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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Follow the White Bronco by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY
Follow the White Bronco by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News.

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Weather: Sunny. Highs around 80. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Friday Night: Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.



Today at a Glance:

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today: Bunnell City Manager Alvin Jackson and City Clerk Kristen Bates, project manager for the Historic Coquina City Hall restoration, who also manages parks and recreation, solid waste, and special events; David Vost, Infrastructure Director, responsible for water operations, waste water, public works and the construction for new wastewater plant; Joe Parsons, Community Development Services, responsible for permitting, building services, code enforcement and all new development planning and coordination, and coordinates the city’s business incentives program and community redevelopment agency. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.

Flagler Supervisor of Elections Voter Registration Drives at Matanzas and FPC: Supervisor of Elections staff will be at Matanzas High School during all lunch periods on April 12, and at Flagler Palm Coast High School, again during all lunch periods, on April 19, in voter registration drives. If you can’t wait, go here.

The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.

Seawolf Privateers present “Mutiny on the High Seas” at the Palm Coast Community Center’s Sunshine Room., 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE., 6 p.m., April 12 and 13. Get ready for some swashbuckling fun as an all-female pirate crew with a vicious cut-throat prisoner disagrees on how things should be handled aboard the PMS! As hormones flare, and temperatures rise, their judgment becomes irrational, and they plot to turn the tables. Someone will suffer the wrath of the PMS! Reserved Adult Tickets are $50 for a fundraiser to benefit the foster and displaced children here in Flagler County. Silent Auction, Cash Bar, Games of Chance as well. Limit eight per table. Dinner will be provided by Outback on Friday, and Carrabba’s on Saturday. Book here.

‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse: March 29, 30, April 4, 5, 6, 12, 13 at 7:30pm, March 31, April 7, 14 at 2:00pm. Tickets: $25, $24 and $15 depending on age. Book here. When Bonnie and Clyde meet, their craving for excitement and fame send them chasing their dreams. Forced to stay on the run, the lovers resort to robbery and murder to survive. As the infamous duo’s fame grows bigger, the end draws nearer in this exciting musical.

Third Annual Gay Prom at Coquina Brewery, 8 p.m., 318 East Moody Boulevard, Flagler Beach. The evening combines with Pride Night. Photo booth, door prizes. The event is organized by Flagler Pride. LGBTQ+ Night is scheduled for every second Friday of the month from 8 to 11 p.m. at Coquina Coast Brewing Co., 318 Moody Boulevard, Flagler Beach. “Come together, make new friends and share some brews. Going strong since Oct 2021! We feature many genres of local LGBTQ+ talent in our community; comedy, burlesque, belly dance, drag, musicians, bingo games, etc. There is never a cover charge but donations are greatly appreciated! When you register, your email is used to keep you up to date on future LGBTQ+ friendly events.

 






Afterlives, II: Continuing on yesterday’s dark-matter themes of eternity, pointlessness and hereafters, I often (as we all do) try to imagine what the hereafter may be like, if, alas, there is to be such a thing. The scenarios are endless, though I have yet to see our local Future Problem Solvers give that one a try. As with anything theological, which is to say astrological, no scenario is dumber than any other anymore than the Pope knows more about god or the hereafter than does an ordinary hobo tramping it on the East Coast Railway a-la-Jack London. Let’s not be fooled by the artifices of style, office, wealth or coats of arms. So one of the more awful scenarios out there is this, and it takes its inspiration from the rage for metempsychosis–or the sap of reincarnation: let’s assume reincarnation is real. Let’s even discard with the dread of returning as a plant or a rat. We return as human beings. Always. Always. We not only return as one human being. But our afterlives are afterlives of eternally returning, each time as a different human being, so that each and every one of us gets to live every single life ever lived, ever to have been lived, ever to be lived, not just on this earth, but on every lived-in world with anything like the sentient, thinking (or presumptively thinking) beings that we are. Imagine that. You return as one of those nameless shmucks who live a miserable life on a feudal Frank farm one day until you’re felled at the point of a lance in a battle so insignificant as to not even warrant notice in a history. You’re one of the billions of nameless victims of earthquakes and floods and famine. You’re Rockefeller one day, a dust mite of a human beings in the streets of the Lower East Side the next. You’re Gatsby (yes, in my afterlife, we also get to live the lives of fictional creations, which are only transcendent realities mirroring our better and worse selves), you’re Faulkner’s Snopes, you’re a dying breath in the Middle Passage, you’re William the Conqueror and Renaud de Chatillon, that crusader terrorist, as Saladin beheads him while handing a cup of ice from Mount Hermon to King Guy. You are Saladin. You are the billion nothings whose hearts beat as yours does this very moment, with joys and losses yet unlived, at least by you, but soon: die, and you will know. What if that were the afterlife? Who among us would want it? But what choice would we have? What choice did we have to be what we are now, to be plopped into this world of all worlds, and who are we to say, having had no say in that creator’s original sin, that we would rather not be of these worlds? It all makes eternity and afterlives that much less appealing, and Melville’s Bartelby that much more noble. There is something cosmic in his humble refusal. It is the refusal of ultimate freedom, in so far as we can exercise it: “I would prefer not to.”

—P.T.

 

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, think of it as a little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that.

–From Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866).

 

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  1. I Just Love Flagler Beach says

    April 12, 2024 at 8:53 am

    I imagine reincarnation as returning until you get it right. Like white supremacists returning as poor black people living in a ghetto. Greedy one-percenters returning as staff at a local fast food joint. Netanyahu returning as a Pasestinian. And for some it may take a lot of reincarnations to get it right. Who knows, maybe Mother Teresa lived a thousand previous lives until she started getting it right. That’s how I keep my sanity, imagining all these assholes coming back and paying the price.

  2. Pogo says

    April 12, 2024 at 9:28 am

    @And one vote for Billy Budd
    https://www.google.com/search?q=melville+billy+budd

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