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The Solar Wall

CURRENTS: Delta Wave Washes Over AZ

SKINNY: Doug Ducey Hulks Out!

CHOW: Wild Burgers at The Landing

Does it make sense to turn the border wall into a sea of solar panels?

An excerpt from Miriam Davidson’s new book The Beloved Border: Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land

MUSIC: A Multitude of Synthesizers

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Cyber Ninjas’ election review delayed after key team members come down with COVID

FEATURE

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An excerpt from Miriam Davidson’s The Beloved Border

CINEMA

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The Night House is a haunting, psychological film about loss

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ADMINISTRATION Steve T. Strickbine, Publisher Michael Hiatt, Vice President

EDITOR’S NOTE

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I’d like to thank the gang at UA Press this week for sharing an excerpt from Miriam Davidson’s new book, The Beloved Border: Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land.

Davidson’s book looks at how our troubled border circumstances were made worse during the Trump administration. In our excerpt this week, she talks with legendary ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan about potential plans to put solar panels on the border wall—an idea that didn’t get much traction during Trump’s time in the White House.

Elsewhere in the book this week: Staff reporter Christina Duran explains how the Delta wave is washing over Arizona; Jeremy Duda of the online Arizona Mirror tells us how the so-called “election audit” of Maricopa County was delayed this week because the Cyber Ninjas came down with COVID; The Skinny wonders why Gov. Doug Ducey seems

Claudine Sowards, Accounting, claudine@tucsonlocalmedia.com Sheryl Kocher, Receptionist, sheryl@tucsonlocalmedia.com

to be transforming into the Hulk; Chow contributor Matt Russell gets a load of the loco burgers they are building at The Landing; movie critic Bob Grimm takes a tour of The Night House; managing editor Jeff Gardner gives a listen to a new synthesizer-based recording from Pollution Salute; Tucson Weedly columnist David Abbott looks at a new UA study examining how nurses are using cannabis to handle the stress and pain that comes with their jobs; calendar editor Emily Dieckman lets you know about all the fun you can have, assuming you aren’t back in stay-athome mode; sex columnist Dan Savage tells what you need to do to get a good spanking; and we’ve got all the usual fun stuff spread throughout the book.

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hospital capacity, the Pima County Health Department updated its Public Health Advisory on Aug. 17.

Similar to Banner, Pima County hospitals are seeing more people coming to the ER for reasons other than Hospitals report limited bed space as COVID numbers climb COVID-19—such as heart attacks, RSV and sepsis—who require hospital admisbecause of the pandemic and are now

By Christina Duran sion. According to the Public Health Adseeking care for illnesses and medical christinad@tucsonlocalmedia.com visory, local hospitals are also experiencissues that have become more severe. ing abnormally long wait times for EMS “The high number of non-COVID to be able to transfer care of their patient ARIZONA HOSPITALS ARE SEEING patients that we were caring for, coupled to the hospital staff, which limits their with the week over week increase in more COVID patients as the state faces ability to respond to other emergencies.

COVID hospitalizations is troubling,” its third wave of coronavirus cases.

“It is NOT the norm for area hospitals Last week, the number of ICU patients said Bessel. to be experiencing such high hospital During the past week, Banner conin Banner Health Care’s Arizona hospiadmission rates, reduced hospital surge tinued to see an increase in COVID-19 tals, for both COVID and non-COVID capacity and long EMS offload times at hospitalizations, ICU admissions and patients, reached the peak numbers of this time of year,” according to the health ventilator usage. Banner has also seen those seen in the summer 2020 surge, advisory. exponential growth in pediatric COVID said Banner Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Alongside decreased hospital capacMarjorie Bessel at a media conference on hospitalizations. In the first two weeks of ity, area hospitals face severe nursing August, Banner had as many pediatric Aug. 18. workforce shortages due to high rates of She reported only 30% of those patients COVID admissions as they did the entire turnover and burnout from the pandemic. are COVID positive, compared to the last month of June, according to Bessel. She Banner Health has several core posisurge when 50 to 60% were COVID pos- said they are on track to surpass the num- tions available and is securing external itive. Bessel believes the high number of ber of pediatric COVID patients seen contracted labor for both nurses and non-COVID patients in the ICU is partly during the winter surge. therapists. Bessel said they have indiDue to the rise in cases and decreased viduals who are starting each week and due to patients delaying care in 2020

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expect that to continue throughout the winter. Banner is requiring all employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 1 and would include vaccination in the onboarding process for new employees.

Bessel does not believe this requirement will have a large impact as many other health care systems in the communities where they operate have similar requirements.

“We do expect that staffing will continue to be our greatest challenge as we continue to face this surge,” said Bessel.

The Pima County Health Department is actively assisting area hospitals to request federal assistance to address the healthcare workforce shortages and alleviate decreased surge capacity.

Banner is currently available for both COVID and non-COVID patients, but Bessel warned of a possible reduction in services based on the experience of previous surges.

“If our COVID patients overwhelm our healthcare systems, there may come a point where we have to reduce or cut back on other services such as ambulatory services or patients that have planned elective surgeries,” said Bessel. “It is our

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absolute hope and desire to not get to that point and so we ask all of you who are out there listening to please do your part, so that we can be here for you to take care of both COVID and nonCOVID illnesses.”

According to Bessel, 94% of COVID patients hospitalized at a Banner facility last week were unvaccinated and those patients are younger than those treated in prior surges, with most between the ages of 20 and 60.

Bessel asked the public to do their part and get vaccinated not only to protect themselves but also to support the health care systems in their communities.

“They sacrificed so much for you and rose to the occasion during the prior two surges when there was no solution as effective as we have now today, which is vaccine to prevent hospitalizations. We now have that solution available to us, and we need everyone to take it,” said Bessel.

BOOSTER SHOTS ON THE WAY IMMUNOCOMPROMISED individuals can receive a booster shot and the general public may soon be

eligible as well.

With the prevalence of the highly contagious Delta variant and recent evidence showing the decrease of the vaccine protection over time, last week the FDA modified the emergency use authorization for Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines to allow an additional dose in some cases.

“Based on our latest assessment, the current protection against severe disease, hospitalization, and death could diminish in the months ahead, especially among those who are at higher risk or were vaccinated during the earlier phases of the vaccination rollout. For that reason, we conclude that a booster shot will be needed to maximize vaccine-induced protection and prolong its durability,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky in a joint statement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other medical experts released Wednesday.

On Aug. 13, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended the third shot for moderately to severely immunocompromised individuals and said the booster would CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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and Fann told KJZZ’s Ben Giles that she doesn’t know who comprises the team. Likewise, Senate “audit” liaison THE TEAM THAT HAS WORKED Ken Bennett told Giles he didn’t know, since April reviewing the 2020 general either—and thought there were actually election in Maricopa County submitted a nine people, not five. partial draft report to the Arizona Senate The Senate’s legal team will begin on Monday, but the full report will be reviewing the partial draft report on delayed because several members of Wednesday. Once it receives the remainthe team—including Cyber Ninjas head der of the report, the team will finish Doug Logan—have tested positive for checking the report for accuracy, clarity, COVID-19. and proof of documentation for its findSenate President Karen Fann, ings. After that process is complete, Fann R-Prescott, announced that Logan and said the report will be given to the Senate two other members of the five-person Judiciary Committee and its findings will audit team have COVID “and are quite be released to the public. sick.” One of the three—not Logan—is Matt Masterson, a former election hospitalized with pneumonia, Fann told cybersecurity official at the U.S. Departthe Arizona Mirror. ment of Homeland Security, said it’s not It’s unclear who besides Logan is on unusual for a post-election audit report the five-person “audit analysis team,” to undergo a review before it’s released.

