A fellow anti-Trump activist (someone I like and respect very much) e-mails me the occasional on-line activist thing. Today he sends this, which has me scratching my head:

Everyone, write a letter to the president of Mexico, encouraging him to cancel his meeting with Trump! It's a simple thing to do.

Go to: http://en.presidencia.gob.mx/contacto ( Read more... )

Hank English the Plumber was highly recommended by friends so I called him when the hot water heater in the house needed to be replaced ( Read more... )

Today I went to the State House, along with a large group of other people, and met my State Senator and State Representative ( Read more... )

Hey, I'm on DreamWidth. Same user name. Is this where all the cool kids are?

( things were going well enough )

- Could not get to sleep last night, despairing about Trump ( Read more... )

You wonder why I tend to be "meh" about super-hero comic-book genre movies.

Someone in the comments thread here hit the nail on the head ( Read more... )

We are not doing an all-out "party". But Sophia would like to have a cake serving at Arisia. Probably Saturday or Sunday. (On Friday, things are too chaotic, with registration hell etc., and people might be delayed getting into the hotel; and on Monday people are going home.) I cannot bake at Arisia, so this means buying a cake ( Read more... )

Now is the time of year when planning for Arisia might start to influence one's grocery list. Reminder: a suitcase full of crackers is false economy. Read last year's post for more discussion of this point, and food-strategizing.

Back in the 1960's it was considered fashionable to have an FBI file (i.e., the FBI is keeping a file on you). So fashionable, in fact, that my mother deliberately caused the FBI to start a file on herself. How does one trigger this?... Well, in the 1960's, one could call the FBI on the telephone, ask whether they had a file on you, and if they ( Read more... )