Re: Checking in (again) to see who's still around

OCTADE wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:19:28 -0500
> songbird <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> if i start commenting on the "admonistration" the rant
>> will not solve anything at all and i won't feel any better
>> when i'm done.
>
> Let all the political and commercial sharks devour each other. It helps to understand that all the woeful dramas and traumas are not new. They just have a new slant each time around.

  this era is particularly odiferous, sulphurous, cthuloidolistic.


> We do not have to acknowledge *their* universe of insanity. Talking about it doesn't change it. It *is* OK to create little bubbles of better musings.

  bubbles...  :)  bubbles are colorful and shimmery.
anyone else recall True Names?  wasn't tnat about bubbles
and also Cities in Flight?


> It's the little, peculiar thoughts that interest me.

  heh, i was just thinking about how when any social
group starts making meals as the main topic of interest
it is as basic as it gets (and then subsequent toilet
and toilet paper humor).  i think this is a few steps
back from cat and dog pics.


> I prefer the arcane and mundane with the occasional magical mystery or fantastic flourish. Give me such nibbles over screeds, creeds, deeds, and feeds please.

  if you like mundane i have a website and gardening is the
main topic so there are pictures.  :)  this time of the year
it is nice to see some color other than whites, grays and
browns.

  www.anthive.com

  and the also for mundane, today i must get the trash and
recycling put out and so that is next (before even breakfast
or tea or hot chocolate or ...)


  songbird  (adrift in the mundane and usually rather amused
                    by the predicament