One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

gathering up all of the generals in your country, telling them their job is to break shit and kill people, and then refusing to pay them for the foreseeable future is the sort of behavior that would make Caligula think twice

getting course readings from the public library >>>>>>>>

it is so boss to walk down to the beach in the morning with my coffee and my folding chair and read the newspaper down there in the morning. feels decadent.

When I'm scheduling an email or text message to send in the morning (because I don't want to bother someone late at night and/or don't want somebody to know how late I'm up) I always schedule odd times (8:04 AM instead of 8, for example) so it doesn't seem scheduled

my "critical methodology" is that I read things, and then I think about them

there are three (3) cats that hang out outside my apartment complex and I have made friends with two (2) of them

juggalo esotericism

meet someone → tell them about the rock and roll scene in 60s Cambodia → offer to send them a few tracks over email → friend for life rinse and repeat

do NOT throw down in a CVS managed by "Ken Battle"

"Italo Calvino" = "Calvinist Italian"

Under my administration we captured 3 gray aliens and 2 green

realizing now that I don't really understand water towers. there's water in there? why?

telling californians about the ypsilanti water tower

there's a little spell I like to cast when I jaywalk across a busy street. (I'm pretty aggressive toward motorists as a pedestrian). I say, "One two three, don't hit me," and then cars don't hit me. Sometimes I use this spell while driving too.

Theoretically I don't really believe in ghosts: my general understanding of how the world works is I think pretty robust and useful, and it does not have much room for that kind of thing. But, experientially, the last place I lived was clearly haunted as shit. Everyone who came over sensed it.

Maoism (French)

me when I don't understand some youngster's hip lingo: I don't understand your hip young lingo

Fried plantains: I could eat fried plantains forever

Murray Bookchin thought the exercise of political freedom—in the sense of enacting that freedom as well as strengthening it in a manner akin to physical exercise—amounted to an endless series of meetings. And while I don't love being in meetings all the time still I do it because he was right.

I went to see UNCUT GEMS in theaters with my mom, who hated it because there was "too much yelling." That's always struck me as a classic "mom opinion"

sending my mom a picture of how I'm dressed for the "first day of nineteenth grade"

People can be funny about it when you aren't on instagram.

Finally became one of those physical planner girlies. We're talkin' five or six different pens for color-coded scheduling notes. All my life I've relied on my freakishly good memory, but I think I might just have too much going on for that now. Life under fascism makes type-A personalities of us all

The king has come home.

just now noticing that all three of my classes this quarter are in the same room

An aside: Imagine having Searle as your predatory landlord trying to evict you by sliding letters under your door. You respond to the letters w/ your own missives, saying you'll leave. But then you don't leave. The cops show up & you explain that you were simply outputting symbols according to rules

Old man interrupts my reading at the park to ask if I played softball as a kid. (??). "Tall girls should play softball," he says. I'm like, I know it man. But while I'm cool as hell now, I was a real dweeb until about age 24. So no, I didn't play softball. "Well, it's still nice to be tall," he says

reading Aristotle for the first time

I think one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in academia over the last few years was treating tenure and academic freedom as a guaranteed right and not a labor relation. Had more understood it as the latter perhaps we would have been better prepared to protect it

they should invent a shazam for monkeys. like if i'm watching tv and there's a monkey on my tv i should be able to use an app that tells me what monkey it is

I've been recklessly deploying "sammitch" as a pronunciation of "sandwich"

went to a bar and behaved oddly (tried to eat a too-large sandwich with one hand as I read a book on the other) AS IS MY RIGHT

tonight's Mariners Dodgers game... baseball God is punishing me for posting this...

We should all of us try to get some experience governing if we expect to win. And I do expect to win, not despite but because of everything. But I also think that, in the long run, to wind up like the dog that catches the car might be worse than losing at the outset—if we can avoid that, we should.

just applied to some vacant county government advisory board positions--wish me luck!

if I was invited to some kind of "Riyadh Literary Criticism Festival" I would not go, even if they offered to pay me a lot of money

told my mom that I plan on escaping the cycle of suffering and rebirth at the end of this lifetime and she laughed at me. "I don't think so," she said.

Regular test to see if @moderation.bsky.app is more prudish than the Victorians. If they auto-label this 1900 trick film as "graphic" you know they still are.

For a long time I thought NIGHT COURT was a fake teevee show that they made up for 30 ROCK. I thought HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS was fake too. And in defense of the conclusions I reached as a child, these both do seem like "fake things."

I notice that people on the east coast are always like, "it's getting pretty late. I better go to bed." This post made by west coast gang.

Tubi needs to relocate from San Francisco to LA so I can work there. The hell I'm gonna move to the bay

Tubi really is the king of all streaming services. They've got BLUE VELVET on here. They've got THE THIRD MAN. They've got CLUELESS, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, and like four Bruce Lee movies. Unreal how good their catalogue is in comparison to everyone else.

Scrolling through Tubi's "Recently Added" section and sooo many of these movies are also labeled "leaving in [4-7] days." Classic Tubi to license shit like THE FIFTH ELEMENT for exactly one (1) week or so

Give me the most on-sale wine you've got. Ugh. No. This looks disgusting. What's the second most on-sale wine you've got? I don't want this either. Okay. I'm looking to spend twenty bucks or less. What's the best cab I can get here for that

I should be allowed to drink on the beach. I'm agnostic about the prohibition overall but certainly there should be a carveout for ol' Rosie.

BARAGON: fucked up monster guy who fights Godzilla BARRAGÁN: coolest architect of the 20th century Know the difference! It could save your life.

[stand-up] Can you imagine if Emily Dickinson watched MIDSOMMAR? I think it would go a little something like this: "I wonder if the parents check/ the batteries on their/ carbon monoxide detector—/ or if they do not care" [The crowd boos, hurls tomatoes. A huge vaudeville hook yanks me offstage]