Made it through two nights of high school reunion stuff completely sober for the first time after getting embarrassingly wasted at all the prior ones, and it's so great getting home and not regretting a single thing I said or did.

Reunion has top-shelf open bar and the only NA options are sodas and mixers. 🙄

FYI, decided not to go with the slip dress for the reunion party

I appreciate UGA not making this game stressful today. My week didn’t need that

The running back on my high school football team ran for 280 yards last night in the big rivalry game, and it was the most insane thing I've seen in a long while. He's really, REALLY good.

Daily Memphian writer Dan Conaway quit yesterday, allegedly bc his bosses wouldn't run a column critical of Trump sending in National Guard to Memphis. (Editor Eric Barnes says in comments it's not what happened, fwiw.) www.facebook.com/bruce.vanwyn...

Heading to night 1 of my first high school reunion since I got sober and I have like zero anxiety about it?! Drunk me would have been drunk before leaving the house to cope with all the feels.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

I can’t really say the bad guys are too cartoonish when the bad guys currently running things are somehow even more cartoonish. But it’s a fantasy of resistance where no one gets hurt except the bad guys, and that felt off. But also that’s why people are loving it, I think?

So OBAA is a beautiful film and a lot of fun and expertly paced — the fastest three-hour film I’ve seen in ages! I do feel like it’s a hashtag-resistance fantasy, tho, and people are loving it in the same way Fight Club hit that Gen X “never sell out” nerve.

Ok let‘s go see what the fuss is about

Sorry for the LinkedIn posting here. But, like, wow, I actually am capable and *good* at all these things I wasn't ever allowed to do before!

This year has been a lot of "faking it til I make it." Except turns out I haven't actually had to fake it, I know how to do all the things — I just had zero confidence in myself and my skills after years of a highly critical micromanaging supervisor and a position that didn't allow me to grow.

The way my cat cries in pain and agony of starvation when it has been at most two hours since he ate something

Going to see "One Battle After Another" tonight before it leaves the good IMAX screen (and because I think my back can finally handle it). Really excited.

This cover is so so great

The one time I’ve been to Chez Panisse, Goodall was there too (not with me obvs), and the way the servers and other diners were so excited about it was adorable. It was like she was the biggest Hollywood star, and we were blessed just to be near her

“when they tell you who they are, believe them “

Must read for the book world from @defector.com and something I would have cited the hell out of in Art of Libromancy if it'd been out before I wrote it. tl;dr: Publishing is always ideological, especially when we claim it's not.

Hire me! And/or subscribe to my Substack where you can read both depressing and funny essays, like this one! carigervin.substack.com/p/unhinged

Whatever would we have done without these 219 "special deputized" federal agents?

Well the "solid" contract work that was supposed to be 20-30 hrs/wk thru the end of the year and has had almost no work for me the past month+ just officially cancelled my contract, so if you have any writing/editing/proofing/etc needs, I am open for work! cariwadegervin.com

Has he been watching Peacemaker and thinking it's real?

The mice have come back in the house and I guess they’re active right now and the dogs want AT THEM

ICYMI, I wrote a a little bit about the current state of dating apps (but not like that). carigervin.substack.com/p/unhinged

Oh thank god it’s Bad Bunny and not Adele! Actually a great choice, excited for it

The most hilarious possible outcome

Reminder: It's a gorgeous fall day and you don't need to read or think about anything any dumb pundit says, unless you're getting paid specifically to do so. Go outside! Or don't! Just get offline!

ICYMI, I wrote a a little bit about the current state of dating apps (but not like that). carigervin.substack.com/p/unhinged

it never left for the real ones

And now the AC upstairs is broken. Great, great night.

What a dumb dumb game

How can we not put any pressure on the QB at all??????

So so frustrating

I really need the backstory of this friendship.

Put the Uga jersey on Rizzo and look what happened!

Resigned that we are going to lose. It’s ok. It happens. Every year.

Our defense is the Keystone Kops

I guess if UGA can’t pull it together soon, I’ll at least get to go to bed early?

STATEEEEEEEEE

College kickers!

I just almost stepped on a giant snake right outside the house and I am not ok

So I bought new-but-90s-retro slip dress to potentially wear to hs reunion bc I thought it’d be fun in an ironic way but not sure if I love it on me? But maybe I just need to style it?

Ok, I wrote the post about online dating. carigervin.substack.com/p/unhinged

Ok, I wrote the post about online dating. carigervin.substack.com/p/unhinged

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

RISE AND SHINE AND GOOOOOOOOO DAWGS!

So unfair the new 3-hour PTA movie is out on a weekend when I'm recovering from a back procedure and can't sit upright comfortably for three hours. SO. UNFAIR.

This is not a spoiler, it literally opens the show. And to be clear, I think the postponing is dumb (obvs). Just wondering about the thinking (or lack thereof) behind it all

Wild that Apple TV postponed airing a TV show about tracking white hate groups bc of the shooting but not Slow Horses, which opens this season with a mass shooting. Is it just bc it’s a British shooting and that doesn’t count?