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And it’s not out of the norm that Fann would have a chance to review it, he said.

But it’s unusual that the entity whose election is being audited to not have a role in reviewing the report.

“I’ve never been involved in either a congressional or legislative … or even just audit in general where we didn’t first get an initial chance to review to offer and clarify what’s fact or fiction, and then get to write a response after having seen that that gets included,” Masterson said during a conference call with reporters last week.

COVID-19 isn’t the only thing delaying the full report, Fann said. She said the election review team only received images of the envelopes from about 1.9 million early ballots from Maricopa County on Thursday. The team hopes to finish analyzing those as soon as possible so the results of that analysis can be included in the final report, Fann said.

But Maricopa County’s elections department disputed that, and said images of the early ballot envelopes were delivered to the Senate and it’s self-styled audit team on April 23.

Randy Pullen, a spokesman for the

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election review, said he expects it to take a week for the team to finish examining the ballot envelopes. He said the team will both inspect the envelopes to ensure they have signatures—voters must sign their names on early ballot envelopes, and election officials examine those signatures to verify voters’ identities before the ballots are counted—and examine the signatures themselves to ensure they’re valid.

The “audit” was launched earlier this

year. Although Fann has said the goal is to restore voters’ confidence in the electoral process, she hired an unknown cybersecurity firm with no experience in auditing or elections that is run by Logan, a man who espoused debunked election conspiracy theories alleging Donald Trump really won the 2020 election in Arizona and elsewhere.

The resulting “audit” was funded almost entirely by pro-Trump groups and figures, including those who have

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sought to overturn the 2020 election.

Elections experts have said there is no reason to believe the results of the election review will be credible, given the circumstances.

Election experts and officials from both parties have sought to preemptively rebut the report, and that continued Monday as the nonpartisan States United Democracy Center hosted a conference call with Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, several people who served as observers for her office at the audit site, and other election professionals.

Norm Eisen, the group’s co-chair, called the review a “malicious disinformation campaign” intended to fuel conspiracy theories about the election, which former President Donald Trump and many of his supporters falsely claim was rigged.

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THESKINNY HULKING OUT

Does Gov. Doug Ducey has a rage monster inside him?

Jim Nintzel jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com WAS GOV. DOUG DUCEY RECENTLY belted by gamma rays? Because Ducey has been hulking out a lot lately and smashing whatever efforts at COVID mitigation he can. The most reasonable explanation we can imagine is that our governor unleashes the savage monster inside him when he gets angry and leaves a trail of destruction behind him.

We first got an inkling of Ducey’s inner Hulk last week when he was surrounded by reporters and lashed out at the Biden administration for sending him a “weak and pathetic” letter regarding his use of federal COVID dollars.

(Hulk is never weak—Hulk is the strongest one there is!) Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona advised Ducey that his strategy of giving away special state grants to schools that reduce COVID mitigation efforts doesn’t exactly jibe with the intended use of those dollars, since the funding is supposed to be used to make schools more safe, not less safe.

Maybe it was just our imagination, but we swear we could see Ducey turning just a little green as he spoke to the assembled press gang. And did you notice that press aide C.J. Karamargin hustled the governor out just a few moments later? Had Ducey fully transformed into a green rage machine, Karamargin would have had a lot of explaining to do.

The idea that Ducey has episodes when he turns into a mindless monster helps The Skinny better understand why the governor is making so many terrible decisions lately when it comes to COVID. Take Ducey’s efforts to block school districts from requiring students to wear masks. He’s already lost in the courts, with a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruling that the ban on mask mandates doesn’t going into effect until

Whatever Ducey’s motivation, it’s safe to say it doesn’t make sense to shut down testing while the third wave under this watch is resulting in thousands of new cases a day—unless, of course, you need that money to provide tax cuts to the wealthiest Arizonans.

Sure, it could be that Ducey wants the state to hit herd immunity as quickly as possible, even if that means infecting school children who are too young to receive the vaccine. But that explanation is so outrageous that we have to believe that when Ducey gets mad, he transforms into a dark and twisted version of himself and makes poor policy decisions.

Whatever the reason, we’d advise anyone interacting with Ducey to be careful.

You’d wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.

WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION So much for improving schools in Arizona

Hulk smash stupid masks!

the end of next month. Still, Ducey is ready to send hundreds of millions of dollars to school districts as long as they don’t require masks—a cruel approach to school funding that incomprehensible to many people who don’t turn into green monsters on the regular.

Then there’s his push to block universities and community colleges from requiring the masks. Officials with the higher ed system have interpreted the poorly crafted law to mean that they can’t treat vaccinated and unvaccinated students differently, but they can require everyone to wear a mask. In last week’s press scrum, as he was fighting to remain in human form, Ducey made a not-soveiled threat that the universities would see their budgets cut if they didn’t fall in line with Ducey’s push to spread COVID throughout the college campuses.

Then there’s his more recent decision to stop funding COVID testing in Pima County just as the Delta wave rises. Sure, Ducey could just be taking a page from Florida resident Donald Trump, who wanted to stop testing when he was still in the White House because he thought that meant there would be fewer COVID cases. (Trump was wrong about that, BTW.) But it’s equally possible that Ducey, who has made his general contempt for Pima County evident throughout his time as governor, just hulked out and said: “Hulk smash stupid test sites!”

REMEMBER HOW EDUCATION groups persuaded voters last year to tax Arizona’s wealthiest residents in order to spend more on schools?

Last week, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the state couldn’t spend the exSORENSEN

tra money because there’s a limit on how much Arizona can spend on schools. Yes, that’s right: Arizona has limit on what it can spend on education, based on what we were spending in the 1980s.

Lawmakers could raise that cap, but fat chance of that happening. Just because voters said they want to see better schools doesn’t mean GOP lawmakers are going to go along with it.

The case has been remanded back to the lower courts to hash out the details, but in all likelihood, the effort to tax wealthy people to pay for better schools is dead.

But the richest people in Arizona should be quite glad education supporters went to all the effort to improve schools, since lawmakers did do something in reaction to the passage of the initiative: They instituted a flat tax that delivered massive tax breaks to Arizona’s highest earners while delivering peanuts to those of us on the lower rungs.

All in all, voters, it’s been a disaster.

You might as well give up on improving schools in this state: The system—and our GOP leaders—will do anything to protect the wealthy and screw over schoolchildren.

