“This fancy rice is good,” I said. “So nice to eat something besides food bank rice.” Ming agreed. Don’t worry –I am still dumpster diving, and free is my favorite flavor. But the jasmine rice with such long grains felt like a fragrant treat, with salt and the fancy vegan butter. Willapa Bay We are… Read More »
Hello, reader. Are you confident? I am becoming more so, as I’m less afraid of people and love myself more as a grown-ass adult. But I feel annoyed that I need to be confident in order to be taken seriously, especially in community. Being confident feels almost violent to me, especially when it’s loud; it… Read More »
This open letter to YouTube is asking for justice for poor and disabled people who have different sensory needs because of autism. Dear YouTube: Thank you for gathering so much music into one place. I’ve used your website for many years, steadfast as friends went to spotify–even before then, as friends used Pandora. I like… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? We’ve been going to cemeteries lately to honor the dead. Tis the season! We visited the ashes of Ming’s ancestors in Oakland, California. content warning: death and more death First we went to a cemetery with mausoleum. I didn’t get pics of that. But we walked around. Ming told me… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? Rich men don’t always know they’re rich. Have you know people like that? The richest man I’ve ever known was self-pitying about money. He and his wife had their kids in private school and life at a certain class. So they had a lot of money but had set themselves… Read More »
Hello, we took a seaweed harvesting class. It was north of Los Osos, right on the north edge of my homeland. I heard about it at an Ojai farmers market. We learned so much. We stopped by Los Osos on our way north, when we left Ojai. It was cool to learn a lot at… Read More »
Hello, I have been wearing this flower crown sometimes. People seem nicer when I wear it. Sometimes they smile at me or give me a thumbs up. Maybe I will wear it more often? I was wearing it that day at a food giveaway when I was singing the Bob Dylan song. We ate all… Read More »
Right before leaving Ojai, we visited Lotusland. We caught the last of the lotuses blooming. Yay! Lotusland is a botanic garden in Montecito, started in 1945 by an eccentric rich person. Ming and I enjoyed the garden this time thanks to the Museums for All program, where you can get $3 tickets if you’re on… Read More »
A while back Ming asked what I meant about Bill Cosby in a post called psychedelics. I mentioned him when I was talking about self-sufficiency, racism, and justice. Years ago I associated Bill Cosby with conservative Black people. He said some things like “Pull up your pants” telling Black young people to work hard, as… Read More »
Hello, I made this new poetry meme: I can’t maintain my pretension for very long. It’s about dictionfucking. I think it’s a masterpiece, but no one else seems to pay it much mind. Ah well. I took a public domain dancer pic and put it thought a filter with flares. Then I cropped out that… Read More »