Katy's Blog
Ahoy, friends! How is everyone managing? A few important notes before I jump in: Russia invaded Ukraine, not the other way around. The Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of Mexico. Donald Trump is an orange asshole. He is not and never will be a king. Truth matters. So here we are, with the most heinous, ugly people on the planet doing heinous, ugly things. The list is long: ignoring the rule of law, attacking pretty much anyone who isn’t a cisgender white male, trashing…
Photo Gregory Shamus, Getty Images Given the NFL’s decision to remove the “End Racism” message from the endzone in the Superdome mere days before the Super Bowl, I was astonished and delighted that game day events so prominently centered Blackness. From the opening performances with the Southern University Human Jukebox Marching Band, featuring the all-female brass ensemble The Original Pinettes, and Ledisi’s lovely rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” to Trombone Shorty, with Lauren Daigle, infusing touches of jazz into “America the Beautiful" and…
The hits just keep on coming. How’s everybody doing? How are you taking care of yourself and your loved ones? Keep breathing. We’re all in this together. You are absolutely not alone. One evening last week, my daughter, her friend and I went to see a documentary about the history of the Seattle Black Panthers. It was actually a 30 minute clip of a larger and still developing work by filmmaker Rick Dupree, who was at the screening. Elmer Dixon was also in attendance. Elmer and his…
It’s been pretty fucking awful. We knew it would be, but the frenetic pace and the depth of depravity has been difficult for even the most battle hardened to fully process. It’s like a blitz in football, a defensive strategy that has multiple defenders at the line of scrimmage, rushing the quarterback at once, creating disruption, chaos and, in some instances, panic. I’m sure the term was appropriated from the German “ blitzkrieg,” which is a military attack that employs the very same technique. The…
Hello friends. It’s been a while, about a year and a half roughly. In late summer of 2023, life took an unexpected turn. Since then, my focus has been on healing, recalibrating and learning a new normal. That story is for another day. For now, I’ll just quote James Taylor’s explicit lyric: “Shower the people you love with love.” Given my circumstances, writing has been put on the back burner, perhaps permanently. However, the madness of our days has inspired me to pick up again.…
Photo- Kate Kruller Hello and Ahoy, friends! Football is back! It was an active off-season indeed, with the scouting combine, free agency, a super fun draft and a touch of contract suspense. Plenty to keep a fan engaged, I suppose, but not as satisfying as the regular season. It’s a little bit like sucking on an ice cube when what you really want is to guzzle down a glass of water. But alas, now we are in the preseason, the final approach to the promised…
Photo- Jay Raedle (Getty Images) There was another mass shooting in the U.S. this past weekend. It was at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas. Eight innocent people were killed, including children, and multiple more were injured. The shooter also died. You may or may not have heard about it. The news was sandwiched between stories on that silly coronation in London and coverage of the NBA playoffs. It was a mere blip on the news cycle. I took a quick peek at Twitter the…
Photo by Armando Franca, AP Gratuitous cruelty. That’s how my friend Barb characterizes the profusion of anti-trans bills that are surging across the country. I call it legislative terrorism. While both are fitting, I believe Barb’s language is slightly more apropos. Gratuitous cruelty is at the core of all these horrific measures. Legislative harassment of transgender and nonbinary people is nothing new. However, the present proliferation is unprecedented. There are currently 422 active anti-trans bills across forty-four states. So far, twenty-six have already passed. While…
It’s taken me a few days to get this post written. Whenever the season ends for the Seahawks, whether regular or post, I go into a bit of a slump. It can range anywhere from a mild melancholy to a full-on existential funk. The depth and duration depend on how well the season did or didn’t go. The only exception to this pattern was, of course, 2014, when the Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII. I was out of my mind for weeks after that...but in…
The Seahawks are in the playoffs, baby! Oh, what a wonderful thing! As everyone knows, they’ll be headed down to Levi Stadium to take on division rivals the San Francisco 49ers, one of the hottest teams in the league right now. The San Francisco forecast on Saturday is calling for torrential rains, potential flooding and winds around 20mph, all of this at gametime. It looks to be a muddy, slippery slop fest, making an already challenging game all the more so. From the looks…