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The Solar Wall An excerpt from The Beloved Border: Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land COURTESY PHOTO

By Miriam Davidson tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com

ETHNOBOTANIST, NATURE WRITER

and sustainable agriculture advocate Gary Nabhan was another Mexicanidentified, Anglo border person with a vision for the future. Founder of Native Seeds/SEARCH, Nabhan held the Kellogg Endowed Chair in Food and Water Security for the Borderlands at the University of Arizona Southwest Center. He lived with his wife, a nurse practitioner, on a quiet ranch nestled among the rolling hills outside Patagonia, Arizona. I drove down from Tucson to interview him on a crystal-bluesky winter morning in February 2018.

Nabhan met me at the highway in his Prius, and I followed him along a winding dirt road, past the Native Seed farm, with a sign that said “Nabhan” in Arabic (he is of Lebanese descent), then up a small hill to a comfortable, light-filled home. The living room overlooked the farm and had a sweeping view of the surrounding mountains. There we talked about the solar wall and other forward-thinking ideas for sustainable border development.

The idea for a solar wall was first proposed by Mexican poet, diplomat and environmental activist Homero Aridjis in response to Trump’s call to build a wall. A friend of Nabhan’s, Aridjis was known for his innovative, problem-solving ideas. He’d founded an organization called the Group of 100 that, among other efforts, helped fight air pollution in Mexico City, create monarch butterfly sanctuaries in Michoacán, and save endangered whales, sea turtles and vaquitas (tiny, nearly extinct porpoises) in the Gulf of California. In a December 2016 Huffington Post article, Aridjis and solar energy advocate James Ramey proposed, instead of a wall, an array of solar collectors on the border that would generate power, provide jobs, and be wildlife friendly and culturally sensitive.

The idea was later picked up in a Wall Street Journal op-ed written

by Vasilis Fthenakis, director of the Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University, and Ken Zweibel, then director of the Solar Institute at George Washington University. They calculated that a string of solar panels built along on the Mexican side could generate two thousand gigawatts of electricity a year, enough to power the entire

border region on both sides, while being far less costly and environmentally damaging than a wall.

In April 2017, Nabhan invited Aridjis, Ramey and Fthenakis to Tucson to talk about the proposal.

The discussion was held as part of an Earth Week forum at the University of Arizona. The panel explained that the project would not be a continuous wall of solar collectors. “No one involved in this idea wants a wall,” Nabhan said. “We were upset when one of Trump’s five finalists for the wall was 50 feet tall with a solar panel on top.”

“We have to try to find a solution, because the wall exists already,” Aridjis said. “We have to find a solution for the people and the environment and also the economy.”

As Nabhan told me, “We’re talking about collectors in the valleys to create energy because both sides of many border communities are still off the grid. Statistics produced by Homero and his team found this area could produce with solar energy most of what the U.S and Mexico needed. We could create jobs, rebuild communities, and legalize people being there. We could train people to be solar and potentially wind energy technicians, at $25 or

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Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan: “Rather than thinking the issue is about simply ‘fixing things at the border,’ we need equity on both sides for how we treat people, particularly people who bring us our daily bread.”

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the glass ceiling out of menial jobs and end dependence on big power companies.”

Nabhan would also like to see the solar wall address disparities in food security along the border in the form of an “agri-voltaic border cooperative.” As he wrote in an op- ed in the Arizona Daily Star, “Heat sensitive food crops could be grown under the solar photovoltaic arrays, as they are now being done at three Tucson schools and at a demo project at Biosphere 2. Rainwater could be collected off the solar collectors to irrigate crops for use at nearby schools, clinics and homeless shelters in rural border communities.”

Any discussion of a border wall, solar or otherwise, must include the Native peoples who live there, Nabhan noted.

“A fifth of the land along the border belongs to Indigenous commu-

nities who also do not want a wall,” he said. “The Tohono O’odham are interested in these projects, since they pay more for their energy than other users, but we don’t make policy for them. None of us are solar missionaries. We respect the tribe’s sovereignty. We will not get the border right if we think this is just a nation-to-nation negotiation.”

Nabhan had a strong faith in what was possible on the border but was not unrealistic about the challenges.

He cautioned that the U.S.-Mexico border has the greatest wealth disparity of any border on Earth, with poverty in Mexico resulting in poor diets, education, and health care, as well as a lack of access to clean water and sanitation. The economic disparity had also led to great exploitation of Mexican workers and natural resources by the United States and Canada, as well as the turning of Mexico into a narco state.

There were persistent problems on the U.S. side as well, including lack of attention to crucial cross-border

issues like water and wastewater flows.

“The entire border has been neglected for a long time,” he said.

A more holistic approach was needed: “Rather than thinking the issue is about simply ‘fixing things at the border,’” Nabhan said, “we need equity on both sides for how we treat people, particularly people who bring us our daily bread. The only way we’ll get over border conflict is by reducing disparity and including the economic and social well- being of people on both sides.”

Two and a half years after this interview, when the pandemic reached the border, the poverty and neglect Nabhan described exacted a huge price. For most of 2020, hospitals on the U.S. side were overwhelmed with people who’d contracted COVID- 19. Many were relatively young, though already in poor health, or worked in low-paying jobs without proper safeguards.

Those in Mexico also suffered greatly. Yolanda knew entire families who died, and migrants in Nogales lost a champion on December 18, 2020, when Juan Francisco Loureiro, the founder and director of Casa San Juan Bosco, died of COVID at age 76. (His family said they would keep the shelter going.) Indigenous peoples on both sides were especially hard hit. The Navajo Nation, where poverty was so extreme many people lacked basic utilities, suffered one

Excerpted with permission from The Beloved Border: Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land, by Miriam Davidson. Published by UA Press. © 2021 by the UA Board of Regents.

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of the worst outbreaks in the United States. The nation responded with fortitude and self-reliance, however, and helped organize numerous public and private groups to provide water, food, health care, electricity, sanitation, and vaccines to the stricken communities.

As for idealistic notions like the agri-voltaic cooperative, they were put on hold throughout the Trump administration while environmentalists battled his walls (more on that in the epilogue). But the ideas were still viable; Nabhan was working on a demonstration project with Indigenous Seri and Comcaac people near El Desemboque, Sonora.

During a visit in July 2020, he and other volunteers found these impoverished villages stricken by COVID19 and terrorized by cartel violence in nearby Caborca and Puerto Libertad, but grateful they had not been forgotten by their American friends. ■

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benefit compromised people by building a stronger resistance to COVID-19.

Following CDC guidance, the Pima County Health Department announced last week they would begin to offer a COVID booster shot to immunocompromised individuals.

People who are not deemed immunocompromised are yet not eligible for the booster. Immunocompromised individuals, such as those taking immune-suppressing medications could receive a third dose.

It is recommended people receive the same brand of vaccine and booster shots.

If your brand is unavailable, the other mRNA vaccine, either Pfizer or Moderna, can be used. The additional dose should be at least 28 days after completion of the initial two-dose series.

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and the team’s connections to conspiracy theorists who promoted those false allegations have already discredited whatever findings the Cyber Ninjas team ultimately releases.

“You shouldn’t take any comfort in whatever the Cyber Ninjas report reveals. Nothing that report says should be given any kind of credence, given the lack of standards that it followed,” said Trey Grayson, a Republican who spent seven years as Kentucky’s secretary of state.

