So there's this newish online magazine about classics edited by a PhD candidate from Princeton named Donna Zuckerberg. She wrote a forecful editorial about the co-option of classical imagery by the alt-right this week, and then today wrote about the backlash she got, and it suddenly dawned on me as I read the anti-semitic tweets she included that she is Mark Zuckerberg's sister. I am gobsmacked! It never occurred to me - I mean, surely there are a lot of Zuckerbergs!
It must be deeply weird to be Mark Zuckerberg's little sister.
C. Cret Buffista (of Buffista Lane on Buffista Island) sent me a lovely Thanksgiving card, and it completely brightened my day. Thank you, C. Cret!
Hey, can you maybe ask her why I suddenly can't post or comment on FB? It's deeply weird.
Awkward incident on the way home from work tonight. I stopped at the gas station and the credit card readers on the pumps were out of service. So I went inside and gave the clerk a $20 bill. The sale amount was $18.12, so I went back inside for my change.
"Pump 2," I said.
"Pump 2, okay," was the reply. "$18.12?"
"Yep."
The clerk tried to give me $18.12.
WOOOOOT PITCHES AND HOME RUNS AND BASEBALL METAPHORS ALL OUT THE YOODLY-HOODLY!
I swam my usual! Really slow, but I swam it without stopping! Considering the trifecta of headcold, cramps and angry gallbladder, I'm just glad to get back in the water. My lungs are a little grumpy about it, but they needed it.
You are frightening, sarameg.
It must be deeply weird to be Mark Zuckerberg's little sister.
Truly. Good for her for talking about this stuff!
also, if you feel up to going out to get food, you are pretty much exactly across Golden Gate Park from the Vietnamese hot and sour soup so healing I swear it could raise the dead, but unfortunately they don't deliver so you would have to drag your ass out there
Ooh, thanks for the reminder. I have plenty of food in my refrigerator so I can't justify spending money, although I may change my mind if I continue feeling this terrible.
WOOOOOT PITCHES AND HOME RUNS AND BASEBALL METAPHORS ALL OUT THE YOODLY-HOODLY!
It's exciting!
I spent a good hour looking at Zillow which is not something I've ever done.
Keeping all fingers crossed, peeps.
I would be crushed if that were so, but OTOH our pundits could then stop wasting everyone's time tearing us all to shreds over our inability to adequately empathize with angry white men and urging us to stop talking so much about civil rights and race and gender and other things that prevent angry white men from voting for our team. Sorry, guys, turns out it was just Zen's nail polish, so you can all shut up now.
HA! God, CAN they STFU???? PLEASE?
