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WHEN I first moved to Louisville about eight years ago to work for LEO, there were online skirmishes and sniping between members of different local media outlets, sometimes hashed out on #loumedia Twitter, other times through various other visceral social media storms. Some of it was directed at LEO for turbulent changes. Some of it was thrown out by LEO. Some of it had nothing to do with LEO at all. Some of it had a rightful point, and, at other times, it was just meaningless and petty. But, there’s no sense in bringing back up the names, or circumstances, or history because that’s not the goal of this column — the goal of this column is to shine some praise on local journalists, because for being a mid-sized market, during a financially devastating time, in an industry that has had a doomsday clock ticking all century, Louisville has an abundance of hardworking talent. And through the pandemic and the protests and the political instability, those people stepped up and reached an even higher level. Then, a funny thing seemed to happen, as the job became situationally tougher, and we saw each working harder, in more dangerous circumstances: We stopped trashing each other over the small things. I guess there’s something about seeing your peers run from tear gas, or sit through a current school board meeting, or go out into the field with a deadly virus floating around, or deal with someone like ex-Gov. Matt Bevin, that skyrockets the old respect meter. There’s not enough room in this column to shout out individual names, but I want to run through some of the organizations. The Courier Journal won a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for Breaking News — beating out national outlets like the New York Times — for their coverage of Bevin’s pardons. A year later they finished as a finalist for two more Pulitzers for their coverage of the slaying of Breonna Taylor and the protests that followed. Without their early, pivotal coverage of both of those events, information probably would have been buried, and narratives could have turned out very differently, even fizzling and fading early on. The investigations by them, and by other local outlets about the Taylor killing, likely changed society, as her story traveled across the world. During the protests, other outlets, such as WFPL and the television news stations, engaged in exhaustive coverage, marching for miles and giving the public direct insight. I once watched former WDRB reporter Chad Mills cover a march until 2 a.m. in the morning, from downtown, to the Highlands, back downtown and into the West End. Former Wave 3 News reporter Kaitlin Rust and her camera crew were shot with pepper balls by an LMPD officer on air and kept reporting. Those are just two examples that epitomize the sort of work that was happening. WDRB’s investigations and hard news writing have also been solid.Louisville Public Media covers everything in the city with thoughtfulness across several depthtirelesslyhaveatpieces.amazingcontinuesLouisvillemediums.MagazinetoproducelongformMyco-workersLEOWeeklyworkedtoaddandnuancetothe big issues and the under-covered arts, turning out everything from a stantlywherementaffectedhowtipleprotestsprize-winningnationalseriesonthetomul-storiesaboutthepandemicourentertain-stages.IknowI’mmiss-ingalotofstuff.Thisisaterriblycondensedversionofthefeatsoflocaljournalism,butinanagereportersgetcon-beratedonline,Iwanted to throw some much deserved positivity toward the industry. Despite the lack of pay, the instability, the relentless push for more analytics, the hours, the noise of the internet, the fact that a United States president weaponized half the country to hate your occupation, you continue to show up. And it matters. • LOCAL
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“It’s ‘tú eres la más bonita.’ That’s a basic Spanish phrase, ya eedjit. Have you been singing it that way the whole time?” He shrugs. I laugh and stumble back to stage left. I look out at the dance floor, a square of laminate flooring demarcated by four padded safety rails; an island in a sea of forest-green carpet stained with decades of tobacco smoke and party fouls. The rails are necessary. They keep the boiling center of the room separate from the current of flesh that flows all night from the adjoining mainstage area to the bar and back again. Most weekends, we are a “second stage” act, which means we share the night with a DJ. We play a 45-minute set of classic rock, then the DJ has the room for another 45 minutes. This pattern is repeated four times, adding up to an agonizingly long percentage of a musician’s existence, an eternity rife with opportunities to eat stale grilled cheese and waffle fries, get drunk and sober and drunk again, and lose the ability to hear certain frequencies. It could be worse: We could have been stuck on the “third stage,” the one the size of a big-screen TV that sits in a nook behind the bar at the front entrance. There are no set breaks on that stage; you just play until the night is over or until you die, whichever comes first. A geriatric DJ in a cowboy hat starts his set, and the full range of biodiversity at Jim Porter’s Good Time Emporium is on display. Here the human animal is indiscriminate in its affections after 1 a.m., and so my bandmates and I watch as transgressive relationships begin, end and continue: Nuns and bikers, 19-year-old furries and aging Black Panthers, popped pastel collars and tennis-ball walkers, mullets and rainbow mohawks. That’s why you can’t fuck up the Spanish in a Los Lonely Boys song: Someone out there is a native speaker who knows that the words are not about “moss bone eaters,” and if they’re not soaked out of their minds or distracted by the gyrations of the conjoined twins from Fern Creek, they might call you out. Outkast’s “I Like the Way You Move,” the runaway hit of two summers ago, is thundering through the house speakers. The DJ, granted the godlike power of the mic in an environment where people are not supposed to hear each other, pointedly tells a group of middle-aged women dressed like Madonna, “I sure like the way y’all move.” A wild-looking man of about 50, his goatee dyed black, is performing a carefully choreographed dance routine with a woman who might be 20 years his junior, or maybe not, it’s hard to tell from the stage, and I can’t climb down into the current of bodies for fear of drowning in Old Spice, or the warm folds of a bearded giantess, or the brain-melting loudness of it all. Forty-five minutes are up, and we launch into Deep Purple’s “Hush.” Everyone leaves except a polite collection of band spouses and those too inebriated to move.Five years later, I follow the woman I will someday marry up a narrow, twisting passageway to the second floor of this same dilapidated bar, where there is a small library abutting a game room. The library is stocked with mismatched Victorian furniture, including a crusty yellow couch that patrons use to get each other pregnant. The whole thing should seem impossibly out of place, especially the books, which are mostly 19th-century literature, but in this unholy temple of syncretism, it works. My future wife pulls a copy of “A Christmas Carol” off the shelf and urges me to write our names in it. “No fucking way,” I say. “Someone will see it, and we’ll get in trouble.” It’s like the whole building is made of wet cardboard, about to crumble at any moment, but it’s always been that way and yet it still stands. The place is eternal, the library is eternal, the books and the words we write in them will be there forever. I try to get her to sit next to me on the couch. “No fucking way,” she says.In five more years, the owner announces that the club will close someday but would remain open “for the foreseeable future.” Weeks later, the employees are locked out and the windows are boarded up. There is no opportunity for one last visit. The owner promises that a bigger, better Jim Porter’s would open someday. It doesn’t. It won’t. One day the whole building is gone, razed to the ground to make way for a sewer overflow reduction project. I regret not writing my name in that copy of “A Christmas Carol” because the damn thing would just have been bulldozed anyway. Or perhaps it would have made its way into someone’s living room, ensuring that we would at least be remembered by someone for as long as it takes the glue to dissolve and the pages to fall out. At this time of year, I tend to finally abandon concern about my weight, or my liver, or my dopamine imbalance, or my daily step count. As I wait to be swallowed whole by entropy, my memory of Jim Porter’s Good Time Emporium reminds me to cherish the things that I love, even the sweaty, gross, misshapen things that I might not love all that much; things that I mistakenly assume will be there the next day, and the day after, perpetually decaying but never vanishing altogether.
• Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer and law professor. His book “Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class” is available for preorder wherever you get your books.
I LOOK over the singer’s shoulder at his lyric sheet. He doesn’t drink, so the ring at the bottom of the page must be the sweat from a watered-down glass of Diet Coke. I do drink, and so I confront him. “‘In the weight of the moss bone eater?’ What the fuck is that?”“It’s what I sing,” he says, edging away from me. “I don’t know the real words.”
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Currently, acts of criminal abuse in Kentucky range from Class C felonies down to Class A misdemeanors.
Currently, those consequences range from a Class A felony to a Class D felony. Whether it is creating a new statue or writing an addendum to a current one, the time has come for Kentucky to update its laws to ensure victims of this form of sexual assault are able to access justice, and acting now, allows us to set the Wouldn’tstandard.itbenice to lead? • James J. Wilkerson, J.D., is the director of Staff Diversity and Equity and the Deputy Title IX Coordinator at IU Southeast. His bestselling book “The Title IX Guy” is available locally at Carmichael’s Bookstore, Mickey’s Uptown Coffee Shop, and on Amazon. You can follow Wilkerson on Instagram @the_title_ix_guy.
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JoAnne Sweeny, associate dean of academic affairs at the UofL Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, agrees saying, “Consent is about agreeing to terms of engagement. If part of the agreement is about condoms, then the consent is revoked.”“Think of it as time, place, and manner,” she continued. “You agree to have sex now, here, and with this person, in this way. Saying yes to sex tonight in your bedroom with this guy doesn’t mean that he can switch out partners or pick you up and make you have sex outside or get a rain check for whenever he wants. The circumstances of the consent control the entire interaction.”
THE LAW On Oct. 7, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the country’s first law making stealthing a legal offense. To be clear, California’s law does not make stealthing a criminal offense. It classifies the act as sexual battery and allows for victims to file suit in civil court. As many view stealthing as a form of sexual assault, only allowing civil penalties has rightfully drawn criticism. “Making it a civil penalty abdicates responsibility as it puts the onus on the victim to sue and pay court fees,” states Sweeny. Designating stealthing as a civil penalty also runs the risk of increased under-reporting of the crime. Some may view hiring an attorney that charges by the billable hour to pursue an offending party legally as “not worth it.” This creates yet another inequity for those who lack the resources to pursue justice.
