One of the more frustrating things about the remote learning process over the last year is that my daughter’s school district has never really addressed what the hell to do when she is ill. Luckily, she’s been pretty healthy (turns out your kids gets sick a lot less when they never interact with the other walking petri dishes), but over the course of 2020 we discovered that she had inherited chronic migraines from my wife. That means that for a couple of days she was not feeling well enough to do her schoolwork.
Every time that’s happened, I’ve asked her district what I needed to do to excuse her absence. Every single time someone in the process has responded to me requesting she just log on for a bit for the credit.
I got a PlayStation 5, but I’m still really unhappy with how I did.
Originally, I was going to use part of my first stimulus check in 2020 to set-up a pre-order for the system at GameStop like I did with my PS4. Delays in getting that check meant I missed the very narrow window, and of course being in a global pandemic that affected most of the arts and events I freelance cover in this city meant that I quickly had other uses for that $500.
When the new year rolled around, I would continuously set aside money for the narrow gaps when systems would go on sale, miss those windows because I was working, and then end up without the cash for one as life’s demands took their toll. Another stimulus came and went with no chance to get one, and then third showed up. By April, I had grown increasingly desperate as a video game reviewer who would soon not have any games to review. Through luck, the final stimmy, and a little crowdfunding on my birthday, I was finally able to get one for m
In the aftermath of Derek Chauvin s conviction for murdering Houstonian George Floyd, the subject of what it means to interact with the cops has never been timelier. Enter Brooklyn artist Shaun Leonardo, who will be presenting a piece called “Your First Interaction With Police” at the University of Houston main campus. The work is a constantly evolving dialogue about how people from all walks of life experience meeting with cops.
“To portray and feel deeply a fuller self that is not contained within these projections or these stereotypes that has been my mandate. That has been the very thing I want to offer to the world,” Leonardo said in a statement. “I wanted to pull more and more people into that exploration so it would not be contained [solely] to my own narrative.”