Motivation has been hard to come by while we’re stuck in a rut of endless cold rain, mixed with snow. But I’ll take this over polar arctic vortex cold any day. And we have managed to get some tasks completed. Maybe not the right ones. This past weekend we prioritized art projects over packing and preparing for our move next month. But we finished our pinatas for Cinco de Mayhem! Delivering our fragile paper mache creations in the rain was a nerve-wracking experience last night, but we had encased them in cardboard boxes wrapped in plastic bags and taped it all up tight so they survived their relocation. And our relationships are still intact, despite some minor disputes and creative differences (it took our household of three humans all weekend to create the two pinatas).
Five good things for today:
- More people are wising up about my favorite television show of all time. From the New Yorker and their piece The gorgeous existential funk of “Adventure Time†to The Awl, giving the backstory of how Adventure Time came to be. And it returned this week, with the first episode of the new season.
- I’m a long-time fan of Leica cameras but somehow had never heard of the Leica Freedom Train. Stories like these give me a small glimmer of hope for humanity.
- Something a little more light-hearted in the world of photography, I love this series Illustrating America’s Silliest Laws With Equally Silly Photographs, by Olivia Locher. Her full series can be seen here. Fantastic.
- Between this grey, cold drizzle, a particularly crushing To Do list and the final stretch of our 6am wake-up calls I can’t help but daydream of a different sort of lifestyle. Like in Ikaria, Greece. One day I would like to retire there. Perhaps an early retirement.
- Mere weeks after we leave St. Paul to live in Minneapolis the new Green line light rail will be up and running. And now I learn my beloved Turf Club - which sits right on the Green Line - will be closed for all of June and July for some much needed renovations. But life is change.
Tonight I’m taking a break from stress-y things to indulge in some much-needed laughter. The unlikely comedian Hari Kondabolu will be performing at The Cedar Cultural Center.
Comic Hari Kondabolu’s album Waiting for 2042 is a reference to the year the Census Bureau projects whites will be the minority in the U.S. “Don’t worry, white people,” he says. “You were a minority when you came to this country. Things seemed to have worked out for you.”
Kondabolu has an M.A. in human rights and was working as an immigrant rights’ organizer - important work - before his stand-up career took off. But I feel like he’s still doing amazing outreach work, and reaching a much wider audience now through comedy, considering much of his material focuses on racism and colonialism while still being funny. A pretty amazing feat.
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