Curt Wohleber
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Curt Wohleber
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Grumpy older gentleman with a cat.
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A couple radio plays I wrote (one I directed, and I did postproduction on both). "Tenants" is an original story. "The Yellow Sign" is an adaptation of two stories by Robert Chambers about The King in Yellow. #Halloween #RadioTheater #RadioDrama #AudioTheater
Curt's Halloween Audio Double Feature - YouTube
Two audio theater stories: "Tenants," an original story broadcast on KOPN 89.5 FM in 2002, and "The Yellow Sign," an adaptation of two stories from "The King...
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Kids weren't sick, except for the ones who were.
1. Suck up wasp with hand vac
2. Go outside.
3. Open hand vac and place on deck.
4. Run!
Decided not to use "you're an adult" in a work email.
In another missive, I came very close to simply writing "Boooooo!!!!"
My sister saw my No Kings photo on Rachel Maddow.
Handout from my dentist's office: "We enjoy doing dental implants for our patients." Sick fucks.
Anyone have a good #kale recipe? It's the curly kind.
My interest in the novel I'm reading plummeted when the narrator enrolled in an MFA writing program.
There's a frog and a unicorn here too.
The important thing is the billionaires get their tax cuts.
When the Trump administration dismantled USAID and ended vast swaths of foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries, much of the food aid and health care for children across Somalia were abruptly cut off. Now more children are arriving at emergency centers sicker and thinner than ever.
America’s Retreat From Aid Is Devastating Somalia’s Health System
Hunger and the diseases that stalk small children have surged in Somalia after the U.S. slashed its aid to the country.
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Today sucked, but my hummus came out great.
A big shard of tooth just split off my cracked molar like a berg calving from the Ross Ice Shelf.
As an editor, seeing the phrase “negatively impacted” makes me cross. How about hurt, harmed, damaged, impaired, impeded, constrained, injured, hindered, degraded, jacked, broke down, messed up, fucked over, screwed with …? Or, if using seven-plus syllables, be more precise.
The world is in chaos, but I made a pretty good butternut squash soup with a locally grown squash.
There is so much awful shit going on, and this isn't being talked about nearly enough.
Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero

apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
I had a lovely time in Chicago last month roaming the area around Union Station during an Amtrak layover. Got to see Lake Michigan.
I'm making one of my rare visits to campus, so I decided to dress like an adult and wear long pants.
"One more thing. Spices. My wife asked for saffron. Great cook, my wife. She'll soak toasted breadcrumbs in rosewater with eggs and sugar, then fry 'em in butter. Or chicken fat. You got chickens here? I guess you can use--what are those big, stupid birds? Turkeys. Why are they called turkeys?"
"Tired: Defenestration. Wired: Radioisotope poisoning via Grubhub."