among strangers
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yamamanamaLulu had a sign that had a comparison of global temperatures at the end of the 19th century and global temperatures at the turn of the 20th century and a chart of carbon emissions by state and carbon emissions per capita by state.
Texas unsurprisingly is near the top. Wyoming is the top per capita. Massachusetts is near the bottom on both lists because we're small and because we have public transit and we're more post-industrial than industrial. California is lower now than it was on the chart because they introduced a whole bunch of new regulations but Texas is where it is.
A woman had a No Trump hat.
A man had a sign that said "not a viable strategy" with a Trump-headed ostrich hiding his head in the sand. Disclaimer: if you're an ostrich, sticking your head in the sand is a great way to build a nest. Ostriches don't hide like that. They run. They're very good at running. By the time the predator loses track of the ostrich, they've lost the nest too.
My shirt was science-themed but it was so cold and raw that I really couldn't show it off under many layers of clothing.
"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money." I know this quote from something Sara posted once.
There were two people dressed as Ms. Frizzle and they both had toy iguanas and science-themed clothing. One of them had a tattoo of the quadratic equation.
A woman holding up a socialist group sign wrote "you're my doctor, use my pronouns" in pink lipstick and I suggested we switch to a totally genderless language like every Finno-Ugric and every Turkic language and she said that on the other hand, some languages give chair a gender and I said that there are languages that differentiate between animate and inanimate instead of male and female, or that one language that differentiates between seemingly arbitrary groupings. I told them that I'm glad that people still believe in left-wing causes and that we're mostly free from the madness that has consumed the western world. The alt-right is not the counterculture, no matter what they say. As of Inauguration Day, they are the establishment.
Someone had an Anti-Fascist Action flag. I'm not surprised that people were cheering when an actual neo-fascist punched an antifa woman but I am saddened by it. I think we need to make effigies of Pepe and beat the shit of them on on November 19-22 or maybe July 16.
Lots of Lorax quotes. Lots of I'm With Her with a drawing of the Earth. Some people tried to spell Nasty Woman in element names. NaSTi WOMn or NAsTi WOMn. I was hoping there'd be a St element but alas there isn't. There isn't an Ma. There isn't a Yn but I'm pretty sure the only people who actually write "womyn" are antifeminists trying to be ironic. There were a bunch of Rick and Morty signs. "What is happening, Rick?" "*urp* he's a real piece of shit, Morty, and I can prove it mathematically." More mitosis, less division. Frontiers, not borders.
Four women dressed in pointy hats, black clothes and black veils held signs about witches for science and protecting the earth and how sage and crystals don't cure cancer.
Someone had a sign that said even he believes in climate change with a drawing of Kim Jong Un, whom I mistook for Xi Jinping. I'm woefully out of touch with Asian politics. But then again, information flow is slowing down. Also, I gave her permission to badmouth Viktor Orban in front of me.
There was a guy dressed as Beaker carrying a sign saying meep, and a woman dressed as a dragonfly nymph and a woman dressed as a praying mantis saying to protect even creepy creatures and I said "mantids aren't creepy. they're awesome." Even the frogs support science so SUCK IT PEPE. RAM IT UP YOUR CLOACA, KEK.
The four states of matter: Gas, liquid, solid, black lives. Of course, she's forgetting plasma and quark-gluon plasma and bose-einstein condensates and degenerate matter and color-glass condensates.
One of the speeches was by a woman with a Hispanic mother and a Muslim father who spoke about how she wanted to find out how the Cookie Monster showed up on the magic box so she took a hammer and a screwdriver and then her father opened up the television and showed her the cathode ray tube and the circuit boards and explained how they all worked and how her father was the first in his family to be able to read and how they see dark hair and dark eyes and think "janitor" and not "scientist."
I think she's part Algerian.
Another woman gave a speech about being deaf and trying to keep up with lectures.
A guy had purple, red, and green hair. A woman had purple hair under a hat and a necklace that was one of the molecules in science and a woman had neon pink hair and a ribbon choker and a choker of rainbow gems. A man had very short purple hair. A woman, I think her name was Emily, had blue orchid hair.
Some of them I didn't see, of course. I'll have more dispatches from the revolution later, though I'll have to do them quickly lest they vanish into the aether.
if you want to kill yourself, here's a drinking game you can play: drink every time a republican asks why it was cold and dreary on the day of the protest. You know, despite St. Ajora's Day weather on Easter. If you want to kill yourself even faster, drink every time they bring up gender or race bullshit.
