Í really liked the raduohead pablo honey moment in the show about

@marthawells.com hbd

So, okay, maybe the hearts of palm were an interesting dig at colonialism, and maybe the morels were a good reminder of fire seasons, and maybe the ramps were about the rural base, but otherwise, the WH state dinner menu for a king was straight up a Seattle Restaurant Week menu w/o burrata.

Watched “For Love of the Game” the other night. And it occurred to me that the two main characters are both in the business of pitching (a writer, an mlb pitcher), but they have the opposite definition of what a successful pitch looks like. Or maybe they just like to bicker.

Ugh. “Wheels on the Bus” stuck in my head. Thanks Obama

Watching Little Miss Sunshine and I think Alan is alive and laughing while they pass his swaddled body through the window.

Years ago, I wrote a play about a chef, loosely based on Coriolanus — Fiennes played him in the movie so his casting in the Menu was an absolute delight to me. How do I get a copy of my play into his hands?! #hatm

May 8 is going to be a big day of stories told from a different point of view. Something to look forward to.

Bookriot: i think there’s going to come a time when We look at the leash less The two greatest detectives Walk off-stage together. Chet and Bosch. (Bernie would try)

Every day I wake up, look at my phone, and do a Bill Hader “WHAT?!”

Just finished a reread of The Dead Zone and I gotta say, I think we’re in a “Greg Stillson won” timeline. Sorry Johnny. You did your best.

I am very late to the Emily St John Mandel party, which is great for me because I can Very Hungry Caterpillar at my leisure. Just finished The Singer’s Gun. Read Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility last week. Popping into the local Used with fingers crossed.

If I ever get scurvy, I’ll be a mess. The Unveiling was a good reminder.

……darth……snooze button…… Blere wrote a nice thing about dogs and cold.

My heart had joined the Thousand because Worldle became unplayable today.

Stayed up way too late to finish “The Payback,” by @kashana.blacksky.app. It’s a caper with a lot of crunch, highly recommend.

Let’s not go to war with Iran.

Everything is horrible and I’m grief-eating straight hollandaise sauce left over from Brunch, but/and the making of a thing with hands still helps. Look at these lil Seattle Dig Bites.

There’s a window open on the bus. And so therefore, I am standing with Minneapolis.

I’m happy Wolf Parade is having a moment. That band rode with me from West Seattle to Eastlake. Rte 52 to 70.

If 2026 brings catch-up crying the same way catch-up sleeping caught on, we might have a fucking chance. Here’s to 2026.

Hey there, downtown Seattle, is that shady looking hi rise with a sky bridge on fire? Or is someone enthusiastically grilling? Saw it from I5, looked like one of the consumer safety fried Turkey disaster videos, up there on the roof.

Just finished rereading Look at Me by Anita Brookner. I think it holds up well enough to be Anna Kendrick’s next movie. Or whoever the British Kendrick is, I guess.

I’m really grateful that I watched “Come See Me in the Good Light.” Ya never know, with Longmont. It’s all called love.

[Exit King.]

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

But…he was Festive…. How incredibly disappointing.

For some reason, I can’t stop thinking about a Seattle restaurant owner who lost his ever-loving mind on fb. Just kept digging and digging.

So do we get to speak to horses in normal voices again? Ranch Breakfast

Everyone talks so highly about the tensile strength of spider silk, and yet, it’s no match for my face.

I guess I was hoping all the Terrence Stamp posts were because he just won an award or something. RIP. Might watch the magic hat movie this afternoon.

Nothing but Crickets from FEMA.

Oh Murderbot. My crying gave me hiccups.

Did anyone else see that?

Seattle showing up. #handsoff

That was really quite something.

@deannaraybourn.bsky.social Just finished Kills Well. Another satisfying outing with your necessary monsters — thank you! Curious if the Carstairs surname was a bit of a wink to the Pollifax fans in the audience…

There’s a lot going on, but I’m going to spend the day thinking about the Ghosts UK finale. Might clap on some old furs and go as Robin for Halloween, an idea that absolutely will not survive until late October… Hell, we might all be dressed in old skins and moth-eaten furs by late October.

"The Moomins would add you, however strange and ungainly your inner or outer self, to their table, without question." I'm maybe a quarter of the way through this and it is bringing me SO MUCH joy to-day

It’s that beautiful time of year in Seattle when the weather forecast swings from city-stopping snow, to sunny and bracingly cold. Not unique to here, of course, but I feel like the weather forecasters must be exhausted.

If you haven’t watched Sling Shot I see you

Passing a somewhat obscured billboard and thinking, huh, they made a show called “Milton”? Hope it’s about his daughter!

Saw “Flow” last night. Can’t stop thinking about the last scene. Are we hoping the pebbles will start rattling again? Is that the only way to save [redacted]? Why isn’t there a capybara emoji??

Finished reading “Going Bamboo” today. Seemed like Tony B had a lot of fun writing it. One sentence certainly gave me pause, though.

Can’t help but think Foley is getting a lot out of steaming milk: Backdraft; Reign of Fire; trapped Velocirráptores.

Look, I enjoy the Gamache books, a lot, actually. But as a Seattleite (is that the correct spelling? lol) with a loose acquaintanceship with the late Murray Stenson, I found the characters’ loathing of The Last Word, and their bafflement about chartreuse, just a little annoying. Sorry, Louise.

@marthawells.bsky.social just finished Network Effect. I had an actual Moment of Joyous Realization and had to put the book down for a second to smile at the sparrows on the feeder. Delightful.

Performing an emergency tracheotomy is catching up with quicksand for Things I Should Worry About.

#KawaseHasui 1883-1957 Morning of Cape Inubo #japanese #woodblock

I’m hopeful that the writers’ room for Season 4 of The Bear includes a person who understands the value of tabbing a tape. There should be a whole episode about tape.