Ken Matta, an elections and IT expert who served as an observer for the Secretary of State’s Office, said audit employees went out of their way to ensure that the observers saw as little as possible, at times intentionally blocking them from seeing computer screens and engaging them in “loud, pointless conversations” to prevent them from hearing other conversations.

What the observers could see did not inspire confidence, Matta said.

“Time and time again, we observed them struggling to understand the

shot. Pfizer vaccines have been approved for people 12 and older while Moderna is approved for people 18 and older.

On Friday, Aug. 20, HHS also announced a plan to begin offering booster shots to the general public the week of Sept. 20 and eight months after an individual’s second dose. However, this is contingent on a recommendation from ACIP. Anticipating the need to immunize a significant number of people, Cullen said Pima County is developing a plan.

They hope to work with hospitals and pharmacies to provide boosters for healthcare workers, assisted living and long-term care, who were some of the first to get vaccinated during the initial rollout in January. The health department is also looking at the need for mobile clinics.

Cullen estimates they would give approximately 20,000 vaccines a week over the course of several months once boosters become available to the general public starting Sept. 20. ■ meaning of the ‘evidence’ they possessed. It was painful to watch them misinterpret what they were seeing and then propagate their mistaken conclusions to the workers and to the public at large,” he said. “We questioned amongst ourselves as observers whether this lack of industry expertise was just a dereliction of duty or if it was intentional—and the very thing that allowed them to continue their quest for evidence of fraud, unhindered by the truth.”

Jennifer Morrell, a former elections official and partner at Elections Group who also worked as an observer for Hobbs at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where most of the review activities took place, has documented many of the problems her team saw, such as unusual and error-prone methods for recounting ballots. She said if Fann’s review team wanted to conduct a legitimate audit, they should have followed state law and the procedures used in Arizona for audits and recounts. ■ This story was originally published by the Arizona Mirror. Find more coverage of state issues at azmirror.com.

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Editor’s Note: While we are delighted to see Tucsonans once again gathering for fun events, we are also aware that the new Delta variant is circulating and case counts in Arizona are on the rise. Please consider getting vaccinated against COVID if you haven’t yet and following CDC guidance, which includes wearing masks at crowded indoor events. Keep yourself and others safe—the pandemic isn’t over yet.

Teacher Appreciation Night at the Desert Museum. As a thank you to teachers, who do so much for our kids and our community, and indeed for the world, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is offering free admission to K-12 teachers and support staff with current school IDs. So come on down, grab a beer if you want, and enjoy this Saturday evening with the wildlife, from scorpions to stingrays. You can also enter a raffle to win some neat prizes, or sign up for a wine tasting with Flying Leap Vineyards.

5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road.

Freddy’s Tucson Last Saturday Car Show. If you’re into car shows, you’re probably into frozen custard, shoestring fries and steak burgers. Which, of course, makes Freddy’s the perfect location for a car show. Obsessions Car Club hosts this car show at the Oro Valley Freddy’s on the last Saturday of the month. They give out trophies in all sorts of categories, from best spots car, best classic and modern truck, best work in progress, and kid’s choice. 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28. Freddy’s parking lot, 11143 N. Oracle Road. $10 to register your car.

Virtual Rainwater Harvesting Class.

It’s been sort of a weird summer for a lot of reasons. But one of them was hearing more and more about the severity of the drought the Colorado River was facing, while we were enjoying monsoon after monsoon here in the Old Pueblo. So, like, there has to be something we can do with all that rainwater, right? But how can you do it on an individual level?

The Watershed Management Group is hosting this free virtual class about both active and passive rainwater harvesting, and how to qualify and apply the Tucson Water Rainwater Harvesting Incentives

Rebate Program. 4:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 31. Register at watershedmg.org for the link.

Reptile Ramble. I’m going to be honest. For living in the desert, and for how much I love seeing li’l lizards scurrying around, I know an embarrassingly little amount about reptiles.

If you too suffer from a deficit of reptile knowledge, this Friday event at Tohono Chul just might help you get to where you need to be. Learn how to identify local Sonoran reptiles, get the answers to burning questions like, “Why is that lizard doing a push-up?” and even meet some new reptile pals. 10 a.m. on Fridays from Aug. 27 to Nov. 12 at Tohono Chul, 7366 Paseo del Norte. Admission is $15 general, $13 for seniors, military and students, $6 for kids 5 to 12, and free for members and kids under 5.

Goat Yoga. If you’ve ever taken a yoga class, you may have noticed that it typically does not involve goats. And, well, in a lot of ways, that’s a problem, isn’t it? Doesn’t it seem like it would be way cuter and more fun if there were goats involved? What you need is to come to this specific yoga class, where there are goats, and it is very cute. Come join the goats in their natural habitat (Udall Park) and stretch out in the green grass. Get some animal therapy AND some yoga therapy. Bing, bang, boom, perfect Friday night or Saturday morning. 7 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27 and 8 to 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 28. Udall Park, 7290 E. Tanque Verde Road. $25.

by Emily Dieckman Mik and the Funky Brunch. In the market for some Sunday afternoon entertainment? If you like your live music with a side of yummy food and twinkly lights, head over to La Cocina for this performance. Multi-instrumentalist Mik uses live loops to create the sound of a full band.

We’re talking bass, saxophone, and vocals, along with plenty of other instruments. But, really, it’s his infectious energy that makes you feel like you’re getting the experience of watching a whole band play. 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29. La Cocina, 201 N. Court Ave.

The Big Lebowski. Yeah, OK, I guess The Big Lebowski isn’t for everyone. But if you’ve seen and enjoyed this Coen Brothers film once, chances are you wouldn’t mind seeing it again. It’s one of those movies that holds up, and which, as Joel Coen once said, has “a hopelessly complex plot that’s ultimately unimportant.” We love to see it. So it’s a natural fit for a Cult Classic feature at The Loft.

Put on your bowling shoes and get ready for a night out with The Dude. 10 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 27 and Saturday, Aug. 28.

Additional screening at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2. Sponsored by Barrio Brewing Co. The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. $8 GA and $6 for Loft members.

Cherished Tails Senior Sanctuary Rummage Sale. Who doesn’t love a good chance to find some secondhand goods for a good price? What’s more, who doesn’t love an opportunity to support a local animal rescue, which specializes in finding homes for senior dogs and cats? I mean, this is a no-brainer, right? Come on down to pick up some new finds. And if you’d like to bring any dog beds, towels, blankets or other pet supplies for the donation drive, those are of course welcome too. Noon to 6 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 27 and Saturday, Aug. 28. 101 W. Sixth Street.

Carolyn Niethammer Prickly Pear Demonstration. There are a few flavors that are just undeniably, deliciously Tucson. A Sonoran hotdog, a Nico’s burrito, the taste of breakfast at Frank’s (after it makes its daytime transformation from Francisco to Frank). Prickly pear is another one of those flavors! It’s been popular in the region for thousands of years because it’s delicious and easy to gather. In this talk, Niethammer, an ethnobotany expert and the author of cookbooks including The Prickly Pear Cookbook, will talk about how to make prickly pear juice and then transform it into syrup, salad dressing or ice cream.

8:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 28. Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane. Donations gratefully accepted.