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AS MOST professionals who work in the field of sexual misconduct will tell you, ours is a world full of evolving issues. Just when you think you have seen it all, someone is right around the corner with a new act of abuse that makes you say, “Hmmm… I didn’t think of that one.” While the act of stealthing has been around since the invention of condoms, Rolling Stone attributes the modern usage of the term to a 2017 article written by author Alexandra Brodsky. Per Brodsky, stealthing happens when a person removes his condom during sex without the knowledge or consent of his partner. A 2019 government study found that 12% of women have been subjected to stealthing. And while subjecting one to potential sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy without their consent is morally wrong, it has been long argued whether stealthing is an actual crime. I can recall the debates that rang through the halls of our law school during our class breaks. Yes, the removal of the condom was done without consent, but the sex itself was consensual. Was this sexual assault?
Both legal and advocacy worlds seem to agree that stealthing is in fact a sex crime, due to the act being based on a lack of consent. “Healthy sexual relationships are built on trust, transparency, and consent,” states Zenbia Law, the Center for Women and Families Director of Southern Indiana programs. “Stealthing removes the ability for a partner to consent, leaving them vulnerable to STDs and pregnancy, among other impacts,” she continues.
On the other side of the scale, some call for a more severe penalty. “Removing a condom without consent of the partner is rape, which is sexual assault and a criminal offense,” Law said. “We would support stealthing being added to the criteria for rape with the same consequences.”
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FUTURE LEGISLATION It’s an easy answer of “yes” to the question of whether Kentucky should eye a law similar to California’s. Kentucky has an opportunity to lead by building upon California’s law and being the first state to make stealthing a criminal offense.Sweeny argues that a brand-new law may not even be needed to address stealthing. “I would consider it criminal abuse,” Sweeny said. “It would just be a matter of clarifying what consent means.”
Perhaps a way to understand stealthing as a crime is to compare it to similar situations. There are numerous court cases where a party has granted consent for one act but not for another. When the other party steps out of that consent boundary, the result is typically conviction, regardless of the other acts that were consented to. So, what makes engaging in nonconsensual unprotected sex when only consent for protected sex was given, any different? As consent is a required element of any sexual transaction, stealthing being viewed as a sex crime comes clearer into focus.“Any way you look at it, stealthing is sexual assault because consent – or lack thereof – is at the core,” says Law.
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FOR HOURS this spring, Scott County, Indiana’s three county commissioners listened to impassioned, in-person pleas asking that they not disband the syringe exchange program, which had dramatically lowered HIV infections since the area’s well-documented 2015 public health crisis, considered one of the worst drug-related outbreaks in recent United States history. They heard from local doctors and health officials. They heard from people who credited their recovery from addiction to the program. They heard from the county sheriff. They even heard from former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams. But the appeals and arguments did little to sway two of the three commissioners, who ultimately voted to end the program. “I know people that are alcoholics, and I don’t buy them a bottle of whiskey. And I know people that want to kill theirself, and I don’t buy them a bullet for their gun,” said Mike Jones, one of the two commissioners who voted against the exchange. “So I have a hard time handing a needle to somebody that I know they’re going to hurt theirself with.”Without a syringe program, its backers feared a return to the worst in Scott County: People sharing needles, bloodborne disease rates climbing, users isolated from recovery options and syringes discarded on the street with nowhere else to safely and legally dispose of them. Those risks were potentially avoided after the city council of Austin, Indiana, voted 3-2 on Nov. 9 to move forward on establishing a syringe program in their town, bypassing the county’s ruling after advocates lobbied them. There are still details to be worked out — and there is always the danger that the political winds will shift and council members will vote in the future to disband the program, as it happened with the county commission — but for now, there is relief among the program’s supporters. “If the syringe service program went away, we’d start seeing more syringes in the street. I’m sure of it. We’d start seeing abscesses come back, probably the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C again. We’ve already done that experiment once. We know what happens,” said William Cooke, who was the only doctor in Austin, the town of 4,000 that was the epicenter of Scott County’s HIV outbreak that infected over 200 people and made international headlines.
Back in 2015, in charge of the biggest public health crisis he had ever faced — before he was tapped to head the country’s COVID-19 response as vice president in 2020 — then-Gov. Mike Pence was eventually persuaded to allow a syringe exchange program in Scott County despite his initial hesitancy about the idea. To its supporters, the exchange has been a clear success — there was just one new HIV case last year, and the syringe exchange has served as a bridge between drug users and recovery programs. But after the June 2 vote mandated that the county’s syringe program end by Jan. 1, advocates began quietly figuring out a way to secure a future for a syringe program. Kelly Hans, who once worked for the county health department at the exchange, said she quit her job when it was clear that there was no longer going to be a program. Along with other syringe exchange advocates, she started devoting efforts to finding a workaround. In Indiana, either counties or municipalities have the ability to approve syringe service programs, so advocates started lobbying members of Austin’s city council, encouraging them
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So, this is where Trump era politics have gotten us. Three Kentuckians who tried to impeach Gov. Andy Beshear last year are running for state legislative o ce. And the sad thing is, we’re no longer con dent that these wingnuts will lose spectacularly. Jacob Clark, Tony Wheatley and Andrew Cooperrider are all challenging more establishment Republican candidates for state House and Senate seats. Wheatley, in particular, is a frightening candidate, as he organized the rally at which an e gy of Beshear was hanged.
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THORN: YOU’RE NOT MY DOCTOR Kentuckians are closer than ever to getting medical marijuana. But, the Kentucky GOP can’t let us have something good without tainting it. Presumably to assuage his colleague’s concerns, state Rep. Jason Nemes says that the bill he is working on would only allow medical marijuana to be prescribed to treat four conditions (chronic pain, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and nausea). Since when did Kentucky Republicans become medical experts? (Rand Paul doesn’t count.) We think it’s doctors who should be deciding what to use medical marijuana for, not politicians.
Phil Stucky, the executive director of THRIVE, a recovery organization in Scott County. |
THORN: HEY, LEAVE THE POLICE ALONE! Speaking of Kentucky Republicans just not getting it, two speci c lawmakers think we’re getting too demanding, wanting to tell our civil servants with military grade gear how to do the job they do... for us. At a recent legislative meeting, Sen. Danny Carroll and Rep. John Blanton expressed skepticism about Louisville’s new police accountability board. Carroll said, “Police o cers do not like being forced to do things.” So, the people who are meant to enforce the law don’t need to abide by rules or be held accountable? Cool, well here’s some more assault ri es, boys. Have fun and don’t do anything we wouldn’t do.
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ABSURD: HE’S A WILY OLD CROW Trump’s insults just aren’t what they used to be. The former president has taken to calling Sen. Mitch McConnell an “Old Crow” — in rambling press releases since he no longer has access to Twitter, of course. In fact, maybe his inability to jab out 50 missives a day is what’s eroding his ability to craft biting schoolyard taunts. McConnell, for his part, is showing that he has a sense of humor about the situation — or, at least, his more Online™ communications sta does. His campaign Twitter changed its avatar to a picture of Old Crow bourbon. It was a missed opportunity to invoke a photo of Old Crow Medicine Show, but we have to accede that bourbon is more on brand for Kentucky.
“They don’t have to go to the syringe service program to use drugs,” said the Austin doctor. “The fact that they go there is a fact that they’re taking responsibility and making a healthy choice.”
LEOWEEKLY.COM // DECEMBER 1, 2021 9 NEWS & ANALYSIS to back a program. The efforts were a success after the council members approved a syringe service program earlier this month.
While Austin has voted to move forward on establishing its own syringe program, it is highly unlikely that one will be up and running on Jan. 1 when the county’s program ends.With the nearest syringe exchange more than 30 miles away in Jeffersonville, Scott County advocates are worried about what the gap in services will mean. “I think what our biggest fear is that I’m sure someone will go back to sharing their syringes again,” said Hans, who now works as a program manager at THRIVE, a recovery organization in Scott County. Hans has also founded her own nonprofit and plans to apply for it to serve as Austin’s syringe service provider when the city’s request for proposals goes out.
The end of the county’s syringe exchange will also mean that they stop servicing syringe drop-off boxes and taking in used needles. Under Indiana law, possession of a syringe used for drugs is a felony, but local law enforcement allows syringe exchange participants to be in possession of used needles. But, with no safe way to dispose of used syringes — and the potential for underground syringe providers to move in to fill the gap — there is a worry that users will begin littering used syringes more. According to Scott County Health Department statistics, during the six years the syringe program has been active, 92% of syringes provided to participants are ultimately returned, with 89% of returns coming from the participants themselves and 3% coming from the community.
“We can’t recover if we’re dead,” she said. “We have to keep our people alive long enough, and we have to empower them enough to know that they are worthy of recovery.”Advocates hope to get Scottsburg, the county seat and biggest population center, to vote on a syringe exchange as well.
Cooke, who also authored a book about addiction and the HIV outbreak in Austin, said taking away a needle exchange would not stop people from using drugs.
• Sharps disposal containers and boxes of syringes waiting to be handed out at Austin, Indiana’s One Stop Shop, Scott County’s syringe exchange.
