Things I have eaten in London, Day 8 Cardamom bun and coffee from Lever and Bloom Char siu bao from Joy Bao Half pint at Bloomsbury Tavern Half pint at the airport Until next time, London! I miss you already.

I am home after nine days away and Mym has not stopped meowing.

Things I have eaten in London, Day 7 Masala omelet on roti (my daily breakfast, coffee not pictured) Cappuccino and mille feuille at Harrod's Pork pie from Harrod's food hall (first dinner, early) Kimchi fried rice part 2, this time with complementary house made kimchi (second dinner, late)

This is Cosimo, he is four and half years old

The only place I've ever been afraid to wear my "Protect Trans Kids" tshirt is in London. I'm sitting here wondering if I should put a different shirt on before I go out and about for the day.

Things I have eaten in London, Day 6 Beef patty and beer at Spitalfields Pint and crisps at a pub in Aldgate at a friend's gig Shredded duck pancakes at Chop Chop in the basement of the Hippodrome Casino Victoria sponge cake I've been eating three bites at a time (ongoing)

Trip to the @vaginamuseum.bsky.social today!

Tired and lazy day today, I slept pretty well last night or so I thought, it was nice and cool. I feel like I woke up in the middle of REM sleep, like my brain hasn't defragged.

Oh man. This is the first week of the year I've worked sandals and it is absolutely bandaid season. My feet are cut to ribbons.

Iced coffee

Things I have eaten in London, Day 5 Kubba haleb from Juma Kitchen in Borough Market - minced lamb in a saffron rice dumpling that's fried so the shell is crispy Dan Dan soup with house-made la mian noodles from Lanzhou Lamian Noodle Bar

Aurora Perrinau is in this play I'm seeing!

I would simply throw a silver-threaded blanket over the haunted mirror that Tony Blair comes from and ring it with salt so that he can no longer communicate with our realm

Things I have eaten in London, Day 4: Burger and fries (and beer) from Meatliquor Mutton pepper fry with garlic naan from Dishoom

The water in London, or at least in my hotel, makes my hair HUGE.

"who can afford to be gay at THOSE prices?"

Things I have eaten in London, Day 3: Kimchi fried rice with minced pork from Bab n Suul

Again, straight from Delaney Hall in Newark NJ: ICE just tear gassed Senator Andy Kim.

Did they sit some fucking tweaker next to me? Come on man.

I don't know what lying liar told me London doesn't have a post-theater dining scene, Chinatown is hopping.

Tee hee!

Mother Courage and Her Children at the Globe Theater

No Helen of Troy was probably not Kenyan, but I am more certain that Odysseus would not have been from Boston so I guess we'll all need a little suspension of disbelief when watching this modern film adaptation of a 2800 year old work of fiction.

Oh cool, I have insomnia here on vacation too!

#nfotd IT'S NEVER OVER: JEFF BUCKLEY

A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe

Things I have eaten in London, Day 2: Za jian noodles with minced chicken, and beer (a very nice low alcohol IPA) from a restaurant called Noodle and Beer

YO NINETY FOUR DEGREES

Things I have eaten in London, Day 1 * ham and cheese pastry, flat white * Gregg's sausage roll - it was ok, not sure what the hype is all about * Mr Kipling's Bakewell tart - I've been coming to London for 35 years and I've never had them, cherry-almond is a great combo * Fish and chips

The day after his Late Show finale, Stephen Colbert hosts a public access show in Monroe, MI. "It's been an excruciating 23 hours since I've been off the air."

Bruh

#nfotd BLACK SWAN The film inspired by Hudson Williams' Met Gala makeup!

So I just got hit with the estradiol shortage, I have one dose left and boy I sure hope the get it back in stock soon so I don't go through that shit again.

40 degree temperature swing in a day and a half, it was 90 on Wednesday and I slept with three blankets last night including a heavy wool one.

He just posted a *second* book and between the time I clicked the hold button and the time the hold acknowledgement came back, my wait went from 5 weeks to 17.

Aahhhhh I will not be here for this but the @thecoolidge.bsky.social is showing "Move Ya Body", about the birth of House music in Chicago, with the director there to discuss it! You should go!

London, your hotels don't have air conditioning in them I don't think! Oh I am fucked.

Dean looks like the villain in an 80s teen movie with that blond dye job. #OffCampus

Hudson Williams just posted on Insta about a book he was reading and my library mega-network - 8 regional library networks across the whole state - suddenly has an 16 week waiting list *at the earliest*.

Its going to be *89 degrees* in London on Monday?!? Are you shitting me with this?

This is going to be like a three-shower day, isn't it?

Instead of making The Mandalorian and Grogu, Disney should have just put out a two hour video of Werner Herzog talking about Baby Yoda

Mym is creeping around and staring at the wall in my living room. There's a critter in my apartment, isn't there?

OK this other hockey romance on Amazon hooked me. Off Campus I think its called. I'm invested in Hannah and Garrett, who is smitten even though he can't even admit it to himself.

New research from Yale and Johns Hopkins identifies microvascular endotheliopathy (inflammation and damage to small blood vessels) as a primary driver of long COVID brain fog. The study indicates that vascular damage from the initial infection leads to long-term neuroinflammation.

Yo. This better just be allergies. I leave for vacation on Friday.

Kim! Chi! Fried! Rice! *clap clap clapclapclap*