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mtheriaultsf

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I’ve done a few things. I’m not quite done yet. (Really, I tried to list them, and 500 characters aren’t nearly enough.)

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RickiTarr, to random
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The most ridiculous thing about cop procedural shows is when they ask where a person was, and what they were doing at a specific time the person always has perfect and immediate recall. I'd be desperately trying to remember what day of the week that was, and trying to open my phone calendar. If I was the cop, I'd immediately be suspicious of the person who remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing.

mtheriaultsf,
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@RickiTarr Personal experience of someone close to me: Don’t even count on the cops to ask about the right month. That requires competence more available on TV. And they take away your phone before questioning.

mtheriaultsf, to SanFrancisco
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My story “Volcanid” was accepted today by Persimmon Lit for its “menagerie” edition. It encounters a coyote in McLaren Park and a dog in the back of Muni’s 14-Mission bus - thus its claim to “menagerie - and has brunch in the Mission District and contemplates Quito, Ecuador and the Volcán Pichincha, which I trod decades ago. I’ll post a link here when it comes out online. Meanwhile my thanks to Editor-in-Chief Amanda Sun.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

mtheriaultsf,
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@RickiTarr It was the TransAmerica route by bicycle, OR-VA. My wife and I had planned to ride it in 2020. We rode San Francisco-San Diego in 2019. Then the pandemic happened. With it came the Orange viciousness of calling COVID the “Chinese virus,” and my wife is of Chinese descent, and even when things opened up it seemed unwise to put our bodies on roads where an intentional “Oops” could end us. We’re old enough that if that ever ends it will be too late. Plus, I now have cancer.

mtheriaultsf,
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@RickiTarr Ainsi va la vie. So goes life. Really, I'm a pretty happy guy, but no one goes without regrets.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

mtheriaultsf,
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@RickiTarr I was 22 and the collapse of a relationship had landed me at my grandmother’s, where I slept on the floor. Thrifty paysanne, she did her washing in an old wringer machine that let her use the same water for more than one load. Once she washed the living room curtains before my underwear. In this way I learned two facts in a day: The living room curtains contained fiberglass; going to work in undershorts imbued with fiberglass means a day of torture for one’s nethers.

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

mtheriaultsf,
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@RickiTarr Stromae, and here's to his health:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=P3QS83ubhHE&si=Hy8-huSZtJeIlZAf

RickiTarr, to random
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Hello! I want to do a Spooky Picture Prompt! So, find a picture in your camera roll that would represent the phrase:

Last Picture on the Camera Roll

This should be spooky, but completely up to your own interpretation. Here's one from me, with weird eclipse light.

mtheriaultsf,
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@RickiTarr Not spooky, but….

It came close in fact to being the last picture on the camera roll (weakened by radiation therapy, I fell down the stairs in my house, landed on my forehead, and fractured three vertebrae in my neck) but almost two years later I’m still here.

After a couple days they told me I shouldn’t ride the bike to sessions any more. They had reason.

mtheriaultsf, to random
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This hits a buncha spots for me: Semicircle of darkbearded guys garbed for physical work (although, guys, you could be dirtier) singing a capella (+some percussion) in French and Occitan in a space devoted to the most classic of classic bicycles.

And they're good.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=d_iiAAADX8A&si=44u5LrfATfTvRQLG

(I knew one of these from a Vent du Nord recording and sang along with what voice I still have.)

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    mtheriaultsf,
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    @lzg With reason. So am I. My senior thesis 46 years ago was on the Bacchae. I'm not shut of it. I can still recite lines from the closing khoros in the original.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

    I'll start:

    One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @RickiTarr You were precocious and trying to speak French, if a little rudely.

    pluralistic, to random
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    Garbage day at the old Duchamp house.

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @pluralistic I once negotiated a multiunion contract for a major construction project, and one of the tougher clauses on which to find agreement was the role of trades in installing works of art, some of which certainly would employ construction methods and skills. I said Oh, and the Plumbers want to know if there will be anything by Marcel Duchamp.

    Turned out this required explanation, even to the Plumbers.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Share your cute adorable face, or don't, just be a lurker!

    This my face in the sun, and my poofy hair and my eyes looking at you

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @RickiTarr Here, in neck cage about a week after a 30Jul22 fall (because weakened by radiation therapy) down the stairs in my house that fractured three neck vertebrae. My landing technique is on display. Being alive is cute enough.

    lacouvee, to poets
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    and on another note - quickest turnaround for an acceptance has been a day! This week - two days. What about your quickest? @poets @writers

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @lacouvee @poets @writers Two days for a rejection, overnight for an acceptance. I saw the acceptance hit my inbox and was sure anything so fast must be a rejection until I opened it.

    MikeDunnAuthor, to Tupac
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    Today in Labor History February 4, 1979: Six workers were killed by police in the massacre of Cromotex, Lima Peru. The workers had taken over the factory after it went bankrupt and its owners tried to close it down. Led by a hardline revolutionary, Hemigidio Huertas, workers armed with sticks took the premises over. They held out for a week, killing a police captain in the process. When police later stormed the factory, they killed six workers including Huertas. One of the survivors, Nestor Cerpa, was arrested and jailed for 10 months. After his release, he went underground and started to organize the MRTA, or Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.

    #workingclass #LaborHistory #Peru, #tupacamaru #MRTA #massacre #policebrutality #tupac #union #strike #police #Revolutionary

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor I came through Lima in 1980, the year after this, and there were armored personnel carriers on every plaza I visited, and of course soldiers with rifles everywhere.

    mtheriaultsf, to random
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    Oh ye cyclists in your 20s, make sure when you pass the 68-year-old because he's "going slow" (which, you know, coming to a stoplight, yes) you make damn sure you're well clear of his front wheel before you make a right turn across it.

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @nwchapman If human intelligence is a matter of opposable thumbs, I've lost half mine. This is apparent already in my cooking.

    mtheriaultsf, to random
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    Interesting info I gave when concussed from a bike crash to the paramedics. The surname's common in Québec, but I'm San Francisco born, and not on 25Jan, today's date, nor in 1956.

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @DemocracySpot Thanks. My wife is here to bring me home but I'm waiting on a splint. I'm in a row of beds in a corridor.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    It's so weird when people brag that they never cry. I get it buddy, I've been a repressive coper too, but I'm not proud of it.

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @RickiTarr In this marriage, it’s the retired Ironworker here who cries at the end of movies, or in the middle of music, or sometimes out of shear happiness, or….

    AbandonedAmerica, to random
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    The projectionist's booth at the abandoned Lansdowne Theater, currently being renovated for reuse as a concert venue.

    Check out the rest at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/historic-lansdowne-theater

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @AbandonedAmerica What function for a projectionist did the sink serve, I wonder.

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @Ifrauding @AbandonedAmerica I'll buy both explanations.

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @AbandonedAmerica @Deus @Ifrauding It's on my list too.

    mtheriaultsf,
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    @Nazani @AbandonedAmerica Running plumbing to a room is no small expense, even in new construction. One assumes there was good reason. I look forward to AbandonedAmerica’s report back from the owner. Meanwhile it’s been fun watching Mastodon grapple with the presence of a sink.

    mtheriaultsf, to random
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    Reading Renée Char, Les Matinaux: These are poems that do not give themselves immediately, but that hold my regard. They sit sometimes in my kitchen, sometimes in a corner of my room. They peer up from between pots in my garden. They insist that I live with them.

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    @DemocracySpot Slalom.

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