Way of the World

If I haven't mentioned it before:  I hate people. 

Present company excluded. But yeah - overall, people are the worst. 

Again, I do blame this administration for a lot of it. 

Clearly, homophobia, racism, xenophobia, misogyny have always been there, but until 2016 it had kind of been slightly less acceptable to just be outright homophobic, racist xenophobic and mysogynistic. 

All bets are off now. They have been for a while. People are just showing their true colours - and why not? There is seemingly no repercussions for any of this anymore. Zero accountability. 

Take these fine upstanding students at Visalia Redwood High School showing their outward hate in a school photo.

Oh, I'm sure they'll say "it was just a joke". If so - then include the story and photo in your college essays and see how many places accept you. 

No worries - the school is doing a "full investigation". 

Whatevs. 

Here is the sad part. Sadder? Saddest? 

Go to Goooooooogle News. As of last evening when I drafted this, there were only four (!) stories that were there. Then it dropped to a 2019 story of a student arrest. 

See ? No one cares. 

You can't condemn their actions when almost no one is showing said actions. 

And so you know their high education standards, someone might want to tell the folks of Visalia that the Redwoods are a few hundred miles to the northwest of them. They might consider changing the name of the school to the Bigots. 

Fuck them. 

Song by: Tina Turner

Beware Brother Beware

Well, I could have done a Cooking with Blobby post, but I just didn't wanna. 

As it turns out, I saw a Family Guy episode I'd never seen - not that it matters. But the show loves putting some true bits of things into their broadcasts. 

They showed all of 10 seconds of a "filmstrip" about the sickness of homosexuality and identified the homo in question as 'Ralph'.

Naturally, I went to YouTube and typed in 'Ralph is a Homosexual'. .....and poof (see what I did there) there it was. 

This is actually a real 1961 film that was produced by the Inglewood Police Department and Inglewood School District. 

Yes, it's 10 minutes long, and not all of it is worth it, but there are moments. Like from 1:27-4:15. 

This masterpiece compares homosexuality to smallpox - as it's just as dangerous and just as contagious. It also mentions that homosexuals 'demands' an intimate relationship with members of the same sex. 

The humour is unintentional. 

If you go to the YouTube site here - please please please read the comments. 

Here is one: 

 

 Song by: B.B. King

Something More Than Free

I love that BLOTUS is picking on Harvard. 

I mean, I'm not, but in a battle of wits, who do we think is going to prevail here? 

While it might be a long and painful road, but I'm picking the university. 

VonShitshisPantz gets so butt hurt at every little thing and it so retributive, I don't know how / when he has time to eat and sleep. 

I mean, he takes a dump right in his pants, so he's not wasting time with bathroom breaks, obvi. 

But fuck if I didn't go to Harvard's website to find the free courses - for you and for me. Honestly, we should all sign up. I'm sure it will put us on some list, but let's face it, half of us are already on 'some list' he and his cronies has drawn up.

• American Government: Constitutional Foundations
• U.S. Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies
• Citizen Politics in America: Public Opinion, Elections, Interest Groups, and the Media
• U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy
• Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic
• Prescription Drug Regulation, Cost, and Access: Current Controversies in Context
• Leadership: Creating Public Value
• Justice
• We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy

Granted, the 'Ebola' one might not be super applicable, but since Covid was on BLOTUS' watch, you know, it can't hurt. But some of the others are sure to get under his thin skin. 

Each course is hyperlinked so you can look at more detailed course descriptions. 

Just to reiterate:

All courses are FREE.  

All courses are on-line.  No needing to move to Cambridge, MA.  .....though I highly recommend hanging out on the banks of the Charles, watching the Bostonian men exercise shirtless up and down the river. 

The first and last classes alone seem worth it alone.

Song by: Jason Isbell

Police on my Back

May1st is traditionally the day one must commit to a college, if one had applied and been accepted. It's a national deadline.

Many will pay the deposit on more than one and even wait until their orientation at each of them before actually deciding where they actually will attend. With rising costs, those numbers aren't overwhelming. And universities plan that into their enrollment numbers as well. 

Disruptions on 200+ college campuses are having some people (re)thinking their decisions. 

I guess the question is: why? 

I suppose it would come down to the university's stance on the matters of Gaza and Israel, but more so on how they act (or don't) on that and the protests at hand. 

