I’ve summoned my skeletons, and they’ve appeared. …But the rest is up to me. I have to enter the fray. Fuuuuck. I was Dad’s signature. Always. In the end I was technically his signature. The signer on all his accounts. Because I took care of him. When he wanted to shuffle cash from one card…
Author: Serene Sargent
I make jewelry and try to read everything on the US Civil War and Reconstruction that comes out, (thereby knowing many smart people.) I know a bit of law, care about Beatles historiography and love the Nagras. Jane Austen whispered her Emma secrets to me across many miles and 200 years. ✨ My father was Bill Sargent, the Pay Per View Beatles guy. #DYRBRY
How to get unparalyzed: Find a PACMAN. Lay on the ground. Dance.
The fact that so much occurs close to the ground was vital, since having a paralyzed arm – even as nerve endings began their random, pulsating journey back to life – meant I was always off balance.
Barr deep dive brought from landing page to actual post
Been hearing about all those old AG Barr scandals? Sneak into the archives here. Attorney General William Barr is acting exactly as he should have been expected to act. Reading the archives one could be forgiven for wondering if they’ve accidentally wandered into the mouth of that Black Hole The titles are hyperlinks to the…
DOJ letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler asserting executive privilege re Mueller Report
DOJ letter in response to House Judiciary Cmte asserting executive privilege on the Mueller Report: May 7, 2019 (pdf)
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Letter to AG Barr of March 27, 2019 (pdf and text)
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s letter to Attorney General William Barr of March 27, 2019 concerning Mueller’s report
All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it. (Dad, it’s time. I need you back…)
With Mom, you had to pay proper attention. Almost superhuman attention. But she understood that Wisdom doesn’t go on sale. There’s no bargain basement priced Wisdom. If you want Wisdom, you must pay Wisdom’s price. And you pay by paying attention.
The umbilical cord story as screwed up to fictionalize
Silver Sunflowers and Buried Umbilical Cords; Ch. 1 “Your umbilical cord is buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico.” My dead mother’s words echoed strangely through my bones and into my stomach, where they rattled around, reaching their sonar into my womb and whispering their strange chorus to the little girl growing there. Mom’s ghostly echo was…
Chaos is a Ladder… (and takes up a helluva lot of space.) Entertainment for Armageddon, Littlefinger style
“I did warn you not to trust me”
STOP.
Turn around. Retrace. Note the path before the breadcrumbs scatter. Then you can take down this idiotic note to yourself that you’ve put up in public because you know it is that important. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.” Lewis Carroll
Game of Thrones homage to perhaps the greatest narrative altering machine in storytelling history – Petyr Baelish
Without Littlefinger we would have no story. All hail the scheming asshole! Music: Ramin Djawadi/Game of Thrones OST/Season 3/Chaos is a Ladder Fair use; all rights HBO/Game of Thrones
Exact Words 