Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1551
Taylor, Ms Rachel, Cranes, beard hair management, mystery of the changed school calendar
HI there good buddy what’s shaking. Second day of school. All went well with drop-off. It is COLD out there! Below 60°F. Winter is coming. I went to the grocery store afterwards. They didn’t have any shallots. I went to another grocery store. They had shallots. The dual grocery store runs made it so that I did not have time to stop by the collection station to drop off my trash. My god, it was all so thrilling. Everything is so f’n thrilling. Being an old parent rules just a nonstop bag o thrills.
Taylor got engaged. To a football player dude. Amongst her past boyfriends, the football player dude is the most healthy choice for her to marry, and the least exciting from a entertainment-to-a-third-party point of view. I would have hoped for at least one Vegas marriage to Matty Healy or something come on man your life is our television show. I guess it is fine, it is a logical step in what I am increasingly worried is a tradwife/MAGA phase. People don’t want to hear this. And it is as-yet unproven. But boy it’s been a while since she’s spoken out about, well, anything. And you can only rest on your laurels for so long when it comes to celebrities and politics.
But no shade, no shade. Congratulations, Taylor and Travis. Although if the English Teacher and the Gym Teacher at my school tried to get married, I’m pretty sure the police woulda been involved.
Taylor an English teacher, lol.
Man I hope there is a new variant of TLOS that has the engagement photos on it. That’s the secret life, get it? The showgirl is married.
I should not be talking about this I had two unsubscribers yesterday. Two! I’ve never had two before! But, you know, saying some stuff about Taylor, it could lead to bad things. And I’m not! I’m just nervous, that is all.
Maybe she can do a benefit concert with Miss Rachel.
Miss Rachel 2028. Man I don’t even know her name. Let’s look it up. Rachel Anne Accurso. And it is Ms rachel, not Miss Rachel, Rick, Jesus. Okay well Accurso 2028. Accurso is a great last name. It has an evil magic vibe to it.
Rachel/Hunter 2028. Maybe vice versa. I am cool either way.
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We are listening to Cranes this morning. Did you know that Cranes have four albums after Loved? I did not. I listened to Population Four yesterday, and I’m listening to Future Songs right now. Will also check out Particles & Waves and Cranes today, if all goes well. I love it so much when a band you love has a bunch of albums that you didn’t know about because somewhere along the walk of life you lost your way with them. Like all those Shriekback albums out there. So good. Some day a former Jesus and Mary Chain fan is going to find out there were albums past Automatic and discover Stoned and Dethroned, Damage and Joy and Munki and they will be so psyched. They can just skip over Glasgow Eyes. Actually maybe I should give that album another chance it can’t be that bad, can it?
Man, props to Cranes. Just still going at it. Love an artist that doesn’t stop.
So apparently our school changed the school year calendar? Like.. in May? And didn’t really tell anyone. It is so weird. The school district puts these calendars out two years in advance so everyone can plan. And we did plan! And now out of the blue they have taken away three teacher work days (i.e. days with no school). And as far as I can tell, they did not, like… replace them with anything or shorten the year? It is super strange. And I can not figure out why. Like they did it at a school board meeting, but the minutes to that meeting offer zero insight they just say something like “the school district believes in putting these calendars out well in advance so parents and students can plan but we changed it for reasons but we won’t tell you what the reasons are.”
Now, sure, yes, one of the work-days they took away falls on a weekend I gotta go out west to see my Grandma on her 90th, but I don’t really care. It will arguably be easier for Emma while I’m away to have Jane in school. But it is so weird to me that they did this a) without telling the public absolutely anything by way of explanation and b) they added three days of school without taking three away somewhere else. Like isn’t the duration of a school year mandated by the feds or state or something?
Very mysterious!
PSA to all men. Don’t put your shaving hairs into your sink. Keep that shit out of there. Here is what I do. I got one of those old-school cafeteria trays. I mean, I am obsessed with those old-school plastic cafeteria trays I have dozens. But you only need one for this. I put it over the sink when I shave. Then I just shave at the sink still. And all the hair goes onto the cafeteria tray instead of down your drain. Bob’s your uncle.
A normal person would then shunt the hair over into the garbage can and then put the tray away but I am gross and a lunatic and I have been letting the hair pile up in the tray. Like I’m gonna make a stuffed voodoo doll or something out of it. Emma is very displeased about this. And if I die then there will be this really awkward scene that is sort-of a mix of that Annette-Benning-crying-in-the-closet scene in American Beauty and, well, a biohazard disposal site. Emma will be sad and pissed.
But our drains are going to be free and clear.
Annette Benning was great in that movie. Real shame Spacey now ruins it. It is a creepy film but that was sort of the point.
I took a photo of this hair tray but you know what? It looks kinda gross. I’m gonna spare you. Here have a photo of a skeleton DJ instead.
Jane is mostly pleasant again. And in my 2021 GMHHAY journal that I am reviewing, she turned unpleasant. So all that stuff I was talking about a few days ago about how reading the 2021 journal made me miss three-year-old Jane and how seven-year-old Jane was more sinister, I take it all back. I think Jane just suffered from the last four weeks being almost completely unstructured after breakfast and she needed more structure than that. She is so excited to be back in school, had a great day yesterday, doesn’t really care at all about which friends are or aren’t in her class, happy to make new ones. So that is all a relief. She is brushing her teeth and going upstairs at bedtime handoff. It’s all quite pleasant. Will it last, I don’t know, but I am enjoying it again this week.
Goth playlist for you today. Mix of old and new, since, you know, Cranes being both old and new right now. Threw some old standbys on to the playlist to flesh it out, accompanying a fair amount of good new stuff like this garbage track, an act called Butcher’s Tail I know nothing about but enjoyed, this awesome new Thom Isaacs guy (think I’ve mentioned him before). Also I love this Matt Jencik Midwife album so much. It is great.
Okay well, off to work and GMHHAY vol 2 editing. Been restoring some of Lisa’s cuts. Some of our inside jokes and long, pointless sagas like The Vital Times and my love of June Ovens were lost on her, not unreasonably. This volume will cover a shorter time frame, but that means it will be a shorter book, easier to read. I think that is probably a worthy tradeoff. More, shorter volumes.
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