Depending on the day, there are (or have been) 13-42+ political parties in Israel, almost none on the same page as another. Only 13 have seats in the Knesset (Assembly). They are the ones who pass laws, elect prime ministers and presidents - and approves the cabinet. 

The majority of Israeli citizens don't necessarily have a voice here. 

I've said before - Israel is not innocent in their current situation, but that most certainly does not permit or absolve Hamas (not Palestine) of their actions. 

Anti-Semitic violence has rocketed in the U.S. since October 7, 2023. Jewish students on campuses do not feel safe - and the policies already in place on campus protecting them have been ignored for years, only to be highlighted since last year.  You saw three university presidents just trip over themselves with bullshit answers when questioned before congress. 

I get the pro-Israel protests. I get the pro-Palestine ones as well. 

For all my foreboding on US politics, there is a sliver of me who thinks social change can happen and help political change. I think college protests - peaceful - can bring awareness and education where it is lacking. I don't know US college protests change a thing in the mid-East, save the possibility of how (or if) the US financially funds the on-going strife over there. 

As both parties here are not that far away in terms of warmongering, I don't see the DoD stopping the supplying of Israel with weapons. I think they should cease that action, but that's my opinion. I don't think Pappy Joe will put a stop to it and his predecessor would only increase funding. He's butt-buddies with Netanyahu.

Speaking of. Irony (or brains) aren't BLOTUS' strong suits for sure, but his criticism of Pappy Joe's handling (lack of - according to BLOTUS) turmoil on college campuses is in a weird way, hilarious. 

Let's pretend - just pretend - for a second that he wasn't in control of January 6 violence at the US Capitol. Hey!. I said "pretend"!  His lack of handling that pales in comparison. 

The response by college leaders is uneven at best. Some with campus security; some with police. None yet - yet! - with National Guard and the likes. 

But I think we've all learned (well, I'd like to think) historically that government / security interference on college campuses hasn't really gone well in any way shape of form. It has not been lost on me that we are two days away from Kent State's 54th anniversary. 

This isn't going to end well. At this point, I'm just not sure for whom. 

Song by: the Clash

Free

You know, now and then I get to put out good news here too. 

An NYT notification popped up on my phone yesterday about a billion dollar donation to a medical school in the Bronx. I was intrigued of course, so I clicked the link. 

A professor of disabilities and literacy programs made the donation. The money - mostly unknown to her - came from her husband's estate, as he had done well in his career. 

As having worked in healthcare and been on the business end of administering donor requests, almost all donations come with some kind of parameters on what the givers want it to go towards. Some are extremely specific and I've seen some funds never touched, as sometimes they are tough to spend, believe it or not. 

Ruth Gottesman had only one request:  use the money so medical students do not have to pay for medical school. 

Boom. Period. That's it. 

The money is enough to have this go on in perpetuity. 

The money is enough that the medical school could have been renamed for her. Most donations have levels ($1.5 million to have a Chair named for you, etc). As this is Albert Einstein Medical School, Ms. Gottesman figured that they can't do better than Albert Einstein and declined the offer. 

It is horribly generous - though maybe her kids think differently? - and will be a huge help to those who come out riddled with debt. 

Personally, I would have attached a few caveats to this gift. For instance, the forseeable future, fewer and fewer students are selecting certain specialties - neurology, for one. Even fewer (read: almost none) are going into brain health and memory. That is going to be a HUGE issue and very soon, as the population ages and dementia and Alzheimers cases continues to rise. There will be even fewer people to care of these patients. 

I'm sure there are others too that need bolstering. Along with nursing programs. 

I say keep the tuition free, IF someone chooses a certain speciality path. As the needs of medical circumstances changes over time, so can the need on how those funds get dispersed.  Just my $0.02. 

Either way, it might get people into medicine who wanted that career but couldn't take on the debt. 

Good for Ms. Gottesman. Good for Albert Einstein.  The college......not the man. 

Song by: Florence + the Machine

the Beat Goes On

Just to pile on to the hypocrisy of the life of children, when it comes to the GOP and the religious right, we have to look no farther than a few states over from Alabama. 

A few weeks back, though only recently reported, three girls (no, they're not women) in Oklahoma attacked and beat a non-binary student - enough so that she died the following day. 