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Like Stucky, Hans struggled with addiction in the past. She was in the Scott County Jail on drug charges when news of the 2015 outbreak came out. She said it was the fear of that experience that got her into recovery. Besides handing out fresh syringes and taking in used ones, the exchange provides Narcan, tourniquets and sharps containers as well as things like winter hats, snacks and hygiene products. The exchange also provides tests for HIV and Hepatitis C. The overall goal, Hans said, is reduce harm — to make using intravenous drugs as safe as possible if people are going to use them.
While the goal of exchange programs is to curb disease, the effect is much more than that, said Phil Stucky, THRIVE’s executive director.“The syringe program is about lowering HIV and Hep C and infectious diseases. The added benefits of it though are the human connections that we’re making,” said Stucky.THRIVE — which has its brochures available at the entrance of the current syringe exchange just off of I-65 in Austin — has seen more than 400 people referred to them by the program in the past 18 months alone.“Some still may be using, but the definition of recovery is any positive change: If that’s less needles, if that’s clean needles, if that’s making sure that they’re getting tested. It’s any positive change,” said Stucky.Stucky knows about how difficult starting recovery can be. The former New Albany, Indiana, police officer later found himself homeless in Louisville, living in abandoned houses and under a bridge while in the grips of addiction.“Iwokeup on a daily basis where I did not want to use that day, where my only goal was not to use that day. And then within an hour I was robbing, stealing, doing whatever I had to do to get more to use,” he said. His recovery was only possible, he said, “because people met me where I was at.” At THRIVE, he says, he tries to meet people where they are at and remove the barriers in the way of their recovery. Hans has a shared goal. “We enable people to stay alive and as healthy as they possibly can while they’re still using — and to love them,” she said of the exchange, where she still currently works as a contractor. “Sometimes we’re not very lovable people when we’re using. So we’re just that listening ear; we’re that person that they know they can come in and depend on.”
The future of activism is smart. It is in the boardroom. It can be loud but it knows how to quietly sit and suggest improvements to antiquated plans. It takes notes and strategizes about the survival of souls that have been silenced.
Protesters raised their sts in solidarity during the second day of protests in 2020. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.
In some cases it negotiates freedom, in others it disrupts — your line of thinking, maybe your line of business.
One hundred million dollars will be spent on affordable housing in Louisville because an activist was elected to the Metro Council. He didn’t do it alone, but it couldn’t have been done without him. The future of Louisville activism is running for mayor, is sitting on the board, chairs a department at the university, argues case law, writes policy papers and poetry, feeds the hungry, leads the arts, negotiates with Republicans and Democrats, leads strategy sessions, closes million dollar deals, knocks on neighborhood doors, leads a congregation and builds in places where no one believed.
PREDICTING the future can be a dangerous game to play, because, as we’ve all found out so brutally over the past few years, the present can come at you fast, and crush expectations, norms and even logic. But, predicting — or looking toward the future — is essential and important, not only to hold onto slivers of hope, but also to be thoughtful about who we are, and what we envision ourselves becoming as a society. So, below, we asked nine writers and community members to write about how they see the future playing out on one specific topic.
The future of activism is strategic. It will declare enemies but recognizes that all who disagree are not in opposition.
Activists will not be identified by race. You will know them by their vote, by their voice, by their swag, as they march into spaces where their issues are on the agenda, whether or not their names are on the invite. Activism has changed Louisville. It isn’t pretty and doesn’t always feel good but it is a tool. Perhaps not as effective or precise as we’d like, because we haven’t seen all the policy shifts that were demanded across the board, but we have seen some change. Change that might have come much slower or not at all without activists agitating. Activism is persistent. If I am honest, in my imagination, the future of activism is female, but like so many in this space it is non-binary. It is fluid. It is what it must be. It does not create comfort — it creates space
It sacrifices some battles to win wars. Strategic activists follow and lead — depending on the room, the issue and the
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NAVIGATING THE FUTURE
By Sadiqa Reynolds
AFTER A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TURBULENT TIMES, WE ASKED WRITERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE
THE FUTURE OF ACTIVISM
— space for opposing views. Not just for opposition’s sake, but for the sake of justice, freedom and inclusion. It is not white. It is Black and Brown and bruised from the struggle.
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Here’s the good news: New meatless meat products like the increasingly popular Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger are getting to be just as tasty as haunch of beef, and they tread considerably less heavily on the Earth. Cultured meat, the still slightly disturbing idea of growing real meat from cells in a laboratory, is coming right along behind them. Food-technology startup UPSIDE Foods opened its first large-scale production facility this month. Why does this matter? Because the beef and cattle industry bear a significant share of the global warming load. In a peer-reviewed study in 2018, the journal Science suggested that the single biggest way to reduce our environmental impact on the planet is to stop consuming meat and dairy products.Thestudy concluded that without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by more than 75% — an area equivalent to the U.S., China, European Union and Australia combined — and still feed the world. Have you tried an Impossible Burger? I have a hard time distinguishing it from a beef burger. Beyond Meat’s sausage patties come even closer to the mark: They look, smell, taste and crumble exactly like the real thing. If switching to goodies like these can help save the Earth, I’m ready to do my part.
weapon. No one holds all power, it is passed like a baton.
By Dr. Valerie Briones-Pryor The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us lessons that will shape health care’s future. One lesson we learned was adaptability. As with many professions, health care has a comfort zone, and COVID forced us out of that zone. Prior to COVID, clinicians were confident that treatments prescribed were backed by years of research, however COVID challenged that paradigm. Not only did we have to learn a new disease, but we had to figure out how to treat it. We didn’t have years of research, nor did we have time to wait due to increasing mortality. Treatment plans changed frequently and drugs, new and old, were studied at lightning speed compared to pre-COVID days. We found that if we worked together and removed the red tape that had slowed down past progress, we could quickly find safe ways to mitigate COVID. The way people accessed care also changed. With lockdowns in place, health care had to shift its traditional ways of delivering care to more innovative ways, such as telemedicine. We also learned that our health care workers are essential, and that everyone’s mental health becomes more fragile as the pandemic continues. The future of health care is uncertain unless we continue with what we learned. Understanding the pandemic’s effect on the health care workforce is key to ensuring a bright future such that we retain our current workers and support future generations to seek careers in health care. Embracing innovation and reducing political barriers are also important to a bright future. Regardless of what the future holds, it cannot involve returning to our previous comfort zone.
Dr. Valerie Briones-Pryor is the medical director at UofL Health. She has ran a COVID-19 floor at the UofL Jewish Hospital.
THE FUTURE OF POLITICS
By Charles Booker We find ourselves at a time in history where our pursuit of democracy hangs in the balance. The ills of structural racism and inequity are dominating our politics. Generational poverty cripples many communities across Kentucky, and fear is being weaponized to drive people apart. To divide us. To make us feel hopeless. The future of politics is a question of how we will light the path toward realizing true justice and healing for all. As Kentuckians, we are so painfully familiar with exploitation at the hands of the powerful. Whether you’re from the hood, the holler, or somewhere in between, stories of exploitation and struggle are known to so many of us. We need a new deal for Kentucky, a Kentucky New Deal, and we must take a stand to lead ourselves and fight for a deal on our own terms.The conviction of hardworking people demanding real change, standing shoulder-to-shoulder all across Kentucky can and will move mountains. Everyday people who know
Even fast food chains like White Castle are embracing Impossible meat. | PHOTO BY ROBIN GARR
There is no monolith. The future of activism in Louisville is keenly focused on affordable housing and development without displacement. It is demanding living wages and access to capital to fund black and brown dreams in the poorest zip codes. It craves health, wealth, and educational investments that increase proficiency and close achievement gaps, not just between black and white, but Louisville and the world. The future of activism is fearless. Sadiqa Reynolds is the president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League, which assists African Americans and those at the margins in attaining social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Robin Garr is LEO’s food critic.
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THE FUTURE OF FOOD By Robin Garr The world is warming rapidly, and climate change brings frightening storms, floods, landslides and life-threatening heat. What does this spell for the future of food? We, or our children anyway, may go vegan whether we want to or not.
Charles Booker is a former state representative who is currently running for U.S. Senate.
THE FUTURE OF ART By John Brooks Because its ultimate power so strongly relies on the experience of a viewer, the very act of making art is an expectant gesture. Recently, the volatility of the unfolding present has made imagining the future extraordinarily difficult. Still, the labor of artists has never ceased. Aside from a brief hiatus last year, galleries, museums and certainly studios have stayed open. But that isn’t to say that things have remained static; just as is the case nationally, Louisville’s visual art scene is experiencing profound changes. Awareness sparked by racial and social justice movements, intersectionality, increased connectivity, social media, an evolving educational landscape and repercussions from the pandemic are having major impacts. Something has indeed been shaken loose, and while what is developing has less to do with specific individuals than foundational disruptions of cultural and institutional momentums, individuals do matter. Luckily for us, Louisville is a place where engagement is relatively straightforward and increasingly welcome. Ours is an exciting environment in which to be an artist, curator or collector; a palpable energy is afoot. Emerging artists are finding allies among the established; museums and galleries are exhibiting incredible work, some of which is getting national and international attention; grant opportunities to travel and experience new things exist; and a common focus on expanding access and inclusivity is strengthening and growing our community. So many Louisvillians are working to ensure that as the future unfolds, our visual art scene’s richness is recognized and celebrated not just locally, but regionally, nationally and beyond.
what it’s like to live these struggles must be empowered and supported to run for office. We can do this through the Kentucky New Deal: training leaders to create a future where we fully fund community safety, build booming sustainable economies in every corner of the Commonwealth, and invest in repairing our crumbling infrastructure. When the halls of government have our voices present, we can achieve great things and make poverty a thing of the past, fighting for a government by us and for us, no exceptions.
