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Started work on a white paper trying to get across my thoughts on the Free Press - and our current gov’t’s dismantling thereof. To what end? Is revamping the White House press corps a fine thing in and of itself? Haven’t gov’t’s always desired to have a hand in how they are portrayed to their own public? Maybe “yes” to all these items - BUT - an emphatic “NO” to how it is going about these ends.

Having the hour between 6 and 7 free to be able to get the kitchen in order really makes the following day a lot more palatable to the unwilling tongue. Less sour to the touch.

And that is the disturbing part. When you know that your brain is wired to think about all the behind the scenes details, and not what’s onstage - which is what people care about.

I’ve spent the past 3 months completely rebuilding my entire website - and now that I’m nearing the end, I may have lost my entire purpose in life. All there is left to do is write.

I’ve discovered that frozen Jack’s pizzas are as highly prized of a pizza by my kids as more expensive carry outs or more time intensive handmade.

Youngest child home sick today. A stomach bug ran through his class. No pun intended.

There was a flash storm last night around 1 AM. I saw lightning creep through the opened upper portion of our hexagonal honeycomb blackout blinds. Heard thunder. Then this morning when I walked up to the corner there was a trash bin that had perhaps floated down the river of the street gutter and wound up overturned in my street. I moved it, but I have no clue whose it is and I'm wondering if it will still be where I left it when I return to the corner this afternoon.

Going to get my school volunteer badge renewed this morning. It’s not completely essential, but it’s a nice to have. I like being seen as validated while walking the halls. It matters, somehow.

According to Thurston Moore, SY were all into reading Harry Crews novels. Whose name until recently I would’ve spelled “Cruz” because I just had no clue. But MJ Lenderman also has mentioned being influenced by his writing - which is odd and notable to me - because Lenderman is indebted to Sonic Youth in obvious ways.

Encountering Thurston Moore in any kind of video, book, algorithmic recommendation, anything at all, makes me slightly perturbed. I don’t think I’ve forgiven him for messing up Sonic Youth.

It is through the constant thirst for The New that our minds are being dulled.

My giant iPad Pro is the greatest TV show watching device to ever exist.

Reading update: gave up on Mason & Dixon. Life update: questioning the competitive element of youth music programs.

Giving up on Mason & Dixon. Maybe a better summer read. And starting the Roth “Zuckerman” trilogy.