radio_wisdom raze "chips are light. chips travel very well. so do cookies." 220612 ... raze "once you get the rhythm, don't ever let_it_go." 220618 ... raze "just one of those nights. in the mood to make it loud. have to, have to, have to make those speakers sweat." 220622 ... raze "it's important to let yourself feel your feelings." 220623 ... raze "radishes really need to start making a comeback." 220626 ... raze "i don't think you can underestimate beauty on a pretty table." 220710 ... raze "if you had your future self standing in front of you right now, what would you say to them?" "i would say to future me, 'you have it all inside you. don't be afraid to just be.' because i feel like i'm gonna need to hear that all_the_time. forever." 220711 ... raze "have an end goal in mind, but know that everything is gonna change and you don't know where you're gonna end up." 220712 ... raze "we all have blank pages on which we write the stories of our lives." 220713 ... raze "it's amazing what memories are provoked by some songs." 220714 ... raze from a bluegrass song: "mountain folks don't worry 'bout the hard times 'cause hard times is all they've ever known with a hound dog a biscuit and some taters they just sit out on the front porch and watch the flowers grow" 220715 ... raze "all i know is that life's a grind. sometimes you gotta give it time." 220718 ... raze "the last thing i want to bring to you when you're talking about bread, as with all of us, is the importance of rest. gluten's a protein, so when you work it and stretch it and knead it, it actually becomes activated. and it's like a muscle. so if you walk away from your bread for a period of an hour or two ... you have to make sure the gluten has time to relax. and that gives *you* time to relax. to grab a book. to listen to some music. or to spend some time with those you love." 220723 ... raze "one of the great things about art is seeing what you can make out of what you're experiencing instead of letting yourself become a victim of your own circumstances." 220728 ... raze "am i really all the things that are outside of me?" 220729 ... raze "if learning the material impacts of racist events in history in a way that is more fully contextual, and more of a holistic look at it, where you're speaking to how this impacts people on several different levels — if doing that is divisive — then your stance, if it's so in opposition to that, is where the divisiveness is coming from. if your beliefs are antithetical to the facts that are being taught in those classes or in that curriculum, that says a lot more about you and where your values lie." 220730 ... raze "it's never the wrong thing to show kids where their food comes from." 220731 ... raze "get on out there and have yourselves a good one. something tells me you've earned it, folks." 220803 ... raze "education is always paramount in disability life. the fact is, myths and misperceptions about disabilities only exist so long as no one dares to lift the veil and ask those questions. we can go into any place in the world and find disabilities. that's not a problem. having an understanding that there are going to be different views and different perspectives ... that can be a little harder. keeping an open mind is essential. going in and not judging what another person may believe, but offering education and insight, would be a great advance." 220804 ... raze "i feel even julia child would have allowed fast-rising yeast if that was in the cards." 220805 ... raze "love's not a sprint. it's a marathon." 220806 ... raze "the whole thing about art for me is that it's always been a way to exorcize demons and stuff – exorcise certain kinds of frustrations or clawings in my brain. and rock and roll is like ... it's totally different, you know? i mean, it's more of an ecstatic thing." 220807 ... raze "a lot of the artists you love have done some terrible things." 220810 ... raze "the sex pistols seemed to recycle that riff an awful lot. but it *was* a good one, wasn't it?" 220813 ... raze "if you've got somebody good, you gotta try and keep 'em going." 220818 ... raze "music can be a real supportive partner whenever we're going through something." 220819 ... raze on choral music: "there's a discipline with vocals. there's beauty. there's history. there's grace, and a little twist of divinity in there too." 220820 ... raze "it feels like a long, long time. but it's only been forty minutes." 220825 ... raze "some people run. some people walk. some people get high just to get by. i like to ride." 220826 ... raze "a little fire is gonna add some flavour." 220827 ... raze "listening to music and performing it reactivates parts of your brain associated with memory, reasoning, speech, emotion, and even reward. it doesn't just help us retrieve stored memories. it also helps us form new ones." 220903 ... raze "men who dance are awesome." 220910 ... raze "follow your dream, follow your blues, and get what you want out of life." 220916 ... raze "tomorrow's not so far away, so make the most of yesterday." 220920 ... raze "good tools is the proper way to do things." 220921 ... raze "i'm too young to remember. but my heroes are still here." 220923 ... raze "i always figure the more veggies, the better." 221009 ... raze "the trick with mushrooms is: don't crowd the pan." 221011 ... raze "i'm a big fan of long-range planning for holidays." 221015 ... raze "i'm the one with the lived experience. why are you telling me how i should feel?" 221115 ... raze "broadcasting your private life to millions and millions of people might not actually be the relatable moment you think it is." 221128 ... raze "groups are not monolithic." 221201 ... raze "sometimes it feels like a nightmare when you're going through it." 221202 ... Soma “…You might not actually want to see them make a turducken.” 221203 ... raze on homelessness: "it's not that we don't have houses. it's not that we don't have property for people to go into. it's that we value property and profit over human lives." 221207 ... tender_square on affairs: "the crossing of the line isn't getting a hotel room; the crossing of the line is when you give yourself the permission to think beyond where you've allowed yourself to go." 221209 ... raze "we made it through the gate of 2023, and we want to start things off right." 230115 ... raze "love is like a rattlesnake. before it bites, it tries to warn you." 230120 ... raze "the things you regret most are the things left undone." 