THE FUTURE OF MUSIC
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By Doug Campbell
John Brooks is a visual artists and poet who is the gallery director and curator at Quappi Projects.
The future of the Louisville music scene will seem, like most futures, indebted to its past. However, there is never anywhere to go but up, is there? Many would have you believe that the golden age of this city’s discography came Charles Booker at an event unveiling his Kentucky New Deal. | PHOTO PROVIDED.
Belushi Speed Ball. | PHOTO BY NIK VECHERY.
Marty Rosen is a theater critic at LEO.
It’s inevitable that gambling and weed are going to eventually be federally legal — it’s just currently a state-by-state domino effect, a game of chicken to see who holds the most stubborn and archaic values. But, with gambling, Kentucky is in a unique position. In many other states, they legalize gambling, and then Vegas moves in, getting the licenses and the windfalls of cash — they pay taxes, invest a little bit in the community and everyone is more or less happy. But, Kentucky will have the opportunity to keep the money local, as it looks like Churchill Downs is ramping up its investing in anticipation for the future of full-spectrum gambling. The horse racing giant already has one quasi-casino where you can play what are essentially slot machines, made possible by some clever loopholes and friendly legislation, and they are building another downtown. But that almost certainly isn’t the endgame. That’s just the infrastructure waiting for the laws to catch up. When they do, Churchill will be in a perfect place to capitalize, flipping baby casinos into full blown ones, and most likely utilizing their sports betting technology to hit that corner of the market hard as well. My predication is that they’ll dictate exactly when gambling becomes legal in Kentucky. They’ll lobby the General Assembly, get what they want, and that will be that. And even though it’ll be a borderline depressing master class in how the rich and powerful can essentially convince the government to jump through whatever hoops they want them to, Louisville will be better for it. This is, of course, speculation — but it seems wildly predetermined.
LEOWEEKLY.COM // DECEMBER 1, 2021 13 and went in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and I would slap those people who’d have you believe that… but that’s not what this is about. When every year promises the future and quickly turns into the past, it feels natural; there’s hardly anything futuristic about it. But to analyze the history of the Louisville music scene and to think: “What would I have thought the future of local music would be in the year 2003?” I find that the answer to this question was, and still is, evolution and innovation. I guess there’s something in the water or it’s the chemtrails, but for some damn reason we have always been one step ahead of the curve in this city. Look at bands like Turbonut, Extra Bros, Belushi Speed Ball and Sunshine, and tell me you know any other bands that they sound like. You can’t. I don’t know how these people do it — I’m telling you it’s something in the water… so pour up. But, as each year passes, we are yet to see bands emerge that have caught up to what exactly it is we are doing in Louisville. I say don’t ask yourself what the future of Louisville’s music scene will be, ask yourself what the future of music would be without Louisville. Boring. I’ve been to shows in these other scenes, and not to hate on them because they’re all very nice people, but Bloomington doesn’t have what we have, Cincinnati doesn’t have what we have and Nashville doesn’t have what we have. Something’s in the water. Doug Campbell is a Louisville musician who is in the projects Sleeping Bag and Melanchoir.
THE FUTURE OF THEATER By Marty Rosen Despite Freud’s appropriation of the story to illustrate his own theories, Oedipus Rex is not essentially a play about incest. The action deals with a city-state afflicted by a great plague and the nature of leadership and accountability in a time of crisis. It was first staged in Athens nearly 2,500 years ago, in 429 B.C., one year after the Plague of Athens, which killed off about 25% of the population of the city, and utterly broke down the city’s social, moral and political order (its leader Pericles died).
Scott Recker is the managing editor of LEO Weekly.
THE FUTURE OF THE STREETS By Dan Canon Despite all the howling by capitalist lapdogs about property damage, the protests of 2020 should be looked upon as a resounding success for nonviolence. People demanded a response, and institutions responded. It’s the closest thing to a victory by anything resembling an organized movement that we’ve seen around here for quite a long time, and it happened with relatively little bloodshed. Can that success be replicated with a teenage militia on the streets? It’s a question we’ll likely have to answer. Strip out everything you might have read about the specifics of the Rittenhouse case and strain the basic facts through a sieve of right-wing propaganda. A nice white kid wanted to protect his community from looters and rioters. He took up arms to help the police keep order. When threatened, he fought back by killing his attackers with a big gun. A jury of his peers exonerated him, and he became a symbol of long-forgotten American values, a beacon of hope, a shimmering god. That’s the narrative much of middle America will hear, and it’s not an unattractive one. In Louisville, in Minneapolis, in Cleveland, and elsewhere, other white kids will hear this story and find purpose flooding the void of their inaction-packed lives. They’ll get big guns. They’ll do what police barely restrain themselves from doing. They’ll become child soldiers in the war against Antifa, or abortionists, or critical race theorists, or whatever enemy is on the battlefield.
THE FUTURE OF GAMBLING By Scott Recker
It’s certain that the playwright Sophocles would have smelled the smoke of mass funeral pyres as he was writing the play, and that the plague would have been fresh in the minds of those who gathered in an outdoor amphitheater to seeForit. at least 2,500 years (maybe longer in other cultures) the act of theater — live actors performing stories before live audiences — has played a central role in human culture. No matter the social circumstances — opulent or impoverished, free or censored, safe or endangered — theater always slips through, because every moment of live theater is an organic non-fungible token of the human spirit. The last two years may have closed the theater spaces, but it didn’t close the theater. Theater survived. And early indicators in the Louisville-area theater community suggest a resurgent energy rooted in confidence, conviction and collaboration. No matter what Greek letters get thrown at us, live actors and live audiences will still find each other.
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Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer and law professor. His book “Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class” is available for preorder wherever you get your books.
Juggernaut Jug Band Five-Decade Retrospective CD Release The Whirling Tiger | 1335 Story Ave. | Search Facebook | $10 | 7 p.m. The Juggernaut Jug Band will be having a ve-decade retrospective CD release party in honor of Repeal Day. The band formed in 1972 with four Waggener High School graduates playing music that was born in Louisville in the early 1900s. So they are playing a retrospective in the place that they used to call home, The Whirling Tiger, formerly Butchertown Pub. —Erica Rucker MUSIC Juggernaut Jug Band.
F That Guy Fest Headliners Music Hall | 1386 Lexington Road | headlinerslouisville.com | $10-$12 | 8 p.m. Created by someone who lost everything after a psychologically abusive relationship, F That Guy Fest is now a fundraiser for Rose Gold Advocacy, a nonpro t that empowers victims of domestic violence. The events features the bands Lung, Kids Born Wrong and Rough Customers.
Louisville Loves Emo Headliners Music Hall | 1386 Lexington Road | Search Facebook | $12 in advance, $15 at the door | 8 p.m.–11:59 p.m. If you loved Emo Nite at Headliners a few weeks ago, you’ll want to go back for Louisville Loves Emo — which, to be clear, is a di erent event; the rst one was a nightclub party, and this one is a for-real concert starring local musicians from groups like Foxbat and Annapurna. They’ll still be playing all of your favorite emo and goth tunes, though — get ready to belt out the best of Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and Blink-182, amongst others. If that’s not enough emo music for you, NoraeBar, a NuLu karaoke spot, will host the o cial after-party. —Carolyn Brown IN BLACK
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It’s always a great time to shop local, and the holiday season is no exception. Make a day of shopping and dining in Norton Commons this Saturday, and don’t forget to bring a toy — your donation Toys for Tots will earn you a free photo with Santa (4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.) or a carriage ride (5-7 p.m.). —Carolyn Brown
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This exhibition is organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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October7,2021–January2,2022 This exhibition examines the artwork that has shaped our collective imagination of the supernatural and paranormal and asks why America is haunted.
