Lady May-May and NoFu are making chicken breasts on their smoker. Outside, in 40° temps. It's 3:49am.
I open the new bag of Gevalia since I'm going black this morning in order to enjoy dunking ginger snaps. Ahh, breakfast of champions. Well, other than BBQ chicken. In the middle of the night, in the dead of winter. But you do you. I love my crazy neighborhood.
Oh no, almost out of creamer. I may actually have to put big boy pants on (that is, pants of any kind) and go shopping.
Need to check on the site where, of course, they say, shopping is a pleasure.
But before I even glance at the flyer, I fall into a spiral...
Thinking about coffee creamers, I quicky surmise that Publix is the way to go mostly due to their BOGOs. I like to get the best values.
Thinking about how people waste food stamps buying high priced convenience store items.
Thinking about seeing that behavior in Rite Aid in New Orleans, back during Koyo.
Remembering Robert's Supermarket in New Orleans.
Remembering that a few years ago it had been converted into a Whole Foods.
Thinking how crazy that is, a Whole Foods in the ghetto. Could I be wrong? I revisit it through Google Maps and see all the white people scurrying about the parking lot.
Looking around the neighborhood and seeing it all clean and neat (not racistly-thinking because its "whiter," but likely due to other socio-political machinations).
Scratching my head thinking, "Is this the same neighborhood I lived in back in 2003?"
Checking back in Google maps street view to 2007, the earliest it goes far back and no, I'm not incorrect, the neighborhood was a shithole, even accounting that this was a picture taken 2 years after Katrina. My memory of it was that it looked pretty much the same 4 years earlier.
Comparing the differences in street view between 2007 and now is like apples and oranges.
Looking at one 2007 image, noticing how pixelated it was, thinking maybe it could have gone through that same process to improve it like in that movie No Way Out.
Thinking how crazy that plot was in that movie where it took like a full day to resolve a photo image from the remnant of a Polaroid negative and wondering how long it would take nowadays especially with all the massive amount of AI available. The movie would be pretty much over in about 10 minutes maybe.
Thinking about that movie again and how people were fooled at the end by the big twist that Kevin Costner was the Soviet spy mole baddie. Of course, easy to believe the closeted gay Secretary of Defense was a bad guy because back then gay people were always thrown under the bus as villains in every storyline.
It's one of the most prevalent tropes out there. The overcompensating, Super Macho, clenched ass posturing alpha male turning out to be a big old homo. Especially the ones that espouse supposed Family Values, and right wing ideologies. We've seen it time and time again. But, with this crazy administration, Hegseth being outed, would be the least shocking thing to ever hit the airwaves in any news cycle, believe you me.
And this is just two cups of coffee in a single hour of time 3:49am to 4:49am.
Welcome, you've just entered the chelating zone.