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By Bob Grimm tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com

HEY, THERE’S A MOVIE CALLED THE NIGHT House playing at your local movie theater. It’s a psychological horror movie, it’s pretty good with a solid Rebecca Hall in the central role, and you probably have no idea it exists.

This is one of those films that’s sort of going in and out of theaters unnoticed during these crazy moviegoing times. I sat in a completely empty theater watching this, matinee time on a Sunday. Much of the movie deals with the central character’s isolation in a lonely house, so the quiet of the theater itself heightened that part of the viewing experience. It made it creepier. It also reminded me that moviegoing levels are far from normal, and probably won’t be anywhere near normal for some time.

Hall plays Beth, a recently widowed schoolteacher living in a lonely lake house somewhere in upstate New York. Owen (Evan Jonigkeit), her architect husband, recently killed himself with a handgun out on the lake in a rowboat. That rowboat remains ominously tied to the dock, and starts to play a part in what could either be Beth’s hallucinations from lack of sleep and heavy depression drinking, or something far more troubling.

As she suffers hard through her grief, it appears to her that Owen is haunting the house he built with his two hands.

After rummaging through some of his workbooks and his phone, Beth starts to suspect Owen had a double life. That thought goes to such an extreme that she finds a “mirror house” in the woods, also allegedly designed by Owen, containing strange demonic totems, and horrifically dark possibilities.

Is it all in Beth’s super grieving and depressed head?

Is there a supernatural element that derived from a near-death experience she had years before, and was Owen secretly fighting that element?

The beauty of movies like The Night House, nicely directed by David Bruckner (The Ritual), is that it works with whatever interpretation you choose. There are, in fact, mirrored explanations for what happens in this movie to such an extent that you could watch it twice and each viewing could have a completely different impact upon you. Each interpretation and experience being as powerful as the other.

It works as a haunted house movie, with Bruckner creating a chilling atmosphere via camerawork, lighting and sound, relying less upon jump scares and more on expertly timed “ghostly moments.” Old tropes like bloody footprints, writing on mirrors and shadowy figures feel fresh in this director’s hands. Bruckner is more interested in making the audience feel unsettled and anxious rather than scaring the shit out of them.

It also works as a movie where most of Beth’s suspicions about ghosts and her husband’s double life are in her head. She’s struggled with depression most of her life, and her trauma (combined with the aforementioned alcohol and lack of sleep) can be causing horrible hallucinations and waking nightmares. She is the very personification of unreliable narrator.

Hall delivers her best screen work since the underrated Christine, another film that dealt with suicide. She goes through the emotional wringer in this one, and it’s an impressive display of her underrated range. The most notable supporting performance comes from the great Sarah Goldberg (so good in TV’s Barry) as Beth’s best friend, a person who we can see is suffering as hard as her friend suffers. Goldberg delivers some of the year’s best “eye acting” in this movie.

The Night House lingers with you after exiting the theater. Its mysteries and miseries stick in the craw, and Hall’s work resonates. It’s not a movie that has all of the answers for you, so you’ll probably find yourself calling friends to discuss possibilities and theories about its meaning, sort of like the conversations sparked by a David Lynch film.

Of course, your friends will have not seen the movie yet because nobody is taking themselves to the theater for a mildly marketed horror film with no A-list stars. So, wait patiently until your pals watch it on streaming in a few months, and let the speculations begin. ■

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You’ll find some outrageous burgers alongside seafood at The Landing

By Matt Russell tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com

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ON MY INAUGURAL VISIT TO to The Landing last week, the sister restaurant of the nautical-themed Fini’s Landing, it was clear that Chef Ryan Jones values his home on the range as much as his time on the dock of the bay.

Jones brings a passion for fishing to his work as the brand chef for these restaurants that specialize in sustainable seafood. In fact, it was a fishing weekend at Rainbow Lake in Pinetop, where he caught and released more than 100 catfish, that

inspired his Mardi Gras catfish po’ boy special at Fini’s last winter.

He shares this passion with his two young children, who love fishing with their old man. His 7-year-old has mastered the art of baiting a line, and his 5-year-old is reportedly more interested in the worms than she is the fish. As for their dad, who consistently works more than 70 hours a week, this time by the water with his wife and kids is as good as it gets.

But make no mistake. Jones has carved out a special place for beef in all of life’s goodness, and his rotating Burger of the Week program is the perfect context for his cow-driven creativity at The Landing, 8195 N.

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In addition to the restaurant’s signature burgers, with beef sourced from sustainable farms in the four-corners states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado, one decidedly unique burger makes an appearance on the menu for just one week before it’s dropped to make room for another.

“I just love burgers and I love doing crazy things,” said Jones, whose culinary journey has included stints at Zinburger and Truland Burgers and Greens. “Burgers are great platforms for showing creativity, kind of in the same way that tacos are.”

Last week’s Burger of the Week at The Landing was no exception.

Jones recently picked up some seasonal Hatch chiles from New Mexico and blended them with poblanos, jalapenos, onions, and cilantro to make a traditional salsa verde. He then brought it together with chicken stock, cumin and fried cubes of pork shoulder and reduced the stew-like mix down in a two-hour braise. This was all ladled onto flame-grilled burger patties with caramelized onions and melted Swiss cheese.

“This burger had great textures, some of the fried pork remained crispy while some started to shred naturally with a nice tenderness,” he said.

Other eye-popping burgers that Jones has created over the years include one crowned with a rich

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“I just love burgers and I love doing crazy things,” said chef Ryan Jones. “Burgers are great platforms for showing creativity, kind of in the same way that tacos are.”

straightforward bacon cheeseburger was taken to new heights, literally, with fire-roasted salsa, a runny egg, spicy aioli and an entire crispy-shell birria taco.

Are there any limits to Jones’ creativity? “If you can put a whole crunchy taco on top of a big burger, I guess anything’s possible,” he said.

He’s planning to do some of these favorites from his past as Burgers of the Week at The Landing, while kicking out Catch of the Day Tacos and other swimming selections for those who prefer to stay seaside. You’ll be in good hands either way, especially if the Jones kids are there to show you how to hook a worm. ■ Mexican street corn mash, another topped with a blend of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, guacamole, queso Oaxaca and a spicy aioli, and another with roasted chiles, honey, bacon fat, butter and whiskey. And knowing him like I do, I’m nearly certain it was Jameson Irish Whiskey. But that’s for another column.

The most outrageous burger that Jones has assembled is one that gets my vote. This otherwise

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Pollution Salute explores a new world of electronics on Heavy Meadow

By Jeff Gardner jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com

THE ISOLATION OF THE PAST year gave many musicians time to hone their craft, but allowed Michael Fay the time to dive into a world entirely new. Fay, who has recorded with several Tucson bands including Prom Body, took the time to explore the capabilities of modular synthe-

sizers: complex electronic instruments that can be custom built from the ground up, often resembling something out of science fiction. As a result, music created with them is virtually limitless.

Fay’s latest release under his solo recording moniker Pollution Salute is an exploration of modular synthesizers, and while the song structures most align with ambient music, there is enough exploration

and genre-hopping to extend it beyond the bounds of simple “background music.”

