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It’s so cool they finally invented Hot Topic for guys like me

That'll show 'em, sir

extraordinary

Watching Silkwood. I didn’t know that plant was run by the same fuckers who splashed thorium all over my town.

Those nyc fellas reminded me there’s a top-notch Bhutanese place a couple towns over, gonna do that tonight

Driving so I can’t provide documentation but Berwyn, IL has the greatest density, variety, and quality of midcentury signage of any functioning city I’ve ever seen.

"if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you"—Terry Eagleton paraphrasing Herbert McCabe

<- world’s newest prius owner

Friday blessings from the twisted pine by the retention pond out back of the Public Storage

Ancient Pantries

Shelving Secrets of the Ancients

@thottonmather.bsky.social has your newsletter covered how you approach wordless books with a toddler? Would be very interested in your thoughts if they're out there

I was gonna post "something's wrong with the world...everybody sucks!" because in memory that's how the radio edit of Break Stuff went but turns out it didn't.

It's like this guy never read the article about the tiny bars in Tokyo that only play Delta blues theweek.com/articles/683...

bumping this a lot this week tidal.com/album/212473...

Thanks for riding with Stalin!

"It is something which makes life intolerable" www.unpopularfront.news/p/living-in-...

Was behind a Kia Soul with a bunch of nu-hippie decals (“blame it on my gypsy soul,” “wild heart,” dreamcatcher etc) topped off with a blue lives matter flag. People are wild.

I guess this is the time huh

Joanna Newsom: (to the tune of “Peach, Plum, Pear”) We smoke and we hug / I’m a sensitive thug

If I were the mama I wouldn’t have needed to call the doctor again. I would’ve gotten the picture after the first monkey fell off the bed.

Heh. Those were decoy lifeways. You know nothing of my people.

(under hood) Ah, right there's your problem. See here, you're praying for the serenity to accept the things you can change, and then over here you got courage to change the things you can't. You're gonna have to swap those, and probably do a whole wisdom flush while you're at it. Won't be cheap.

I used to think this was a bit of smarmy gen-xism but the last couple years it has routinely made me cry www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYn-...

It’s okay to lie when you’re buying a car. That’s self-defense.

Good afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLh...

If AI videos become so good you can’t tell what’s real or not I’ll just never watch a video again. Whatever

That’s my buddy biblical Doug

Jazz Simulator

Goes very hard (last clause of v 10 is unclear to me but I like to think it’s something like “and they slurp it up”)

Piano teacher Marietta Clinkscales

Came home to find mouse shit in the kitchen 😫

Knot of elder millennia parents just listing tv shows like old men naming postwar baseball players

Last Year at Mario Kart

harmonicas and melodicas imply a breath-powered drum machine called a rhythmica

Breakfast risotto. We start as we mean to go on.

I'm interested in rare, profound, and estimable beasts and creatures

Love this instruction. Recipe as self-examination.

These are the movies I saw for the first time this year that are gonna stick with me the most, I think:

Wasted host bringing out the please chatter

Awful year for reading but standouts were Mansfield Park, The Trees, Forgetting Elena, and Tamarisk Row

Poetry accountability post: this year I memorized this baker’s dozen poems. If you see me feel free to ask me to recite —if i can’t, you may punch me once (non-genital)

Menu for tonight: Borscht Mixed citrus salad Haricots verts amandine Winter squash risotto Buttermilk chicken Ice cream cake roll (mother in law’s contribution) Working in a foreign kitchen, pray for me

Was sort of idly watching Swing Time (third or fourth time) and my wife (never seen it) was reading, not paying attention, but she put the book down and locked in when Fred started “The Way You Look Tonight.” That’s a hell of a song.

generational talent

I got my wife the Ian Leslie John & Paul book, and she is not only flying through it, but has proclaimed it "a great gift" 💪🎰👑

just had a pretty good matcha latte

Jabbing my urbanist friend with an epipen because he got upset in a parking lot again