Author’s note
It’s taking me so long to write this piece because I am sick but I refuse to finish the month of April without talking about all the happenings in my little town. So I’ll do what I always do when I need to feel inspired, watch a movie I've watched before to make myself cry so then I write in a fever to run from why I’m actually crying.
Gallupian Library Puzzle Race and Rewatching Arrival (2016)
I’m watching my wife and her teammates(assorted pieces) put together a 500 piece puzzle at a puzzle race put on by my local library. I’m not competing because competition especially with others is my nightmare. They placed 7th with the winning team(The Shrimps) finishing in 39 minutes, I’ll honestly take it.
A lot of my friends were competing against each other in and I didn’t realize the conspiratorial nature of puzzling, lots of whispering and pointing at the pieces on the table and yelling at children about what constitutes cheating. The library even had three judges to keep things in order. I left the race with questions though.
Is crime okay if you’re cute? Should you have your broke roommates on your puzzling team? Is it okay to abandon your team when your friends from school show up? Should you recruit team mates from your friends even if you know they suck at puzzling?
First of all I thought this movie was called The Arrivals (my black auntie coming out full force). I had been wanting to watch it again for week but couldn’t find it only to see it randomly streaming on Youtube. The main protagonist is linguist mourning the loss of her daughter from an incurable illness. I can’t talk too much about the plot without spoiling it but if you knew the love of your life was coming but so was the pain of their loss, would you run towards it or away?
Crisis With No Urgency
I attended a housing summit recently and I was struck by how much everyone in the room refused to say the fact that private land owners were the reason we had so little affordable and livable housing and hat monstrous slum lords have caused most of the housing and building to sink into disrepair. I think our government agencies calling something a crisis without movement is the ultimate form of gaslighting.
In a town with so many millionaires per capita, our bodies, our land and families, the cannibalistic nature of a millionaire feeding off of us multiplied by several living in our neighborhoods contributing nothing but pain. Acknowledging there is a issue but not that they caused it or will continue to exacerbate it. They know the pyramid’s bottom has to be well supported by our bodies. Why do we let continue to let them exist?
The Tension Tour.
Kylie Minogue in PHX for easter weekend, Need I say more?
The only thing I will say is I wish more lesbians loved happy bubble gum pop. It was fun dancing with all the bears but it would’ve been nice to see more scissors.
It’s okay to not take ourselves so seriously all the time, after all the world doesn’t and we’re still here.