95: a thumbs up for disposable crap?



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That was as far as I got writing at Safeway. Needless to say, there wasn't a line.

And what is wrong with me, posting a thumbs up about disposable paper products? It is truly easy to get swept up in the consumer hordes.

But at least they had Casa Sanchez chips!


There was a long line at the dump on Friday afternoon.

Among the bizarre choices made to manage this pandemic was closing the transfer station on the weekend. I guess closing two out of seven days lowers the possibility of becoming a vector by close to 15%, but not really, you know?

Anyway, it gave me time to listen to NPR. Nicer propaganda, right?

How does this all tie together? 

Sometimes, when I'm working on this blog, I have something I want to say. So I go off on a rant. 

Sometimes, I've got a collection of screenshots that are only loosely related. So I stitch them together. Sometimes that works, and it seems sorta on purpose. Sometimes it doesn't.

Today is still up in the air.

Speaking of up in the air. It's not a good time to be a bronze representation of a genocidal manifest destiny-er.

What, exactly, constitutes a riot? 

Are these swimmers for BLM rioting? This week, among many other protests, there was a bay swim, skateboarding, surfing, and yoga. Being organized in nature, with a stated specific goal of supporting Black Lives Matter, I suppose these are protests. Although it sure sounds like a celebration of doing what you like doing anyway. I guess maybe it's the same thing, protest and positive action, if you declare it so, and maybe if you attempt to get others involved?

At the current moment, I am following John Lennon and Yoko Ono and creating some "bed peace."

At this point, I'm wondering which candidate is going to catch Covid as the October Surprise.

As far as I know, this is SF's first restaurant designed from the ground up for a pandemic. Although I'm guessing there's an underground pop up or two I don't know about.

Will we get over the emptiness? I'm not sure. I am a believer in the vibrations of energy we all put out, and that they are amplified in proximity. But I guess, compared to being at home, this is proximity.

Another over the top police response?

(A young mountain lion was wandering around downtown for a couple nights. Can't possibly let that happen, right?)

I didn't know, and it is.

Not sure what these numbers will add up to, but I'm pretty sure it will be big. 

This happened last week and didn't get much press. Why? Because our local paper is very pro-real-estate market. And our board of supervisors just legalized a rent strike.

Finally, another weird twist to the pandemic. People have decided opening and closing garbage cans is more dangerous than raccoons eating trash.

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