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why not instead love
ER | Benton/Corday, Benton/Carter | ~4500 words | Thanks to

sheafrotherdon for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

( Elizabeth Corday takes the path less travelled. (AU from S4) )

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Hungry Heart
The Pitt | Jack/Robby | ~17,900 words | Set post-season 2. Thanks to

sheafrotherdon for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

( Esther looked at him steadily for a long moment, and then took her glasses off. 'And you think this <i>isn't</i> a therapy question, Michael?' (After the Fourth of July, Robby grapples with making a new path forward, with Jack at his side.) )

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He Remade the Southern Baptist Convention in His Image. Then Came the Abuse Allegations. All about that evil POS Paul Pressler and his cronies. I sometimes wish I believed in the Hell they do so these people could get the fate they so richly deserved.
Your Glasses Got Worse On Purpose. All about EssilorLuxottica.
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America. Spoiler: it's the cranberry-walnut loaf at Parc, in Philadelphia, and Le Diplomate, in Washington, D.C.
Tornadoes in northern Texas leave at least 2 dead and destroy multiple homes. This was the last weekend in April and kind of ruined my vibe.
Meet James McGuire, the Dallasite named The Nature Conservancy's new Texas state director This is one of the places we put our money so we're excited to see a local (we live about 2 miles from the top of the lake) picking up the reins.
Book of Love. Pitchfork gives a late review to this album and way underrates it at 8.4.
Treating chronic pain: UTD researchers make advancements in non-opioid pain management. Of personal interest.
At a Spanish convent, nuns fight to preserve rare giant rabbit breed. Good for them.
For Patrons With a Disability, Masquerade Is a Journey That Is Accessible For All. As a potential patron with disabilities, I was heartened to read about this.
There’s Another Reason Gen Z Can’t Find Work. I think about this in the light of the suicide of a young person I know a couple of years ago.
Why Is the Escalator at the AMC Burbank 16 Always Broken? A lot of interesting reasons, but I don't care if it's the best theater in Burbank, if I can't get up to it, I ain't going.

Current Music: Wind chimes

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Kicked off one item which was the NOLA trip for the very fun wedding of our nephew and his bride. I continue to be low-energy and ill, in part because of the weather, which has been horrible. Not just temperature changes and rain and stuff, but also tornadoes and hail. We're hoping that the new month brings an end to the bad weather.

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In addition to the usual push on the ongoing items, we did some museuming in NOLA and have some plans to do some things in the next couple of weeks here. We'll see how all that pans out and if the weather and illness and injury permit us to get much done. I'm also keeping track of my clothes wears in a spreadsheet instead of by photo and it's proving very helpful.

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The only thing we had for sure on the agenda last month was the Dallas Chamber Music finale, which I missed because I am sick. I am actually devastated as I've wanted to see the cellist for decades. Sigh.

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Tickets we bought: we're going to the Psychedelic Furs with friends; I bought the Book of Love tickets immediately because they're a lifetime get; and of course we got Howard Jones tickets. I think we may go to the Stewart Copeland show as well, but have not bought tickets. There's so much I want to see this summer; I hope I find the energy for it all.

Current Music: Silence is golden.

siria

That Duke Ellington Guy
ER | Carter, Gen | ~1600 words | Episode tag for 1.11, 'The Gift'. Thanks to

sheafrotherdon for audiencing.

(Also on AO3)

( 'I never thought to talk to her about music. I don't even know anything about music.' Carter, and Mary Cavanaugh, and her legacy. )

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I really need to get cracking on all my music I need to rip.

Books
The Poet Empress, by Shen Tao. DNF at 121 pages. Chinese fantasy about a village girl who becomes concubine to a cruel prince. When the viewpoint character performed an act of torture, I noped out.
Mistakes Were Made, by Meryl Wilsner. A rom-com in which a college student has a one-night stand with her best friend's mom and then they catch feelings. A lot of sex, which was not what I came here for, and a lot of comedy awkwardness, but surprisingly little ick for a situation that could have come off as taking a lot of advantage; the author was very careful on that point. I would not turn down another book by this author but it was kind of on the edge of my interests. A nice reverse after the torture and the heavy MAGA stuff I was reading before that, though.
Evergreen, by Naomi Hirahara. Second in the series of Japantown mysteries featuring post-WWII Japanese-Americans. The mystery in this one, even more than the first one, was subsumed in the historical detail and character development, but not in a bad way. I would be interested in more stories with these characters but it looks like the next book in the series is set at the turn of the (last) century.
Dueling Fops of Vindamere: A Game of Grudges and Braggin', by Greg Stolze. Short game about dueling and bragging in a comedy fantasy early modern state. Now I want to both run it and strip-mine it for parts.

Current Music: Silence is golden.

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The Disappearance of the Public Bench. As a person with mobility issues/disabilities, I find the disappearance of public benches worrisome at best and limiting to forbidding my presence at worst. There's a lot of good history here about how we got that way
A Well-Aimed Potato: The Klan, Notre Dame, and Today. How the Fighting Irish ran off a Klan gathering in 1924 and maybe got their name. Also, same shit, different century.
AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails. Yikes.
Photographer captured faces of the American South during Jim Crow. His name was Hugh Mangum and there's a new book of his photos.
Earlybirds Club invites you to dance and then go home. I had tickets to the first one of these in Dallas and want to go to the one in July (I have a foot injury and don't think I could have danced last weekend.)
Can Everyone Just Be Normal? Noah Wyle, Chappell Roan, and the Wretched Rise of Toxic Fandoms. This is mainstream media fandoms, not the genre bros who killed the Ghostbusters remake and ran the actors of color out of Star Wars.
In search of the missing artist. I feel like even if it turns out that this isn't an art scam story, it feels like one.
Inside the world’s largest art heist when over $500M of paintings were stolen from a Boston museum. This is the actual art heist story.
Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization. As a former assistant to an immigration lawyer who worked on naturalization cases here and there, wow. Yes, people who lied on their applications should be denaturalized (or more likely their naturalizations should be declared invalid). This is just racist trouble-sniffing though.
Bluesky thread about how a GM's Vampire: the Dark Ages game failed because of the way player expectations have changed in the last 30 years of gaming.
Florida Woman Drove Her Lifted Truck Over A Lamborghini And Didn’t Even Notice. Yikes, and yet unsurprising.
Does Your Use of Google Maps Gives Cops Permission to Track Your Location? Supreme Court to Decide Soon. The Fourth Amendment is a dead letter unfortunately.
Solar panels were known to attract birds, but they are now drawing in species never seen in these areas before. This is cool!
We Will Never Like You, Lauren Sanchez Bezos. Truth.
The Acolyte’s Squandered Potential. Revisiting this almost two-year-old article because it's now come out that haters be damned, it's pretty popular. (With women, hence: haters)

Current Music: Silence is golden.

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