When the quake hit, I was sitting in bed reading @jdbrecords.bsky.social's forthcoming book Re-Animator, which contains lots of references to horror movies like The Exorcist and Poltergeist, and as the bed started to shake I thought "is this book in Sensurround?"

Some of us were already awake and merely jolted.

Nothing like an earthquake at three in the morning to get the adrenaline pumping.

Why do earthquakes always wait till around three am to strike.

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It's too late.

‘A Grammy Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire’: How to Watch the Special Event Live Online

Never forget

This song inspired a very detailed Venn diagram.

Who’s your ultimate dinner party? Six people, living or dead. You just get to watch. Or participate. Whatever. Mine: Lina Wertmuller Theresa Harris Basho Ben Vereen Jean Genet Etel Adnan

They are shooting fear gas

If you dream about work they should have to pay you

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As it should be. Freedom of expression is foundational to all our other rights.

BREAKING: A court ruled that the federal government can't pick and choose among viewpoints when deciding who gets a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. We took the Trump administration to court to fight artistic censorship — and won.

Three hummingbirds at the feeder. Every day they helped me. Some large beauty.

A reminder that TFG has never once had to go get groceries and thinks of the word groceries as "old fashioned."

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

I'm ready. Bags packed.

Trump is destroying and destabilizing people's lives in an effort to control powers that rightfully belong to Congress.

Now seems like an excellent time to support independent media, like the new Bay Area journalism collective @coyotemedia.org. Smart coverage including arts and sports. Looks to be both hard-hitting and fun, a great combo. I just subscribed, highly recommend. www.coyotemedia.org/hello-from-c...

My series of oyster oil paintings 1) Plate of Oysters, La Cabane 57, Arcachon Bay France, 20″x16″, 2019 2) Plate of Oysters, Ape Vino e Cucina, Alba Italy, 16″x20″, 2024 3) Two Oysters, Middle Brow Bungalow, Chicago IL, 16"x16", 2024 4) Plate of Oysters, Venteux, Chicago IL, 20"x20", 2025 #art

Finished another Agatha Christie Miss Marple adventure, "4:50 From Paddington," which had much less of Miss Marple in it than I thought it would. High Hopes for the next one, "The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side."

With the inspiring name of ‘The Big Oak' 🙄 this Southern Live Oak chilling in Thomasville, Georgia is older than the town, state & country it lives in Photo: Ken Badgley

If there was a fish detective, he could be named Hercule Poisson

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My mother is 85 today. Still likes boats.

All respect to the mountain.

I’m shook anew!

spermy heaps

I just found out there's a new @angelaflournoy.bsky.social book and I am ready for it.

Nicholas Boggs joins Full Bio to discuss his new biography, BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY. Listen here:

Favorite Redford movies: The Hot Rock Three Days of the Condor All the President's Men Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid The Candidate The Natural Brubaker Spy Game The Chase The Great Gatsby

May they get to be boyfriends in heaven.

Goodbye to him. ❤️

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RIP Sundance.

Oh damn. What a man. ❤️‍🩹

"And there on that common, humble bed I had love's body, had those intoxicating lips, red and sensual ..." One Night by C. P. Cavafy 🔥

Every day is a struggle to remain fun and flirty as events continue to occur

Y’all, I hate to be the town crier, but when I wake up tomorrow morning, I’m gone need for everybody to have sounded the alarm about this proposed House bill to revoke the passports of U.S. citizens over “political speech.” Okay? Great.

About 50 protesters, some in devil costumes, gathered at S.F.’s Commonwealth Club as Peter Thiel began an Antichrist lecture series.

Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Two great films I watched this week and one good one. The Great Gabbo To Catch a Thief A Woman of Paris

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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." -- Gertrude Stein

Step aside, Moby Dick, a new best first line of literature just dropped

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Giants are smokin hot tonight. Already up by three runs. Here with the brilliant @randallmann.bsky.social