Is anybody writing postcards tonight?
If anyone wants to get started, we have addresses from Voces for the Wisconsin State Senate seat in SD-8 and for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In keeping with our usual focus, we are writing to Latino and African American households for Voces.
If you want addresses, just send email to WaterGirl: my nym at balloon-juice.com – and we’ll get you started!
We also need people who are willing to write postcards in Spanish for the Latino addresses from Voces. We worked with Voces on the message, which they translated for us. So you don’t have to know Spanish to write the postcards, you just have to be able (and willing!) to copy the Spanish text.
Other groups are writing postcards, as well, and everyone is welcome to the postcard writing parties!
Mousebumples wondered if maybe folks might like a daytime postcard writing thread on Saturdays, rather than Saturday evenings, so please weigh in on that if you are a postcard writer.
MUSIC
I find this song haunting, in a good way. It’s been my ear worm all week.
Who else has music to share?
Trivia Man
Keep an eye out for the name Vicki McKenna – draw an extra smiley face for her if you get it.
https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/featured/vicki-mckenna/
A real piece of work and she is OUTRAGED that people are handwriting cards to AFFECT THE ELECTION!
Keep it up, we need all the help we can get.
cain
Anybody catch Raskin? lol Banana Republicans – that’s got to be a rotating tag, y’all!
cain
@Trivia Man: Does she know that a bunch of people put ADS on TV?!!!!! To affect the election?!
And they have DEBATES too?!!?
Oh the horror! The inhumanity!!!
As god as my witness, I think elections are woke!
WaterGirl
@Trivia Man: Do you have a link to the tweet where she’s outraged about the postcards? I would definitely add that up top if I had it.
WaterGirl
@cain: What are you referring to? Do you have a link?
Mousebumples
Just got news that our nanny tested positive for Covid tonight. I’m testing now, so I’m torn between hoping my 4 vaccines allowed me to escape covid again, and figuring if we all have Covid already, we don’t need to figure out childcare if she feels up for watching the kids the rest of the week. 😭
I’ll be doing postcards – but might be a bit distracted tonight, so less efficient than usual…
Baud
@Trivia Man:
Clarified.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Oh, no!
cain
@WaterGirl:
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1630711082342817792
watch and enjoy :)
NotMax
Not entirely music per se but I found the sheepish expression (and the subsequent tentatively triumphant one) on the young guy playing the harness of cowbells in the percussion section most charming.
Link should be cued up to the brief section. If not, it runs from about 45:09 to about 47:05.
cain
Betty Cracker – someone in the Florida Senate filed a bill to cancel the Democratic Party – lol.
https://www.wesh.com/article/ultimate-cancel-act-florida-democratic-party/43125234#
They called it the “ultimate cancel act” and “immediately cancel the filings of a political party, to include its registration and approved status as a political party, if the party’s platform has previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude.”
The entire florida GOP party has gone completely off the rocker – I think deSantis also was talking about he will get to control Disney’s content. I suppose when you control all parts of govt and they all obey whatever you say. He’s going to over-step, the entire party is going to over-step.
Trivia Man
@Baud: Code cracked!
I heard her rant on the radio while driving, she was VERY pleased with herself that she was successful as a mole to find out WHAT THOSE PEOPLE ARE UP TO! she can confidently report – they are planning to turn out and vote.
Baud
@Trivia Man:
It’s what we tell our voters. Hopefully, it works as well for them as it does for us.
MazeDancer
The free, printable PostCards from the WI Primary have been upgraded for the General.
This is a page of free designs you can download and print. The ones at the top are, obviously, for Wisconsin.
Apparently, Judge Janet is doing just fine in the money department. This article says she has reserved 7 million in ads. Not sure how she spends that much in such a short time. But may she triumph. (knock wood)
NotMax
@cain
All too frequently stated on my late blog (circa 1998-2008), “Give ’em an inch and they’ll take the yardstick.”
H.E.Wolf
I’m on my way offline for the evening, but here is a song for you all. By happenstance, I was at this very concert. This song’s “The Freedom Come-All-Ye” by Hamish Henderson, and is in Lowland Scots dialect, sung by Dick Gaughan.