So concerned was the school on the beating, that they never called an ambulance for the child. 

Let that sink in. 

The grandmother of Nex Benedict took the child to the hospital. Twice. Once where they released them, and then a return visit upon where the student died. 

Not only did the school not call for medical care, they didn't report the incident to police. 

To be clear, it isn't unknown if Benedict died of the injuries put upon them in that school bathroom. Let me rephrase - the physical injuries. There had been multiple reports of bullying of Benedict. It wouldn't be unheard of - or even a surprise - if they took their own life due to the school circumstances. It is a scenario played out far too often for trans, gay and non-binary youth. 

It doesn't help when the head of Oklahoma education is a vocal opponent of what he describes as “radical gender theory.” 

I know I should do more research on some group called Libs of Tik Tok, but it sounds like a hate-filled group led by someone who was appointed by the Oklahoma education lead. Trans advocates note taht Libs of Tik Tok have an outspoken stance against transgender rights. Critics argue that the head of Oklahoma education's rhetoric and policies have contributed to an environment that enables hate crimes. 

While I don't know this for sure, I would say they're also "pro-life".  That, of course, comes with one big fucking asterisk. Pro-birth, yes.  Pro-life: no!

At this point (read: two weeks after the fact) no charges have been brought against the three girls - even for assault. 

I hate this fucking country. I'm sorry that Nex didn't have the life they deserved. 

Song by: Sonny & Cher

Harper Valley PTA

I'm just saying, I must love my husband because he continually wants to infuse educational aspects into our get aways. 

....and I let him!

Last year he wanted to go to Harper's Ferry, but I was in a boot. So, we went this year 

I mentioned to a few people about going, but no one knew about it. Or heard about it. Like they almost didn't go to elementary or secondary school. 

John Brown was the guy. The center of the story. An abolitionist - and "they" never quite told us what that word meant, or any context. I probably thought at the time that he was the bad guy. 

He wasn't. I mean, he kind of was, but with good intentions. 

Brown almost single handily kicked off the Civil War. Yes, two years between Harper's Ferry and the war, but his failed attempt kick-started the rights and wrongs of slavery.  There were no rights, of course, but people never truly addressed it or thought about it to a degree of change until then. 

The town was as is it was in 1859, though the restrooms did have plumbing. The National Park Service guy giving the 4-1-1 on the historical accuracy was good and relaxed. Honestly, I was waiting for MAGA or DeSantis supporting person to say "slavery is an opinion" and a learning opportunity, but luckily that didn't happen. 

I'm glad we went. I learned a few things. 

It would not be the last educational portion of our trip. 

Song by: Jeannie C. Riley

Orphan

I totally stole the image from (the other) Brett. He's good about texting me things, and well, to be fair, he's stolen from me, so.....

I might have literally ROR'd  in my office when it popped up on my phone. 

Sure, I laughed, but you know, it's not really that funny. 

I passed it off to my friends like it was my own find (and really, wasn't it - kind of?).  Meredity pondered what will happen to all those kids when their parent's die. She's not talking 30 years from now, but more like 30 days or weeks from now. 

This whole going back to school thing is fucked up.  Yes, everybody BUT this administration understands the kids are not at risk for getting it or dying. 

However, this isn't boarding school. Each and every day they'll go home or to a sitter or to a Nike factory for their 3rd shift of work, and infect their elders. 

Kids will be carriers. The are carriers. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and family friends will all perish - not to mention all those that the soon to be dead people will come into contact.  Oh - and the teachers. And their families. 

However, should when these kids become orphans, the government has housing for them in cages in the southwest - no soap or toothbrushes - but they're very equipped to place kids there who are separated by their parents. LOTS of prior experience. 

Song by: Toto

Pay to Play

I have been contemplating all day (well, yesterday) not to write today. It's not for lack of subjects really. It might be due to too many

For now, I feel the need to skip over the mosque killings in New Zealand. I'm not in a place of mind to discuss the continued rise of white nationalism / supremacy. I'm not ready to tie it back to our current administration and the hate that is emanating from our country and spilling so far over the world. 

I guess we can tackle white privilege (again), with the whole college admissions 'scandal'. because that's all it seems to be - unless maybe you're a stellar athlete, then race is off the table. 

