Misery and The Only Things That Have Excited Me The Past Few Days

 It has been a rough week, pain distracts and saps my energy; the simplest things take too long. I can do my research project, up to a point. I have been trying to find the stuff I need for revising “Agnes” and getting her out. That was two days ago. This post was started over 2 hours ago. Interrupted by the distraction of aches that should have been gone days ago but not (at least the bleeding stopped) and a computer crash. I thought to take in a movie today, but I am going nowhere except for smokes and caffeine.

Yesterday, I made it to Walmart for some meds. And down to the convenience store for smokes. There was also the writer's group. Then an afternoon of annoying, distracting agony followed where I got nothing more than a few articles read and watching “The Umbrella Academy.” It is easier to watch a tv show than a movie; I can get away from it quicker. The only problem is when the silly thing turns out to have some intriguing points. Like wrapping a dysfunctional family up into a superhero story that is also a satire of the superhero; a story where the heroes are the cause of the problem rather than its solution.

Tuesday was just about like Wednesday - only out briefly - but more miserable. 

I read The New ‘Odyssey’ Movie Is Sparking a Right-Wing Backlash. This Female Scholar Knows It Well (WIRED). Elon Musk is a silly person; so are these criticisms of Nolan's The Odyssey. Imaginations limited by their knowledge they are inadequate to the job. A black woman plays Helen? So what? Can she act? Yesterday I mentione I intended to see Supergirl to the bus driver, and he refused to consider it because of Milly Alcock's politics. What does politics have to do with how she can act? Nothing. It is the fear that they who do not share their politics can do the job. Anyone who fears their ideas cannot bear scrutiny knows their ideas are insubstantial.

A Rural Awakening? – Sheila Kennedy. Farmers seeing they've been conned by Trump? Well, they live pretty close to the bone, so they might be the first to feel reality creeping in from behind all the BS spewed by the President.

I had a great aunt who introduced me to politics. This September she will be dead 40 years. She liked betting on horse races; she was the only person in my family who has been to Churchill Downs. When Indiana was fighting over legalizing betting on horse racing, she condemned the Republicans controlling the General Assembly as being paid off by the surrounding states. The Republicans talked about the deletrious moral effects this would have on Indiana - that it might end in prostitution being legal. Well, that didn't happen - outside the Republican Party. Now, they're doing the same thing with marijuana: Using data to guide cannabis policy decisions ( Indiana Capital Chronicle).

By the way, my great aunt always voted straight ticket Republican.

Instead of morals, we've got bitterness and anger and hate and fear.

 Supreme Court allows immigration officials to turn away asylum seekers at the border (POLITICO)

'Nobody wants you here': Shakopee residents harass Somali family while house shopping (FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul)

Supreme Court sides with maker of Roundup weedkiller (AP News).

 America's great political implosion (Axios)

 Annoyed by the low-level rumbling of pain, I am done with posting for now. I'll use the time to get some things done here (the dishes do not wash themselves), go down to the convenience store), then deal with “Agnes”. Let's see if will matches desire.

Wishful thinking for me, considering age and the tolls paid: 

 

Remember the Rock Island Line!

 

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