[A crew digging in the street, replacing lead water lines with copper.]

This was a rough week for famous people. In short order, we lost Ozzy Osbourne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Chuck Mangione, and Hulk Hogan. All of these men were fixtures in my life growing up in the 1980s. The first three were amazing human beings. Hogan? Not so much.

Reading

I am slowly working my way through Dan Davies’ The Unaccountability Machine. It is an interesting exploration of cybernetics applied to business, and it is making me want to both study cybernetics and burn the entire EVERYTHING to the ground.

Writing

I haven’t managed much progress on anything. Too much work and life stress.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Genius Loci, Mutants
Setting: Labyrinth
Genre: Dystopian

Listening

Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford, “Close My Eyes Forever,” from the 1988 album Lita. Rest ye well, Mr. Osbourne.

Interesting Links

• “The Fight for Hearts and Minds: Christian Churches Filling Void Created by Social Service Cuts, With Some Also Hard-Selling Far Right Political Messages” (Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back, Naked Capitalism)
• “Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes” (Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic)