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 I was doing so well for a while, with the regular updating and generally being an engaged human. 

And then I had to go and do something like get a full time job. 

That's right-- in a year fraught with skyrocketing unemployment rates, ya girl managed to lock down a job teaching online. It's not the greatest, since I still have to show up to the school for the "collaborative" aspects (which is total horseshit since I can't have collaborative planning meetings or share resources). But I teach online so I guess I shouldn't complain about this since it's an ideal opportunity for this shitty year. 

Which means that I was busy last weekend trying to figure out wtf to do with 17 grade 3s online. It's a wild thing, this online teaching. 

So in order to pay homage to my newfound gainful employment, I've reverted back to my comfort of the classics for this weeks' current listens. There's something about the comfort brought to me by the Kinks and Cass Elliot. Don't @ me. 

Back to planning how to explain Peruvian festivals to 7yr olds...

xoxo
-ffh

10. both sides now - judy collins
9. scarlett - the rolling stones
8. we did it!!! -grandson
7. phenom - thao & the get down stay down
6. land back - a tribe called red ft boogey the beat, northern voice
5. pressure - kunzite
4. i'd rather go to bed - g-flip
3. do the work you piece of shit - the netherfriends
2. this will be our year - the zombies
1. make your own kind of music - mama cass elliot

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America, you stupid beautiful disaster. 

With the early Saturday announcement that former Vice President Joe Biden had succeeded in his bid for the US presidency, I couldn't help but tear up a little at the sheer relief that democracy is not totally dead in my southern neighbor. It's kind of dead, since 47.7% of them still voted for Trump, who might actually go down in history as the worst president America has ever had (name another president with a website dedicated to dispelling his lies, I'll wait).  I'm not entirely sure how the newly elected Biden will handle unifying a highly divided America, or whether that can even happen now that the division seems to be deepening. I look forward to January when the military coup escorts Trump out of the now barricaded oval office. 

Photo credit: Eileen Grench/THE CITY

Although, seeing the people dancing and reveling in the streets of New York seemed to fill a part of my soul that I wasn't aware I was missing. It was like, "Finally, we can remember what it's like to feel joy; to celebrate things that make us happy." That's just something kind of beautiful if you ask me. 

Anyhow, now to descend into a deep, post election season slumber where I no longer have stress dreams about how Melania chopped down Jackie Kennedy's apple trees and can return to my eternal struggle over whether I support Trudeau's minority government good bad or indifferent, or if I continue to be a dreamer who'll follow Jagmeet Singh to the ends of the earth. 

I vow starting today that I will attempt to limit my political musings to the absolute minimum on this blog. I can't promise anything, but I'll do my absolute best. 

10. your love (deja vu) - glass animals
9. supernatural - ruby waters 
8. pistol dave - epic beard men ft sage francis, b. dolan, atmosphere, blue raspberry
7. more money more problems (stripped down version) - the notorious b.i.g. ft mase, diddy
6. altitude check - the bad tenants 
5. no pr blues - netherfriends ft FIN
4. hold up - the kaleidoscope kid
3. the wave - commonminds ft myles cameron
2. oh-lawd - jarv & thief 
1. love thy soul - calimossa 

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T.I. has made the news several times over the last year or so by saying the most outrageous shit that makes me do that uncomfortable laugh-- you know the one that you use when people tell a joke that you either don't get or don't find funny, but you like them enough so you don't want to hurt their feelings so you just do that heh-heh laugh that's got enough character to pass as a laugh but your empty vessel of a soul really isn't in it? If you had to describe the face you make doing said laugh, it would be "pained, mildly distressed grimace."

Yeah, that's what happens whenever i read about T.I. lately. Between his comments that he gets his daughters hymen checked yearly at the gynecologist to ensure she's still a virgin, to his latest idiotic diatribe about coronavirus, "beginning in the throat," and if you drink warm liquids it sends the virus down the throat into the stomach where the acid dissolves the pathogen. This is wildly inaccurate information that is just mind boggling stupidity at this point in the pandemic. If a hot cup of tea was the cure, don't you think 231000+ in America, 1.2M worldwide would still be alive? 

Good God. America is a dumpster fire being accelerated by people pissing gasoline onto it. T.I. is probably just one of hundreds of thousands that think this way, both about the construct of virginity and of how to deal with the coronavirus, borne out of years of sub-par education systems and distillation of curious puritanical ideology pervasive through the cultural mores. Ugh. 

I wonder if google searches on the tenets of nihilism have risen since the onset of the pandemic. I'd be willing to bet money they have. 

Anyhow, the next time I post, it might be a new horizon as America will have devolved into chaos following the results of Tuesday, a time that I look forward to with trepidation and a healthy, robust dose of apocalypse signaling fear. I do not relish the world with four more years of Mango Mussolini, regardless of whether he wins the vote or simply disregards the election because he is an authoritarian despot forging a new path into fascist rule. 

Anyhow, what you came for. What I've been listening to at the end of the world. 

xoxo

--ffh

10. hurricane - shortyo ft XXXTENTACION, cooli booli

9. life wrote itself - chester watson

8. morning (intro) - deca

7. everything ends last year - open mike eagle 

6. whatever you want - crowded house

5. witchcraft - frank sinatra 

4. animal patrol - prof 

3. tom cruise - abhi the nomad ft kato on the track

2. one step closer - grandson.

1. gemini - knox fortune

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