I guess I should be upset at Lori Laughlin if I knew who she was, but having never watched Full House or the Hallmark Channel, it seems unlikely I'm familiar with her work. Felicity Huffman, however, boooo.  You're ruining reruns of Sports Night for me, assuming anyone would ever pick that up for reruns. 

I'm not so sure what the big hoo-hah is about this 'scandal'. It's hardly news......or new.  Paying to get into schools has been going on for decades, if not longer.  You don't think Shrub, BLOTUS or Jared Kushner got into Yale, Wharton or Harvard (respectively) on their own volition, do you? 

If anything, the fathers of those three (well, the one that's still alive) should look to these whiter than white actresses to see how they got off so cheap. 

Wasn't Huffman's cost like $15,000?  That's only half a year's tuition and board. If anyone should be offended, it should be her kid: they didn't garner big bucks to break the rules.  They're not THAT special after all.  Still, I've seen her IMBD, she must have saved her dough from Desperate Housewives, because she hasn't been that relevant - and that other chick has been let go from, well....everything. 

But since we are tying this together, let's do talk white privilege and say a bigger form or getting into something you don't deserve, like say

NATIONAL SECURITY CLEARANCE

How is this not the ultimate cheating scandal derived from power, money, nepotism and being Caucasian?

It seems cheating to get into college is just the prerequisite for cheating at your job in later life. 

I guess Felicity Huffman's kid has a job waiting for him / her in the very near future. 

On a side note:  who wouldn't want to be investigated by the above DOJ guy....and his finger???

Song by: Nirvana

Teacher Teacher

Here is a story I thought would have gotten some legs nationwide, but I haven't seen that - and now with Boston in the headlines, this will only be tackled at a local level.

So a teacher up in Albany is under fire for a persuasive writing assignment she gave 75 students.

While perhaps (and I am reserving judgement on her approach) the wording / set-up of the assignment might have not been clear or misinterpreted, I'll go out on the unpopular limb and, to a degree, back up the actual classroom task.

The assignment? The students were instructed to imagine that their teacher was a Nazi and to construct an argument that Jews were “the source of our problems” using historical propaganda and, of course, a traditional high school essay structure.

On the surface, this sounds horribly insensitive. It seemingly speaks to hate (from the teacher) and reeks of anti-Semites.

Here is why I think (and hope) it is not.

Granted, this is not a history class, but an English one.  But I was talking to a friend about this and wondered what they actually teach in high school history these days, especially about World War II.  Yes, you spew facts about the war - dates, battles, bombs, but do they really teach reasons?   I'm not talking to the history buffs of the world, but the general population.

I would venture to say that many know way more about the Japanese theater  of WWII - Pearl Harbor and two A-bombs.  But I'd venture to guess they don't know as much regarding the European stage.

Quick - other than the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, what do you know about WWI ?    Yeah, I thought so. I'm not chastising, because I know little else myself.

So back to the assignment.  At first I was like, she should be fire.  My second thought, a few days later was, she will be fired, but should she?

Granted, she could be an anti-Semite and just spewing hate, or g-d forbid, is she trying to get the kids to think!

Go back and look at the assignment.

An entire country (Germany) can't all be hateful and evil. Yet, they watched trains full of people go to camps yet come back empty.  They saw folks pulled off the street, never to be seen again. For years.  Few said, or did, a thing.

An army was built up - and convinced that genocide was the right thing to do.

But HOW?  How did it get to that point??  And I think that was the teacher's point.

Even if they teach about Hitler in school, they are not teaching the hate behind the man and how a man or society gets there. Or better yet, how does a man get an entire society there?

I can certainly see the problem with the assignment in terms of mom and dad seeing this and going "whaaaaaat?"  I can see that kids are so frickin' desensitized and easily manipulated these days that it is two leaps from writing their five paragraphs for class before they are joining a white supremacist group.

Yes, this could task could be construed as hate. And it is.  Yes, there were probably better (or different) examples to use for the assignment. But as an overall learning tool, is brushing the potential means under the rug for a 1932-1946 Germany any less short-sighted?

If nothing else, with this experience, this teacher just gave 75 students their essay for their college applications.


