🙃 I was about to post today's BookTube, except that the volume was too low, and then I realized that, even though I'd taken the time today to cut out audio and refine *some* of the highway noise from it, I'd forgotten my most basic volume-boost procedure.

So! It's now re-downloading for re-upload. Le Sigh.

But I can finish Patreon while I wait, and all the YouTube data is ready. Hardest part was finding a good cover screencap, because I always look like I'm in pain. I have a face for radio. 😂

Okay. Recording time, take two! 🤞🏻

(First time today got disrupted by a fire alarm. 🤦🏻‍♂️ On a drizzly morning!!)

😂 I thought I'd been very productive this morning, sending off five voice messages before three work emails. But then I saw this new piece show up and... honestly? I'm regretting introducing North Americans to WhatsApp. They don't know what to do with the VM function!

(Going to be listening to this one at 2x while doing chores, I tell you what!)

Good morning to everyone here who's managed to avoid becoming a corrupt billionaire (redundant phrase, but roll with me on this one).

Honestly, the one good thing about seeing a) how useless world systems are for combatting greed, & b) how rigged the economy is toward people of unchecked wealth is this:

Once you realize the game's all rigged, you can forgive yourself for "failing" in it. For struggling to get by.

None of us are failures who keep striving to do better by one another.

Not one.

(GY!BE just released a new album yesterday, so they're on my mind right now.

Post-rock FTW!)

#CoSoMusic
https://youtu.be/55CLYupTQpQ

I fell asleep with my Godspeed You! Black Emperor t-shirt on, and I...

woke up one morning and fell a little further down -
For sure, it's the valley of death.
I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood.

#IFellAsleep

Okay, #MutualAid CoSo.

We have a big ask from CoSonaut trying to leave a high-cost space in the US and move back to be with her mother, whose condition is deteriorating here in Colombia.

@Blue_Skyesr_here needs to cover at least this month's rent, passport expenses, animal transport expenses, and maybe the plane ticket to start over.

I know that overall funding goal seems daunting, but every little bit will help to knock one item off the to-do list. Can you help a bit? https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/98eNldiBEw

#Zine ...And I suppose I should be clear... 🤨

I'm trusting everyone to be responsible when sending smutty tales and erotic art for #CoSoAfterDark. We'll be looking for seductive and saucy but not full-frontal. And when it comes to the stories and poems, hot-to-trot tension tends to do better than "throbbing 🐓s" and "aching 🍑s" every other line.

Have fun with it! 😈

But remember that the brain is the sexiest organ, and can fill in whatever tight little narrative holes you give it to work with!

All right, lovelies. What a day!

But for those interested in the #Zine, we have SO many ways to contribute now. Hopefully one of these will inspire something in you!

For Issue #2, we'll have a special section for #Ekphrasis: art and writing inspired by one of the two images below. Other inspired content welcome, too!

For Issue #3, we have a SPLIT between #Limerence (obsessive infatuation) and #CoSoAfterDark (naughty, saucy bits!). When these two meet in the middle, will sparks fly? We'll see!

My computer's in update mode, so I'm off for my weekend crossword & food column. From yesterday's paper:

1) Xmas street decorations are up across town! Woo hoo!
2) COP16 (the UN biodiversity conference) is gearing up in Cali.
3) Folks are concerned about rising violence in my department, Antioquia. On top of local cartels, though, I had to do a double-take: the issue is cartels from México, Perú, Venezuela, the UK, Italy, Switzerland, Dubai, &... CANADA?! 🧐 What?! Did I miss a memo?

#Colombia

*Lysistrata. Silly typos.

But here's the Lysistrata action article from September, for more info:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-woman-at-center-of-orthodox-sex-strike-receives-her-divorce/

(One day we'll live in a world where women are full people, without contention or fetishization, either for stupid secular reasons or under arbitrary religious mandate. One day!)

Well, I fell asleep after class last night, so I'll catch up on the Zine after recording.

First though, I'm not sure if anyone here heard about the women who pulled a Lysistra in September (sex strike), but they were pressuring their husbands to make a child-molesting man give his wife a get (rabbinical divorce), & it worked! This episode of This American Life talks about a more brutal intervention (torture) in the ongoing struggle for women's rights among the Orthodox.

https://pca.st/episode/10fac60c-8135-4ee9-a6b1-45329ee6fbf7