[She/They] I'm a thirty-something Chicago freelance photog/photojournalist and classical musician with many pop culture opinions. I love film, video games, and TTRPGs with crunchy math. Would love to develop more local connections (and play board games).
Rebecca Ferrenz
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Combine all that with the Catholic iconography littered around the dash, and I'm suddenly feeling guilty for the Sins of Eve 2/2
Rideshare music update: this one is a doozy. We've got twangy country Christian worship music played at a weirdly quiet volume. So quiet that I had to crank my hearing aids to ID it. And my spouse informs me that the driver is softly humming along. 1/
Rideshare music day: Spanish language radio station played at a normal human volume. I may have discovered a normal human person driving a Chicago rideshare vehicle. 10/10, no notes. Music is lovely.
Rideshare music update: early 90s UK alternative psychedelic bands, combined with the musty odor of Unwashed Man.
Today I sat down and was met by Every Breath You Take, which wasn't encouraging. Lady Gaga was next, great, but then Father Figure by George Michael came on and he slapped the radio in his rush to turn it off
Rideshare music update #2: oppressive silence. No radio, just windows closed to create a sensory deprivation chamber. I had to resist the urge to start singing
Ok, this account will officially be my data collection account for the weird music idiosyncrasies of rideshare drivers. I take them to work a couple days a week, and the amount of pointed looks and Christian worship songs I get turned up at me is absolutely wild.
What kind of workday did I have? I split my pants straight down the middle at some point, but I was so busy running around that I didn't notice until hours later when I was trying to solve the "why is my thigh chafing?" question.
Black people, especially Black women, have been the organizers and facilitators of every gain we've achieved in the last 50 years. It's up to us to ONLY elect candidates who support anti-discriminatory voting legislation.
