Things that are Orange

Sometimes this happens...

I guess I knew the tricks that all boys knew...

So, my adorable little college town has had two rapes (as the GOP would qualify, forcible rapes) on campus in the last two weeks. Both of these happened on the route which is my normal walk home.  One happened directly outside my office. 

So my mind keeps coming back to Dar Williams and this song - which has the line: And I hear somebody tell me it's not safe,/someone should help me/I need to find a nice man to walk me home.

 

Well, I did get home, after a not so late night at a work function. But I didn't walk through the lovely little park by myself at 8:30. And, well, fuck. It is a miserable state of the world that I walk three blocks out of my way in heels so I don't have to be alone in this park.

 

 

Absence

Some events in my extended family this week have left the world a little sadder.

Resquiat in pacem, Evan.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child,

Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,

Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,

Remembers me of all his gracious parts,

Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.

-William Shakespeare, King John

where's that rock of ages, when I need it most...

I was at a concert this evening, where the group (Redbird) played a cover of Johnny Cash's Unchained, which reminded me that I have been wanting to post my five favorite songs (as decided from an entirely unscientific study of these being the songs I most reliably don't skip through when they pop up on random). 4 of these I think (hope) are Spotify links.  the last is YouTube.  We'll see how I do with the new technologies...

Nina Simone – My Baby Just Care for Me
Josh Ritter – Kathleen
The Grateful Dead – Ripple
Louis Jordan – Knock Me A Kiss
Unchained - Johnny Cash


honorable mentions go to Redbird's Ships and Old Crow Medicine Show's Wagon Wheel (that one is a YouTube link because I love the video so much(.

Things That Please Me