Buh bye January and oh yeah none of this is normal

Goodbye January 2025, the longest month in recent memory. I awoke January 1st to the news of the Bourbon Street attacks, and ended the evening of the 31st puzzling over a friend's (?) hostile texts, lamenting the passing of Dr. Lawrence Ketchens and watching video of an air ambulance plummeting to earth.
What the ever living fuck of a time.
A barrage of executive orders directing the persecution of immigrants and trans folks.
Snow. In the Gulf South.
Uncertainty at work.
As a side note: ELECTED OFFICIALS now is the time to grow a vagina and STAND UP!!
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On a personal note, a dear loved one's health is holding steady, mine is better-to-TBD (knee much improved, other stuff meh) and I have two short pieces imminently to be published.
What's important for me now is connecting with those I love and finding ways to support them.

100% that fan

What a delightful week for music videos. (Or movies, if you're Lil Nas X.)
First, our one true queen of hip hop, Missy Elliott dropped a new album with this gem, Throw It Back. This is classic ME--the innovative costumes, deliberately provocative and referential yet post-modern makeup and grills, her relaxed, confident dance and rhyme--"Watch me."

The video went live August 22, and it's already at 4million views.
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And then there's Old Town Road, continuing to dominate, inspire and embed itself in earholes, now in extended video/movie version, featuring LNX, Billy Ray, Chris Rock, a horse v. car drag race, and elderly bingo line dancing. I cackled aloud.


And there's the CupcaKKe remix, Old Town Hoe, as wonderfully nasty as it gets, because of course.