Just remembering when my kids were younger and they called all sodas “Diet Coke” like they were from Diet Georgia.

Boobies!

Boobies!

My new band name: Backward inside death spiral

Valentine’s Day is so commercialized now. Back in the olden days, the men would slaughter animals, use the hides to whip the women then pull their names out of a jar to decide who would couple with whom.¹ But Hallmark can’t make money off that so now we get THIS.²

fuck. no. today of all days

One important that way a person slapping a Nazi isn’t as bad as a Nazi is, and this is key, they aren’t a Nazi.

So there’s a movie on Kanopy¹ right now, Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer, and it’s a brilliant black comedy, one that deserved to have gotten a bigger reception than it has, so you should definitely watch it.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

@jupiterjonz.bsky.social three investigators?

I totally misread the top line of the menu at the local Catholic schools’ basketball tournament

Tell me five classes you took in college: (likewise skipping grad school) Latinos and the Politics of Religion Recent Marxist Thought Zen Buddhism Epic and Scripture Roman Decadence I bet you can’t guess which one was in my major.

Sign in the bathroom at this Panera bread read, “los emplead deben lavar manos” which means “employ them they should wash hands”

Dreamt last night that I was hired to direct an animated film of The Arabian Nights despite having no film or directing experience. I realized that I had to rewrite the script as it had no storytelling in it at all.

drew this parody gadsden flag six years ago, and it seems it’s still relevant as the bootlicking has only increased. (if you’ve shared a version, I’d appreciate if you shared this one — I’m making more stickers, flags and t-shirts to give 100% of profits to MN mutual aid! www.tommysiegel.net)

I misplaced the printed copy of the chapter of the novel with my notes I’m revising so I printed a new copy and re-read and annotated that. Then I found the mislaid copy. It’s interesting to see how my notes on both occasions are nearly identical.

Seems like a good time for this video

And that’s why drive in theaters don’t open in winter anymore.

Crab insurance. It’s insurance for crabs.

INVENTOR OF ICE CREAM: okay okay i’ll make it jfc everyone just stop screaming

I’m not following the game because (a) I only have streaming TV and (2) the Bears have been dead to me since they turned Soldier Field into a giant toilet bowl, but my Mom is a huge fan. When I saw that they went into OT, I called to engage in casual chitchat. I made it to 47 seconds 😈

I just realized I’d conflated Phil Ramone and Phil Spector into one person and now I know why there’s no mention of Let it Be or the murder trial in the Billy Joel documentary.

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

Culinary experiment for today, Crepas a la Mexicana. My crepe game is garbage. Crepes were either scrambled batter or too thick for the name. Fortunately I have lots of extra filling so I’ll try doing the crepes again, applying some of what I learned today.

Mona Awad’s We Love You Bunny is unhinged in an absolutely delightful way. I’m hoping part three of the book isn’t a letdown after the insanity of part two.

Slightly diminish a band: Sure

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White people are messed up

Anyone have a two syllable word, accent on the first syllable that can mean instigate/create/etc with the object “a breeze”? I’ve got trigger right now but I don’t like it.

“Times are always strange. Art is always out of place. Always unnecessary when it’s made. And later, when you look back, it’s the only thing that mattered.”

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Yo la tenga

And if your answer is "well then Vance will be president" guess what? we do the same thing with him. And then Mike Johnson after him. And Grassley after him. And keep going down the line. They're all criminal accomplices. They all go.

Are we supposed to call our reps and tell them we don’t like when the president engages in overt war crimes, or can we trust them to get there on their own?

I’m depression

Starting the year with a rejection from Potomac Review.

My favorite reads of 2025 with books by (among others) @israelbonilla.bsky.social @sandrabeasley.bsky.social @juliafspa.bsky.social @nnedi.bsky.social @morgantalty.bsky.social @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social

134 books read this year. I’m unlikely to finish anything currently on my (literal) nightstand in the next 27 hours so this is the end total.

The band Madredeus has a song called, “A vaca de fogo” which translates to ”the cow of fire”. I looked up the lyrics and it’s a song about a burning cow.

How I’m walking out of 2025