Support for this exhibition provided by: The Ford Foundation Alan and Shelly Ann Kamei David A. Jones, Jr. and Mary Gwen Wheeler Northern Trust Robert Lehman Foundation Lopa and Rishabh Mehrotra Media sponsorship from: Support for contemporary exhibitions comes from: Augusta and Gill Holland Exhibition sponsoredseasonby: Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein Paul and Deborah Chellgren Debra and Ronald Murphy MacenaImage: American,Barton1901–1986 Untitled (Portrait of Mother), Oil1933on canvas, 311/4 × 261/2 in. Private collection, courtesy of Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery © Estate of Macena Barton Photo: Tom Van Eynde
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16 LEOWEEKLY.COM // DECEMBER 1, 2021 WENDY’S TREE LIGHTING Wendy’s Tree Lighting Starts at 5:30 p.m. in Wendy’s parking lot at Grinstead Drive & Bardstown Road. Join Santa Claus, WAVE 3’s Connie Leonard & Kent Taylor along with live holiday music live holiday music by Voices of Kentuckiana at a safe, social distance. Theme: “Lighting the Way to Peace and Unity in the Highlands” Participating bars & restaurants mix their unique holiday cocktails served in Elijah Craig glassware. Purchase these special drinks & take the glass home. 36th Annual Bardstown Road Aglow Saturday, December 4th • Noon - 10 pm BARRET AVENUE Highland Community Ministries - Silver Sponsor for the tree lighting. Theme: Lighting the Way to Peace and Unity in the Highlands ShopBar - Come shop and drink at ShopBar! Elijah Bourbon Toddy Specials plus 20% o the whole shop! Holiday Specialty Drink: Eli the Barrow Boy. Nitty Gritty - Normal business hours. Barret Bar & Grill - Normal business hours. Better Days Records - 921 Barret Ave. New and Vintage CD’s, vinyl’s and movies. Deep inventory. V-Grits - Our cozy atmosphere awaits you! Chimera Brewing Co. - Normal business hours. Barret Liquors - Specializing in Bourbon plus Elijah Craig. Wines from all over the world. The Fishhouse - Warm up you Christmas with a crispy Fish sandwich. • Free Trolley Rides along Bardstown Rd, Baxter Ave & Douglass Loop in Louisville’s Highlands Neighborhood • Wendy’s Tree Lighting Event • Live Holiday Music from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. • Instagram Photo Contests (#Aglow502) • Best Business Holiday Decorations (#Wonderland502) • Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Place sponsored by Murphy’s Camera • Additional Security Provided by LMPD Fifth Division • Outdoor Event Follows KY & CDC Covid-19 Safety Guidelines; Masks & Social Distancing Recommended Regardless of Vaccination Status • More info: bardstownroadaglow.org THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS BARDSTOWN ROAD (Highland Ave. to Eastern Pkwy.)
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Bristol Bar & Grille - $2 o an order of 8 Green Chili Wontons. Enjoy our Elijah Craig Cordial served in complimentary holiday glassware. La Chasse - Come enjoy our House-made Elijah Craig Eggnog, delicious French Food and complimentary holiday glassware. The Original Impellizzeri’s PizzaCome in for the best Breadsticks and Pizza in the city!! Featured drink: Elijah Craig Cider served warm in holiday glassware with a hint of lemon. Kizito Cookies - Homemade cookies: four for $5 from Louisville’s Famous Cookie Lady! Highland Morning -Normal business hours. Givhan and Mitchell Realtors - Real Estate Aglow! Silver Sponsor!! Real estate questions? Ask Aaron! Contact: (502) 417-7610 or askaaron@twc.com Day’s Espresso & Co ee - Come and warm up with us & celebrate the upcoming holidays! Edenside Gallery - Edenside Gallery is celebrating our 30th year. Our award-winning collection o ers an eclectic group of art, ne crafts, gifts, & jewelry.
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The Bard’s Town | 1801 Bardstown Road | thebardstowntheatre.org | $15-$23 | Times vary “The Kings of Christmas,” a madcap local show,Christmastimehasonceagain returned to Louisville after 10 seasons. Its run this year will include the show’s 125th performance ever. The play centers around the King family and the very quirky characters who compose it. (Even the cast breakdown for the show makes room for eccentricities –– the actress playing the mother character can be, and has been, younger than at least one of the actors playing her sons.) In a press release, playwright and director Doug Schutte said the show is “just like A CHRISTMAS CAROL…if Charles Dickens were an idiot.” LEO theater critic Marty Rosen’s past reviews of the show have called it “comic writing of a high order” and “a wonderful piece of theater.”—LEO THEATRE
The Brown-Forman ‘Nutcracker’
In the 19th century, the woman’sdomain was the home. Public life, aka anything outside the front door, was the domain of men. While poorer women have always worked outside the home, women of means visited, usually sheltered in a carriage and/or accompanied by a male family member. (Before achieving the vote, women and children were the property of the husband/father and treated as such). The Filson’s exhibition illustrates the di culties women had in becoming part of society as their world changed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Women’s rights caused major and minor con icts, including many we take for granted today, such as speaking in public. How do you address strangers when all you’ve done is talk to your family and friends? —Jo Anne Triplett WORKING 9 TO 5 ‘Untitled, In Honor of Women Shop Workers’ by Irene Mudd. Knitting.
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‘Women At Work: Venturing Into The Public Sphere’
Drag Queens On Ice In Paristown Paristown | 712 Vine St. | Search Facebook | Free | 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
The Kings of Christmas
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Last year’s Drag Queens on Ice event was a smash hit, and the free show is returning to Paristown’s Fête de Noël this Sunday for a performance twice as long as the original. The list of performers is still TBA, so check the Facebook page for updates in the next few days.
The Louisville Ballet, with the sponsorship of Brown-Forman, will be performing Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” If you’ve never been, this is a great year to come and see what has become a magical family classic. The costumes are wonderful, the atmosphere festive. This is not a show that should be missed. Further, the proceeds of the “Nutcracker” are helpful to support other programming at the Ballet throughout the year. —Erica Rucker BALLET THROUGH DEC. 31
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A LOCAL LEGEND REFLECTS ON GANG OF FOUR, HIS LONG CAREER AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS HOMETOWN By Erica Rucker | erucker@leoweekly.com
LEO: GOOD MORNING, DAVE. FORGOT TO ASK ABOUT THE TIME DIFFERENCE. IS THIS A GOOD TIME TO TALK?
Dave Pajo has played with many musical acts, most recently joining Gang of Four. |
DAVE PAJO: IN HIS OWN WORDS
Dave Pajo: I’m on the East Coast right now, so it’s all good. I’m still waking up. Like, I’m just now having my coffee and stuff. My sleep schedule is messed up, but yeah. Thanks for calling. I guess I should preface that I have such a... I haven’t been in Louisville for so long and I have such a weird love, hate relationship [with the city]. I’m afraid I’m gonna say something bad, but at the same time the love is still real and definitely there. I don’t know. I don’t want to say... I don’t want to talk shit either.
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DAVE PAJO, like so many Louisville expats, has a difficult relationship with the city. It’s not a bad thing. For him, it’s a way of seeing more clearly the place that nurtured him into the musician he has become. He loves his hometown. So much so that because he doesn’t live here, he sees what sometimes holds the city back with some clarity. It is true that sometimes Louisville lacks the ability to critique itself and its art with any distance. Occasionally, the city can be an echo chamber of our ideals and thoughts about creating. Sometimes, it’s a place where it’s easy to feel an inflated sense of self because the streets and people are so familiar. Getting out of Louisville can put the place and our egos in more perspective. Few artists in Louisville have had the creative experiences that Pajo has. Dave Pajo was a member of several local bands, from Solution Unknown to Maurice to the revered Slint. He’s played with countless amazing musicians both in town and around the world, most recently joining English post-punk band Gang of Four. His resume is extensive. Pajo has played with Stereolab, Zwan, Royal Trux, Tortoise, Will Oldham, King Kong and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Long story short, he’s worked a lot, including his own projects, Papa M, Aerial M, and M. With great talent, though, often comes struggle, and that struggle found Pajo early with the loss of his brother, which resulted in his brother’s best friend, Mike Bucayu (Kinghorse, Blue Moon Records, and perpetual cousin to real and ‘adopted’ Filipinos everywhere), taking Pajo under his wing and introducing him to the world of local punk rock. Later, these struggles brought Pajo to the brink of suicide with a (thankfully) failed attempt in 2015, and then a devastating motorcycle accident in 2016. Despite all of his experiences, locally Pajo has been written about far less than many of the other players. Seeing this as a real disparity, LEO decided to give Pajo the space he deserved to discuss whatever he wanted, including his outlook on life, his latest work with Gang of Four and his relationship to music and to his hometown.
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LEO: ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO DO WAS TO DIVERSIFY THE PAGES AND TO ADD A MORE CRITICAL ELEMENT TO THE WAY LOUISVILLE SEES ITSELF, BECAUSE LOUISVILLE WORKS OFTEN IN A VACUUM. SOMETIMES, IT’S JUST LIKE WE’RE IN AN ECHO CHAMBER AND NOBODY CAN CRITIQUE US, BUT THAT’S NOT GOING TO HELP ARTISTS IN THE CITY GROW.
LEO: EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE INVOLVED IN ARTS AND MUSIC. I think it wasn’t until, like, the straightedge scene. What were the bands... like, Endpoint and I think when Kinghorse kind of blew up, then I would go to shows and I’d know like a dozen people maybe, but before that it was like, the scene was so tiny that it was like this little dysfunctional family, you know. But we all, even if we didn’t get along with every single person, it was like, A young Pajo on his motorbike | PHOTO BY LANCE BANGS.
I appreciate that. I totally agree with you. And I think if anything, and this is just me, I guess, like, with a lot of hindsight: Louisville always benefited when Louisvillians leftI’veLouisville.always been under the notion that the punk scene in Louisville was kind of started around the Louisville art department or the liberal art college that used to exist in the late ‘70s. Then people would go to New York and they would come back with these records, and just kind of turn people on to coolIt’smusic.likeGang of Four’s history too. There were these young guys from Leeds who went to New York and they actually stayed. They were staying above CBGB. So they just saw all these amazing bands, mid-’70s, every night. And then they came back to Leeds informed, you know. So I think a lot of times, you can’t just be insular and just stay in your circle and just pat yourselves on the back and prop each other up all the time. You have to leave and get uncomfortable, out of your comfort zone, and then bring it back, then internalize it and make it your own. So I think Louisville is at its best when it does that. LEO: WE AGREE. You don’t even have to leave for a long period of time. I feel like just shaking up your world or just like getting some sort of perspective by leaving Louisville. ‘Cause Louisville is a small town, and that’s one of the things that I love and hate about it. You know, it is a small town, and it’s beautiful in that way. And, at the same time, there was a shit load of gossip, but just... it’s like a tornado — a constant tornado. I love so many people there. You know, my family is still there and then I almost feel like I get sucked into that tornado. The gossip part of it is something you have to at least relieve yourself from now and then, whether it’s meditation or physically leaving, you know, like you have to get away from that kind of insular thinking.
