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!

Comments

[yarrowkat]

if he was in the machine, lol. i saw that cartoon on IG today and that is how i found out he'd died!

[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.

[gwynnega]

YAY MAMDANI! I am so pleased.

[sabotabby]

fuckin YAY!

in the machine

[lauradi7dw]

I looked up "Dick Chaney in the machine" and got an instructive article from Popular Mechanics, to my surprise.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69248937/dick-cheney-death-heart-history-no-pulse-device/

Someone on twitter pointed out that he and Liz were the only prominent Republican government officials to attend a memorial for a Capitol police officer who died due to the January 6th insurrection. I can't vouch for that, but it's interesting.

[minoanmiss]

My town's tiny election was pretty pleasant since I liked most of the candidatees and was spoiled for choice.

[pameladean]

I voted by absentee ballot, and only cautiously approached news of local elections. We have our same cute white incompetent unimaginative cowardly cop-fluffing mayor, blargh; but the City Council results can be cause for cautious optimism.

Late on the day it happened, I was in a really bad mood, and Cameron came to me and said, "I have news that might improve your mood!" "Really, what?" "Dick Cheney is dead!" *pause* "That does improve my mood."

I'm really happy about Mamdani and about the upending of Virginia. I mean. Wow. I only wish stupid pundits had not persistently referred to the candidate who did not win our mayoral election as "the Mamdani of Minneapolis." Thanks, weirdly provincial supposed informed people.

P.

[asakiyume]

That song is ~ great ~ (and the video's a lot of fun too)

You look like a weeping saint with your infected eye --Awesome line.