I only ever voted Democrat (to this day).
9. I want to write a poem about cicadas / how they fly blind as bats / and hum like a cult / They hang from their claws / till their bodies turn to ghosts / till they scare little children / when their eyes pop out – Read We’re Not Safe Yet in its entirety HERE.
10. Abby Road witch crossing HERE.
11. “My eyes squint, I can’t read the small print so probably I will fall victim to a scam and sign away my home and savings and wind up living with relatives, my hearing is failing so I nod yes to questions I can’t hear and so word goes around that my faculties are failing, but actually I’m okay, thanks to this little phone/camera/newsstand/encyclopedia the size of a pack of smokes that I carry around with me. If I forget where I am, I click on the Map icon and it shows me. I can google the Grateful Dead on YouTube and after an ad for calcium supplements and one for a retirement village in Tucson, they sing “Ripple.” So life is good.” – Garrison Keillor
12. “What we said was “YOUR FIRED.” – Steve Schmidt, former GOP operative
13. “Happiness is amazing. It’s so amazing it doesn’t matter if it’s yours or not.” – Rickie Gervais’ character in After Life
_________Thirteen Thursday
November 4th, 2020 11:53 pm
I once read that drag came from a notation on a script, short for “DRessed As Girl”. Maybe, maybe not.
I was a declared Independent until I learned there is an actual Independent party affiliation. Since then, I’m “Decline to State”. I vote Democrat, but I’m not officially one, I feel.
November 5th, 2020 3:29 am
The drag bat queen – I would fall to the floor if I spun on heels and wings like that.
Is declaring your political status a requirement or something in your part of the world?
November 5th, 2020 9:21 am
6 fascinating-my sister said leaves coming down fast??
November 5th, 2020 10:27 am
Declaring political status was required when I first started voting in Massachusetts. It isn’t required here in VA.
November 5th, 2020 6:11 pm
I’m glad I’ve never had to declare my political status. I used to consider myself an Independent, too, but after voting Democrat all of my life, I think it is safe to say I’m a Democrat.