Blogger since 2002, political activist since 2003, geek since birth. Opinions informed by mixed-race, multi-ethnic, cis-female condition, further shaped by kind friends of all persuasions. Sci-tech frenemy, wannabe artist, decent cook, determined author, successful troublemaker. Mother of invention and two excessively smart-assed young adult kids. Attended School of Hard Knocks; Rather Unfortunate Smallish Private Business School in Midwest; Affordable Mid-State Community College w/evening classes. Self-employed at Tiny Consulting Business; previously at Large-ish Chemical Company with HQ in Midwest in multiple marginalizing corporate drone roles, and at Rather Big IT Service Provider as a project manager, preceded by a motley assortment of gigs before the gig economy was a thing. Blogging experience includes a personal blog at the original blogs.salon.com, managing editor for a state-based news site, and a stint at Firedoglake before landing here at emptywheel as technology’s less-virginal-but-still-accursed Cassandra.
I admit freely my facility with the German language is poor. I hope this post’s headline reads, “Lie to me, Liar.” Which is about as close as I could get to “Lying Liars” because I can’t conjugate the verb ‘to lie.’ ~shrug~ It’s not like anybody’s paying me for this, unlike the lying liars at […]
Y me lamento por no estar alla Y hoy te miento para estar solos tu y yo Y la distancia le gano al amor Solo te veo en el monitor — excerpt, Monitor by Volovan Sweet little tune, easy to enjoy even if you don’t speak Spanish. Speaking of monitor… Flint Water Crisis: Michigan State […]
Last week after the artist Prince Rogers Nelson died, a segment of the population were mystified by the reaction to his passing. They’d missed impact this artist had had on music which happened concurrent with a paradigm shift in the entertainment industry. Prince rose in sync with music videos in the 1980s when musical artists became more […]
It’s Friday, when we usually cover a different jazz genre. But we’re playing these sorry cards we’ve been dealt this week and observing the passing of a great artist. We’ll probably all be sick of seeing this same video, but it is one of the very few of Prince available for embedding with appropriate intellectual […]
Come on now, who do you, who do you, who do you, who do you think you are, Ha ha ha bless your soul. You really think you’re in control. — excerpt, Crazy by Gnarls Barkley The kids are all #TBT on Twitter — posting throwback material from their youth, which seems like just yesterday […]
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. — excerpt, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Felony […]
It’s trash day in my neighborhood. Time to take the garbage to the curb. I aim for as little trash as possible, which means buying and consuming less processed/more fresh foods. I use paper/glass/ceramic/stainless steel for storage, avoiding plastics as much as possible. Every lick of plastic means oil — either the plastic has been […]
Another manic Monday? Then you need some of Morcheeba’s Big Calm combining Skye Edward’s mellow voice with the Godfrey brothers’ mellifluous artistry. Apple’s Friday-filed response to USDOJ: Nah, son You can read here Apple’s response to the government’s brief filed after Judge James Orenstein’s order regarding drug dealer Jun Feng’s iPhone. In a nutshell, Apple […]
It’s Friday and that means jazz here at emptywheel. But no genre exploration today, just this lovely, evocative downtempo jazz/trip hop fusion work. It’s dark water jazz indeed this week… Congress oublies the Flint water crisis I can’t find anything in C-SPAN about the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing which was to address the […]
Fried. I am totally brain-fried after spending the night reading about flavivirus, rubivirus, arbovirus. So a morning post was not in the cards right away today in my time zone. Things are fried elsewhere, too, as you can see from the global map above. These locations are suffering from drought: Colombia – Drought has affected […]