Monthly Archives: May 2020

Covid Metamorphoses #45 – Revolution

Posted on May 31, 2020 by ScottCreney

A history of white rioting in America. White people have rioted because their favorite sports team won. They have rioted because their favorite sports team lost. White people have rioted because they were at a pumpkin festival. White people have … Continue reading →

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Covid Metamorphoses #44 – Bodies

Posted on May 29, 2020 by ScottCreney

This morning over breakfast, as we caught up on everything that happened while we were sleeping, I could feel my body changing–the anger, the tension, the adrenaline. I wondered where it might go, how it might come out. As the … Continue reading →

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Covid Metamorphoses #43 – Biden Time

Posted on May 26, 2020 by ScottCreney

This isn’t complicated. Joe Biden is a terrible candidate, and very likely a terrible person. At the very least, we can all agree he’s done some terrible things. Of the top five contenders for the presidential nomination, he’s got the … Continue reading →

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Covid Metamorphoses #42 – What Kind of Spider Understands Arachnophobia?

Posted on May 21, 2020 by ScottCreney

I think I’ll just keep listening to Robert Wyatt and existing like this forever–a day-to-day existence where there is no such thing as anything, and no such thing as nothing. To be alive in the spring of 2020 is to … Continue reading →

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Covid Metamorphoses #41 – Empathy

Posted on May 19, 2020 by ScottCreney

I can relate to the people out there not wearing masks, engaging in sincere (and insincere) protests. I share their frustration. I share their anger. For all my genuine horror and outrage at their lack of responsibility, their lack of … Continue reading →

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Covid Metamorphoses #40 – Alpharetta

Posted on May 18, 2020 by ScottCreney

A reporter from The Washington Post paid a visit to Alpharetta, Georgia this weekend to see how the residents were enjoying the new restriction-easing, business-opening, plague-spreading state of our, uh, state. And you won’t believe what they found! Actually, you … Continue reading →

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Covid Metamorphoses #Whatever – Time

Posted on May 15, 2020 by ScottCreney

I keep telling my kid we have plenty of time. If there’s one thing we have in abundance, it’s time. Then I explain to him what the word abundance means. There was another thing I told him we have in … Continue reading →

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Covid Metamorphoses #38 – Finance

Posted on May 11, 2020 by ScottCreney

From November 2018 to January 2020, I worked at a business in Athens that provides transcription service. The pay was decent for Athens. Starting pay was $8.25 ($1 above minimum), but there were efficiency and tenure-based bonuses that got me … Continue reading →

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Covid Metamorphoses #37 – Athens

Posted on May 7, 2020 by ScottCreney

The worst is yet to come. I had to go mail a package today. Someone bought a t-shirt on Friday off the Bandcamp site for this band I used to play in. It’s very much in keeping with that band’s … Continue reading →

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Covid Metamorphoses #36 – Failure

Posted on May 1, 2020 by ScottCreney

A totally normal country… Just a bunch of dudes with guns forcing their way into the Michigan statehouse yesterday in something called the “American Patriot Rally.” Not to get all Jefferson Foxwothy here, but when your state senators are putting … Continue reading →

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