Maintenance is a group effort. Taking liberty for granted means she goes to rust. You can’t just LEAVE her there. You have to take CARE of her.
I can see her from the park at the end of my street. I look at her every day.
Thank you, Helena, for sending me this image a couple years ago at a particularly low moment. It’s been strength-giving just to look at it.
It was such a dark, dark time, and so good to see brightness return yesterday! Woohoo! Let her shine!
so happy for you all, and it is humbling to witness the hard work people did to make it happen.
I really did lean on this image over the last 4 years – thank you! such an important symbol – it counter-acted one of the most upsetting images of the entire 4 years – the New Yorker cover after the election in 2016 – of her torch going out.
The videos from all over Manhattan have undone me. There was one clip of a crowd of people lining the streets cheering a mail truck as it drove by. Cheering the hard-working USPS – so viciously maligned, part of the attempt to undermine our institutions … to see a bunch of New Yorkers cheering a mail truck – and the mail truck was beeping like crazy … just felt really really good.
And the joyful response from people in other countries has also done my heart good. Thank you for your support!!
So much work to be done (cue the Winchester brothers) but we deserved to let off a little steam yesterday!
yes! So much joy and relief! the best day in a long long time.
Also, as you already know, Four Seasons Landscaping was the glistening cherry on yesterday’s beautiful cake. That’s going to keep me going through the current lockdown.
Sorry, TOTAL Landscaping, which is now my expression of choice for any major blunder or ineptitude. ‘Man, I cannot believe he TOTALLY LANDSCAPED that goal.’
Yes, please do not forget ‘TOTAL’! Very very important, especially considering the general brand-name confusion around that whole ridiculous affair. DYING laughing – I almost couldn’t laugh as hard as I wanted to laugh over that shitshow.
My pal Tom Shone said on Instagram about the whole Four Seasons TOTAL Landscaping thing:
“I am a little afraid that I will never find anything as funny ever again. The most I can hope for is that there will be days when I forget it. Maybe weeks or months. I will be in a bus queue in ten years time and remember it again and I will be happy. There were moments today when I was literally helpless with laughter, staggering from room to room with tears streaming down my cheeks. I think I know what it was all about. It was about the sheer, blessed relief at being able to treat him as a joke again.”
“I’ve told them a hundred times, put ‘Spinal Tap’ first and ‘puppet Show’ last.”
The confused irritated porn shop owner …
I can’t get enough.
That and the video of 45’s spiritual adviser put to an Eminem song + dancing cat … has undone me. It’s some kind of wild release laughter like this.
Just the titles of the articles makes me laugh.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/four-seasons-total-landscaping-trump-team-news-conference.html