His first album in a planned series exploring modular synths, Heavy Meadow was recorded throughout 2021 partially as a result of Fay being unable to play music with others in Tucson. Although the project stems from solitude, exploring the unique synthesizers also led Fay to a broad community of musicians throughout town and the internet.

“I’d kind of always seen modular synths as this wall of geeky technology,” Fay said.

“I really didn’t understand it. It just looked like math to me, so I had no interest. Plus, I never thought of it as a style I could apply to the music I was already making. But there are artists out there who are incorporating acoustic instruments and different sounds.

It’s a whole wealth of new territory. Not that modular synths are new at all, but it was like a light switch went off for me.”

The four tracks on Heavy Meadow are progressive, atmospheric explorations far beyond the “bleeps and bloops” that Fay

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The opening song, “Timpani In A Beehive,” opens with a quiet drone that is slowly built up by crystalline electronics with a meditative new age style. The following song, “Light Rain On A Sofa,” is a bit busier, with incidental chirps and some synthetic hits serving as a kind of percussion. The low drones are reminiscent of fellow Tucsonan Steve Roach, while the brighter keyboards more align with the ambient style of Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Fay explains the album, and its anticipated sequels, will serve to document his journey into the wide world of modular synthesizers and pedals. While he plays in multiple more straightforward bands, Fay is no stranger to electronic music, releasing another album under the Pollution Salute name in 2020. However, Heavy Meadow is far more abstract and spacious than anything he’s previously released due to his exploration of new instruments.

“When I have a parameter like that, it gives me an incentive to dig, and modular synths are dense. There is so much functionality. It really is limitless,” Fay said. “If you want to gear your sounds a certain way, there are thousands of options. And if you don’t like it, you can pop it out and trade it online…

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The title Heavy Meadow (a pun on heavy metal) is in line with his other releases, such as 2017’s Ethereal For Breakfast. But the title also works to describe the music: very open and free-flowing, but with darker textures throughout. Even the title track features some uplifting guitar notes mixed with harsher glitches as a mix between the grounded and the abrasive. More and more layers of synthesized organ build on, making the song the grandest of the whole album.

“The difference in the way I make music with this, as opposed to writing a bass line and then playing drums over it, is that I have the capability to have bass, percussion, leads, swells, samples and then I have a ton of modulation that can take that stuff into a territory that I’d never realized I could before,” Fay said. “It’s all about happy accidents.”

Fay insists ambient music is not an end goal for this overall project. He plans to experiment more with rhythm and movement on subsequent releases, stating that the next installation is already more percussive.

Conceptually, he says he wants this series to be used “almost as an excuse” to dig into these instruments.

Of course, hearing someone toy and experiment with complex instruments is not going to be for everyone. But the results are

much more soothing than the unconventional approach might seem. However, considering it’s Tucson we’re talking about, Heavy Meadow should lend itself to a fair amount of interested ears.

“Tucson has always had a pretty welcoming art scene. People come out to shows and always have a good time,” Fay said. “There are a bunch of ambient artists in town like Ryan Chavira, Karima Walker and all sorts of people who are making ambient music, which at first glance seems like a very basic tenet. But there’s a wide variety of subgenres within it, and it takes this focus off structure and lends itself to a musical freedom.”

Fay is also part of Tucson’s own synthesizer and audio/visual arts community, Inner Freq, which hosts meet-ups and information about modular synthesizers. More information can be found on Instagram (@innerfrq) and YouTube.

“I think the desert is really unique. It has a special draw and is so open. People ascribe spirituality to the desert, and the whole Southwest has a vibe of introspection and landscapes that look otherworldly. There’s a vibe to living here that people gravitate towards,” Fay said. “I’m not a super spiritual person in that sense, but I do think Tucson lends itself to creativity and art in general.” ■

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UA doctor set to study how stress, pain and depression can drive nurses to medicate with cannabis

By David Abbott tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com SINCE THE START OF COVID-19, nurses have been under a lot of pressure as they work long hours in hazardous conditions to care for victims of the novel coronavirus.

They’ve been celebrated as heroes by most and targeted for abuse by a smaller group of anti-vaxxers, anti-mask zealots and even some political commentators.

There are signs within the health care community that the stress has led to

increased drug use and high rates of suicide in a profession that was already hard enough before the pandemic hit.

The data is thin on how nurses are coping with pain and stress, however, so University of Arizona assistant professor Jessica Rainbow, PhD. RN, has embarked on a study to find out the prevalence of drug use in the nursing community, focusing on cannabis and how it might affect nurses’ mental health and patient care.

“I was really interested in how nurses are using these substances in relation to when they’re working, because I think that’s a question we haven’t really explored,” Rainbow said. “We haven’t really done any studies of nurse cannabis use since it’s become more legal, so this is hopefully going to get at how prevalent it is.”

Rainbow hopes her study will lead to better working conditions for nurses, which would lead to improved care for patients.

Now that cannabis is legal in some form in 37 states with an estimated 3 million Americans using it medicinally, there are more opportunities for more Americans to have legal access to weed.

The two-year study that began in July is an extension of Rainbow’s prior work that

sought to explore and quantify physical and emotional pain nurses experience due to their working conditions. That study surveyed and interviewed more than 3,000 respondents who reported that they were experiencing an average of three pain sites, including mental and emotional pain.

While back pain is common from a career spent moving patients, mental health is increasingly seen as a problem that has led to high turnover in the nursing community and compromised quality of life for some in the field.

“My research really focuses on how we can improve the hospital work environment to improve nurse health and safety,” Rainbow said. “It was really interesting, just the breadth of pain that nurses had, because a lot of the prior work is focused on back pain. I think we all know nurses have back pain from moving patients, but we had nurses complaining of everything from psychological pain to some of that more musculoskeletal stuff like pain in their feet.”

This study will not only focus on cannabis use, but other coping strategies nurses use to deal with stress and pain in the workplace.

The UA College of Nursing received a

$207,924 grant from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Center for Regulatory Excellence, an organization that “funds research that advances the science of nursing policy and regulation and builds regulatory expertise worldwide,” according to a UA press release announcing the study.

“I think that the National Council of State Boards of Nursing is really interested in [knowing if] our nurses are going to work when they’re high,” Rainbow said.

“What we kept hearing in the surveys in these interviews was that nurses were doing all kinds of things, such as taking prescription medications, the minute they got home from their shift in response to the pain that they got that was generally aggravated by their work.”

The crisis in self-care has far-reaching implications, as suicide rates have been increasing in nurse populations, even while those in the profession deal with public perceptions that nurses, like members of the military, are superhuman and must soldier on despite constant pain and even despair in the workplace.

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in order to cope.

Prior studies have found that nurses have similar rates of substance use as the general population and are more at risk for abuse due to stress and attitudes toward substance use. COVID-19 has only served to increase stress, anxiety, depression, fatigue and burnout among nurses, but the impact of the pandemic on nurse cannabis and other substance use is currently unknown.

A recent study conducted at the University of Michigan analyzed data from the National Violent Death Reporting System regarding 159,372 suicides reported from 2007 to 2018, and found that there were 2,374 nurse-suicides during that time compared with 156,141 in the general population. Of those nurse suicides, 1,912 were women.