The 3rd verse begins:
“Sae come aa ye at hame wi freedom
Never heed whit the houdies croak for Doom”
(“Houdies” is probably “hoodie crows”: carrion birds.)
Loosely translated, it’s very à propos for all who drop in here tonight!
“So come all ye at home with freedom
Pay no heed to the birds of doom”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp5UezUQgrE&list=OLAK5uy_kdM-gI688ZEwRgIGk_j2Al50uCLbSlJIs&index=11
cain
@NotMax: It’s the nature of right wingers to get carried away. It’s a repeating theme that you can always count on that will invariably lead to their collapse.
WaterGirl
@cain: Wow, I’m putting that up all by itself in a post. A thing of beauty.
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: Thanks for posting that MazeDancer! Someone posted it in the previous thread too. Good to get the word out.
Alison Rose
[I am a dumbass and posted this comment in the Ukraine thread and didn’t realize until the edit window ended. WG if you’re around, could you please delete it from the other thread? I feel bad having something totally unrelated and lighthearted on that thread.]
MUSIC!
I am fizzing with excitement about the new Depeche Mode album coming out in a month. The first single, Ghosts Again, is terrific. (The graveyard scenes in the video are bittersweet, after the death of Andy Fletcher last year.) God damn, do I ever wish I was not homebound and could go see them when they’re on tour. I saw them once many years ago and it was fan-fucking-tastic. My fave band.
A few more current faves:
Florence + the Machine’s cover of Addicted to Love is delicious.
Chills by Ladyhawke is a freaking bop
If you’re amenable to Kpop, Cherry from ITZY is a fun one
WaterGirl
@cain: They think they are so cute, making a mockery of the government they were elected to serve in.
thruppence
I ordered some postcard stamps from usps, probably have them in a few days.
Here’s Tom Waits being uncharacteristically topical:
https://youtu.be/AAtaQGBbU1A
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Good news is that I’m negative. Now to figure out childcare things….
NotMax
Not music but so uplifting it feels like a good time to share it again should any of you need to give your writing hand a rest for a few minutes: Soar.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@cain:
wonkie
I’ve been writing for the senate race, about ninety so far. I will write for the SC too when Watergirl sends me some addresses. I would like to do around five hundred.
Mousebumples
@wonkie: Awesome work! 🤩 I’ve got 100 addresses I’m working through so far.
Amir Khalid
I have not (of course) been writing any postcards today, but I have been listening repeatedly to Materia Primoris by Mark Snow.
NotMax
Getting back to music, electronic Bolero.
WaterGirl
@wonkie: We are getting really close on the language for the SC race. Remind me again in a couple of days? thank you!
RaflW
A bit silly, but I’d like to ask fellow Jackals to refer to this coming weekend’s CPAC conference as “Schlapp n Tickle” if they’re on social media and care to comment on the authoritarian-fluffiing horror of that ‘conference’.
I know one should take care in making light of sexual assault. But I also think ridicule is one of the more potent lines of attack against these utterly ridiculous clowns.
Kristine
@Alison Rose: I’m a DM fan, too. Thanks for the link!
raven
The world’s no place when you’re on your own
A heart needs a home
NotMax
More tuneage.
Nice Chariots of Fire.
Fun Second Waltz.
brendancalling
I just started playing with this fella: https://youtu.be/ESWjTA0REkU
Im not in THIS band, but you can find them on Apple/Spotify as just Midnight Singers. Really fun stuff.
i believe I’ll have a Motown post this Saturday.
ruemara
I usually order some names but this old house is a time suck and I need to finish getting my office space put together – so I didn’t ask for any this time. But maybe I should.
Oh, having a rum toddy to celebrate a new voice client of humongous proportions and hopefully, humongous impact on my voice career. Here’s am indie songstress who deserves more fame – Nya Jade
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Did I ever send you some of my completed SD-8 postcards to share? Or any other photos from other postcarders?
To postcarders – any thoughts on timing for a weekend postcards/music post? (eg Saturday noon/afternoon/evening)
raven
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – The Way it Will Be (2004)
NotMax
Oops. Linky fix.
Nice Chariots of Fire.
Fun Second Waltz.
