I walked 9 miles in 90 degree weather to the Sanse (*huge* street festival) to show support to some local band I learned were playing tonight. I'm dead now.

To celebrate me sorting out the blog, I give you... a fresh post! A ridiculously monsterous Imperial Stout from Vault City - www.petedrinks.com/beer/vault-c...

I put on the news on TV this morning and I don't know how people do it on a daily basis. Hosts and guests "smiling broadly* as they discuss The Horrors.

This Wuthering Heights movie I keep seeing announced looks so awful that I don't think I can bring myself to watch it.

I'm drinking a beer and watching football in a very American bar, and somehow every last one of us is for the Bills.

I needed something green in me badly and had a cucumber, spinach, cilantro, mango and lemonade smoothie for lunch. 10/10, I feel my body reviving.

I will limit my pictures of footsies here, but I just love them.

Pedro Pascal as Prince Oberyn might be the hottest character to ever have been on a screen. #GOTRewatch

Fantastic day. I'm back home now, plan to get a buzz on, watch GOT, sleep in tomorrow. AMA?

I worked up quite an appetite swimming and walking all over in the heat. These are the best kidney beans I've had. Tostones con jueyes (plantain patties topper with stewed crab), bean soup, rice, seasoned chop. #FoodSky

Happy Friday!

“Serves 1, blissfully” 💜👸🏼

Watching GOT lulled by the waves, and two things: 1) The previous guest didn't log out of his account, I'm using it and I know he was a man because ZERO skinny drug ads (it's all I get). 2) The Joffrey wedding episode feels so good; imagine when our own decrepit, blond "Joffrey" kicks the bucket 😤

FULL FORCE FRIDAY:🆕January 16th 2⃣8⃣🎧 GIRLZEROTH - Fight Against Stigma 🇮🇩⚛️ 7 Track EP from Bandung, West Java, Indonesian Death Metal outfit⚛️ BC➡️underground-syndicate.bandcamp.com/album/girlze...⚛️ #Girlzeroth #FightAgainst #DeathMetal #FFFJan16 #KMäN

Exhausted , ravenous, and asurdly happy with my dine in choices. #FoodSky

The apartment is older than a forest, but:

Shout-out to the ladies imbibing at 10 am by my gate at the airport.

How am I supposed to choose one album only when there's Dissection, Amorphis, Borknagar, Anata, Psycroptic, Unexpect...?

Without fail, the day I *need* to get up early is the day I find myself in a morning fog and wanting to sleep more. I was fast asleep at 7 am when the alarm went off (completely insane for me, your 5:30 am lady) and my brain is in full fog mode despite a strong coffee.

Just thinking about elephant shrews. Look at those little guys with their little trunks. We share the world with them. Incredible.

I love tuna salad at its simplest. If you want to make it more of a salad with other pantry items, here's something I love to do: chop canned artichoke hearts, mix 1:1 with tuna, add chopped gherkins & roasted red pepper. Onion (raw or cocktail) too, if you like it. #FoodSky

To everyone silently suffering in a bad relationship: may you know the happiness of divorce.

Looking at my 21.5"×13"×9" backpack for 8 days, where I have also put my body bag so that it doesn't bother me while commuting: "I am grossly over-packing". It's not even full! #sigh

Book 3 of 2026 was The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey. My candid opinion: while the prose itself wasn't notable, the two stories I've read so far were compelling and richly woven, and brought me to a fascinating time and place that I know very little about. On to the 2nd Mistry Mystery!

I googled this and I'm softly laughing in bed at their macros. 16g protein! 2.5g creatine! You're my breakfast’s bitch, mancereal.

Timeline cleanse: throwback to my spin on Esterházy, with 12 layers of hazelnut dacquoise and a dulce de leche mousseline filling. Still the most involved thing I have ever made. #FoodSky

Streaming ads: Gamble! Lose weight you absolute Moby Dick! Gamble, it's amazing to throw away money! Get skinny ffs!

