Just One Thing: Andrea Gibson, RIP
In September 2023, I had the then-new Colorado Poet Laureate, Andrea Gibson, on the show. I found her very interesting and really wanted to go see/hear her do a live poetry reading. I never did, and now I never will. Andrea passed away yesterday, about four years after being diagnosed with cancer.
'I am more here than I ever was before': Colorado Poet Laureate Andrea Gibson dies | FOX31 Denver
From when Andrea was first named Poet Laureate of Colorado: Andrea Gibson Discusses New Role as Poet Laureate | Westword
I share with you two examples of Andrea reading her, or I should say "their" given Andrea's pronoun preferences, poetry, each about dying. The first is from her very last interview.
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I have a question in to Andy McCarthy about this. Here's what I sent him: "As much as want the Dept of Education abolished, I do have some sympathy with the SCOTUS dissenters who say that it requires an act of Congress and that by firing everybody and preventing the dept from doing whatever its “job” is, that’s just an end-around the requirement for Congress to do the abolishing. Why am I wrong?"
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Stinky snake butt: Snakes Use Smelly Musk to Keep Ants Out of Their Pants - The New York Times
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The power of superhero movies...
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Glad we live in the US even if it means we have to hear really unfunny jokes sometimes.
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Recently, Terry Gilliam, the only American member of Monty Python, gave an interview to The Hollywood Reporter. Here's a question about humor followed by the answer:
Q: Since you mentioned funny, you have always had a reputation for humor, sarcasm, caricature and all those things, but you have expressed concern in the past that irony was disappearing. How do you feel about the state of humor, or lack thereof, these days?
A: I think Trump has changed things considerably. He’s turned the world upside down. I don’t know if people are going to be laughing more, but they’re probably less frightened to laugh. There have been woke activists with a very narrow, self-righteous point of view. That’s frightened so many people, and so many people have been very timid about telling jokes, making fun of things, because if you tell a joke, these people say you’re punching down at somebody. No, you’re finding humor in humanity!
p.s. Gilliam was rarely on screen but you might remember him as "Cardinal Fang" from the brilliant "comfy chair"/Spanish Inquisition sketch for the Flying Circus TV show, and as Patsy, King Arthur's servant, and the bridgekeeper at the Bridge of Death in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Today's Video
A "firenado" from the current wildfire in eastern Utah
The opposite of fire, but still nature (mostly)
Massive rain storms and flooding on the East Coast including something I've never heard of before: flooding into subway cars in NYC