HIGHLY recommend the Art of Manga exhibit at the de Young. The art is gorgeous, of course, and the audio tour is excellent. It was a lot of fun. www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...

Heyyyyy I’m at the Art of Manga exhibit at The de Young Museum, and who do I hear on the audio tour but @iamdavidbrothers.com!

The expectation in the U.S. that comics be in color raises the barrier to entry for creators and also has been to the detriment of artists’ cultivation of black-and-white comics art technique.

Travel tip: If you want to visit San Francisco, early October is a lovely time for it. Just mind the temperature drop and fog at sunset! Bring a hoodie.

I recently read this article about the invention of magazines for ambitious, stylish young women, beginning with Mademoiselle. It included education, career, and relationship advice (recommending cohabitating—gasp!). It’s astounding how far post-war attitudes set back women’s rights.

I want to know what she said to him.

DAMN I just realized a major marker of our generational divide is whether you: - Come up with several short search terms encompassing the main subjects and string them together b/c you were trained on encyclopedia and fucking Dewey decimal OR - Type a wholeass sentence into the search bar

Hey, theater kids, what do you think of Six? You’d think that, being me, I’d like it, but I tried to listen to I and just found it really corny.

The two on the bottom right are before I adjusted for the wind, then the one on the left is where I over corrected, and then left blue, right blue (sun in my eyes!) and yellow.

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

“No Rain” by Blind Melon

This Bedouin girl, Tamam Hussein Sallamh Semahin (age 12), pictured in the August National Geographic stopped me in my page flipping. She and her family live in a cave settlement in the ancient city of Petra. She reminds me of depictions of Cleopatra (VII). ar.inspiredpencil.com/pictures-202...

In the pamilya group chat. A thing about Filipinos is that they love when other Filipinos do stuff.

This right here? Peak horror.

I agree that the submission guidelines for that horror zine are presented in a kind of condescending way; but I don't agree that there's something wrong with having boundaries on what you want to read and what you'll publish.

The class action lawsuit against the AI company Anthropic has reached a settlement of $1.5 billion. The law firm has put up an information page with a searchable database of the works that were used without authorization and instructions for how to file a claim. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Happy October!

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Wrath, goddess, sing of Achilles Peleus’s son’s calamitous wrath, which hit the Achaians with countless ills— many the valiant souls it saw off down to Hades, souls of heroes, their selves left as carrion for dogs and all birds of prey… Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

This writing assignment my son got describes something I might have done. My son… not so much. Riding BART to Powell St and walking to The Warfield is muscle memory for me now.

Yesssss .clipping One of the last pre-pandemic shows I went to.

What’s a band or performer that’s really good at making albums? Not just music you like, but a cohesive set of songs, without being too cheesily thematic. For me: David Bowie, obviously. Tori Amos. R.E.M. Radiohead. The Mountain Goats. Mitski. Fiona Apple. My scope is limited… more genres, please!

Open adoption, a social worker told me, is “an agreement based on promises.” But what happens if some of those promises—to regularly communicate, send updates and photos, allow visits, etc.—aren’t honored? What, if anything, can birth mothers do to protect themselves? 🎁 link:

reading Hector Avalos' The Bad Jesus which makes a very strong case that Jesus in fact did and said a lot of things which look very unethical by most contemporary lights.

Back in the old days, if you were a world leader who pissed off the Pope, he could excommunicate you and issue a Papal Bull stating that it wouldn’t be a sin if someone were to… you know, permanently remove you from the playing board.

Whoa, Mabuhay Gardens, the Filipino restaurant/nightclub turned legendary punk venue in North Beach is re-opening! (As a music venue, not a Filipino restaurant.) www.kqed.org/news/1205811...

I really need to learn to stop pressing so hard when I draw. I keep wearing my Apple pencils down to the metal!

Noted Jesus follower J.D. Vance will tell you that, famously, Jesus Christ asked to see people’s immigration papers before he healed them.

My daughter and her art club friends are using Google Classroom to chat. I’m logged into it to see her homework and don’t look at the conversations, but I just got a notification of one of the girls saying “once you see heathers you can’t escape heathers 💔”

The first comment on this is from a Canadian who says, “More people need to do this.” It’s so typical of people who are in no danger of being targeted—place an obligation for expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally draining action on those already targeted and marginalized.

This is the most devastating example so far of Jan Swafford’s regular reminders in his Mozart biography of his subject’s untimely and tragic demise.

“Don’t let yourself be consumed by envy, it’ll kill your soul,” say people who have achieved their life’s goals and regularly humblebrag about it on socials.

Not a lot of enthusiastic faces in this crowd.

These are my two closest crow friends at the park—Heckle and Jekyll. Sometimes they have their kiddo with them, but not today.

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I got up today and said I was going to walk the dog, go to the hardware store, pot some plants, and practice archery. But I walked the dog, made and ate lunch, and now I just want to lie down.

what’s your sign? (This is from yesterday—my name in the pre-Philippine script Babayin)

I’m “old enough to remember the mid ‘90s William S. Burroughs revival” years old https://youtu.be/HvLTu8Xfhf4

If someone walked up to me while I’m out in public and asked me to prove I’m a U.S. citizen, I couldn’t. My driver license is the only ID I carry. Kavanaugh’s stupid and ignorant assumption is the precursor of being required to carry your papers and produce them on demand.

I’ve noticed that my kids seem to have fewer books on their school reading lists. A few months ago, I tried to remember my high school reading lists. Compared to what my son is doing? This is like a college load. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

In Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek, he notes that the potter’s wheel predated the wheel being used for transportation. The need for vessels was more urgent than the need for a new form of locomotion. It made me think of LeGuin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction:

Labubus, except they’ve just killed a bunch of Conquistadors. Lapulapus.

My son, sword fighting in baggy jeans

Gonna start a line of fitness wear for people over 40 called Muumuumelon.

I wonder where the convention in movies and TV of the woman putting lotion on her hands and arms while having a conversation it bed started. This is what I think about instead of how everything is terrible.

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

New bird alert! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

SAMURAI!!!!!

I couldn't fit it all but lmfao. god. this again