Mousebumples
@ruemara: You have time – election day is April 4,and we’ll probably be writing until late March. Even if you can only do a few at a time, every little bit helps!
NotMax
@RaflW
Trickle down wreckonomics?
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FastEdD
Givng Up Hope For A Better Past
Antsy McClain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0VjIleydec
I admit I am biased, he’s a friend of mine from Nashville.
brendancalling
Here’s some obscure but absolutely bone-chilling bluegrass by Buzz Busby: “Lonesome Wind.”
My old band freaking WORSHIPED him. His life story was one sorrow after another, and you can hear it in his voice and his uniquely dissonant mandolin playing.
SpaceUnit
This KT Tunstall cover of On Melancholy Hill may or may not be the best thing on the internet, but I always find it comforting when I’m feeling down. And I’ve been feeling down lately. It comes and goes. I lost a friend a few weeks ago.
On Melancholy Hill
Kent
Anyone here from Chicago?
I see on Twitter that Wasserman is saying the Chicago Mayor Lightfoot has been knocked out of the primary. I don’t know what that actually means though.
Anoniminous
Been waiting a while to post this.
The Modern Jazz Quartet Pyramid (Full Album)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kent: Holy cow. I’m in a suburb, but I’ve seen a ton of ads for all the mayoral candidates. That would be a big change
Alison Rose
@Kristine: Welcome!
Delk
40 years ago today, February 28, 1983 U2 released War. Time to feel old.
FastEdD
@SpaceUnit: Nice song. I like how she uses a looper to create her own rhythm track. Thank you!
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My Chicago friends were pretty sure she wasn’t going to make it.
prostratedragon
@Kent: That’s about what I’m hearing from local news; 4th in a 7 or 8 way race. Only comfort is that a solid majority (including me) voted for Not Vallas. Attempting basketball distraction; Bulls not co-operating.
raven
@Delk: The last MASH too.
SpaceUnit
@FastEdD:
KT is awesome.
WaterGirl
postcard for SD-8 from Mousebumples!
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Negative now is awesome, I assume you’ll have to test again in a day or two.
prostratedragon
“Chain of Fools,” Celisse Henderson live
kalakal
Nina Simone
You’d be so nice to come home to
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Yup. We have a family thing this weekend, and there’s enough grandparents planning to attend that I’ll probably have us all test again before then. And need to ask the pediatrician where the not yet 1 year old can get tested…
WaterGirl
@Kent: Wow.
kalakal
Two very different songs, I love them both
Stevie Wonder – Higher Ground
Traffic – John Barleycorn
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Yikes. So complicated.
WaterGirl
@kalakal: Love the Traffic song! I haven’t heard it in years but it takes me back to a very specific time and place.
prostratedragon
Written for inauguration 2017:
“America,” Celisse live at Joe’s Pub.
Delk
Lightfoot conceded.
Kristine
@WaterGirl: My day went off the rails, so no writing tonight. But I am definitely interested in the wording–will there be a Saturday night session??
Mousebumples
@Kristine: I think I can make Saturday around this time (745pm eastern/645pm central) work, if that’s good for WaterGirl. Probably?
WaterGirl
@Kristine: There will be a Saturday session for sure.
I think we’ll try postcard writing again in the evening on Saturday, with a Motown post and playlist supplied by brendancalling.
I had a day, myself
edit: Yes, we will have wording. We are putting the final touches on three or so different versions.
WaterGirl
@Delk: I will say again. Wow.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Yeah, we’ll go for that again. With Motown this time!
Saturday at 7:45 pm Eastern.
Timill
A Finn’s view of Russians playing rock’n’roll: Leningrad Cowboys & Alexandrov Red Army Choir – “Sweet Home Alabama:” from the Total Balalaika Show concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5GRpA5H3CI
WaterGirl
@Timill: I couldn’t resist. That hair!
Timill
@WaterGirl: I have worse: “Stairway to Heaven” in the style of “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”. With Rolf Harris, for those who would rather avoid him.
Omnes Omnibus
April 4th is my dad’s 80th birthday. Help give him a great present. BTW, his 25th birthday was the day MLK was killed. Maybe we can make this one better.
cain
@ruemara:
Woot! Best of luck 🤞🤞