Zoom party invites for the next book party go out tonight! There’s still time for an invite for those who buy the book this weekend (use discount code: EMPATHY).
Look forward to seeing everyone on January 8! And do let’s make it a great year.💞🎊🎉 ko-fi.com/s/7eaa40d5ef
Those who bought the book on or after December 16, please look for invite via email late tonight xo
And thank you for making my year!
What people are saying about IT’S KOMPROCATED Volume One:
“There is something to be said for hope. The psychic shift that occurs when you read an inspirational quote, and turn your attention to the giants who walked before us, never wavering in their commitment to what was good and decent.”-IT’S KOMPROCATED Vol.1 ko-fi.com/s/7eaa40d5ef
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As January 6 nears, I think we should acknowledge that lying is the message. That since 2016, the GOP has been preemptively crying about election fraud. GOP governor candidates cry fraud before results are in.
It’s not about facts; it’s about normalizing lies to confuse reality.
FACT: Far-right extremists, including Trump adviser and convicted felon Roger Stone, first popularized “Stop the Steal”, which dates back to the 2016 election and serves primarily to dispute Democratic votes in multiracial areas.-@MichaelEHayden@splcenter splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
FACT: Glenn Youngkin’s Campaign Surrogates Are Already Crying Fraud Ahead of Virginia’s Gubernatorial Election—So Is Trump: The Republican can’t disentangle himself from election fraud conspiracy theories that helped win him the nomination. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…@RollingStone
I wonder if the freedom to not get vaccinated is going to bankrupt our country and if that’s the entire point from those funding anti-vaxx hysteria.
“The remaining ranks of unvaccinated Americans steadfastly opposed to getting a shot tend to be younger, whiter and more Republican than those who have received the vaccine.”-@nytimes nytimes.com/2021/12/25/us/…
Inspired by @paulmasonnews I will try to create a list of films and vignettes that I couldn’t possibly live without, as recommended binging this Christmas weekend.
As a warmup, here’s Fred Astaire dancing drunk in “Holiday Inn.” vimeo.com/150051848
And here’s what happened when Bette Davis didn’t get her way in “Of Human Bondage.” 2/
And here’s where Barbara Stanwyck learns Nietzsche in “Baby Face.” Yeah.
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”-Joan Didion, write in peace ❤️🔥
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”-Joan Didion, weep
“You were meant, if you were a Californian, to know how to lash together a corral with bark, you were meant to show spirit, kill the rattlesnake, keep moving.”-Joan Didion, weep
New Mexico native Robert Mercer has a partner in the gun prop biz🤔.
“$55 million will go to hedge funder Robert Mercer’s project in Ridgewood, Queens, which he owns with son-in-law George Wells and Ryder Washburn—a prop-gun supplier to film productions.” therealdeal.com/2021/11/22/730…