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Fox and the Law

The first and last time I ever saw Fox and the Law was at Macefield Festival in 2015. I think it was one of their last shows before breaking up. Folks in Fox and the Law are involved in Freakout Records and Freakout Festival, which seems to have replaced Macefield, and the band Acid Tongue, which I also like, and have gotten to see more than once.

But Fox and the Law was particularly my jam, a very particular type of rock music that I can never adequately describe because it is such a baseline sound for me. I even love the name, which sound like an ’80s tv show in the vein of Simon and Simon.

Plus, I’m really proud of getting a clear picture in red stage light. That is so hard to do.

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It’s All Family Games Until…

We did a whole lot of nothing during spring break this year, what with the pandemic and not being able to leave the house. I kind of hit a wall on the whole “cruise ship activities director” role that homeschooling thrust on me, and spent the week watching Chinese TV while the kids played video games. But we did have one day of organized family fun, and it was entirely at the initiative of the kids.

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Office Hours and Chinese Dramas – Pandemic Homeschool Diaries

This week (starting April 27) was supposed to be the week the schools reopened. But oh well, we’ve got a pretty good system in place now. The schools have stepped up their remote teaching, and I’m filling in the gaps with things that are lots of fun – including history lessons based on Chinese dramas. Here’s how we rocked the seventh week of pandemic homeschool (sixth week of instruction).

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Published in April 2020

I too was subject to the strange temporal phenomenon of an eon-like March and an April that passed in the blink of an eye. But I still managed to write and publish a lot of articles in April, and the best part is that hardly any of them related to the pandemic. If you, like me, would like to read about something else for a while, maybe check out some of these articles from April.

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Dust Bunny

In the original U.S. release of Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro, makuro kurosuke were translated as “dust bunnies.” Dust bunnies, Nanny explains gather in unused houses and out of the way spaces. In Western culture, we expect to find dust bunnies under the bed. Nanny said that dust bunnies leave when people come back to live in a house and start cleaning. But this one just stayed and stayed.

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