Kate Glenn

If people read only one thing written by CS Lewis I wish it was this passage from the Four Loves (the whole section is in shared in the quoted thread).

“If our country's cause is the cause of God, wars must be wars of annihilation. A false transcendence is given to things which are very much of this world.”

There are 92 million Iranians

this part too lol

Between this and the semi viral Newshour commentary it’s been a banner Friday night at the Glenn household.

The way I was trying so hard to think of a semi recent film with Emma Thompson and Will Ferrell about a writer but no this was let’s go 20 years into the past and talk about it like it was yesterday💀

“I owned that one on dvd!” he says

As we debate the “icy thriller” starring Emma Thompson as a “grief-stricken loner”

Husband: well she’s usually good in roles like that

Me: totally

Him: ever since that movie about her as an author

Me:…

Him: with Will Ferrell?

Me:…

Him: Stranger Than Fiction!

Reader that film was made in 2006

that was like watching a comedy sketch of stereotypically bad geopolitical analysis like omg what did I just watch

how does Jonathan Capehart not lose it with him on live tv lol

“I was in the Soviet Union when the regime fell” was his verbatim justification for optimism that this could all end well in Iran so

David Brooks on foreign policy apparently:

Brook’s is doing the “they declared war on us 47 years ago” thing which has my very not like me partner talking back at him now lol

He just really hates all people who are sure that this war is good AND who are sure that it is bad

because of course

Husband has on PBS Newshour and David Brooks just said, re his position on the war with Iran, “Frankly, I’m ambivalent!”

istg

Honestly I must’ve slept on the non chorus lyrics of The Lakes because it’s hitting tonight in a new way

I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze

Tell me what are my words worth

It occurs to me that my facial expression here is vaguely giving “peloton bike covid era ad lady” but that tracks as I am the precise demographic they were appealing to 😂 like…this is just what we look like it’s a life phase

🎶I'm takin' my time
Takin' my time
'Cause you took everything from me
Watchin' you climb
Watchin' you climb
Over people like me🎶

I wore it once around the New Year and then we’ve had the warmest winter ever lol I was so happy to put it on again today!!!

Photo of wheat colored folklore vinyl playing on a blue record player on a wood side table top surrounded by the be album cover in a stand, blue speakers, fake white flowers in a pale blue vase, purple and gold candle, light wood “Estes park” coaster with design of etched mountains.

I love this album so much 🩶😭

twinning with my record player ftw

God yes this is why I am taking it personally as a “fancy child who was doing study abroad in Croatia in 2007”

like please stop spreading the idea that this was a super easy and common thing to do there by accident as an ignorant American young person just being edgy because wtf

I really tried to keep all of that final note but the app wouldn’t let me upload that cut I think because it was a few hundredths of a second over 3 minutes and I don’t have unlimited time to get the editing exact.

Ok I totally flubbed her outfit description in the alt text lol it’s a fitted black suit/skirt with a gray toned fur stole over her left shoulder, apologies.

I need Bluesky to give us at least 30 more seconds of video posting please

it’s the absolute worst to cut performances down to 3 minutes on the dot

not everything is terrible, given this just happened today

She said in an interview that she just really loved “Everybody Scream by Florence and the Machine out on Halloween” because it all rhymed lol

I sort of hope it will get a resurgence next fall but regardless it will a favorite in my house!

There’s also a lot of deciding in advance what these artists should be sounding like now (usually “exactly like my personal favorite of old songs”) so it results in instant dissatisfaction?

I think Everybody Scream is such an instant classic, even though it’s also very much for her fans/people.

Thanks Aggie! I’m so glad you got to go in this middle of all that you are dealing with. Paris/Florence is such an empowering combination.

I think they do now! At least some of the ones rated for specific foot health like my favorite brand Altra. But of course unfortunately lots of people don’t have a HSA/FSA to access.

www.altrarunning.com/en-us/trueme...

lol not to copy you verbatim…we can be excited together!!!