A lie you told to the maze I'm in

[sovay]

spatch and I have performed our civic duties and received stickers in exchange for the exercise of democracy. It's been at least a year since we had to prove our residence in this ward and precinct, but the original experience was so scarifying that we still show up carrying utility bills just in case. The moon was brilliantly full and some of the leaves streetlight-orange in it. Earlier in the afternoon, I walked some distance by the side of a road where the afternoon sun had tinted the conservation meadows like ambrotypes. I have seen the news of the death of Dick Cheney. Twenty-five years sooner would have been better, but I had begun to wonder if he was even in the machine. Since Halloween, WERS has been playing a lot of the Last Dinner Party's "This Is the Killer Speaking" (2025). I am completely unsurprised that the band has covered Sparks.

P.S. w00t, Mamdani!

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[gullyfoyle]

Hope all goes well with the local elections. What with the governorships in NJ & VA, Mamdani, and the fact that my local city council looks like it will gain one or two members who might actually listen to the planning commission and avoid things like, say, approving housing developments in flood plains, I decided to have a wee dram of the Macallan to celebrate. Oh, and also a drop not for Cheney but for the absence of Cheney. And it is a beautiful full moon, I believe the largest of the year.

[sovay]

Hope all goes well with the local elections.

Thank you! It looks like we did not get the mayor we voted for, but the other one is also progressive, so fingers crossed.

What with the governorships in NJ & VA, Mamdani, and the fact that my local city council looks like it will gain one or two members who might actually listen to the planning commission and avoid things like, say, approving housing developments in flood plains, I decided to have a wee dram of the Macallan to celebrate.

Go for it! And the absence of certain people is always worth celebrating.