So happy! Green stuff! Look who's been filling up. Rains & vegetation about 2 mos. late, but #DesertTortoises that came out from their burrows this year are stocking up. This guy between cereal-bowl & grapefruit-sized. Right outside my great-room window. That's Squeezy meowing.

Despite loving comics and enjoying pencil sketches of architects and artists, I always say I can’t draw. But I guess I mean “I *don’t* draw.” I’ve read Lynda Barry! I sat in on a Frank Santoro workshop at the Beguiling! I know I SHOUlD just pick up a pencil… but never do.

Very few adults draw, probably even fewer elderly folks. I love seeing people’s drawings though, it’s a tiny window into themselves. I wish more grownups made it a habit to draw more regularly

This record just appeared in my Apple Music* & I have only listed to three songs but am already assuming it is Album of the Year. SPRINTS forever. *yeah yeah, I am also buying it in Bandcamp today and also bought a ticket to the Toronto show and will get a t-shirt and god knows what else; relax 🙄

Truly Lex Luthor (but bumbling) picking a fight with, like, Cobra.

everybody meet this sweet old lady I adopted from snake discovery!! she's 31 years old, according to the person that surrendered her, and a former class pet in an elementary school. I am so excited to be her retirement home for however long she has left! 🐍

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Polite counterpoint: This book, and its sequel, rules. I could (and have) just get lost in Tomohiro Tsugawa's cartooning on a purely aesthetic level, but I also thoroughly enjoyed this as narrative collection of short stories as well.

Have tickets to watch my beloved/beleaguered Toronto FC take on Inter Miami (wife was born & raised in Buenos Aires; iykyk). I would love it if #tfclive snaps their tying streak with a giantkilling shock win, but what I am really there for: to watch Richie push Suarez and Busquets into meltdowns. ⚽

re: the elephants drawn by people who had never seen elephants, it is ESSENTIAL to click through to the master interactive, where you can enlarge each successively worse elephant (and link to the original source!!)

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

A tremendous, sad loss for his friends & for Comics—Elijah’s cartooning was funny & so well-drawn, even when the subject matter was uncomfortable or shockingly ribald. (Used to love/wince at his Hubert.) Jezebel reminded me of Kyle Baker; I’ve no higher compliment. Gutted reading his friends’ words.

Road rage but it’s me in the fast lane at the pool, trying to do front crawl amongst people approximating breaststroke and I am not honking or yelling at them, only getting progressively angrier with each exhale. 🏊

I understand there were several printing errors in the new #PWI500 (embarrassing). The real top 10 wrestlers: 1. Zack Sabre Jr. 2. El Desperado 3. Kosei Fujita 4. The Great Karp 5. Hiromu Takahashi 6. Psycho Mike 7. Gabe Kidd 8. Yuya Uemura 9. Evil 10. Speedball Mike Bailey/Kevin Knight (tie) 🤼

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

This is a fascinating read… 🧵

I wonder who first realized if you display a chocolate bar vertically you can charge three times as much for it.

Going to the library in a bit. Please tell me your favourite recent fiction (with, uh, relatively short chapters). Please? 📚

Baby alligator in the morning sun. Southeast Texas, September 2025 #Alligators #Herps #Reptiles #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Babies #TexasStateParks #NaturePhotography

Like a bird On the wire Like a drunk In a midnight aisle I have tried In my way To crunch cheese.

Go buy this!

(It’s ok; my dad was born and raised in San Daniele del Friuli—I’m allowed to share.)

Inconceivable Mooseness Brandy Saturley 2024

this exists it is called thinking

kneecap's response to being banned from Canada.

#Breaking: Canada bans Irish band Kneecap over its alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah

This is wonderful. 🦀

Toronto the Good.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: September 17, 2025 Katydid Species unknown Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae By Tomás Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil #arthropodPOTW

There is good music being made all across Canada, but Québec is really flourishing right now because that's what happens when you actually fund the arts.

Pretty much everyone I talked to at Polaris last night is a big Population II head. Québécois prog rock is where it's at. (flashing lights warning for the video)

Remember that time god’s coolest bassist joined Greenpeace as an anonymous assistant chef, occupied an Arctic Ocean oil rig, was arrested, and then spent two weeks in jail without ever telling anyobe who he was? Psyched for his new Gorillaz work.

YES YES YES

Just pleocomid things

“[W]e decided to cut subplots that have little or no direct relevance to the main scenario.” Nooooooo… this is not the Dragon Quest Way. (Still, they have apparently added new subplots and it also looks absolutely gorgeous, and yes I am still getting it.)

@thistleburr.bsky.social a friend was asking for my help in identifying, but I am but a dilettante at insects. Box elder? Milkweed bug?

Logo 2 is THE logo, but 3 is the one I love. Credited as Todd Klein in the article (probably true because he did it all), but I will always remember Tim Harkins' interior lettering on Hawkworld--it was the first time I liked the titles and onomatopoeia enough to look up who was responsible.

This is impossible because I saw it in theatres and am still very, very young and vital.

Lē’ahi from Waikiki, watercolor on paper. For legal paperwork reasons I had to touch US soil, luckily for me Hawaii was the closest/cheapest option. Was only there for 48 hours, but good to be reminded of the abundance of beauty in our world, despite all of the ugliness being forced upon us.

Leviathan

While the cats are away (my kids are asleep and my wife is watching the Emmys), this mouse is gonna play (I just made some herbal tea and am going downstairs to watch New Japan Pro Wrestling).

The kingfisher noticed the spider on the end of its beak and managed to dislodge it with a shake of the head #photography #birds #kingfisher

Viceroy: the opposite of imposter’s syndrome (talented Mr Ripley’s syndrome?). Aspirational, really.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age out later this year... such a thrill to put this series together, oh my goodness are you in for a treat :) Hopefully news on events and publicity coming soon! Sloths, cats, rhinos, glyptodonts AND SOOOO MUCH MORE!!

If Square Enix thinks reimagining Dragon Quest 3, 1 & 2, and now, the best one of them all, DQVII will make us not notice that they are gonna take a decade to get around to Dragon Quest 12, then they are absolutely right and I am here for it. This looks amazing.

They’re ok ☺️

Dropped some COATIS 🦊