Someone asked what Socialist Alternative was about and they're sarcastically like "we support Trump" and I pointed at their clipboard and was like "see? It's orange!"
Since the cadenzas to the 24th piano concerto (despite dying at 35, Mozart was very prolific) are lost to the mists of time, pianist Radu Lupu played his own. In Romania, they use the spelling Lia.
Mozart's Requiem is a transcendent work of music written by a man who liked fart jokes. I like to think of Mozart's Requiem as a requiem for himself but he died suddenly and accepted the commission because he had never written a requiem before and because it might lead to a job as Kapellmeister of St. Stephen's Cathedral. Then there was an outbreak of rheumatic fever in Vienna and he succumbed to that, despite rumors saying that he was poisoned. He was unable to finish it and so his student Süssmayr completed it using score fragments and notes and that's the version we're all familiar with. This here is why I think 1791 is the worst year for music: imagine what Mozart would have written had he lived but 20 years longer.
Too bad Hunter didn't hear the Enigma Variations instead. It was Hunter and Olivia's first BSO concert and they came here from northern Vermont.
Amber has a tattoo of her sister's name (Skyler, I think) mostly hidden by her shirt, of a moon and sun mostly eclipsed by her shirt, of a chihuahua wearing a bow tie (as she has a pet chihuahua) but she couldn't adjust her jacket, of some more words, and more hidden under her clothes. She was wearing a shirt that said Dreamer with a crescent moon and dreamcatcher araneum constellation motif. There isn't any spider constellation, though, unless you count the Mayan Orion. Amber was having a really bad day and couldn't wait to get home and I told her that I hope my drawing made her feel better and that it really helps to talk to someone even if they don't know exactly what you're going through and I hope Ashley never does know, and I'm still not over Ethan and I don't think I ever will be; I don't think it's something you get over. She's not an artist and she once tried to play violin in elementary school because that's what everyone did. If she thought she sounded like a dying animal, she didn't specify what kind. Maybe an elk. I told her about how she looks a bit like Sarah and I told her about Casey saying that people are more interesting than we give them credit for being and she agrees with that. She once had purple hair.
burning question: what shall I say in my misery? Whom shall I ask to be my advocate, when scarcely the righteous may be without fear?
Texas unsurprisingly is near the top. Wyoming is the top per capita. Massachusetts is near the bottom on both lists because we're small and because we have public transit and we're more post-industrial than industrial. California is lower now than it was on the chart because they introduced a whole bunch of new regulations but Texas is where it is.
A woman had a No Trump hat.
A man had a sign that said "not a viable strategy" with a Trump-headed ostrich hiding his head in the sand. Disclaimer: if you're an ostrich, sticking your head in the sand is a great way to build a nest. Ostriches don't hide like that. They run. They're very good at running. By the time the predator loses track of the ostrich, they've lost the nest too.
My shirt was science-themed but it was so cold and raw that I really couldn't show it off under many layers of clothing.
"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money." I know this quote from something Sara posted once.
There were two people dressed as Ms. Frizzle and they both had toy iguanas and science-themed clothing. One of them had a tattoo of the quadratic equation.
A woman holding up a socialist group sign wrote "you're my doctor, use my pronouns" in pink lipstick and I suggested we switch to a totally genderless language like every Finno-Ugric and every Turkic language and she said that on the other hand, some languages give chair a gender and I said that there are languages that differentiate between animate and inanimate instead of male and female, or that one language that differentiates between seemingly arbitrary groupings. I told them that I'm glad that people still believe in left-wing causes and that we're mostly free from the madness that has consumed the western world. The alt-right is not the counterculture, no matter what they say. As of Inauguration Day, they are the establishment.
Someone had an Anti-Fascist Action flag. I'm not surprised that people were cheering when an actual neo-fascist punched an antifa woman but I am saddened by it. I think we need to make effigies of Pepe and beat the shit of them on on November 19-22 or maybe July 16.
Lots of Lorax quotes. Lots of I'm With Her with a drawing of the Earth. Some people tried to spell Nasty Woman in element names. NaSTi WOMn or NAsTi WOMn. I was hoping there'd be a St element but alas there isn't. There isn't an Ma. There isn't a Yn but I'm pretty sure the only people who actually write "womyn" are antifeminists trying to be ironic. There were a bunch of Rick and Morty signs. "What is happening, Rick?" "*urp* he's a real piece of shit, Morty, and I can prove it mathematically." More mitosis, less division. Frontiers, not borders.