Timeline cleanse: throwback to my spin on Esterházy, with 12 layers of hazelnut dacquoise and a dulce de leche mousseline filling. Still the most involved thing I have ever made. #FoodSky

Short white women, we have a duty. Be a Karen against the fascists. Remind them of their mother. Flick your eyebrow derisively. Say you’re disappointed. Tell them how much more successful their brother is. Purse your lips and sigh. Ask them if they’re really going out in that.

Hearing about the latest stories of my dating lady friends and it is 🌈amazing🌈 how many dudes withhold and misrepresent the facts regarding their true circumstances. #UselessReflections

Roast a whole head of cauliflower, carrots and a chopped onion. Use for salad and/or curried creamy soup later. #FoodSky

Last RT notwithstanding, this is me. Do say it if you feel it. Seek it or be open to it if you want it. I wish I did not experience love towards humans at all. A little fondness for friends above a general flat sympathy for all good people is my ideal.

How often do you tell people you love them? It's always been hard for me to get out, I was never told I was loved growing up so it's something I've had to learn. I'm not just talking about romantic partners, we have great capacity to love other humans...don't trap it inside, say the words often.

Back from workout, everything hurts. Plan to stay in, not spend any $, hydrate, moisturize, 💅🏼 and *gasp* eat 3 meals today.

Today I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the Surrealism at 100 exhibition and had my love for Remedios Varo and the Three Witches of Surrealism rekindled. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...

My heart 💔 The bridges going in and out of the boroughs/city will forever be my favorite visual of NYC.

GOT rewatch, S2 finished: still most attracted to Tyrion, The Hound, Tywin, Stannis. Zero interest in the cute bois, except Jaqen H’qar. #UselessReflections

Mongrel hot egg noodles. Weigh 1 egg, multiply the grams by 1.5 and that's the flour amount you'll need for 1 good serving of fresh noodles. Soak in boiling water for 30 s, mix with my premade tan tan ramen paste that I shared the other day, roasted chopped Brussels sprouts, scallions. #FoodSky

I don't do cereal, but I will eat a hot tub of spinach artichoke dip. This is how I got my passport.

This thread is *fascinating* to me, growing up in a largely non-breakfast cereal culture. We were subject to the exact same aggressive commercials; we even ASKED mom to buy stuff to try. But we could never *really* get into any of it.

Dinner is birria tonight. #FoodSky 🍜🍽️

Moved to the US. Lost my voice. Was on meds that prevented me from drinking. Watched the entire world cup sans beer. Learned to drive. Volunteered lots. Ate sushi for the first time. Visited Mexico. I remember 2010 very vividly.

I have 8 servings of birria, meat and broth, (they may become 4 🫣) portioned and stored. Happy Friday to me! #FoodSky

I never know what "stayed here" means as opposed to "visited here" but in my case, I choose it to mean "I have been there for more than a couple consecutive weeks but less than a full year for reasons different than just tourism".

Tonight’s bedtime fragrance is my fourth Tokyomilk Dark: La Vie, La Mort. Cloying on application, but very quickly tones down to subtle sweetness and assertive jasmine. As if decaying flowers gave way to blooming ones. Super interesting to my nostrils. Good night! margotelena.com/products/la-...

Book #2 of 2026 was The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey. Murder mystery around a "first woman solicitor in Bombay in British-occupied India in the 1920s". So much fun! A light but very culturally rich book; made me want to visit India for the first time in my life.

It's a trip to be building a life from scratch. People who want to hang out with me for me, not because I'm somebody's wife or in the same group as somebody who's hot. I felt this way in Berlin for the first time in 2005. Now it's my second time feeling it. #Philadelphia rocks.

Any flamenco death lovers? No? Maybe you'd be if you gave this a try! #MetalSky

Confessions on a Dance Floor is untouchable.

Flight to London booked for #Fortress26. Time to start thinking about the #Eurotrip2026!