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
Random Audio: I blew up the weed
“Oh, no, NO! It’s the worst thing that could ever happen!”
получил мой Русский работать!
Глаза боится, а руки делают! (Голь на выдумки хитра.)
The TAMI Show Award mock-up
I posted this privately awhile back, before the world became consumed with the intrigue of what had always been the most useless of my obsessions: Russia. The post wasn’t secret, just detached and something I wanted to time right, I suppose. I haven’t even proofed it. Just scanned it. The fact that I didn’t publish…
Entertainment for Armageddon Stephen Colbert: Puerto Rico
We support Puerto Rico. Period. End of story.
Entertainment for Armageddon: Trump’s racist NFL bullshit inspires Stephen Colbert’s greatest monologue
I like Stephen as Stephen, but until now, I didn’t love him like I did on Colbert Report, but in this monologue he makes up all that lost ground, and more in the most succinct, pointed, funny, and patriotic commentary I’ve seen thus far on Trump’s despicable, ignorant, racist, NFL/National Anthem bullshit.
The beating heart of my community is Puerto Rican – today that heart BLEEDS
This is Puerto Rico.
And this is my street, and it is also Puerto Rico.
My streets: the sounds, the smells, the feel, the beating heart of my community, is Puerto Rican.
Today that heart BLEEDS.
Foreign Policy: One Million Refugees
Half of Europe’s asylum seekers in the last two years were still awaiting word on whether they could stay at the end of 2016. via Study: About One Million Refugees Left in Limbo in Europe Through 2016 — Foreign Policy
“… and then Hillary shows up”
“There are many times that I think to myself, ‘how the heck did Donald Trump become president?’ And then Hillary shows up on the scene to remind me…” Mary Katherine Ham – CNN- The Lead with Jake Tapper
I would like to un-see this – but since I cannot I’m going to bury it on here
in hopes of a slight catharsis
Exact Words 