The only news, really — aside from the chaos that is utterly taking over the world — is this idea of Italy and Obama.

If you follow Phil, he’s allegedly in Italy.

But now there is a post on his channel from this morning — a tiktok video featuring a girl who absolutely looks like she was generated by A.I., but that’s sort of how young women want to look these days.

Anyway. Watch the tiktok video. It is very interesting, indeed.

Wherever he really is right now, he is posting from somewhere that doesn’t allow me to copy & paste his posts, so I can only paste the links. But please read them if you haven’t already.

And in other Italy news — on Charlie Ward’s channel there is a tiktok video regarding Italy being the first country in the world to outlaw synthetic meats and synthetic foods of all kinds. The video is HERE.

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I am in a high level of anxiety these days. I am pretty much staying off the internet and trying to focus on my writing. Making good progress on the novella, “Novitiate.” So that’s good. It helps me ignore the anxiety.

Today I go back to the train station for the next few days. And as luck would have it — we are expecting rain for the next few days! I guess we’ll see how that goes. But this will be my last week at work before I go to Toronto for the opening of our play, “The Guide to being Fabulous.”

If I don’t make it to the blog tomorrow:

Nick Cave will be in Atlanta!! But it is sold out…

And tomorrow is the heavenly birthday of my beloved Tom Petty! He would have been 73, which I find utterly impossible to wrap my mind around….here he was at age 27, one of my favorite photos of him:

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That’s it, gang.

Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!

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