Well, spring is in full swing with flowers on the roadsides and thunderstorms. Plus a lot of road construction trying to deal with potholes I guess.
There are important elections soon in Wisconsin and Florida, and in Texas there will be elections in May. We're already seeing political signs on local streets, but I haven't heard any radio ads yet.
I'm disheartened that Amber Ruffin won't be hosting the White House Correspondents' Dinner after all. Such cowards. I wonder if she will respond on Seth Meyer's show and/or her CNN panel show Have I Got News For You. I don't watch that, since I don't have cable. I started to do my taxes this year, but it looks like I owe money. Just my luck. At least I'll get a raise at work.
I went out to watch a new movie called The Penguin Lessons starring Steve Coogan. This a charming, funny movie about a British schoolteacher working in 1970s Argentina and rescuing a penguin from an oil slick. He cleaned up the penguin to impress his kindhearted date, then got stuck with the bird when it wouldn't return to the sea. Michell hides the bird in his campus apartment and also uses it to motivate his students during English lessons. At first you think the movie will be all about the penguin and the grumpy Michell learning to love life, but then one of his new friends is "disappeared" by the fascist government regime. Scary, especially as the US has recently started disappearing people too. Michell eventually finds some bravery and even makes his poetry lessons more politically/intellectually challenging. The movie is based on a true story, but I don't know how loose an adaptation of the memoir it is. I enjoyed it, though. If you don't find hope in the world, you give up the will to fight.
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