JJ Abrams' Magic Boxes (made of ticky tacky)

(to the tune of Little Boxes)

Magic boxes in the story

Magic boxes made of mystery

Magic boxes in the story

Magic boxes all the same

There's a time one and a ghost one

and a search one and a conspiracy

and they're all completely empty

and they all serve just the same

And the people watching tv shows

all expect some answers

and they're all so disappointed

cause they all end just the same.

And the JJ yeah the Abrams

never answers any questions

cause they're all completely empty

and they all come out the same.

And they move on to the next one

and find out there's something else new

that they have to figure out now

that is a complete mystery

and the mystery never gets results

and it keeps on being unsolved

or just goes away, unresolved at all

cause they come out all the same

and a new box comes along now

and it's all so mysterious

it's a box that's completely empty

which is just so completely lame

There's a time one and a ghost one

and a search one and a conspiracy

and they're all completely empty

and they all serve just the same

All I Want for Christmas is you (to take precautions)

I don't want a lot for Christmas,

there is just one thing I need.

I don't care about the people, 

singing on and off of key.

I just want pre-cau-tions now

any that you will allow.

Make my wish come truuuuue

all I want for Christmaaaaas iiiiis yoooooouYeah

I don't want a lot for Christmas

just for you to wear a mask (and I)

won't visit other people,

who can't manage this one task.

It's just hard to und-ersta-and,

and I don't mean to be brisk,

Seeing smiles won't make me happy

if they come with added risk

I just want to see you safe

cer-tain-ly don't mean to chafe

help me to see you

and not risk catching cov-id or fluuuuu, oooh baby

I won't ask for much this Christmas

I won't even wish for snow 

I can wait a few more minutes 

open windows for air flow

Maybe add a HEP-A system

to help pur-i-fy the air

if it's not too much troub-ble

I think it is only fair

cause if you want me there tonight

I think it is only right

what more can I do

oh baby all I want for Christmas is you (and not sickness)

All the rates are rising, just like they did last year

and though with vac-cines there is not much that you fear

but ICUs are fill-ing

I know it is confusing

It's like we're repeating 

the same thing every year

and we just re-fuse to see-ee-ee

I don't want a lot for Christmas, this is all I'm asking for

I just want to see my family, test before I'm at the door

I just want you to be safe, 

never ever meant to chafe

Let me come see you

and not risk catching cov-id or fluuuuu (oooh baby)

all I want for Christmas is you, not illness

all I want for Christmas is you, not covid

all I want for Christmas is you, not the flu

Cruel Sumter (Cruel Summer part 2)

To the tune of "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama

COVID-19 and the people are continuing
to gather round
thinking it's safe cause we're not seeing highest of spread
meanwhile I'm saying (what do you say?)
that they're completely insane
Cases are higher than all of but worst of our months

It's a cruel, (cruel) cruel summer
spread as high as December
it's a cruel, (it's a cruel) cruel summer
like winter

Travel expanding, everyone's back to normal
I'm forced to be
the bad guy, not letting some things return again

It's a cruel, (cruel) cruel summer
heading toward January
it's a cruel, (it's a cruel) cruel summer
ignoring

just how high spread has become

It's a cruel, (cruel) cruel summer
(fully vaxed) not as severe illness still
it's a cruel, (it's a cruel) cruel summer
thousands die [in MA alone]

It's a cruel, cruel summer
coming together again
it's a cruel, cruel summer
now you're here
and I just want to run

It's a cruel, (cruel) cruel summer
(fully vaxed) not as severe illness still
it's a cruel, (it's a cruel) cruel summer
Long covid
and increasing variants

It's a cruel, (cruel) cruel summer
(fully vaxed) spread is still increasing
it's a cruel, (it's a cruel) cruel summer
like winter

oh and here's Monkeypox

It's a cruel...

It's Sunday Afternoon (A Casual Critter Song)

It's Sunday
It's Sunday afternoon
One by one we level up our characters
And collect our haul
Will we go where Matt expected us to go
or kill main plot points
How could you do this? [rips pages]
Casual critters, come join us
it's time to destroy this big rune
it's a big red button
press it
but one things for sure
we'll never be distract... oooh raccoon
It's Sunday afternoon
From sleeves are bullshit, to scritches with doggoes,
we all have the same goal
entertainment
and some therapy
make some jokes and role!
(you can certainly cry)
It's Sunday afternoon
(It's Sunday afternoon)
Casual critters, come join us
it's time to destroy this big rune
it's Sunday afternooooon
there is magic and mystery
from darkness our friendship will rise
but one things for sure
we'll never be distract... oooh raccoon
oooh get ready,
get ready
it's Sunday afternoon

You Miss, I Miss

You miss activities we used to engage in.  I miss not having to constantly hear how you miss them and constantly feeling gaslit for trying to be responsible and trying to take responsibility for the message I send and the activities I promote.  I miss the days when people remembered the things we accomplished the prior year instead of jumping to the need to go back to pre-pandemic behaviors.  I miss not feeling defeated at every step (and admit that this may be my white straight cis-male middle-class privilege shining through).  I miss seeing some sort of hope for the future (again, privilege).  I miss feeling good about anything I do.

You don't like the fact that I'm still masking.  I don't like the fact that I have a higher risk of long covid.  I don't like the fact that I have a couple comorbidities. I don't like the fact that the city I live in didn't reach moderate transmission rate or even high transmission rate when we had nearly stalled out our progress prior to the removal of mask mandates and saw the rates increase again.  I don't like that masking has been made out to be some significant hinderance.

You're tired of precautions.  I'm tired of people not taking precautions for more than a month or two at a time.  I'm tired of the media, government, and individuals not learning from 2 years' experience.  I'm tired of people not going past an initial statement, like "this other country has re-opened in-person schools" to get to the rest of the story, such as "along with having constant testing of all students and are also seeing another wave so they're doing a lock down the likes of which have not been even considered in the US."  

You wish we could just go back to life the way we lived pre-covid.  I wish I didn't have diabetes and could go back to not watching what I eat and not exercising.  I wish I weren't getting older.  I wish global warming weren't a thing and that war and genocide and discrimination didn't exist.