Song by:  Rockpile

Bullets in My Hairdo

Time and again, I've made no secret of my shock and awe at the NRA and specifically Wayne LaPierre.

Yes, I'm kind of late to this, but there were holiday posts and things to attend to.  I suppose if I posted multiple times per day, I could get everything in. As you might not yet notice, so far I haven't gotten in my Record of the Month posts, my App of the Month, Site of the Month, etc.

This isn't a bad thing, it just means I don't always need placeholders and I have things to babble on about.

Back to the NRA.

What fucking idiots. Seriously.

Here is what good armed guards would do at each and every school: job creation.  At least in theory.

125,000 schools nationwide.  Of couse, now already over-strapped school systems will have to lay off teachers to pay for this initiative, along with benefits and supplies (you know: guns, bullets, vests).  The  good thing is, no one has to shell out tax dollars for background checks, licenses or training. None needed!

I'm sure the teacher's unions (or the teachers themselves) won't balk that the average armed guard will get double an educator's salary, since the same people who rally behind the NRA (the GOP) already want teachers to sacrifice and take pay cuts.

I'll say it again:  fucking idiots.

But I'll go on.

Logistically, an armed guard ratio could be solved via a math word problem, no?

Q: If a school has 10 exits, 6 stairwells, 40 classrooms and 400 hundred students, and a shooter has four assault rifles each with a magazine of 1000 rounds of ammunition - how many guards would be needed to kill the shooter?

Extra Credit:  how many students would the shooter kill before the guard(s) got to him?

Yes, Wayne, the only thing stopping a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.  My only question is - how do you tell who is who?

Idiots.

Speaking of idiots, don't even get me started on the responses I got back from my republican state senator, Rob Portman.  Frustrating, but not surprising.  ....nor was it surprising that a wuss like him was on the short list for Romney's VP.  

Idiot.


Song by: Finn Brothers

Can't Ignore the Train

No, you can't ignore the train.  Especially when you're dragged invited to the Shaker Historical Society who was having a seminar on the Rapid Through the Years.

The Rapid transit is basically our heavier than light rail, but not quite a full-blown train. 

710 and our neighbor, Tom, really wanted to go and I was happy to.  .....until..........

First, let me go back 20 years (?). A few of us attended our friend Daphne's graduation from nursing school.  

There, the guest speaker's entire speech consisted of:  "you have choices......you can work first shift.....you can work night shift.....you can work weekends.....you can work evening shift....." ...and so it went on for 35 minutes.  Horrid. 

Or so I thought - until I encountered the speaker for the Rapid.  OMG - I wanted to stick needles in my ears.  An hour seemed like four. 

The Rapid was not just transportation, but there were socio-economic implications to implementing such a rail system - some of it was intended to bring the 'help' out to the Shaker area, and yes, the express business cars were all 'white'. 

None of these things were touched on.  The subject matter 'expert' knew about the trains. The cars. The types of cars. The color of cars. The number of stripes on the cars. Where the doors on the cars were placed. The width of the wheels   ....the.......you get it. 

Of the 50 or so folks there, I was the fourth youngest......well, I estimated. If some of the others were younger, they've had harder lives. But I felt for the octogenarians, as those folding metal chairs were hell on my back, I can only image what it felt on their arthritic and osteoporotic bones.

Next week's lecture is on Paul Newman - who was from Shaker. I won't be springing $5 for that discussion.

Ruckiry (not Jon's boss), after this talk it was off for tequila Mexican food. So the day wasn't a total loss. 

Live and Learn

While the guys who are doing are redoing our hardwood floors are doing a great job, remember kids - stay in school.

Song by:  the Cardigans

What is Life

I wanted to post this and only say:  "submitted without comment".

....but then I realized this is me and if I can say 10 words in a 100, I will take that opportunity.

While I am not the most spiritual guy around, this video below is science. But it would be tough not to feel a spiritual (not religious) connection to it all.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson can stray into corny on NOVA, I still like him and he is an interesting guy. And smart, obviously. I do so love the Hayden Plane-arium as well.

...and the video shots themselves are cool.

If you're ever in New York City, it is totally worth the trip to the plane-arium. While the rest of the museum is nice, the Rose Center is freaking awesome.





