DIRTYBENNY WRITES

 

 I was at the flea market and saw a book on the New Orleans world fair.  I put it back and walked around a bit more.  After I got home, I thought to myself that I should have bought it and will go back next week. Last night I had a dream that I was at the flea market and asked the dealer about where the books were.  He pointed me in the direction.  I found a shoebox filled with small black and white photos of some toddler from the 1960's.  It could have been me, but it wasn't. I just pondered how some things that were once dear to someone ends up in a stranger's flea market stand. Perhaps it is one of the many reasons that I am drawn to flea markets.  A handwritten inscription in a book, someone writing their name on a record sleeve, a book of family photos....all relics of a prior life or lives. Over the course of my 60 plus years, I have strived to keep elements of my past.  It has been difficult.  3 major floods destroyed much of my early ...

Why would anyone think this is just?  The insanity of this place on display.

  Reports circulated across Russian social media platforms that lab technician Darya Shipilova broke a test tube while handling a strain of the pneumonic plague — however those closest to the now-deceased researcher spoke out challenging these claims. In an in-depth  report  published by an independent Russian media outlet on Tuesday, Shipilova’s mother, colleagues, and former classmates all expressed significant doubts about the “broken test-tube”  narrative  spreading through the media and  Telegram , alleging that a lab accident killed the scientist and may have started a regional plague. Lyudi Baikala (LB) published the story — with a headline translating to “Is it really the plague?!” in English — which explored  Russian media blackouts  and the competing narratives surrounding Shipilova’s death. On Monday, Darya Shipilova’s 64-year-old mother Svetlana Shipilova was quarantined at an Irkutsk hospital and was tested and swabbed every day, the ...

  In this episode, I discuss the trend of disappearing color in all aspects of modern society, from movies and television, to automobiles, to music, to culture itself.

Ebay has been not connecting frequently over the past 3 days.  I find it troubling that they have chosen a photo of a child with a hood over its face for this message. 

 

 

One of the few times I go out is to the flea market.  I must get up very early to be at the front of the line.  On Saturday evening, I set my alarm and checked it twice to be sure it was set to the correct time.   It never went off.   I got there late.  Was it part of my life script to be delayed? Today, I am roasting harvested peppers from the garden.  While I had a batch in the oven, I checked my email.  An email from National Grid said that my power is out and there is no estimated time for restoration.  My power was not out and never went out.  The reality in which I inhabit is disconnected from SCREENWORLD .