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Olympics Fever

On By MezzoSherriIn Memoir, Pop Goes the Culture1 Comment

How on earth have I managed to get this far into JALC’s lifespan without talking about the Olympics and my embarrassingly high level of fan-girl-ness about them?

I mean, yes, there have lots of long gaps and hiatuses: nonetheless, this blog started 15 mother-forking years ago (!!!), which means that Paris 2024 is the 8th set of Olympic games that has taken place since I started writing here.

The Olympic rings with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

And yet, a focused search of my posts on JALC shows that the only prior mention of the games was when I made passing reference to this viral video from the 2012 swimming team in a post about earworms!

Clearly, that ends tonight.

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The times, they are, um, interesting

On By MezzoSherriIn Flagrantly Feminist, Politics and PolicyLeave a comment

Yeah, this title IS a weak parody of a famous Dylan song. It’s also a callback to one of those commonly-known, exoticized adages:

May you live in interesting times.

NOT an ancient Chinese curse (Quote Investigator, Grammar Party)

I still haven’t decided how much reportage I’ll be doing on JALC about the 2024 election hellscape-slash-battle for the soul of the nation. The older I get, the more aware I am of how minimal my “insights” are about these sort of political things: and so there seems minimal value to me going all pundit-like on here.

However, with the sort of momentous week like we’ve just had, I simply can’t restrain myself.

Still life with steno pad, reading glasses and blue highlighter. Written at the top of the pad: Changes ahead"
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