230122 ... raze "you can't always be on the mark in this life." 230212 ... raze "kim kardashian won't see your tweets making fun of her situation, but the people that follow you in your life that you might not know the same things have happened to will, and they'll know that you don't think it's a big deal. so just kind of understand that it's not just celebrities who go through this stuff. it's people." 230215 ... raze "things are old and new again." 230218 ... raze "you never stop loving someone back where i come from." 230227 ... raze "polling is imperfect, but as i understand it, can at least be a good indicator of social issues or broad reactions to those issues." 230301 ... raze "you gotta love march. sometimes you can get frostbite and sunburn in the same week." 230306 ... epitome of incomprehensibility CBC broadcast an interview with Margaret Atwood last morning, and I was dawdling in my salad-making even though that made me late for work. (Boss B. is still late with my payments; I suppose payback is immature, but any excuse-port in an Atwood-interview-storm, right?) Anyway. Two highlights: -The journalist asking her about having a morbid_sense_of_humour or the like, and her answering that sometimes life just juxtaposed odd things...like that time her sister stowed a pet cat wrapped in fabric in the freezer (it made sense in context, sort of). -Another question about how it felt like to write a certain passage, and her taking it semi-literally: how does it feel like? Ask a downhill skier how it feels like to ski, and they'll say they just push off and go. So writing, it feels like it always does, it feels like putting a writing implement to paper and making words down, then going over the words until I'm happy with how they fit together. ...which was maybe a bit sarcastic but not sarcastic to be mean. Unlike J.K. Rowling on Twitter going, "Oh, I'm glad not *everything* I write should now be trashed for crimethink" or something. Don't play the martyr part if you're going to be an ass, JKR. Peter Martyr Vermigli can do that, since that's his middle name. ANYWAY. Maybe I don't think Margaret Atwood is the High Priestess of Canadian Letters - we can be non-hierarchical here, no? - but she does have ways with words. -Oh, and she said things about losing her partner, about widowhood, that were both practical and profound, but I was distracted at that point so I didn't catch it all. 230309 ... e_o_i *marking words down Also, apparently Peter Martyr Vermigli's name should be Peter Ass Vermigli. It just should. (The Sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now. He just does.) 230309 ... e_o_i ALSO the cat was already dead - Atwood's sister wasn't one to freeze cats to death. We hope. 230309 ... raze "pain may not always be physical." 230323 ... raze "the humble cabbage goes a long, long way." 230401 ... raze "you don't have to go looking for trouble. it'll find you." 230402 ... raze "walk down that street like you own it." 230403 ... raze "one act of love can change a life." 230405 ... raze "your brain requires a constant supply of fuel, and that fuel comes from the food you eat. so what's in that fuel makes all the difference. put simply, what you eat directly effects the structure and function of your brain, and ultimately your mood." 230410 ... raze "ain't no sense in loving someone who isn't loving you." 230421 ... raze "the internet can be a wonderful place sometimes." 230430 ... raze "there's a lineage of glasgow bands finding power in the more desolate corners of alt-rock and electronica." 230514 ... raze "there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. if only we're brave enough to be it." 230528 ... raze "certain albums from the '80s sound really good in the summer." 230612 ... raze "sometimes you get it wrong more than you get it right." 230617 ... raze "tone is in the fingers." 230625 ... past it's rebellious to like nickelback. 230625 ... tender_square "remastered grunge songs aren't good. the whole point of alternative was its imperfections." 230625 ... raze "happiness is a song sung on the land by those who know it." 230712 ... raze "if the life you lead is double, stay out of trouble." 230726 ... raze "ain't nobody can tell you what you need to do." 230727 ... raze "love. that's what the world needs plenty of." 230728 ... raze "whatever sends you flying can also help you land." 230819 ... raze "everything in your life can change without disrupting your compass." 230823 ... raze "sometimes we think people will always be around to tell their stories. but generations age. and people die. and i think it's always important to tap into the community and say, 'what stories are here? can we record them in some way right now?'" 230911 ... raze "take care of the senses, and the sound will take care of itself." 230914 ... raze "as you grow up, you'll grow more into yourself." 230915 ... raze "being hyper-aware and intelligent doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be satisfied in life." 230925 ... raze "if we all tried to retain a bit of humanity, we'd probably make a better future." 231008 ... raze "prioritizing adequate sleep is super important." (good god, do i feel that.) 231013 ... raze "just be gentle with yourself. follow your excitement." 231017 ... raze "you can't live on bread alone, but i sure could use a sandwich." 231111 ... raze "life is sweet, sometimes." 231207 ... past "la nutella est le chocolat du petit-déjeuner." 231207 ... raze "you don't hate mondays. you just hate capitalism." 231209 ... raze "here's the thing about christmas. everybody is busy. everybody is rushing. the time it normally takes for you to get somewhere is not the time that it's gonna take on christmas day or christmas_eve. you're gonna have longer traffic lines. you might have different weather to contend with. don't leave your schedule so tight that you just don't have minutes to spare. leave time to get there." 231217 ... e_o_i chairlessness 240107 ... raze "it_is_what_it_is. it ain't what it seems." 240110 ... raze "youth does not return. enjoy your life while you're at it and while you're young." 240205 ... raze "we can mourn what we've lost while celebrating what we have and what we've yet to be." 240206 ... raze "sandwiches only get smaller the more you eat them." 240305 ... raze "whatever tools you have, get the expression out." 240325 ... raze "stay hydrated." 240504 what's it to you? who go blather from