The suicide incidence rates per 100,000 in 2017-2018 among women were 17.1 for nurses, compared to 8.6 for the general population. Suicide incidence rates per 100,000 in 2017-2018 among men were 31.1 for nurses, compared to 32.6 for the general population, meaning that the suicide risk for female nurses was significantly higher.

“I’ve seen reports about how suicide rates are getting higher among nurses. It’s not really looking good,” Rainbow said. “I feel like it’s hard, because there’s so much discouraging news about continuing to not pass mask mandates and people not getting vaccinated, and the difficulties a lot of healthcare providers find themselves in. I do think it’s good in some ways that people are more aware of some of the work conditions that nurses work under.”

Rainbow has been a nurse since 2012 and earned her doctorate in 2018. She has been with UA for four years as an assistant professor and researcher. Her focus was as an ICU nurse during her “bedside” career, so she has not been subjected to the dynamics of the current situation, but she hopes her research results in substantive changes in the profession.

“I’m really hoping that this is something that leads to actually addressing some of these issues, because I think historically within nursing, it hasn’t been OK to not be mentally healthy,” she said. “If you have an issue, you’re not supposed to admit it.

Some of the studies I cited in this grant talked about how few nurses are in active treatment programs for substance use: It’s like .03% or something. We estimate 67% of nurses have substance abuse issues, but they’re not in treatment.”

Rainbow thinks a big part of that comes

from fear of talking about their own suffering for fear they will be castigated for admitting their issues.

“I’m hoping that we can reverse that stigma. We need to develop interventions to address the work issues that are often leading to these,” she said. “Whether it’s things in the work system that lead to pain, mental pain or mental exhaustion. That’s really where my program of research is focused.”

The study is a collaboration between the UA College of Nursing, the College of Medicine—Tucson and Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center, and will utilize both a cross-sectional survey and one-on-one interviews with nurses who self-report using cannabis.

NEWS NUGGETS SOCIAL EQUITY BLUES: The Arizona Department of Health Services has announced the dates for mandatory training required for prospective marijuana social equity program applicants.

The training offered by ADHS is the only recognized training for those seeking a social equity license to own and operate adult-use marijuana establishments under the social equity program approved by the passage of Prop 207.

This free virtual Social Equity Ownership Training will be held live Sept. 20-21, and will be available as a recorded session with live Q&A on Oct. 12-13. ADHS also will offer computer-based training from mid-October through mid-December.

ADHS warns prospective applicants to be wary of other entities that falsely claim to offer approved training.

The classes will be taught by industry experts, and include two days of content and education focused on a number of aspects of operating an adult-use marijuana business, including legal requirements, business practices, regulatory compliance, and fundraising, as well as marketing and strategic growth.

In addition to these required classes, ADHS will offer one-on-one support and clinics to help potential licensees with the application process and the chance to meet with instructors to get questions answered.

Applications for the social equity ownership program will be from Dec. 1-14, and a random drawing will be held to award the 26 licenses available. ■ For more information on the social equity program and to register for the required training, go to azdhs.gov/SocialEquity.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries mythologist Joseph Campbell advised us to love our fate. He said we should tell ourselves, “Whatever my fate is, this is what I need.” Even if an event seems inconvenient or disruptive, we treat it as an opportunity, as an interesting challenge. “If you bring love to that moment, not discouragement,” Campbell said, “you will find the strength.” Campbell concludes that any detour or disarray you can learn from “is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!” Few signs of the zodiac are inclined to enthusiastically adopt such an approach, but you Aries folks are most likely to do so. Now is an especially favorable time to use it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your brain contains one hundred billion nerve cells. Each cell has the potential to be linked with tens of thousands of others. And they are always busy. Typically, your grey matter makes a million new connections every second. But I suspect your number of connections will increase even beyond that in the coming weeks. Your most complex organ will be working with greater intensity than usual. Will that be a bad thing or a good thing? It depends on whether you formulate an intention to channel your intelligence into wise analysis about important matters—and not waste it in careless fussing about trivial details.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The brilliant Taurus dancer and choreographer Martha Graham spoke of “a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,” adding that “there is only one of you in all time.” She added, “It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.” But even if you do this very well, Graham said, you will nevertheless always feel “a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest” that will fuel you. This is the perfect message for you Tauruses to embrace in the coming weeks.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “You should have a sticky soul,” counsels author Elizabeth Berg. “The act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.” I especially endorse that attitude for you during the next four weeks, Leo. Your task is to make yourself extra magnetic for all the perceptions, experiences, ideas, connections, and resources you need most. By Sept. 23, I suspect you will have gained an infusion of extra ballast and gravitas.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There’s growing scientific evidence that we make ourselves stupid by complaining too much—or even by listening to other people complain a lot. Excessive negative thoughts drain energy from our hippocampus, a part of our brain that’s essential to problem-solving. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we should avoid dealing with difficult issues. But it does suggest we should be discerning about how many disturbing and depressing ideas we entertain. According to my reading of the omens, all this will be especially useful advice for you in the coming weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I sing like the nightingale whose melody is crowded in the too narrow passage of her throat,” wrote author Virginia Woolf.

That was an insulting curse for her to fling at herself. I disapprove of such behavior—especially for you in the coming weeks. If you hope to be in alignment with cosmic rhythms, don’t you dare say nasty things about yourself, even in the privacy of your own thoughts. In fact, please focus on the exact opposite: flinging praise and appreciation and compliments at yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The blogger at www-wlw. tumblr.com says the following are the top tender actions. 1. Fastening clothes or jewelry for your

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I’m a woman who recently went out on a third date with a man. I invited him back to my place and we started making out, which led to him going down on me. Moments later he took off his pants and to my surprise he had a micro penis. I was shocked and turned off. I did not want to continue, but knowing how sensitive men can be, I maintained a poker face, did my best to not let on that I was turned off, and he was able to orgasm. Is there a nice way to let someone know you do not want to continue to have sex because of their penis size? And is there a responsibility on the part of a person with a micro penis to disclose that fact before sex? I

think I would’ve been less turned off if I wasn’t so shocked.

—Smaller Men And Lessons Learned I don’t believe you, SMALL. I don’t think you would’ve been any less shocked or turned off if this guy brought up the size of his dick between the start of the first date and the end of the third. And if he had, SMALL, you would’ve written me a letter about this weird guy who started telling you about his small dick and ended your letter with a shocked, “Who does that?” (And I would’ve said, “Guys into SPH, because otherwise there’s no reason someone would bring that up in

companion. 2. Letting them rest their head on your shoulder. 3. Idly playing with their hands. 4.

Brushing a leaf out of their hair. 5. Locking pinkies.

6. Rubbing their back when you embrace. 7. Both of you wearing an item that belongs to the other.

Dear Libra, I hope you will employ these tender actions with greater frequency than usual in the coming weeks, Libra. Why? In my astrological opinion, it’s a ripe time to boost your Affection Quotient with the allies you care for the most.

the sunrise was there, behind a mountain. How many times the brilliant cloud piling up far off was already a golden body full of thunder!” Your assignment, Capricorn, is to imagine what is unfolding just beyond your perception and understanding. But here’s the twist: You must steer your mind away from inclinations to indulge in fear.

