thinking of buying a ticket to Suzie Toot's one-woman show, "Suzie With A 'Z'," in St. Paul, Minn.

got a Butterfinger Blizzard

friends took me to the 92nd annual Raspberry Festival in Hopkins, Minnesota, the "Raspberry Capital of the World"

me searching "Duluth" bc of wildfires has caused me to get targeted ads for horrible items the retail chain Duluth Trading Company offers and unfortunately I need these

I love, love, love watching drag queens lip sync to Barbra Streisand songs, she's never been one to make a lot of Dance Moves while she sings in concert so all my sense of how they Move Across A Stage (except for ones she did on film, natch) comes from drag numbers

Five Guys will never ever put any lettuce on your shit unless you specifically ask for it

(btw I do think you could pick up this Canada All Stars season even if you haven't watched all the Canada seasons, that's an option for you if you want)

Canada's Drag Race All Stars is shaking up to be one of the finest most entertaining installments of the RuPaul cinematic universe in some time

TIL both that "BMO" means "Bank of Montreal / Banque de Montréal" AND that "BMO" is pronounced "BEE-mo"

thankful to cigarettes for seasoning my body to be largely unfazed by wildfire exhaust

it's been hot, dry, and smoky in Minnesota, and these are just the times when you're glad you plant natives! this is Partridge Pea, a native legume, which means it fixes it's own nitrogen in the roots so it can grow and thrive in totally unamended soils, with tons of flowers and pretty ferny leaves

have recently discovered to my delight that the newspaper in Duluth, Minn. still publishes several crusty boomer columns

never planned on being the kind of person that has to drive to the goddamn mall to go for a walk, say what you will about Minnesota winters but you can wear mittens and breathe the air

need a night in a video game hotel rn

[Real Housewives tune] the air quality in Minnesota and I have one thing in common ... we're terrible

AQI of 382 in South Minneapolis is very strange looking at night, hard to photograph because the smoke is at all levels of the air, even close to the ground, but you can really see the throw pattern of every single streetlight visually. campfire odor is overpowering on the nose

depressing PSA that the current air quality readings map from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency actually maps sites nationwide and with a clear gradient so you can bookmark it wherever you call home www.pca.state.mn.us/air-water-la...

when Michelle Visage said "you're a comedy terrorist, you can fly the plane but you can't land it" to Joslyn Fox of Worcester, Mass. in S6E8 of mainline RuPaul program

she doesn't get the same respect as her sisters but these days of summer where the temperature never drops into habitable range are the time to see what you can do in the microwave

here's a photo of the DMV office in the Minnesota town nearest the Boundary Waters (the vast wilderness where the wildfire smoke is coming from) but if you need to talk about it, please note that it is spelled Ely (E-L-Y) but pronounced "EE-lee," that's two long "ē"s

genuinely obsessed with this Tove Lo video that feels like it was assembled out of items found in a lost steamer trunk

diva summit on this purple coneflower

TIL that Target as "TAR-jay" goes back to the first store in Roseville, Minn. and they once sold a shoe line themselves called "Miss Targé"

Confessions II's "My Sins Are My Savior" has a feat. credit to Belgian rapper Stromae, but I haven't seen much talk about how he also has one on a new Tove Lo single, "des fleurs," which has a remarkable stop-motion cut-out collage, tarot card and vintage wash video www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SWS...

wow thanks for the email

Minnesota is not physically configured for this cockamamie "Heat Dome" situation

hi I'm back! had some good medical appts while I was off this account: walking is good enough we've moved to balance & strength, have medical clearance to start work on a very limited schedule soon, can drive now. ty to everyone who's reached out and been here along this, I've felt very looked after

I think of/reference this passage often but today I scanned it because I wanted to ensure my exact specific sensibility of "tacky" is being applied when I describe Taylor Swift's wedding as "unforgivably tacky"

James Branch Cabell, pioneering author of what we have come to know as "fantasy," was of a Virginian patrician family, and in 1947 published "Let Me Lie," a scathing treatise on the manners and customs of that caste. Here he describes, in a fashion I consider definitive, what "tacky" actually means

had the worst time of my life trying to identify a "song" where I remembered details of the music video and the tune of the chorus. turns out to be "Jellyhead" by "Crush" which was ?? recorded by a fictional pop duo?? on a BBC teen soap opera called "Byker's Grove" !? www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Qz...

Tiffany Day's HALO is going to be one of my fav dance-pop/electronic albums of this year, it opens with a diptych of the pleading poetic "Everything I've Ever Wanted" and rips right into the banging, ecstatic "DOIT4ME" www.youtube.com/watch?v=afhy...

my job is using the computer and I've been advised to do "hardening" (use the computer some to prepare for when I have to use the computer for my job) and it turns out using the computer sucks and I don't care for it

I own a MacBook and the thing that stands out to me about it to me most vs. other computers I use is the way even minor operating system point updates take, at minimum, 40 clock-face minutes to complete

CANADA 🇨🇦 WILL BE IN EUROVISION NEXT YEAR THIS IS NOT A DRILL www.eurovision.com/stories/cana...

was apologizing to oomf for only posting about my brain injury and would like to thank them for reminding me that anybody who followed me for good posts has long ago bailed from my cinematic universe

happy last day of pride month to Deborah Vance, an icon of bisexual understanding

oh! good results at both speech pathology and occupational therapy today, did well on a short-term memory test and a reaction time test, we're not there but we'll be in the conversation for medical clearance to drive soon! Metro Transit has been good to me but I have been daydreaming about Costco

the sign in the yard behind me here in South Minneapolis says it's 822 miles to "Fairyland," which means it's not on the way to my Speech Pathology appointment so I won't be visiting today, but I'll keep it in mind

compressed version of Mink Stole in John Waters' DESPERATE LIVING (1977) on the matter of the American judiciary

she's right

Dutch for "scrotum" is "klootzak" btw. I'm not making that up

S1E1 of "Hacks" (we used to call these "pilot"s but I guess it's just "S1E1" now w/e) is a flawless episode of television comedy

did a cognitive test at OT today and the part I'm really happy about is my score was a lot better than it was on the same test in the hospital, but when she asked me if it seemed familiar I was like "huh maybe a little" and then told me it's the same test Trump has been bragging about passing lmao

get one (1) traumatic brain injury and you start getting targeted ads like this. this is real this happened to me just now

me watching pride month posts on my brain surgery recovery sofa

This is just one example of the knack Swedish cinemas have for re-titling releases to meet the local zeitgeist better or incorporate puns; HEATHERS (1989) became "Witches, Homework, and Deadly Classes" and AIRPLANE! (1980) became "Look, We're Flying!"

sometimes I'll be doing something and get a flash of "is this déjà-vu" and it's. girl. no. you just wash this cutting board 260x a year

my friends took me to a buffet/salad bar place next to a retirement community in a delicious 1988-ass building in Edina, Minn. (my first time outside the Minneapolis city limits since my crash!) for dinner, needless to say I loved the experience

I can only speculate on the reasons but I do believe a distinctive feature of Minnesota food culture is a permissive, playful "oh sure you can do that, why not" attitude to even beloved dishes that allows restaurateurs to really pop off with their imaginations