Mitch's Blog

Brett’s @ttscoff@nojack.easydns.ca mention of Drafts as a place he stores lists makes me think I should use Drafts more as a place where some text lives, not just a place where it starts. Then I think that sometimes I like to save images too, which makes Drafts less useful to me. Then I think, should I use Bear? Then I think: Why use anything else when Apple Notes is right there?

This is far from the first time my brain has gone around this particular hamster wheel.

Our stop was the Lafayette Hotel, which has been remodeled recently and looks delightfully bonkers, with an over-the-top early-midcentury theme.

Here’s a reproduction of the hotel in gingerbread.

And the view from the hotel lobby bar, where we sat for 15 minutes waiting for a table, with an estimated 25 minutes to go and getting hungry.

So we opted for the traditional Chinese food dinner.

Trump isn’t joking about wanting to control Greenland and the Panama Canal. Trump’s talk will push America’s allies closer to China.

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots. State health officials are spreading anti-vax lies that will kill many people and immiserate families.

“Do I condone murder? No, obviously. But I’m also sick and tired of people pretending that what is happening to the American people every day isn’t eugenics through class warfare."

RIP Michael Brewer, whose “One Toke Over the Line” was a hippie anthem.

Michael Brewer, half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley, who scored an unlikely Top 10 hit in 1971 with “One Toke Over the Line” — one of the most overt pop odes to marijuana of the hippie era and presumably the only one to be performed on the squeaky-clean “Lawrence Welk Show” — died on Tuesday at his home near Branson, Mo.

I had to put Minnie out in the backyard for a half hour this afternoon to keep her out of the way of the cleaners. She looked at me like I’d abandoned her on the side of the road in the North Dakota woods in February at midnight, where she would be eaten by bears.

I am reading: The Infernal Machine by Steven Johnson 📚. Published in May of this year, this book is a history of the violent anarchists of New York 110 years ago and the police investigations of them. The book has become timely with the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO and Luigi Mangione’s arrest.

Jamelle Bouie: “when you have anti-DEI proponents openly going after black military officers for recruiting from HBCUs and suing schools for their black and Hispanic enrollment *even after the schools ended any racial preferences* then the only honest label for these people is ‘segregationist’"