“Good morning, good morning!”

Yes! I had another great night’s sleep — because I slept in the guest room, again. Closed up, by myself. Thinking I was alone in there, without any cats…

However, I accidentally closed Huckleberry in with me! I had no idea she was under the bed. She went darting out of the room this morning, when I finally got up (4:45 AM). She’d had no food, water, or her litterbox for over 8 hours.

Jeepers!

It’s always something around here these days…

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Anyway!

Yesterday was productive, but not in the way I’d been anticipating.

I heard from the woman at the USDA RD office and she told me, rather cryptically, that I should send in my application now because sometimes they get additional funds at the end of the season and the loans are “first come, first served”.

So I spent most of yesterday getting the paperwork together for the home improvement loan. All I have left to do is to get bids from some local contractors and then I can send everything in — and then wait and see.

After doing all of that, though, I was still able to spend a couple of hours on The Curse of Our Profound Disorder.

I have to say, gang — that is one INTENSE novel. It is so emotionally loaded for me. Reading/editing/revising it just wipes me out.

I don’t know how other readers will respond to it, since they might not have lived a lot of the stuff that’s in that book. It might not be that emotionally loaded for them. (You can read several excerpts from it on my substack page. It is not erotic, so it is not for adults only, but it is raw and sometimes brutal, so it’s for mature readers, but even those readers are advised. (Click HERE and scroll. Most of the excerpts were posted last year.)

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Okay!

A reminder!

Friday, July 18th, is the re-issue of all 3 Grinderman albums — celebrating 20 years (!!!) since the initial formation of the Grinderman line-up (a more raw/primal sound for Nick Cave and some of the Bad Seeds).

You can pre-order all formats and also merch at this LINK. (I especially loved that first album — A LOT. )

From the first album — “No Pussy Blues” Grinderman, 2007. (I love this one!!!)

And tonight!

Nick Cave’s solo tour continues in Italy, with Colin Greenwood on bass. Tickets are still available, but there is only one show left — in Macedonia in late August — that still has tickets available. Everything else is sold out. (Buy tickets here.)

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In other news….

Wayne, my ex-husband in NYC, is currently on vacation in Cambodia! Again! And I’m getting cool little updates from him on WhatsApp.

I can’t even imagine “taking a vacation”, gang. Every time I go anywhere, it’s always work-related in some way. And not at all relaxing.

I would absolutely LOVE to take a vacation… I literally have not had a true vacation since Wayne & I went to Copenhagen in February of 2001.

Just doing the MATH on that one wipes me out! *24 years…*

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On the silver front–

Silver dipped a bit yesterday, was back up to $38 this morning, but has dipped down to $37.91 as of right now….so we’ll see, gang.

Everything is absolutely LOADED with psyops right now. Insanity rules all over the place. It’s exhausting. But, you know, we just gotta stay patient.

On a related note — this was interesting. Especially in light of my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client. His father took the family back to Japan in 1933, because he didn’t like the anti-Japan stuff that was unfolding in the US and Britain.

So, it’s interesting that after all these decades, my client can now see that his dad’s views were indeed justified. It brings him a profound sense of relief because, as I’ve noted here on the blog a few times, his dad was a really incredible man who had an amazing life.

Mike King’s Anti-NY Times:

“Months prior to the justified attack upon Pearl Harbor, Japan warned of a ‘liberal’ Jewish-Anglo ‘World Order’ plot to bring the United States into the war under a false pretext.”

My client and I talk about WWII a lot, since he lived through it in Tokyo, as a boy.