PLAYLIST: it sucks

Here we are, stuck by this river, you and I, underneath a sky that's ever falling down, down, down

Last night was rough. My heart goes out to everybody that’s feeling it. It’s all really raw right now. It’s okay to feel exhausted and just focus on getting through the day.

In a nightmare, you’re like in your elementary school cafeteria with your present-day coworkers and your ex-girlfriend from college is like, “they just announced nuclear war” and then you get hit by a car. It doesn’t make sense, it’s kind of stupid and you wake up confused and scared and it’s not even the first time you’ve had that nightmare.

I had a weird moment when I was hate-watching the end of fuckface’s speech live to a room full of the biggest chodes imaginable with boardwalk caricature faces in novelty hats. He ends, and they start playing “YMCA” and I got so mad. Like furious. When is anybody ever mad while “YMCA” plays? I was seething in anger while fuckface does his little bing-bong wrist dance to “YMCA” next to Dana White and Linda McMahon and assorted grifters and it all had the incongruity of a nightmare. It’s confusing and scary and stupid and it’s not even the first time I’ve had this nightmare.

I especially feel for my friends who are transgender and have been scapegoated, those who will be directly impacted by Project 2025, everyone heartbroken by the world’s silence about Palestine, friends who feel betrayed by people they love voting against the people they love (👋🥴), leftists, women, POC, decent people in general…it all fucking sucks so bad right now.

There will be a time to fight later and you will have no shortage of anger to fuel that but it’s okay to remain horizontal and cope with everything for as long as you need to.

Like a fretting neighbor bringing a casserole to your door, I have a dumb mix to share which I have playing this morning to soundtrack my misery.