Four women dressed in pointy hats, black clothes and black veils held signs about witches for science and protecting the earth and how sage and crystals don't cure cancer.
Someone had a sign that said even he believes in climate change with a drawing of Kim Jong Un, whom I mistook for Xi Jinping. I'm woefully out of touch with Asian politics. But then again, information flow is slowing down. Also, I gave her permission to badmouth Viktor Orban in front of me.
There was a guy dressed as Beaker carrying a sign saying meep, and a woman dressed as a dragonfly nymph and a woman dressed as a praying mantis saying to protect even creepy creatures and I said "mantids aren't creepy. they're awesome." Even the frogs support science so SUCK IT PEPE. RAM IT UP YOUR CLOACA, KEK.
The four states of matter: Gas, liquid, solid, black lives. Of course, she's forgetting plasma and quark-gluon plasma and bose-einstein condensates and degenerate matter and color-glass condensates.
One of the speeches was by a woman with a Hispanic mother and a Muslim father who spoke about how she wanted to find out how the Cookie Monster showed up on the magic box so she took a hammer and a screwdriver and then her father opened up the television and showed her the cathode ray tube and the circuit boards and explained how they all worked and how her father was the first in his family to be able to read and how they see dark hair and dark eyes and think "janitor" and not "scientist."
I think she's part Algerian.
Another woman gave a speech about being deaf and trying to keep up with lectures.
A guy had purple, red, and green hair. A woman had purple hair under a hat and a necklace that was one of the molecules in science and a woman had neon pink hair and a ribbon choker and a choker of rainbow gems. A man had very short purple hair. A woman, I think her name was Emily, had blue orchid hair.
Some of them I didn't see, of course. I'll have more dispatches from the revolution later, though I'll have to do them quickly lest they vanish into the aether.
if you want to kill yourself, here's a drinking game you can play: drink every time a republican asks why it was cold and dreary on the day of the protest. You know, despite St. Ajora's Day weather on Easter. If you want to kill yourself even faster, drink every time they bring up gender or race bullshit.
Someone asked what Socialist Alternative was about and they're sarcastically like "we support Trump" and I pointed at their clipboard and was like "see? It's orange!"
Since the cadenzas to the 24th piano concerto (despite dying at 35, Mozart was very prolific) are lost to the mists of time, pianist Radu Lupu played his own. In Romania, they use the spelling Lia.
Mozart's Requiem is a transcendent work of music written by a man who liked fart jokes. I like to think of Mozart's Requiem as a requiem for himself but he died suddenly and accepted the commission because he had never written a requiem before and because it might lead to a job as Kapellmeister of St. Stephen's Cathedral. Then there was an outbreak of rheumatic fever in Vienna and he succumbed to that, despite rumors saying that he was poisoned. He was unable to finish it and so his student Süssmayr completed it using score fragments and notes and that's the version we're all familiar with. This here is why I think 1791 is the worst year for music: imagine what Mozart would have written had he lived but 20 years longer.
Too bad Hunter didn't hear the Enigma Variations instead. It was Hunter and Olivia's first BSO concert and they came here from northern Vermont.
Amber has a tattoo of her sister's name (Skyler, I think) mostly hidden by her shirt, of a moon and sun mostly eclipsed by her shirt, of a chihuahua wearing a bow tie (as she has a pet chihuahua) but she couldn't adjust her jacket, of some more words, and more hidden under her clothes. She was wearing a shirt that said Dreamer with a crescent moon and dreamcatcher araneum constellation motif. There isn't any spider constellation, though, unless you count the Mayan Orion. Amber was having a really bad day and couldn't wait to get home and I told her that I hope my drawing made her feel better and that it really helps to talk to someone even if they don't know exactly what you're going through and I hope Ashley never does know, and I'm still not over Ethan and I don't think I ever will be; I don't think it's something you get over. She's not an artist and she once tried to play violin in elementary school because that's what everyone did. If she thought she sounded like a dying animal, she didn't specify what kind. Maybe an elk. I told her about how she looks a bit like Sarah and I told her about Casey saying that people are more interesting than we give them credit for being and she agrees with that. She once had purple hair.
burning question: what shall I say in my misery? Whom shall I ask to be my advocate, when scarcely the righteous may be without fear?