LEO: HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH PUNK IN LOUISVILLE?
MUSIC ‘Oh, he’s like the drunk uncle,’ or ‘He’s great until he gets drunk.’ We chat a few more minutes about characters in the local punk scene that we both knew. We then switch gears and discuss his life in conservative Orange County, the Breonna Taylor protests and some other parts of life during the pandemic before we land on a bit of his backstory and how he came to punk rock and music.
LEO: SO YOU WENT TO ART SCHOOL IN ENGLAND? Yeah, I guess after Slint broke up, I didn’t realize it at the time, but I guess I was so disillusioned. I was like, maybe I should put myself fully into music. Like maybe, I should put myself fully into art because I
LEO: SAME, THAT’S HOW I FELT WHEN I FOUND PUNK. TELL ME ABOUT THE GANG OF FOUR. I’ve been reading different bios on Gang of Four, now that I joined, just to make sure I don’t pester them with questions they’ve been asked a million times. The early Leeds scenes that Gang of Four and The Mekons were part of, it was based around the art school. It reminds me a lot of the old Louisville scene, and so I’ve been thinking about it a Onelot. thing that I think is a true blessing about both worlds is that in Louisville when I was younger, it was really encouraged to sound like yourself. It was really encouraged to not sound like other people. You could steal from whoever you wanted, but when you had your own band, it just had to be you. And I’m thinking specifically about bands like, Babylon Dance Band, The Monsters, Malignant Growth and Your Food. Each one of them distinctly sounded like themselves and not like any other band, but they all hung out and were all part of the same world. But if you came out and sounded exactly like Velvet Underground, you would kind of be laughed at. It was encouragedreallytojust be yourself. It was that same mentality in Leeds.That attitude’s always been below the surface in Louisville, and there’s alway great music happening as a result. Just people encouraging people to do their fucking thing. I love that, you know. That’s what it’s all about.
My older brother was friends with Mike [Bucayu]. Mike was always, like, the bad kid. Yeah. I was a bad kid too, but I was like more of a metalhead type. My brother would crank, like, Dead Kennedys and Pistols and all, but also like all this new-wave stuff when he would take me to school. And I liked it all. I thought it was all really funny, but I never took it really seriously. I thought they were just really funny and they said bad words and stuff. I liked Jello’s (Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys) lyrics a lot.It wasn’t until when my brother passed away and Mike and I ended up bonding. Then he got me into Maurice, which, when we broke up, we became Slint and Kinghorse. That’s when I was actually introduced to this scene, and it was at a time when I needed it. I was used to being, like, an outsider my whole life, even amongst metalheads, like, I still felt too different, but once I found the punk scene, I was like, ‘Oh great. We’re all weird.’
LEO: BUT, HOW DID YOU GET OUT OF LOUISVILLE? I ended up buying a house in St. Matthews for super cheap, and it became a home base. I didn’t have any pets or plants or anything, so I could leave and live in Chicago. I could leave and live in New York and I could live wherever, and then I always had a home base in Louisville.
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My older brother was friends with Mike [Bucayu]. Mike was always like the bad kid. Yeah. I was a bad kid too, but I was like more of a metalhead type. My brother would crank, like, Dead Kennedys and Pistols and all, but also like all this new-wave stuff when he would take me to school.
LEO: WHAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU FEEL IS IMPORTANT? In 2015, I had a suicide attempt. And then in 2016, I had a crippling motorcycle accident where they were going to amputate, and I was in a wheelchair for two years. That kind of stopped all the music stuff. I still recorded an album, but that stopped the touring. I went through 13 surgeries just to save my leg, just to keep my real leg. It’s still fucked up, like I’m technically handicapped. I still have my wheelchair that I lived in for two years, just in case. ‘Cause all it takes is one bad thing. I could just fall and I’m back in the wheelchair.Ifeellike my adventure and my story is pretty far from over. Since I joined Gang of Four, I have that excited feeling again. It’s pretty fun and awesome to know that your story doesn’t have to ever end. For anyone that feels like they want to cash in their chips, there’s a lot more. Everything I’m going through is a bonus. So when I’m self-loathing and depressed and angry, even then, I’m just like, ‘But I’m really happy to be here to experience all this.’ It’s like it’s still a part of me. This is like bonus life. Technically, I shouldn’t be allowed to have this experience right now, but I’m here. All those facets of that kaleidoscope is what makes you who you are, and that’s what makes the art beautiful and the product becomes beautiful because it has more dimension to it. It’s not just flat and shallow because you’re, you’re not complicated. I don’t know. I like simple stuff, too. So it’s hard to say, but I think a lot of this stuff is just having the balls to be yourself. •
LEO: WHEN DID YOU FINALLY DECIDE TO DEVOTE YOURSELF TO MUSIC? I can tell you the moment when I decided that it was going to be music. I was living in Old Louisville. I was living with my partner, and we were just really, really poor and in love. It was great. I remember I was working at Persistent Parking and food stamps would all go to one week’s worth of groceries, you know? And I’m like, oh my God, what am I doing? At some point I did the math. It took me long enough, but at some point, I realized I was living off of Slint royalties, which must have been like ‘92 or ‘93 or something. And I was like, why am I, why am I working this job that I hate?With food stamps every month, you have to go in and prove that you’re poor, basically. It was so humiliating to do that every month. I felt like such a piece of shit. I hope they don’t still do stuff like that. It felt really degrading.Atonepoint they were like, ‘How much money do you have in your pockets?’ And I was embarrassed because I had a 20, which was just for an emergency. But, yeah, at some point I was sitting in that little parking lot thing and I was like, why am I doing this? I’m basically living off the Slint checks that were starting to come in. And like, both of us are living off of this, and that’s what I love to do.
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In 2015, I had a suicide attempt. And then in 2016, I had a crippling motorcycle accident where they were going to amputate and I was in a wheelchair for two years. That kind of stopped all the music stuff.
I quit my job. And I just decided I was going to put myself fully into music. And that’s when Tortoise needed a bass player. Things started happening right then, as soon as I made that decision, it was really weird. My whole life that’s happened to me enough times now to where I trust myself to make it through the dark droughts.
MUSIC really never have. So I went to England and, for the first time, since I got a guitar and played it for hours every single day — I left for England and didn’t even bring a guitar with me. I could only last a few months before I borrowed a guitar. I realized that painting is probably the loneliest occupation you can choose. I’m such a loner or such a solitary person as it is, music is the only thing that pulls me out of my shell. I need to collaborate with people and stuff. And with art, you don’t need to at all. So I was really withdrawing into myself, and without a guitar. I realized the guitar is no longer something I can take or leave, it’s something I need just as much as things like food and water. It’s just the way it is.
Spaghetti with meatballs was exceptional, as good a dish as I’d expect from an upscale sit-down Italian eatery.
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EVERYBODY knows that I’m a huge fan of pizza, but I have my standards! I like pizza best the way they make it in New York City, or even Italy: It’s good bread, flatbread, with toppings added proportionately, not overloaded.Youwant a thin but substantive crust, and you want a puffy browned edge — the “bones” — dotted with plenty of browned leopard spots. Or that’s what I thought until I picked up a pizza to go from takeou-only Derby City Pizza branch in Clifton the other day. I rushed it home, opened the box, and discovered a delicious smelling pie with toppings all the way to an almost imperceptibly thin edge.Dammit!Butthen I pulled out a slice, took a bite, then another, then three. This pizza tasted really, really good. I might not entirely approve of cracker-crusted, no-edge pizza, but I have to say this: Derby City’s pie was so good that I would not hesitate to go back for another one. A hefty order of spaghetti and meatballs was exceptional too, good enough that I would not have complained if I’d been served an identical dish at an upscale sitdown Italian eatery. What magic is this? Derby City Pizza is a local chain of seven shops — others are sit-down eateries with beer and wine — spread across the Metro as far as Mount Washington. Its shops, decor and shiny menus have the look of a chain with growth expectations, and indeed, owner Larry Davis told Business First in a March 2020 interview that he believes his company can be one of the top pizza chains if everything goes as planned. Okay, I’ve tried it, and I’m impressed. Larry, if you can keep up this level of quality when your business spreads out to Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Atlanta and all our other surrounding regional cities as you hope, then fame and fortune await. In a cheery bio that’s posted on his restaurant walls, printed on the menus, and spread on social media, Davis describes a journey that started in 1991 when he was only 15, working in a local pizza chain
A small veggie pizza on a paper-thin, crackery crust was thoughtfully put together with textures and avors that worked together like a winning team. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.
RECOMMENDED DERBY CITY PIZZA SCORES WITH PIZZA AND PASTA By Robin Garr | leo@leoweekly.com
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A BOOK OF CUISINE (BUT NOT YOUR TYPICAL COMPILATION)RECIPE Burgoo, Barbecue, & Bourbon by Albert W.A. Schmid (University Press of Kentucky; 200pgs., $19.95)
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The sections on sides and breads and desserts hew toward reasonable serving sizes. But when it comes to bourbon, of course you have to have something tasty that takes up an entire punchbowl.
