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[shadowkat]

1. Making headway with the scarves, but I'd love it if I could figure out how to knit socks - they look insanely complicated though. I watched a woman crocheting near me on the subway this morning - it was fairly empty. Has been the last couple of weeks - which is lovely.

Commute was (for a change) uneventful. For a moment, I thought I'd have issues since they had two people who had to been seen to for medical issues at the Carrol Street and Bergen Street Subway Stops. But that notification was around 3 pm. By the time I got there at 4:40, it was taken care of, and the train was right there at 4:42. (I got there quicker than usual - because I jogged across the street, and didn't have to wait for the incredibly long light. )

2. The New York Yankees on Social Media...aka Twitter and FB:



And they are, tweeting facts about gun violence.

3. From the New Yorker...

To her fans, Stevie Nicks, who turns 74 today, is more than a rock-and-roll icon; she’s a kind of spiritual guide, offering what to listen to when you need help listening to yourself. “When you keep music in your life, I think it just changes you and pulls you out of a deep hole,” Nicks says. “Whenever I'm depressed, I just put on music.”

For a while now - I've been listening to music all day long at work and during my commute. Even when I worked remotely, I'd put the music on and occasionally throw myself dance party breaks. It keeps me sane. It also lowers my blood pressure, calms me, and makes me less anxious and occupies the part of my brain that likes to worry over things.

Music and meditation have helped me tremendously.

4. Because we all need a laugh from time to time..

Seth Green lost his NFT Bored Ape in a Twitter Pfishing Scam and is now trying to convince Darkwing to give it back to him

Seth Green is in a hostage negotiation for the “kidnapped” Bored Ape star of his new animated NFT show.

After Green’s NFT collection was swiped this month, he lost the commercial rights to his ape because someone else now owns it and isn’t giving it up.

Near as I can figure - NFT is the techno version of beanie babies.

“I bought that ape in July 2021, and have spent the last several months developing and exploiting the IP to make it into the star of this show,” Green told Vaynerchuk. “Then days before — his name is Fred by the way — days before he’s set to make his world debut, he’s literally kidnapped.” Green did not respond to a tweet from BuzzFeed News regarding the show.

On May 8, an anonymous scammer swiped four of Green’s NFTs in a phishing scheme. Green mourned his “stolen” assets on Twitter, where he announced the losses of a Bored Ape, two Mutant Apes, and a Doodle, which were transferred out of Green’s wallet after he unknowingly interacted with a phishing site.


I shouldn't find this funny, but I do. Sharing in case you do too.

5. Niece posted on Instagram photos of herself dancing in a crowded London nightclub with her friends, maskless.

I told mother.

Mother: after she just recovered from COVID
Me: Yup.
Mother: She defers her final exam for a class - because of COVID, and then goes to a nightclub and..
Me: Yup
Mother: She could get it again..
Me: Unlikely - immunity, but yup, not unheard of.
Mother: I need to check out Instagram
Me: She's definitely her father and mother's daughter..
Mother: She's 18 - she can do that now...

I wouldn't have done it during a pandemic, but I also despise crowded clubs and loud music. Been there done that.

First one was at 16 in France, also several in Colorado Springs, then in London, several in Lawrence Kansas (well, not quite the same - mainly Karoke bars, and big Country Dance Floors...where I learned I cannot dance, because you kind of have to know your left from your right...to dance, also how to count. The Texas Two-Step and the Macarena are kind of beyond my capabilities. Also I don't take direction well. Both elude me, or I can do it, but with a ten second delay.) New York Night Clubs. Turkey night clubs. And alas, North Carolina.

I didn't enjoy any of them - but pretended I did, because you are supposed to.

Don't get me wrong,I like to dance. Just not in a crowd of a 100 people with flashing lights, insanely loud music which is pretending to be music but is actually just vibrating noise, and no room to boogie.

My brother, on the other hand, does love to do those things - still does. As does his wife. He'd have done it. If I live to be a 100, I will never understand my brother. He also likes to sleep on the floor, or sit on things close to the floor, and the boy is 6'5.

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[mtbc]

Yeah, I've never actually been to a nightclub, it's just so not my scene. But I'm also the kind of person where, in a bar, as the band set up their amplifiers, I'm getting ready to leave, at least unless there's some adjacent room I can retire to. Music is great, just not the loudness and people.

[shadowkat]

My memory of nightclubs is "loud, dark, stinking of alcohol and smoke, with flashing lights". Not all are created equal. Girlfriends always drug me to them - usually groups of girlfriends, none of which I'm connected to in any way now. I don't know why I bothered. I'd have been better off declining and doing something else.

Been to a wide range - but generally speaking that's what they are all like. No matter where I am.

I've been to a lot of bars and clubs that do feature good live music - usually jazz, piano, folk guitar. But it's not something I love - because I only go if someone drags me off to it or invites me. I don't do it on my own or suggest it.

Also been to comedy clubs - don't like them either. I'm not really a bar or club person - I find them noisy and crowded, and alcohol induced.

[iddewes]

My name is Rhiannon and I belong to a group on Facebook that is all people called Rhiannon or versions thereof - the majority were actually named after the song (some of us are actually Welsh, too) so Stevie Nicks is like a goddess in that group!

And yes, that was a bit silly of your niece. I used to like alternative clubs where they played goth and alternative music, that was all. But I agree concerts are often too loud too.

[svgurl]

Good luck with the scarves!

Oh, to be 18 and think you're absolutely invincible. I keep hearing about people getting COVID multiple times, even when vaxxed, so it is definitely not impossible to get it again.

[yourlibrarian]

For a while in my 20s I'd go to a small nightclub in a nearby hotel on a regular basis because I enjoyed dancing and often could find partners. But generally speaking, I never cared for them because they were often crowded, noisy, expensive and I don't drink.

Not only could she get COVID again, she might unknowingly still be contagious. Good on the baseball teams for utilizing the social media attention for a positive reason.

[mtbc]

I do like decent live music, especially unamplified, and, if quite loud, like the brass of a jazz band, from the next room. But I hate if some artist wants me to in any way join in with movements like clapping or whatever, for me that's an annoying distraction.

I've done okay on the few occasions I've bothered with live comedy but, well, the pandemic changed all that anyway.

[shadowkat]

Oh, I love the name Rhiannon. I've a ridiculously popular name with over 400 people on FB with the same name (first last and middle). If you googled me - you wouldn't be able to figure out who I was unless I gave you specifics.

Anyhow, you've got a cool name. I have a character in a fantasy story with that name or a version of it.

Also love Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac dating back to the 1970s, I had an album of theirs on 8 track tape once upon a time.

Agree - too many clubs played pop, and I preferred alternative. There was one in Colorado that wasn't bad.

[shadowkat]

Yep, to be 18 and think you are absolutely invincible. She did get scared for about four hours. But other than that.

I thought to myself - she's not my kid and thank god. Although I love her dearly and really do wish she was a bit more like me and less like my idiotic brother.

[shadowkat]

The baseball teams and sporting leagues surprised me. They've never done that before. I think they finally got fed up.

[iddewes]

There’s only one other person on FB with my first and last name, as my last name is not very common either. I peeked at her profile out of curiosity and I am pretty sure I had my name first though as it seems to be her married name 😉
I like my name though it does get irritating when people in the group think we all must be witchy or something because of that song! It’s actually quite a common name in Wales, and I doubt Bethans or Gaynors get people thinking they’re witchy. And nobody knows the name here in Germany so it can be a bit difficult sometimes. If I am booking a restaurant or something I use my husband’s surname as it’s Klein and obviously very common here 😉