Last night, I decided to cancel Cue Streaming.

It’s not yet working on my new TV, but I wasn’t down in the kitchen; I was already up in my bed, perusing the lineup of channels offered on Cue (because it works on my iPhone and on my laptop) and it was the same old, same old as ever before — the reason I canceled cable years ago. There was never anything I wanted to watch and I was always watching Amazon Prime instead.

So I canceled Cue Streaming last night and then immediately went back over to Amazon Prime and watched another episode of “The Avengers” from 1966 on the tiny yet beguiling screen of my iPhone…

I used to love “The Avengers,” back when I was a little girl, growing up in Cleveland. I wouldn’t say that I love it now, but I do like to watch Emma Peel and marvel at all her many amazing outfits and remember fondly how awesome fashions were in London in the 1960s.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, no worries! There is absolutely no need to waste a moment, stepping back in time. Diana Rigg, the actress who played Emma Peel, is no longer even alive. And she died from old age, not because she skipped outside one merry morning and got hit by a bus while still in the bloom of youth or anything. It is sufficient to just post this photo and move ever onward into that great unknown expanse called Life:

Of course, rumor has it among Truthers that Amazon Prime will disappear once the new Internet is up and running, but I’m willing to risk it! We’ll just have to see. If I’m left with no technology whatsoever, perhaps just a pen and some paper — that might end up being the best life yet… Creativity, without the siren call of black & white reruns.

Okay!

Today is once again wide open.

I am off work. Sandra has that meeting with the (DORA-nominated) director of our play — so no more re-writes just yet. I will still have a slew of them once we undertake Act Two.

But today (!!) — laundry is almost done, I do not have to drive to town & back for anything at all; it’s going to just be all about me and my desk and a bunch of thoughts that are in my head. (And, with luck, putting the thoughts down on paper or onto a screen of some sort.)

I’m looking forward to it.

In other news!!!

Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File this morning. In it, he tackles the pesky problem plaguing truckloads of American families right now — “non-binary,” “trans,” “gender fluidity,” “pronoun problems.” He doesn’t go into the Neo-Marxist Indoctrination at the heart of the current Color Revolution that is hoping to upend whatever is left of the nuclear family here in America by ripping it to smithereens…

Instead, he opted to aim for the simple human heart: parents and children and unconditional love. And how the situation is always basically the same, regardless of the topic and the times. Love and acceptance are at the core of surviving it and always have been.

Just normal people living in hell.

And there was also beautiful stuff about his music…

You can read it HERE if you so choose.

All righty!

As always, James Tabor brings up a lot of points about the early Jesus Movement that are well worth pondering.

John, Jesus, Peter, Paul, and James–Sorting out the First Forty Years! (1 hr 20 mins):

That’s probably it for right now. I’m going to get started on stuff here and see where the day leads.

Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world! (And yes, I am still keeping up on the war and things are absolutely horrific and more chaotic than ever. But on we go,)

Thanks for visiting, gang.

I love you guys. See ya!

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A song from yesteryear that was curiously on my mind this morning and so I share it with you! Enjoy, gang.