Tax returns are many American’s biggest check of the year; a bonus they count on but can’t pin to their own performance. In this essay I will explain how “National Lampoon’s Christmas (1989)” fails to get to the root of this issue due to Clark’s short sighted pool obsession, as well as,
[a gently smiling centrist republican and/or democrat congressional angel beams down at me, nodding slowly as I patiently read all applicable federal, state, and city tax codes so as to optimally structure the $40 savings I keep in drawer of the side-table in case of emergencies]
Realized this morning that there is going to be a whole online thing where people insist on flying 50 star flags after DC and/or PR become states and how we’ll hear from them in the discourse because well, it’s a side to something (?), and now I’m against states entirely.
Thinking about becoming one of those people that mostly posts other people’s posts that compliment me or even just say that they just saw me doing my usual
Listening to some Tom Verlaine I’m reminded of my favorite Bowie anecdote from the excellent Pushing Ahead of the Dame: https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/tag/tom-verlaine/, which also aligns with lots of my experience playing music, and people in general
Wearing a t-shirt with FEDERAL EMPLOYEE written on it like I’m a character in a political cartoon so’s that I can start having all the shops and stores I go to put it on my tab, which they of course totally do, no questions asked, on account of my not getting paid anymore
It is good as hell that marginalized people in the information security community are being heard and the lurkers in that awful facebook group are braver than any troops