Eternal Night at the Nature Museum by Tyler Barton (Sarabande Books; 214 pgs., $16.95) As titles go, “Eternal Night at the Nature Museum” might be considered less-direct but akin to “A Clockwork Orange” in saying that modern actions and relationships seem to have gone haywire, with their organic bases recognizable but made peculiar by evolving social norms, cultural inertia and the like. But readers who open up to Barton’s stories will find they accrue quite an impact. But that doesn’t mean you have to be patient through a slow-burn: the collection opens with the equivalent of a rock ‘n roll anthem. “Once Nothing, Twice Shatter” transitions a drug-dependent sad-sack radio announcer from his reliance on a blackmailing dealer to his doubtful ascendency in the draft of a rising and ambitious (but not always capitalistic) demolition derby kingpin. It might seem manic, but what’s on offer here is far from a mere surface experience. Personal reconstructions of dubious merit occur often to the point-of-view characters in these stories. (Only eventually is there some clarity for the ex-con who doesn’t quite understand food chains, though he’s supposed to teach youngsters about them at his aquarium job.) But the author knows the routes by which a ready readership can put on and walk a mile in the shoes of any character he creates — which is why he can pepper his collection with flash fiction that doesn’t need a full character arc to be devastatingly effective. As long as your gift-recipient reader can handle a sharp stylist who’ll show his absurdist (and sometimes just plain wise-ass) wit not only in plots but also in quick asides, this book’s a winner.
A SHORT-STORY COLLECTION
So bring on the groundhogs (you can’t have just one). And let’s see the version that supposedly made 1,200 gallons and was so good a Derbywinning horse was named in honor of the chef. The author is clearly more concerned with delivering a rollicking entertainment for the curious and culinary-adjacent than in providing inspiration for a foodie to try every recipe. Trivia about Bluegrass politicians, western Kentucky barbecue traditions, and other institutional excuses to have a crowd together for a flavorful meal are tossed around alongside carefully documented borrowings from many earlier cookbooks (with a particularly admirable variety of barbecue sauces).
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Eternal Night at the Nature Museum by Tyler Barton
I’ve reviewed plenty of regional cookbooks, going back decades, that include variations on burgoo. Often these have made the dish gentrified, modernized or otherwise taken away from its roots. Perhaps that’s excusable, but the timidity carries with it a tinge of sadness. In contrast, the very first ingredient of the very first recipe in “Burgoo, Barbecue, & Bourbon: A Kentucky Culinary Trinity” is… “6 squirrels.” That’s more like Accord-it! ing to traditional…”ofbatching,andthethetoitSchmid,author“…isimportantshowbothgameinburgoothelargebothwhichare
Burgoo, Barbecue, & Bourbon by Albert W.A. Schmid Under the Pomegranate Tree by Leslie Moïse
WHAT do you want your friends and family to be reading this winter? Books were always a great gift-giving bargain when the holiday season served as an overture toward weeks spent indoors. Here’s a form of intellectual and emotional enrichment, in infinite variety, that is made for enjoying in socially-distanced safety—yet books let you experience new adventures and new worlds. (I’m not even going to bother to broach other dimensions, such as time, but the fine novel I’m suggesting below is historical fiction.) As you consider gifting (even for yourself), take a look at a sample of what local publishers and authors have made ready for you.
A NOVEL Under the Pomegranate Tree by Leslie Moïse (Pearlsong Press; 238 pgs., $18.95) Author Moïse’s personal journey — including a painstaking, gradual stroke recovery — is in vital ways a parallel to the one undertaken by the young woman Sarah in “Under the Pomegranate Tree.” Both seek independence and must find their way to develop a persevering inner strength after relationships with men have ground down trust. Along the way, both have found that they can learn to summon hope, and its first signs may be found in what they share with animal companions. (Moïse is an equestrian.)Sarahis of an ancient Middle Eastern people. At the novel’s start, she has intentions that are not far removed from the direction she will pursue throughout the tale. But in her propertied family, among cautious or cowing servants, much of her path toward learning can only be found through one family member who is a kindred independent spirit. This mentor will bestow on Sarah knowledge of medicinal and herbal healing — plus the encouragement to think for herself, which Sarah sees as key to avoiding a forced betrothal.Soonfinding herself alone, Sarah is beset with situations stemming from forceful entitlement by men who claim power, or upon whom it is bestowed. Before she fully comprehends the roles that pity and mercy might occupy in the life of the woman she is becoming, she will tangle with the full demanding and confounding range of emotions — plus encounters that take her through the oft-brutal demands of centuries past. Moïse tells Sarah’s story with clear-eyed restraint — this isn’t demure, and neither is it a simple feminist polemic. It is a universal story, shared with understanding for how such adventures and gauntlets and all manner of challenges to growth into maturity are similar for many women — modern as well as ancient.
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A GALLERY ROUNDUP see Louisville
“TRUTH OR DARE: A REALITY SHOW” Through December Group show that’s part of the Louisville Photo Biennial. “WHAT LIES BENEATH” Through March Group show that’s part of the Louisville Photo Biennial.
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Hours: Mondays-Sundays, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. 21cmuseumhotels.com “LOST AND FOUND” Through Jan. 3 Assemblage art ceramics by Cheryl Ulrich-Barnett. Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery 137 E. Main St., New Albany, Indiana Hours: Thursdays-Fridays, noon-5 p.m.; Saturdays, 1-3 bourne-schweitzergallery.comp.m.
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“DEBRA CLEM: SURFACE AND ILLUSION” Through Jan. 22 Solo show by the head of the painting department at IUS. Carnegie Center for Art & History 201 E. Spring St., New Albany, Indiana Hours: Mondays-Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursdays, 12-8 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. carnegiecenter.org “WOMEN AT WORK: VENTURING INTO THE PUBLIC SPHERE” Through Dec. 31 Explores the societal changes that transformed the lives of many American women in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Features work by local artist Irene Mudd. Filson Historical Society 1310 S. Third St. Hours: Mondays-Thursdays, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Fridays 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. filsonhistorical.org “WEST OF NINTH: RACE, RECKONING, RECONCILIATION”AND Through Photographs,Septemberartifacts and wall panels featuring stories from the nine neighborhoods in West Louisville. Organized by Walt and Shae Smith of West of Ninth. Part of the Louisville Photo Biennial. Frazier History Museum 829 W. Main St. Hours: Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sundays, 12-5 p.m. fraziermuseum.org “ON AND OFF THE WALL” Through Jan. 8 Mixed media sculpture by Brent Oglesbee and W.G. Rickel. Galerie Hertz 1253 S. Preston St. Hours: Wednesdays-Saturdays, noon-6 p.m.; Sundays, noon-4 p.m. galeriehertz.com “BLACK IN BLUEGRASS” Through Dec. 19 Woodcut and linocut prints by Norman Spencer. garner narrative contemporary fine art 642 E. Market St. Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays, 1-6 p.m. garnernarrative.com
revelrygallery.com RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD: “THE WILDERNESS”UNFORESEEN Through Feb. 13 Meatyard’s photographs of Red River Gorge accompanied by Wendell Berry’s essays. Part of the Louisville Photo Biennial. Speed Art Museum 2035 S. Third St. Hours: Fridays, 1-8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 speedmuseum.orgp.m.
“NEVER MEET A STRANGER: PHOTOGRAPHY BY WEST OF NINTH” BY SHAE AND WALT SMITH Through Dec. 17 Part of the Louisville Photo Biennial. University of Louisville Photographic Archives Elkstrom Library, Lower Level 17 2215 S. Third St. Hours: Mondays-Fridays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. library.louisville.edu/archives “HERE TO THERE” Dec. 4-Jan. 15 Urban and rural scenes in oil pastels and other media by Martin Rollins. WheelHouse Art 2650 Frankfort Ave. Hours: Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. wheelhouse.art
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“ENID: GENERATIONS OF WOMEN SCULPTORS” Dec. Featuring1-31 Louisville-based collective of women artists. KORE Gallery 942 E. Kentucky St. Hours: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sundays, noon-4 p.m. koreartgallery.com “AMERICAN NOCTURNE” BY ZED SAEED Through Dec. 2 Part of the Louisville Photo Biennial. Moremen Gallery 710 W. Main St. Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, noon-4 p.m. moremengallery.com “SPLENDOR, MYTH & RITUAL” Through Dec. 31 Louisville Photo Biennial show by Keith Carter. Paul Paletti Gallery 713 E. Market St. Hours: Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. paulpalettigallery.com “OFF THE WALL” Dec. Show3-24ofworks by all artist members. PYRO Gallery 1006 E. Washington St. Hours: Fridays-Saturdays, noon-6 p.m.; Sundays 1-4 pyrogallery.comp.m.
“WINTER WONDERLAND” Through Jan. 3 The gallery’s fifth annual handmade ornament show. Revelry Boutique + Gallery 742 E. Market St. Hours: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Sundays-Mondays 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
“CRAFTING THE VERNACULAR” Through April 3 Group show of glass artists. KMAC Museum 715 W. Main St. Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 kmacmuseum.orgp.m.