Song by: George Harrison

Gun Shy

I could prattle on about Davy Jones, but as Monkees goes, it was all about Michael Nesmith for me. Maybe it was his mutton chops, or perhaps his green knit cap. Perhaps it was his inherited fortune from him mother, who invented White-Out.  And arguably, he had made the first full-length video with Elephant Parts ("Lucy and Ramona and Sunset Sam" - if anyone remembers that).

So yeah, Davy Jones is dead. I got nothing on that. I'm not Marcia Brady.

If we are talking tragic deaths this week, I'd stick with the kids at Chardon High School, which is about 25 miles from us.

I get flummoxed at school shootings. I truly don't understand - on multiple levels. I almost get the pre-Colominbe thing, but not the post.  While measures were put in place to respond to such measures, I thought the bigger issues is to keep firearms from entering schools.  Yeah, I'm all for metal detectors and giving up certain civil liberties to keep teens alive - at least while in school.

In theory, I understand locking-down the school immediately after it was reported. But while the school was locked down, EMS and SWAT were locked out, while the kids bled to death inside. That doesn't seems quite the way that should happen either.  Yes, one tries to minimize more aggression or fatalities, but........

And not to minimize what happened, but the aftermath sucks. Not necessarily the grieving, but the letters.  Oh, the letters.

It all comes down to g-d and guns. It always does.

Chardon is in probably one of the more conservative places in NE Ohio.  So a letter like this - in a way - surprises me:

Let G-d Back Into Schools. I'm sure more precautions will be piled upon the ones in use. But maybe, just maybe, if God were allowed back into our public schools -- after getting kicked out by liberal educators, judges and politicians under the false premise of the separation of church and state -- some of the chaos in our schools could be minimized.

Of course, the writer doesn't live in Chardon. But let's blame liberal educators and you know, not the founding fathers for church and state separation. And trust me, Chardon probably has more religion in their community than most - so if people can't learn right from wrong outside school walls, who is to blame?  Parents?  Community?  g-d, himself?  Another asshole not taking responsibility and putting it all on schools to do all the teaching.  Perfect.

The second letter was the Weapon Isn't to Blame.  You don't need the letter to figure that one out, do you?
The bigger surprise is that it wasn't written by Wayne LaPierre.

I love this about Republicunts. If it can't be handled by g-d, then a .22 is the next best thing. There is little, or nothing, between these two options.

Maybe the issue isn't that this kid brought a gun to school. Maybe the concern should be, with "role models" like these letter writers, that it doesn't happen more often.



Song by: David Broza

Do You Realize

Last Friday I went on a day-retreat with my department. It was all it was expected to be - uneventful and not as much bonding as one might think. Same old, same old.

Before we went, we were to do a Myers-Briggs test, which I always find to be a major waste of time. I cannot even tell you how many times I've taken a variation of the test (long version, short version, you name it) and I don't think I've ever had the same profile twice in a row.

For a long time I was an ESTJ, then the 'E' went to an 'I'. Now I'm back to the 'E' but the 'S' is now an 'N'. Did you follow all that? Allegedly I am now an ENTJ. The reality is, you can make yourself almost anything you want to with those things - depending on how you read the questions....or interpret them. I always go back to the SNL skit that said, "you can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor." Think about it.

I mean I couldn't answer truly answer 'You are almost never late for your appointments'. My big pet peeve is never being late for my appointments. I don't mind if others are (to a degree), but I am not. So, if I said 'yes', it means I am almost never late. If I said 'no' it could mean I am late as opposed to saying 'no, I am never late'.

I guess it is not surprise that the 'T' part of my rating was in a high percentage range. I probably over think.

Other ENTJs aren't all that great: Thatcher. Nixon. Napoleon. Whoopi and Newt! Crimeny! now and again you see a Bill Gates (better?), or Carl Sagan. The best one is Sigourney Weaver! At least I'm up there with the Keymaster.....or was it the Gatekeeper?

But as my man date from a few weeks ago pointed out, there is a link to a Men & Romance series index. Though it tells me (and other ENTJs) of my/our dating objectives and what kind of long-term partner I am looking for, it also tells me of my 'biggest problem': detaching clingy women who haven't gotten the message that he's moved on.

Yes, that is my biggest problem.

Needless to say, Scott and I were punchy and both in tears at our desk as he read this to me.



Song by: Flaming Lips