You must imagine that the events in the works are beautiful, interesting, or redemptive. If you’re not willing to do that, skip the exercise altogether.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Naturalist Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal, “I feel slightly complimented when nature condescends to make use of me without my knowledge—as when I help scatter her seeds in my walk—or carry burs and cockles on my clothes from field to field. I feel as though I had done something for the commonweal.” I mention this, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to carry out good deeds and helpful transformations in nature’s behalf. Your ability to collaborate benevolently with plants and animals and elemental forces will be at a peak. So will your knack for creating interesting connections between yourself and all wild things.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup,” wrote author Wendell Berry. I mostly agree with that sentiment, although I will also put in a good word for certain kinds of arguments.

There are moments when it’s crucial for your psychological and spiritual health that you initiate a conversation about delicate issues that might lead to a dispute. However, I don’t think this is one of those times, Aquarius. In my astrological opinion, picking dew-wet red berries is far more sensible than any argument. For further inspiration, read this testimony from actor Natasha Lyonne: “I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may have never heard of Sagittarian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931–1998). At age 16, she experienced a splash of acclaim with a show in Paris. Famous artists Pablo Picasso, Henry Matisse and George Braques came.

They drew inspiration from Mahieddine’s innovative use of color, elements from her Algerian heritage, and her dream-like images. Picasso even invited her to work with him, exulting in the fresh perspectives she ignited. But her art never received the full credit it warranted. In accordance with astrological omens, this horoscope is a small way of providing her with the recognition and appreciation she deserves. It also authorizes you to go out and get the recognition and appreciation you deserve but have not yet fully received.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For painter Vincent van Gogh, love wasn’t primarily a sentimental feeling.

Nor was it an unfocused generalized wish for health and happiness in those he cared for. Rather, he wrote, “You must love with a high, serious, intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence.” His love was alert, acute, active, and energized. It was animated with a determination to be resourceful and ingenious in nurturing the beloved. For van Gogh, love was always in action, forever moving toward ever-fresh engagement. In service to intimacy, he said, “you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more.” I hope you’ll make these meditations a top priority during the next seven weeks. ■

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Who knows what is unfolding on the other side of each hour?” asked Capricorn poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (translated

by Capricorn poet Robert Bly). “How many times

advance.”)

Look, dicks are a lot like labia: they come in all shapes and sizes, and you usually don’t know what you’re gonna get when you go to bed with someone for the first time. While it’s fine to have a preference for larger or smaller, you should be prepared for natural variance and prepared to roll with it. If you can’t bear the thought of winding up in bed with a guy whose dick is too small for you, SMALL, then solicit dick pics in advance of a first date. Or make a disclosure of your own: you’re a size queen who requires a guy to be packing at least [however many] inches. But if asking for dick pics and/or disclosing your dick preferences in advance seems too forward, SMALL, you’re under no obligation to fuck a guy if you’re not into his dick.

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sex just to spare someone else’s feelings. We should try to be considerate of other people’s feelings, of course, which sometimes means offering up an excuse, however transparently false it might be.

But you can get up and go whenever you like.

I’m married to a wonderful woman. I know that’s where the BUT comes in, but it’s the truth. She’s fantastic. The challenge is sex. My wife always struggled with physical intimacy. She doesn’t like to have her neck or ears touched or really any form of gentle touch. These were favorites of mine, but we were compatible in other areas, so it wasn’t a big deal. It got worse after our children were born, and now her body is almost totally off limits to me and I’m really struggling. I’ve communicated that sex is important to

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me and she makes a good faith effort, but it’s strictly intercourse. I miss foreplay.

I’ve tried to broach this subject and my wife gets very defensive. What are some baby steps I can propose?

—Touched Or Not There aren’t a lot of baby steps between someone not kissing your neck and someone kissing your neck, TON, so unless your wife is willing to get into therapy and work on identifying the root cause of her aversion to touch—and there may not be one—there’s not much you can do. She might just not like it. If things got worse after the kids arrived, perhaps things will improve once they’re older. And if most of the childcare responsibilities fall on your wife’s shoulders, well, she might be all touched out by the time you come for her neck.

But if you were sexually incompatible at the start of the relationship—if you never really clicked sexually—that’s a hard-bordering-on-impossible thing to reverse engineer years or decades in.

I find when I ride one of my dildos anally that my back pain will go away, or at the very least lessen. I know there are all kinds of great chemicals that get released when a person comes but is there more to this than that? Is it like acupuncture points, but in my ass? I’ve had physical issues with my back that physical therapy hasn’t been able to help. But stuffing my ass solved my back pain. Any insights?

—Anal Makes Everything Nice Maybe it’s physical, maybe it’s chemical, or maybe you’ve stumbled over (and impaled yourself on) a unique version of the placebo effect—only you’re taking dildos, not sugar pills. Don’t waste time wondering why this works, AMEN, just be thankful it does.

My husband and I are opening our relationship. I’m good looking enough to get a date easily, but my husband... well, he’s ridiculously sexy to me, and he’s had enough hookups in his life to know he’s attractive to other women. But he’s in his late thirties now and—there’s no delicate way to put this—ear hair, long eyebrow hairs, nose hairs, receding hairline, long chest hairs that creep up his neck. TOO MUCH STRAY HAIR EVERYWHERE! From 10 feet away he looks amazing but close he just looks unkempt. My question is this: how do I tell him? I’m all about body positivity but the kind of women he’s attracted to put time

and care into their appearance and I think he should do the same! Hinting has not worked. I love him as is but don’t want to listen to him complain that it’s tough for a “middle-aged guy” to find a date. His age is not the issue!

—Husband Is Not Trying Enough Really A lot of young straight guys think a casual disregard for their own looks is masculine and alluring. And it often works—until those ear and nose hairs start coming in.

At that point they think, “I’m not doing anything differently but I’m not getting attention like I used to!” To get that same kind of attention, of course, they need to start doing things differently, e.g., they need to adopt new grooming practices and start taking better care of themselves. My advice: stop hinting, HINTER, start telling.

I’m a young gay man who likes to be spanked hard. I tried dating nice guys, but they didn’t want to hurt me. Now I want to give kinky hookup apps a try, but I worry sadistic guys who do want to hurt me won’t be nice. I want to be hurt but I’m worried about being with someone who enjoys it too much. Does that make sense? I’m kind of stuck and could use a little push.

—Hate Extremely Limp Paddling You tried imploring vanilla nice guys to hurt you and that didn’t work, HELP, so it’s time to take a chance on kinky guys who do wanna hurt you. (That’s the push you wanted, right?) Some kinky people are assholes, of course, so use your best judgment and trust your gut. But I gotta say… some of the nicest guys I’ve ever met were sadists. It wasn’t just that these guys wanted to hurt me in safe, sane, and mutually pleasurable ways and that was nice of them. They were genuinely sweet. At first, I thought they might be overcompensating out of guilt, HELP, or, even worse, that their kindness was an act. But eventually I had to conclude that some sort of inverse relationship exists between being the kind of self-aware, self-actualized sadist who wants to do terrible things to someone who wants terrible things done to them, and just generally being a decent and thoughtful person. Now go get spanked by a guy who likes spanking you as much as you like getting spanked. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage.savagelovecast.com

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