Reading: Olivia Jaimes, the Mysterious Cartoonist Behind ‘Nancy,’ Gives Rare Interview (Vulture)
The “Nancy” reboot is a thing of beauty, and this interview with the elusive cartoonist behind it is a fun read.
Sage advice from yet another guy I wish was on Micro.blog.
Reading: The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran (Reason)
Food for thought. Regretting much of my own rush to judgment about this story.
When you have extra dough after the initial apple cake for church, bake a smaller cake with what’s left of the filling (mostly dried cranberries simmered with apples, sugar, and cinnamon) on top. Turned out pretty well.
Reading: ‘It was getting ugly’: Native American drummer speaks on the MAGA-hat wearing teens who surrounded him (Washington Post)
God bless Nathan Phillips.
Relieved to see the bags of apples we picked last fall remained pretty fresh while hanging from the rafters of our garage. Moved them to the frozen tundra of the deck for easy retrieval as we make apple cake this afternoon.
Reading: The End of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Is Here (Fortune)
It’s been barely on life support for a while. The husband is still grieving the loss of his Windows-powered Nokia; he is resigned to be part of the iOS cult with F and me.
Two more cookie sheets to go. A nice way for F and me to warm up the house on a snow day.
Reading: Waiting for a Shutdown to End in Disaster (The Atlantic)
“…a grim but growing consensus has begun to emerge on Capitol Hill: There may be no way out of this mess until something disastrous happens.”
Reading: This is the telegram MLK sent Malcolm X’s wife after her husband’s assassination (Vox)
And yet the snow hasn’t even started.
Say what you will about the evil of Twitter, but it’s deeply heartening to see poetry bubble to the surface there when a beloved poet passes away. Wish we saw poetry more often – and regularly – there.
Alexis Madrigal: “There isn’t some global corporate conspiracy to get you to post a photo of yourself from the old days and today. There has been a global corporate conspiracy to get you to post everything about yourself … for the past 15 years.” (H/T @LMSacasas on Twitter)
Some days, I miss working in news. Some days, I don’t.
So utterly sad to see this: Beloved Poet Mary Oliver, Who Believed Poetry ‘Mustn’t Be Fancy,’ Dies At 83 (NPR)
Reading: Sorry I Forgot Your Birthday, I’ve Stopped Checking Facebook (Wall Street Journal; subscription req’d)
Upshot: People have to use – gasp – paper calendars and cards now!
Reading: Here’s why we need to stop celebrating ‘superparents’ (Washington Post)
Never mind the data thing. The online parenting-as-performance thing is another big reason I’m done with Facebook.
Reading: Conan O’Brien Wants You to Know That Nothing Matters and You’re Going to Die (Vice)
It’s actually more upbeat than it sounds. #MementoMori
Dreamed last night that I was moving my family to Sacramento so I could take a newspaper job. Nobody was happy about it. With all due respect to my friends in Sacramento, I don’t think I was, either.
Then I woke up. And I was very relieved.
Billy Idol is headlining this year’s Ribfest in Naperville, Illinois. I can’t decide if this makes me feel really old or just kinda sorry for Billy Idol.
Proud to announce that Our Tween the Percussionist is on to a new instrument: the cowbell.
We’ve done our due diligence as parents and introduced her to this.
Totally digging this Samurai Jesus take on the miracle at Cana.
It’s cold.
Chargers-Pats game on, muted. Remembering that (1) I generally haven’t missed football, (2) I don’t miss having my heart broken by the Chargers, and (3) the Spanos family can still bite me.
Reading: In San Diego, a Quandary Over the (L.A.) Chargers (New York Times)
National media picks up on the dilemma of many of us San Diego fans torn over the team’s success. Personally, I’m rooting for Rivers and Gates, but that’s about it.