June Pieces Of My Mind #1

Found an old car door next to the Sörmlandsleden hiking trail.

• Given Michael Jackson’s unsavoury reputation, it is encouraging that the song is called “Pretty Young Thing” and not “Extremely Young Thing”.
• Had a French friend over for game night. She had never seen a tea cosy before. Now I begin to understand the wrong-headed logic of Brexit.
• What did it signify when Tom Waits and Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue wore lots of wrist watches in album photos?
• For the past two years I’ve been in the part of your life when you help teens move house.
• Love Avram Davidson. In his Adventures in Unhistory he has footnotes asking people to please return books that he needs.
• It would be wrong to say that US has a random number generator for a president, because he is quite consistently pro-rich, anti-environment and anti-immigrant. But outside of those fields, all bets are off.
• Naval Observatory: a short shirt that leaves a person’s midriff bare.
• Companionably helping Cousin E sort through his stuff and decide what goes along with him to Bristol for the autumn semester. Notable sign of long-distance motherly care over the past three years: he has nine pairs of long-johns.

First yacht race of the year!