I don’t typically watch hockey 🏒 so forgive the ignorance but when do they start fucking? 🥅

So excited to see Project Hail Mary in a real IMAX screen!

Dug out my Bach 37 Bb Trumpet, mostly untouched since high school except for a few drunk brunches in college… Yamaha Silent Brass mute arrives tomorrow, a preemptive kindness to everyone within earshot along w/ Arban’s book. Brass players, on a scale of 1-10, how humbling will 24 years of rust be?

Checking out Mr.Charlie’s in Pacific Beach with @codyrodriguez.bsky.social. I feel like I’m in a bizarro blend of Demolition Man mixed and Idiocracy with a side of Fifth Element… and not just because we’ve been waiting 2 hours for our order 😂

Look what @itsjustjustin.com got me 😍😍🤤🤤

Art

Starting book 118 of 2025. I’m hoping to complete 125 before the year is out but that’s gonna be tough! A nice IPA from Pure Project makes hitting that stretch goal easier and harder at the same time 🤪

Love this new books and beer thing @codyrodriguez.bsky.social and I have been doing lately.

Really needed a relaxing Saturday after this trying week. Iced coffee, a fun book and some hot tub time in the garden is the way.

It’s been a stressful year but pulling away from all the bad news has at least one upside, 67 books read so far!

I had a fu time setting up our own audiobook/eBook server with @codyrodriguez.bsky.social. If you’ve got a ton of digital books and a device that supports docker containers, I highly recommend Audiobookshelf! Now I can control access to my books on my terms and use whatever devices I like.

Perfect Sunday afternoon with @codyrodriguez.bsky.social at @betterbuzzcoffee.bsky.social diving into Winter’s Orbit with loving whatever variety this delicious “iced read tea” is.

@mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social is officially my new favorite bookstore. If the killer, highly curated, book selection doesn’t win you over, their spot-on social and political takes definitely will. Smart, progressive, and totally worth the follow. 📚

Donald Trump loves Les Mis so much (and misses the message so badly) that he made “Empty chairs at empty tables” the theme of his birthday parade. That’s why no one is there, if anyone asks.

Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate Black liberation and remember that words do not become reality without work as America has yet to resolve its founding contradiction: freedom and prosperity built on enslavement and impoverishment. 🧵 1/2

I don’t care if it’s heaven or hell or some secret third option, I just hope that when I die I am as far away from these empty-eyed zealots as can be possible

Statement from Buona Forchetta about the ICE raid last night. 💔

Feels like we’re watching civilization take itself apart piece by piece. Rights vanishing, corruption flourishing, progress reversing. The casual efficiency of destruction is remarkable.

Guess this is what I get for being excited to get home…

After a week in South Carolina, I’m finally headed home to San Diego…where the beaches are stunning, the politics aren’t terrifying, and the MAGA hats are blessedly scarce. Counting down the minutes ‘til I’m back with @codyrodriguez.bsky.social and my furry dependents 🐈🐈‍⬛.

Anyone have music recommendations for editing a novel? I’ve got 87k words to read and 10 hours of flight time to work with. 🤪

An unforgettable evening out with @itsjustjustin.com at the Elton John #Curebound fundraiser at Petco Park.

Well… umm maybe don’t hire, enable and protect rapists? While all Californians pay the financial cost, the real cost is felt by the victims… no amount of money undoes that trauma. Pay up. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

Sad news: @booksincstores has filed for Chapter 11 & their Berkeley store closes SUN (Feb 9). They’ve championed my books—now let’s help them! 📖 Shop → booksinc.net 💌 Gift cards (emailed anywhere) 📢 Spread the word Indie bookstores keep stories alive! #SupportLocalBookstores #BooksInc #ShopIndie

Just finished All the Right Notes and had to reach out @jdominiclim.bsky.social. It hit me right in the heart. The way music brings Quito and Emmett together resonated so much. And Ujima! Just wow. I want them in my corner! Thanks for creating characters that feel like friends and for this story.

just me and @itsjustjustin.com, wandering the neighborhood, ended up at our favorite little wine bar. glass of wine - good vibes. perfect night #SanDiego

Pope Francis has a lot in common with JD Vance’s mother in that they spent time with JD and took drastic measures to not ever have to do it again

God I just love Lorenzi #wine

Such a fun way to spend my first full weekend off with @codyrodriguez.bsky.social from work in weeks plus it’s a long weekend! #wine

Lorenzi’s 2019 Reserve Brutus. A longtime favorite for good reason. Always amazed and happy that this quality of #wine comes from Temecula.

Accidentally ordered 5 bottles of “Wet Uranus” lube. Amazon rep: “These can’t be returned but…” stares at photo of the box leaking enough silicone to supply a bathhouse “I’ll make an exception as the box is now see-through.” What do I do with 45 ounces of lube???

Troye Sivan wearing a “PROTECT THE DOLLS” shirt while performing with Charli xcx at Coachella.

Record Store Day was successful! 9 RSD releases and 9 more just because. Now to start listening with a glass (or two) of wine…

Two MLB games in two weeks?! Who even am I these days? #Padres

ChatGPT, please generate a realistic interpretation of a “soulless cunt.”

I mean yeah, I HAD a 401k to prepare for a future where I wasn’t chained to a desk. Now it’s more like a reminder of what could have been. 📉

What a fucking idiot.

Target buys its T-shirts from China where they cost $2 each.🇨🇳 A T-shirt made in America costs $10.🇺🇸 Trump’s tariff means the T-shirt from China now costs $3. Will Target now buy from America instead? All that happens is YOU pay more. Its. A. Consumer. Tax.

Repost with a pic and your age. I’m 40. (And tired…)

Heathen 76. Nearly all of it was from my pre- @codyrodriguez.bsky.social feral era — think less ‘boy next door,’ more ‘stray cat with a passport and poor impulse control.’ Oh but those were sure fun times…

Who did this?

Just tried to pay my bills and Bank of America said ‘nah.’ Transfers are down. Are we already at the ‘bank systems glitch during tariff-fueled economic spiral’ stage? Cool cool. Should I start bartering our chickens eggs or…?

Same

Asked ChatGPT to make a comic about how it feels—after a week of Ghibli chaos, reports it’s turning conservative, and fears OpenAI is mirroring America’s fascist drift. It made this 4-panel existential meltdown. Even the Alt text it generated I 100% relate to.

“White collar crime” should have the same level of penalties as any other crime otherwise it’s just the cost of doing business for the wealthy and well connected.

Woke up feeling like death warmed over and Apple Health seems to agree. So I’m just binging #wheeloftime with my personal nurse, @codyrodriguez.bsky.social

I started reading a lot more after the world turned so dark only to be informed by @fableapp.bsky.social that my book selections are also dystopian. I mean it checks out but not really the goal I was aiming for. Speaking of goals, time to increase mine!