You know, I'm as much of a believer in keeping the line between the fall holidays and Christmas as firm as possible, but man, sometimes I really just want to play the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack before Thanksgiving.

Breakfast of champions in effect (Plus leftover Halloween light up skull necklaces were only 53 cents apiece)

The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? What can I say? The guy probably has the right tools for the job.

Just spent half an hour watching my 9-year-old just mess around with a keyboard. He's got a very natural ear for music, but he's never really had a chance to just BE with a piano before. Fucking magical.

11 years ago I got sent to Nepal for two weeks to do data collection work. I wonder if I'll ever make it back.

Lots of angry discourse around this. I'm in a household w/ 2 kids & 2 working parents in an affordable city, w/ decent health insurance, living well within our budget. He's 100% right. To live with minimal precarity as a classic nuclear fam in the US, you probably need to be making more than $100k.

In my 20s this was my primary keyboard. I was mostly a bass player & a rhythm guitar player, but I kept this around for when I got stuck in a songwriting rut. An absolute unit, I'm sure it's caused more than a few hernias. It ended up at a friend's studio for 15 years & just came back to me today.

Another six months to go. Bloomsday 2026, here we come

Let not mankind bogart love.

A project that started back on Bloomsday has reached its next stage. Maesil Cheong is ready for use, but Maesil Ju is just beginning.

Was like 25 years old, a few years after dropping out of college. Was taking a shower and all the sudden my brain said: "Oh, shit. You should be an anthropologist." So I went back to school and became an anthropologist.

One of the saddest things about being the father of small children is that you can't make properly spicy chili if you want them to eat it. Unless you make two separate batches, and who has time for that?

It's national adoption day. Our adoption system is fundamentally fucked up, in no small part because our society basically sees children as property rather than as human beings. Been working through "Solidarity with Children" by @lalouverouge.bsky.social A thought-provoking and relevant read.

My son just swallowed a penny. This too, shall pass.

You know, one of the advantages of having all these Nazis around these days is that maybe now I'll get a chance at finding the Ark of the Covenant.

Reskeet with the time you looked cool.

You'd think the President calling for the execution of political opponents would warrant some type of news alert.

Not to get all "wife guy" up in here, but it's my wife's birthday, and even though she's not on bsky, I want to declare that my life would be a lot less funky without her in it.

Cleaning up my kids' basement play area and I noticed it's like all restaurant toys and musical instrument toys, and I wonder if I'm just forcing them to relive my twenties.

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

Here's a treat for you all. Three years ago I livetweeted(ish) my reading of "The Hobbit" to my son, who was 6-years old at the time. When I moved to bsky, I transferred the whole thread over here so that you can benefit from one of my favorite things ever. Enjoy!

Inside you there are two wolves

If what you do at work doesn't matter, then it's ok that you didn't get any of it done today.

Me, when I behold my spiritual essence in motion

On this day in 2014 I was working in Nepal. On this day in 2019 I was eating camel in Tchad. Today I'm going to be disassembling a broken picnic table in a nearby park. Every day is an adventure.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me say aww yiss.

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.” Wealthy Nations think about immigration as though they will always only be a place that people will run to, and not from...

My prediction is that ex-Qanon & disillusioned ex-technolibertarians will be the stoachistic assassins of the next half-decade. Rejecting their old ideologies, but still enamored w/ guns & violent solutions and no internal or social experience with moral struggle over the ethics of violence.

Ok. One more kid-related flex. At daycare the 4-year-old did a "thankfulness project" where the top two things he was thankful for were: 1. Apples 2. Dad I'm up there with apples, man. If you thought I was insufferable before, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Some men just want to watch the men who want to watch the world burn, burn.

It's in the 30s and 40s all week at night, and yet the raspberry bush in the community garden is still pumping out phenomenal berries.

Bought my first new piece of clothing since the job market cratered back in february. Had to replace a pair of 10-year-old jeans that finally wore out this summer. Splurged and got myself some long underwear to go with them. Feeling pretty fancy. ixak.medium.com/things-that-...

Ultimately, aside from all the death and suffering, I think the other big reason why climate change unsettles me so deeply is because I love wearing jackets, and I'm not willing to move farther north to keep doing so.

"Tick Omnibus 2: Thursday Ad Infinitum!" and something classy that I haven't actually read, like Bookchin's "The Philosophy of Social Ecology"

Currently torn between either pronouncing females like tamales, or pronouncing tamales like females.

Here's something someone said to me today that made me cry my eyes out

Show me a hot person with a gun again.

Seems like mainstream journalism is kind of playing the "hide from the T. Rex by staying very still" game. And they're hiding from both the general public and rich people who own them...

I just need to say that if you're already just sitting at your desk doing nothing, there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't buy a $10 practice butterfly knife and watch some videos on how to use it. Absolutely no reason at all.

Tickets now available: ~Black Reconstruction in Lower Charles Village~ premiering in late November! fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#c...

21st century political violence in the US doesn't really come from the left. It comes almost entirely from one of two places: 1. The far right. 2. Neurotic weirdos overwhelmed by pain and chaos with unmappable political opinions.

There is no better song to accompany this picture than Guy Clark's song "Texas 1947"

When I was like 10 or 11 years old I used to spend my summer evenings wandering around my neighborhood in Northwest Baltimore by myself carrying a book on edible plants so I could identify and eat random shoots and berries.

Americans might not understand it, but in many cultures it’s considered bad or even immoral to be a child rapist

Leitmotif? More like a yeetmotif, amiright?

The more attention I pay to legal matters, the faster i whipsaw between "I'd be a horrible lawyer" and "I'd be a brilliant lawyer" Interestingly, these are not mutually exclusive categories.

did you know that intercountry #adoptees born before 1983 have no guarantee of US citizenship, and instead are treated as immigrants who must obtain citizenship through naturalization? That they are subject to deportation if they have committed a crime or are deemed to be in the US “illegally?”

"...with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

Me, to my kids: "No! We're not buying a bunch of half-priced post-Halloween candy. You have too much candy already!" Also me: "Yes. We need this."

Just introduced my 4 year old to the nog. He's a fan.