Ferguson
I know we haven't seen any smoke bombs lobbed at citizens for a few weeks, but you should know Ferguson remains in the local spotlight, if not the national. There was a city council meeting with a peaceful yet angry crowd that lasted hours while their voices were heard. It concluded with a young white girl telling the all-white city council, "I have 3 minutes to tell you how ashamed I am of every one of you. This is me shaming you." Then this pigtailed girl said, "I am Mike Brown." (That is, if Twitter is to be believed. @AntonioFrench retweeted non-stop for hours.)
Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 (or, by other reports, "sometime after 3") there will be an unusual form of protest: protesters in cars are going to slow down, then stop, on Highway 70. I don't know how useful that will be. I suppose if we're back in the news that will keep the issue in the public consciousness.
Gary
Gary made me the best dinner of my life tonight: rib-eye with a pan sauce with wine and cream. Don't ask for the recipe; he made it up.
No Comment
Ms Magazine would end each issue with a photo they titled "No Comment." I present to you a photo I found of my parents on an Alaskan cruise.
I love that picture. They look so happy!
As to Ferguson: We are about to lose a whole town to a lava flow, but no one is paying attention outside of local news. How do you demonstrate against Mother Nature?
Posted by: Hattie | September 11, 2014 at 12:28 AM
I hope Twitter is to be believed in this case. And yay Gary. And yay drunken about-to-get-lucky-in-a-ship's-cabin parents.
Posted by: allison | September 11, 2014 at 01:28 PM
Hattie - Oh no, I've heard about the flow on CNN, I think. Of course they wont cover it in depth until it begins in earnest. There is a city council meeting in Ferguson going on this minute with some protests. I think MSNBC won't visit us again until the grand jury comes down with a ruling, which has now been rescheduled for the depth of winter. Not good rioting weather.
Allison - oh, Dad is drunk. I suppose Mom might be drunk too. I only ever saw her drunk one other time. She could laugh even when not drunk and being molested.
Posted by: TheQueen | September 16, 2014 at 06:55 PM