Kevin Happy Fri-yay, everyone! This can only mean one thing: weekend time’s upon us once again, and that means it’s time to talk weekend plans. My weekend plans involve the fair, now that the fair’s in town again. It’s my favorite time of the year, and has been for years. My advance tickets are ready to roll, and so is my gear for the fair too. Otherwise, I’m gonna go to the pool closest to me before it closes for the season. After that, it’ll be a pool open weekends only in a different part of town until Labor Day.
I went to the National Night Out event going on, but it was in my old neighborhood. Since I wasn’t feeling so good, I left early and went home instead. I had nothing planned for the next day, so getting home late was nbd.
On another note, Happy Nowruz 2024 to those who celebrate it!
Over to you, readers. What’re your weekend plans? Good, bad, both, or neither, it’s cool w/ me. I’d still love to hear about it all the same, so drop it all like it’s hawt, and let’s get the party started!
To ring in the weekend, I got us some links to talk about, share, what have you.
I’ve already made the pickled jalapenos and the eggplant involtini from Alexandra Cooks. Now it’s time for me to try my hand at this recipe for tzatziki. I’ve got another empty sauce bottle from the Dollar Tree in my neighborhood, since it came in a package of 2. The other one’s currently home to a batch of a dupe of McDonald’s breakfast bagel sauce, haha.
Here’s what interior designers do, according to Architectural Digest.
I’ve been watching Rose Anvil’s videos for years, and this time, he cut a pair of Golden Goose sneakers in half to show us what’s what. Fun fact: I was considering a pair of Golden Goose sneakers I saw on the Saks Fifth Avenue website, even though they’re 300 bucks in my size. Not anymore, no way, no how. If the adult sizes are that cheaply made, it’s safe to bet the ones in my size are just as bad, if not worse. At that price point for the adult sizes (and let’s be honest, in my size too), I’d expect nothing less than impeccable workmanship, unparalleled design and engineering, and the highest of high-quality materials out there. Side note: I saw a pair of Golden Goose sneakers in the wild earlier this week for the first time!
Where the marquee signs of New York go to die. I always wondered what happened to em when they quit working or whatever company was over em and wanted to move on to the next cool thing.
[Content note: this link contains mention of horrible names and slurs about groups of ppl and shared identities.] A substack post about whether or not slurs can be reclaimed. Everyone w/in a community of shared identities deserves the right to decide on their own whether or not to reclaim something that’s been used against them as a means of subjugating them and treating them like shyt. The post also says that they also have the right to reject and condemn those hateful terms too. Personally speaking, the words “slur” and “reclaimed” don’t belong in the same sentence. I’ll always condemn any slur against me, no matter what others say, and no matter how normalized it is.
Another substack post about the phrase “I’m sorry for your loss.” Going forward, I’m gonna say, I’m sorry to hear [their name] has passed.
On that note, I came across this post from a blogger about when loved ones pass on. This is why I make sure to speak their names, cuz as the saying goes, “speak my name and I’ll live forever.”
Nowruz was originally celebrated in March, but going by the Shahenshahi calendar, which doesn’t take leap years into consideration, it’s celebrated today instead. Happy Nowruz!
Last, but never least, a signal boost for a missing child. The last confirmed sighting of 17-year-old Liliana Munguia of Bapchule, AZ was on August 5th. The poster states that she may also be in the Des Moines, IA area, and that she may be carrying a tan bookbag. Des Moines is a long ways from home for her, so anyone in the area knows of any ties she has there, come forward.
Even though the statistics say that the longer a child remains missing, the less likely it is they’ll return home safe, there are always outliers. This is why I’m highlighting a long-term missing kid alongside the more recent ones, since their stories still deserve to be shared. These kids mattered to someone, and they still matter. This is true in the case of Jerome Eugene Morris of Pittsburgh, PA, who was 14 at the time of his disappearance on August 1st, 1990. He was leaving his house, and nobody in his life has seen or heard from him since then. The Doe Network states that he’s classified as Endangered Missing. He had on a pair of jeans, a black leather jacket, white sneakers, and a cap w/ a sports team emblem on it. Included in the NCMEC poster is a photo of him, age-progressed to 46 years old. He turns 48 this year. A lot’s changed since 1990, and Jerome’s loved ones have been waiting long enough for the answers they deserve.
If anyone out there reading this knows anything about Liliana’s whereabouts since August 5th, or Jerome’s whereabouts since August 1st, 1990, make that call. Let’s see what we can do to get both Liliana and Jerome home safe to those who love em, pronto.
