No, seriously, I have to do some deep cleaning this weekend and I don’t know where to start. Apartment Therapy usually runs their January Cure at the start of the year but I didn’t sign up for it this year. Let’s face it, even when I sign up for it, I put it off until February. Then reason that it’s a group activity and I’ve missed out. It’s hard to clean solo instead of with all the other thousands of readers busily getting their sh*t off the floor and scrubbing their bathroom grout with a toothbrush and a paste of baking soda and water.
Does anyone actually use that stuff for cleaning? What’s wrong with apocalyptic purification with bleach and ammonia? Ok, not at the same time. But you know what I mean.
One thing I’ve come to realize is that I live in this three bedroom house by myself so why the hell am I stuffing all my clothes into one closet?? I can jam things into multiple closets without guilt. I can be as irresponsible as I want to be with my things. And I have been. They are literally everywhere. In fact, at the end of the sofa where I am sitting, there is a pile of sweaters and scarves and a jacket on top of the pillows and two unfolded throws.
How long can I put it off while I’m writing this?
Grrr…
Ok, I need some audio book recommendations. Preferably 5 star distractions so I will be absorbed in the cleaning thing. Please no romance novels. 🙄 I like historical fiction, speculative fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, mysteries (think Jo Nesbo and Tana French), biographies, war histories (The Irregulars and The Last Lion were fantastic), science and anthropology (anything by Jared Diamond). Stuff like that. I have 4 credits. Go!
And a little cleanup song:
Hey! What are the chances I’ll finally paint the spare bedroom and hang the drapes??
Yeah, didn’t think so.
SOS: send cleaning crew.<<<<<
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The Confluence 
Back when I was a lad, MAD magazine ran a feature on “You Know You’re Really A Football Fan When…”, and one of the answers was that you actually care who wins the Pro Bowl. 😛
Starting a new thread here on this. Hope Maddow does a segment on this Ducth article (linked in the last post). Here in this article Schindler (yeah, yeah, he is a republican, but these days anti-trump republicans are the only ones with spine), lays out the timeline from (at least) 2014 and what Obama admin failed to do.
Ascended Madoka bless the anti-Trump Republicans. They refuse to turn their party over to a mob of Non-Poor White Trash, headed by a hooting orange puppet of Putin.
They are trying to save their party from this.
I am a big fan of Nicole Wallace these days. She and Schmidt came under a lot of fire in the context of McCain campaign for taking on Palin and recognizing what an idiot she was. But they were right about her.
And what did Obama do about it?
Nothing!
Haha, RD do you have a filter for P alin? My comment went into moderation.
Off topic:
I don’t know a book off the top of my head, but you mentioned “war histories”.
If you take an interest in the Pacific theatre of WW2 and the Imperial Japanese Navy of that period, this is a fine site:
http://combinedfleet.com/
Woohoo! Finally the Dutch IC article makes it into the WAPO… and RD’s reply is the first I see. Bravo! 🙂
Off topic: Cheshire Cat FAIL. 😛
Cats. You just gotta love them.
I agree with this. This is one way to get control of the spread of disinformation and get control of political processes and democracies.
https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/957686987229618176
What the hell!! Where is their civic responsibility and if they don’t have it because of capitalist environment, why should good people offer their participation in it?
You probably knew this already, but techbros tend to be Libertoonian Randroid types who consider “the common good” to be an invalid concept.
I didn’t know that. I thought they are all just greedy profit mongers. But knowing this now, people should delete their accounts. Mass exodus.
This is who they elected. This man does not know what he does not know. He is crazy to even think he understands any of anything.
Unfortunately this is also true: