I think it's because I'm nearly the same age as Atrios but this throwaway bit about not always having the juice to make a blog post every time something happens does hit home a little. Although I think for me it's less about feeling like I have to have something interesting to say and more about being exhausted that the same things keep happening over and over regardless of what we say about them.
Still, the reason I put stuff here is so I'll remember what happened... even if the temptation to fade blissfully away into oblivion is stronger every time a new city council trots out yet another draconian ban on neighborhood bars because of a crime panic, to pick one example. The same stuff keeps happening in cycles. But every time it comes around again, things are one degree shittier than they were the last time. The rent is a bit higher, the land is a bit lower relative to the sea, the cops and cameras are a bit more aggressive, the mayor is a bit stupider and meaner. The usual things, except moreso every time. And no one is coming to help.
Anyway, for some reason I still have this compulsion to take notes. And so that's what I'm still doing. For instance, if Billy Nungesser says this and I don't write it down somewhere, how will I know it happened?
At Washington Mardi Gras, @BillyNungesser reiterates that @AGJeffLandry is "not a good person."
— Julie O'Donoghue (@JSODonoghue) January 25, 2023
"He personally reported me to the FBI three times." #lalege #lagov
Similarly...
Watch @mayorcantrell defiant response to a reporter's question on allegations she had an affair with the head of her security detail. "accused of sleeping with half the city of New Orleans, both genders and all pronouns. I'm known as Teedy sometimes and Teddy other times." pic.twitter.com/j8QZ8TepV3
— Down For Whatever (@emersonspop) January 25, 2023
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