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Pretty sure this is actual footage from the CDC offices:

@drglaucomflecken♬ original sound – Dr. Glaucomflecken

(This is also perfection)

“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, viz, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”

– letter to Coretta Scott King, 1952

It’s currently raining here but there’s a winter weather advisory out for the next day for snow. I saw this on Twitter yesterday and it made me laugh (because that’s me this week).

Bare trees and snow on mountains:

Dark foreboding mountains:

Contact tracing on your phone:

I’d forgotten I had that enabled but I’m glad it was: Just to be super-safe, we canceled taking our unvaccinated nephew out trick-or-treating last night and I got a self-serve test (per the state recommendations; I felt fine). Results came back negative this morning and I have never been so glad to be vaccinated in my life. (Just think how much scarier this would have been a year ago!)

It’s not a rarefied poetry quote; it’s the part from Fantasia where the naked little Art Deco fairies make the leaves turn colors and the frost appear. The willow leaves! The milkweed ladies! The pond freezing over! I know it’s tinged with a lot of nostalgia, but it’s really sublime:

(This isn’t the best quality but you’d better watch it before The Mouse takes it down.)

And I’m here for it:

This is the funniest video I have ever seen on the internet pic.twitter.com/Y5NXvWqH9U

— Zack (@Zack3O12) August 30, 2021

(I think the cheese grater is the best, but it might be a tie with the toy crocodile.)

It really feels like we’re in a not-fun-at-all game of “spin the apocalypse wheel and get a disaster,” doesn’t it? From today’s Salt Lake Tribune, here are the disasters du jour:

Take care of yourselves today, friends.

Austin Kleon‘s newsletter linked to The Peculiar Manicule, self described as “1960s & 70s Ephemera • Psychedelia • Typography • Op & Pop Art • Mod Miscellanea.” In other words, hours of fun clicking around and looking at design. Go check it out!

This was the biggest dopamine hit of nostalgia I’ve gotten since I looked up the 1983 My Little Pony Movie on YouTube: A recreation of The Print Shop software from 1988. We had the MS-DOS version and I would spend hours making cards for random reasons–I still remember one I made with the greeting, “MOM, CAN I GET UP EARLY AND DRINK COFFEE WITH YOU?”

Anyway, someone has put a version of it online and you can relive all your childhood card-making adventures, down to what (now) feels like an extraordinarily long lag time between steps. Give it a try here. (I did, of course.)

Well, that week off turned out to be less relaxing than I hoped: Doc isn’t feeling 100% and we’re still trying to figure out why, so a lot of worry and tests and appointments and worry. About mid week we went up Millcreek for a drive, just to get out of the house, and even a quick stroll in some nature really helped.

Nature! Suitable for all humans.