So I’ve received a little offer to do a few sponsored blog posts. It’s
a little extra money (like $40) and I’m certainly desperate for it,
but would you all find it too bizzare? Yes, it would make me a sell
out, but I live at half of the poverty level and have some sell-put
wiggle room on the grand scale.

When every single thing you own, plus a couple of things you borrowed,
plus all of your groceries, plus 3 adults and 2 car seats can fit into
a single minivan without removing the seats.
In other words, Kid and I and all of our stuff are now in our new apartment.

And I’m going to pick up my keys. My keys, my apartment. OMFG peeps!
I’m back in the land of responsible home renters.

Any of you peeps remember how in the GoGo 90’s the stock market would
take a hit everytime new employment numbers came out? They said it was
cause they (who is they?) feared low unemployment rates (5% or less)
would lead to inflation. Except it didn’t. It led to full time jobs
with medical and dental insurance and regular wage increases. That’s
what the Banksters hate.

So the S&P (Standard&Poor) just downgraded America and made the stock
market plummet over fears that the government isn’t taking debt
reduction seriously enough. Now we all know the S&P is a bastion of
ethics and honesty (cough-choked on my gum while typing that line-
cough) so of course their only motive would be rationally and honestly
assessing the stock market (cough-damn I’m going to need the heimlich
if I continue with the sarcasm)! How long before His Hopiness runs
further to the right? I give him about 5 seconds. We should place
bets.

I am a glutton for the PBS costume drama. And I’ve seen just about
every version of Upstairs Downstairs/Gosford Park/Downton Abbey etc.
etc. So of course I’m watching the new Upstairs Downstairs and I’m
bored to fucking sobs. Nothing new to see here. Until the introduce
Rachel, a Jewish refugee from Germany (in 1936) who goes from being a
university lecturer with a husband and daughter and maid of her own,
to being a maid. Suddenly there is a character we haven’t seen before!
(And to be honest, the rest of the characters are so flatly written I
want to poke them to see if they’d crinkle like paper). Rachel also
gives the only other *non-white character, the exotic Indian
manservant Mr. Rangit, a chance to interact with people instead of
being decoration. So (SPOILERS!) of course they have to kill her off.
Like having more than 2 non-wasps in a costume drama for more than an
episode will fucking cause PBS viewers to lose their shit. Instead we
get a Very Special Episode! on facism. Gross.

You’ve all heard some version of the above. Buy why? Think about the
conservative ideaology. It’s a world with no social programs, no
public eduction, and only a huge millitary as an outlet for (mild)
poverty relief. You believe that the only use for government is in
exercising cohersive power, either through the police of the military.
If you believe that the only true path to liberty is through those
measures, then a meddling, middling, compromising moderate (like
Obama) is NEVER going to win you over. NEVER. As for Democrats, well
it is supposed to be the party that believes that the government
should ‘ensure domestic tranquility’ through social programs with less
of a focus (but not much less) on cohersive power. We don’t have that
though. What we have is a party of douchenozzles running themselves
(and us) ragged trying to out liberty and coherce the right while
making mild sops to theft obfuscated in orwellian rhetoric (public
option anyone).

Thanks to kindly benefactors, we have a complete bathroom. Towels,
shower curtain, curtain hooks and a rug. Thank you kindly donors! Also
I managed to get a tv off craigslist for free, but it’s been so long
since I’ve dealt with tv stuff that I didn’t realize I’d need a
converter box AND a digital antenna to make it work. Blah. There’s 70
bucks I did not want to spend. So now we’re down to needing bedding
(damn y’all, do you know how fricken expensive a basic pillow is?)
some stragley kitchen stuff, cleaning stuff like mops and brooms, and
lamps. If you want to help, but can’t use paypal, I am all over amazon
gift certificates. You can buy just about anything on amazon. And
lemme say again, thank you all. You’ve kept kid and me afloat through
homelessness and are now directly responsible for us turning an
apartment into home. Our own home, for the first time in years. Thank
you.

If you look in my shared items you’ll see a new piece of street art by
Shepherd Fairy, yes that Shepherd Fairy. The guy responsible for those
ubiquitous Obama posters in 2008. I seem to remember skimming
something not that long ago about how Fairy was dissapointed in Obama.
I feel a twee bit bad for those who’ve had their audacious hopes for
change crushed and admit it (just a twee bit, I’m still pissed off
about the violent threats lobbed at non-Obots). But here’s a guy whose
name we only know because it was so firmly entwined with the mass
brainwashing of the democratic base in 2008 coming out of the cult
like fog. For progressives, real progressives, this is awesome. For
Democrats, it should serve as a 2 minute warning. The game is almost
over and they are going to lose.

Which means Tuesday we should be moving. Which means I have to bleg. We need cash for things like: trash & recycle cans, mop, broom, dustpan, bedding for the Kid and me, air mattresses for the month or so that we will be without beds, towels, shower curtain and rings, pot holders, toilet brush, lamps, etc. etc. You get the idea. Most of this stuff can be bought second hand, but it can’t be bought for free.

Also, the building has had a bed bug problem in the past, though the super is pretty good about being on top of that shit. so we probably need those plastic envelope things that encase mattresses and box springs.

Last month I made a grand total of $101. This month has been a little better (thank you kind donors), but we’re still far short of being able to buy pillows or coffee cups. So if you’ve got it to spare, every dime helps.

And OMFG PEEPS- we’re going to have a home of our very own for the first time in 3 fucking years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!