Wednesday, December 10, 2025
This Way to Disillusionment
I pass this tastefully decorated house in St. John's Wood on my walk home from work. I'm sure I've photographed it in previous years because I remember the deer, but I can't find that picture now. I don't remember the big bow, so maybe that's new. (Or maybe my memory is questionable -- much more likely.)
Another killer of a day at work. The less said the better.
Here's our library Christmas tree, decorated by yours truly. It's a real tree -- you can see the needles on the floor. Not exactly a wildly innovative decorating job, but I'd call it thorough. I wish the colored lights were working. We do have some lights decorating the shelves behind it to the left, as you can see. I suppose in a fit of creative frenzy (which I am unlikely to have) I could wrap those around the tree, but it's hard with the ornaments already on.
My co-worker Staci had to go to the American embassy yesterday to deal with some passport stuff. When she got off the tube at the station, she found arrows directing pedestrians to various locations:
But wait -- what's that sticker on the embassy arrow?
When Staci came back to the office she showed me her photo and we both had a good laugh, and she gave me permission to blog it. The Instagram account basically shows all the locations those stickers have been deployed. Many of Trump's erstwhile followers are beginning to feel this way, it seems. What happens when cults die?
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Couldn't you have picked the gay boy out of the students and asked him to decorate the tree?
ReplyDeleteI love the directional sign.
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ReplyDeleteWish I could spell first thing in the morning. The first photo is so pretty, though pretentious of course. Bows are in fashion now, though everybody knew that ;)
ReplyDeleteSeditious stickers! Where can you get them?
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I'm pretty sure I know the answer. When Trump's "cult" dies, we will yo-yo hard in completely the opposite direction. As a middle of the road moderate, I think it will be like an inverse Trump for some years. I try to tell myself that likely it will all balance out and the me of a decade or two in the future will be better for it as a result. But as I've told you before, I've always been a bit optimistic.
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