One: I could not be more pleased that Benoit Blanc and I use the same screensaver. Two: Is that the iPad he won from Miles in Glass Onion?

Well done, Iceland—I knew we could count on you. 🖤🇵🇸✊🏻

Pičim k Sonic, supersonic…

Doxing myself for employment opportunities—come at me, y’all! 😎

Using a Squishmallow as lumbar support: when you’re physically 51, but emotionally 14.

Lady across the aisle from me has alternately been knitting and reading Mrs. Dalloway, so now I’m pretending we’re in the carriage of a steam engine traversing the English countryside instead of an Amtrak train car heading to Penn Station.

BELGIAN SHEEPDOG SUPREMACY, BITCHES!!! #NationalDogShow

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been laid off through no fault of my own right before a major holiday in the last six years, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but I’ll take any money I can get right now. Because I just lost my job. To capitalism. Again. [rimshot]

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Quotes are disabled on that last post but I wanted to share my anecdotal evidence: My polling place is next-door to a senior center and I’ve never seen voters younger than me there before. Today, there was a girl ahead of me with purple hair and a heavily pierced couple in line to my left. I ