Nighthawk Press (2020, 177 pp.)
Conversations beginning with Where are you from? don t interest these authors, longtime Taoseños Richard and Annette Rubin. They have moved beyond worrying about who is Native, born here or carpetbagger, and after 50 years in New Mexico working as physician (Richard), educators and community activists, the couple affirm rather, that identity includes consciousness as well as origin facts.
Usefulness, then, is their theme, and this honest work is about sharing the fruits of one s labor with community. Or, as Rumi is quoted in an epigraph: The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is ready.
fish. greg. greg: he is not of this generation. he is an old-school guy. puts a rump roast in front of him, he will meet you on the other side. missing out on what cnn did. this is progress. gupta said donald trump has heart disease. cnn is admitting donald trump actually has a heart. this is major, major progress. they need an emergency quadruple bias bypass. they need some cognitive dissidents stents. give them six weeks of brain rest followed by two weeks of fox news and they will all be fine. juan: you didn t mention the dentures. greg: he didn t have them. juan: that s right. greg: we talked about that yesterday, juan. i think you have a memory issue. see if i ve gupta.
it is an honor to be here at my last and perhaps the last white house correspondents dinner. you know you miss him. good morning and welcome back to a.m. joy. president obama come back at last year s white house correspondents dinner by dropping the mike literally for the last time. this year jaws might drop and don t count on a swanky afterparty either. vanity fair has dropped out of co-sponsoring its usual star-studded soiree this april. editor and longtime trump nemesis graden carter says he plans to go fishing in connecticut in connecticut instead. ouch. the new yorker which typically hosts its own cocktail reception the night before the big event has also cancelled this year. there is a party that might attract a crowd. comedienne samantha bee is set to host a trump roast on the same night as the dinner.
exactly. the new york times even said that. he got face timed and if it tanks he can blame the writers which he is going to do. he did that on the trump roast. he can say of course i bombed. the writers wrote me [bleep] jokes. jesse like you said you worked with him on the comedy central roast. he has a tendency to edit material. do you think he refused to do a lot of the things they suggested? oh yeah, i guarantee you. he ruined every decent joke that came along. everything he wasn t in was decently written. the only thing that did land was bobbie money moynihan s drunk uncle. and he could slip in trump jokes because trump was too unaware to notice he was being made fun of in that instance. you know what i mean? what about the drake video? i thought that was kind of fun. he was dancing around and