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It seems Eddie Brock, who we all know as Venom, has a son, Dylan, that he never knew about. Recent events have brought Dylan and Eddie together, though, to fight some comic book foes, including serial killers, and, you know, some gods and stuff. What a family to find out you’re part of! Now, Eddie has reached out to Dylan, who’s trying to live a “normal” life, to tell him he’s in grave danger and that he needs to leave and go to a safe place immediately. But is Eddie too late to save Dylan? And himself? The “Venom” storyline just took a huge turn. Don’t miss this important piece of the Marvel Universe!
‘What’s the Furthest Place From Here?’ #1 Art by Tyler Boss Written by Matthew Rosenberg Review by Felix Whetsel From the creative mind that brought us “4 Kids Walk Into A Bank,” comes a brand new coming-of-age post-apocalyptic story that creatively ties together the world of comics and music. While I could wax poetic about the world building, I haven’t quite connected the dots and I’d hate to spoil the journey for any potential readers. What I can say is that we’re introduced to a world where children, teens and young adults have built various communities across a dystopian world, and once you become a grown-up you’re cast out. The comic is page after page of mysteries as we more or less only know what our protagonist, Sid, knows. Sid is the youngest member in a family called The Academy. The Academy built their lives in an old record store, and their personal identity is closely tied to picking out a record that they feel defines them. That’s where Sid is in life, when everything is turned upside down by the return of a friend they all thought was lost. Everything Sid and her friends know about the world is about to change. On top of all this, it seems Sid is pregnant — something no one else seems to understand.
‘Venom’ #1 Story by Al Ewing and Ram V Art by Andrew Currie Review by Krystal Moore I’ll start this review with a disclaimer: I am not up to date on all the Venom storylines from the past year. So, when I picked up “Venom” #1, it felt a little like walking into a movie 10 minutes late.
Issue #1 left me with more questions than answers, and I’m looking forward to seeing where the next issue takes Sid. By Felix Whetsel and Krystal Moore | leo@leoweekly.com
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Q: So, my husband (42-year-old straight male) and I (38-year-old bi female) have had a closed relationship so far, but we have an active fantasy life. We've been together for about four years, and we both had our fair share of partners (casual and serious) before that. We like to talk about fantasies involving other people during sex, be they actual (past partners) or imagined (my beautiful surfing instructor on a trip). Once while he ate my pussy, I asked him about all the pussies he's enjoyed in the past and he brought up one of his exes—a relationship that ended ten years before we met—and he said he sometimes thought about her when he went down on and/or fucked subsequent partners, including me. This turned me on. A lot. I started bringing her up every now and then while we fucked, I asked him more about her, I fantasized about meeting her and eating the pussy he enjoyed so much. Like other past partners, she became part of the mental/verbal porn reel we sometimes enjoy during sex. Then one day, in an unrelated conversation, it came out that he'd been engaged to her, that the reason they broke up was because they couldn't make a long-distance relationship work after he moved to the country where we live, and that it took him years to get over her. This killed it for me. Not only that, but I also now feel weird about all of the times we fantasized about her in the past. It's not like he did anything wrong—I never specifically asked how serious the relationship was or why it ended—but I can't shake the irrational feeling there was an omission. I sometimes think about past experiences during masturbation or sex, but never about serious partners—never about men I've lived with, been married to, or had a child with. Those experiences are too emotionally loaded to mix in with my current sex life in a healthy, detached way. I know my husband may process/ feel things differently, but I can't help but equate what he was doing to me fantasizing about my ex-husband during sex, which I haven’t done and would feel weird as fuck even contemplating. I don't see her as a threat—they're not in touch and she lives in another hemisphere—and I believe him when he says he has no significant baggage about any of his exes, including her. But knowing she was one of the most significant relationships in his life makes fantasizing about her—out loud, with me—feel “off.” I don't just have this feeling just about her now, but about his past overall. How do I shake this? Thoughts?TurnedOn
Pursuant to KRS 376.480, the following abandoned mobile home located at 31 W. Wilshire Blvd., in Southland Mobile Home Community, Louisville, Kentucky shall be sold by Southland via sealed bid on Friday, December 17, 2021 at 10:30 AM to recover rent, storage and legal fees incurred by the owners of said mobile home. The sealed bids will be accepted at 401 Outer Loop, Louisville, KY 40214. Title to the mobile home is not warranted, subject to prior liens and all sales are nal. Seller reserves the right to bid. Terms of sale cash only. Unknown Heirs or Bene ciaries of Brian Link Unknown Owner(s) or Creditor(s) Year: 1984 Make: Model:UnknownUnknownVIN:Unknown
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Q: For the past few months, I've been hooking up a lot with my coworker (I'm a bi woman, he's a straight man). Things are going well, we really like each other (we've even said "I love you" to each other), but there are a couple of problems. First, I'm 23 and he's 40. The age difference doesn't really bother me if I don't think about it too much, but it matters to a lot of my loved ones. Second, I'm not looking for a serious relationship, as I haven't been single in a while and am kind of going through my "ho phase," but it seems like he wants to be exclusive. I've tried to break things off or slow things down, but he's going through horrible shit right now and needs me. I have improved his life, and he has improved my mental state, but he's also kind of a bad influence and has gotten me back into bad habits. To make matters worse, the new guy at our work seems to be into me and he's cute and way closer to my age, and we get along really well, so I might want to give that a shot. I don't know whether to end things, or even how to end it if I wanted to. Any advice on how to get out of this gracefully?Pretty Horrible At Something Easy A: When you say you want to get out of this “gracefully,” what you mean is you want the impossible from me. You want me to tell you how to end this relationship so subtly that the guy you dumped doesn’t even notice or get upset. Sorry, PHASE, but there’s no way to end things with the coworker you’re currently fucking so you can start fucking the coworker you’d rather be fucking without the coworker you’re currently fucking finding out you dumped him so you could start fucking a different coworker. If it was just your family that objected to the relationship because of the age difference, I would urge you to stay in it. But you want out and the LEGAL CLASSIFIED LISTINGS
P.S. I’m supposed to tell you not to sleep with coworkers—it’s right here in my dogeared copy of the Writing Advice Columns For Dummies—but I’m going to set that aside, seeing as that ship has already sailed, struck an iceberg, and sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
Turns Into Turn Off A: If thinking and talking about your husband’s past doesn’t turn you on anymore, TOTITO, stop thinking and talking about your husband’s past. But if you want to get back to enjoying these fantasies with your husband—dirty talk about your previous sex partners—you’re going to need to reason with yourself. Let’s give it a whirl… So, your husband was engaged to this woman and presumably lived with her for a time, but your husband’s relationship with this woman nevertheless meets just one of your three somewhat arbitrary criteria for “pussy it’s not okay to think about during sex with a current partner.” Yes, it was a serious relationship, but they never married or had kids. And if they had wanted to be together, they would’ve found a way to make it work despite the distance. If she had wanted to be with your husband more than she wanted to remain where she was living when they broke it off, she could’ve married him and emigrated. Likewise, if your husband had wanted to be with this woman more than he wanted to remain where he was living when they broke it off, he could’ve married her and emigrated. Neither made that choice, TOTITO, and I’m guessing neither made that choice because the serious wasn’t as serious as the “engaged” thing makes it sound. Yeah, yeah: someone proposed (most likely your husband), someone said yes (most likely his ex). But words are cheap and “engaged” is a just a word. It’s a promise and a serious one, TOTITO, but in the end it’s just air. And now, since I’m feeling daring, I’m going risk doing some math … You say been with your 42-year-old husband for four years. His relationship with his former fiancée ended ten years before you two met. So, that means your husband was at most 28 years old when he broke off his engagement with his ex and assuming they’d been dating for a few years, he was what? In his mid-twenties when they met? That means his prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain involved in executive functions like decision making, long-term planning, and higher reasoning, wasn’t even fully formed when he proposed to this woman. So, you have a choice. You can attach a lot of significance to the fact that they were engaged or you can look at the other facts in evidence—that they both chose the place where they lived over the relationship, how old they were at the time they got engaged— and see the relationship as far less significant than the “engaged” label makes it sound. All that said, if hearing about the pussies in your husband’s past isn’t doing anything for your pussy right now, tell your husband you don’t want to hear about them for the moment. If you miss dirty talk during sex, instead of talking about hot sex you’ve both had in the past, TOTITO, try talking about all the hot sex you’re going to have in the future.
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Cellco Partnership and its controlled a liates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to build a 35- foot decorative metal light pole at the approx. vicinity of 1500 Sylvan Way, Louisville, Je erson County, KY, 40205. Public comments regarding potential e ects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Madyson, m.croyle@trileaf. com, [1515 Des Peres Road, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63131, 314-997-6111]. relationship isn’t healthy. (You don’t mention the bad habits he’s gotten you back into, PHASE, but I’m going to assume it’s not double parking and public grooming.) You can’t stay just because he needs you.
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Pursuant to KRS 376.480, the following abandoned mobile home located at 21 Daytona Drive, in Southland Mobile Home Community, Louisville, Kentucky shall be sold by Southland via sealed bid on Friday, December 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM to recover rent, storage and legal fees incurred by the owners of said mobile home. The sealed bids will be accepted at 401 Outer Loop, Louisville, KY 40214. Title to the mobile home is not warranted, subject to prior liens and all sales are nal. Seller reserves the right to bid. Terms of sale cash only. Darryl Hester Unknown Heirs or Bene ciaries of Alice Foree Unknown Owner(s) or Creditor(s) Year: 1994 Make: Model:FleetwoodReectionVIN:Unknown
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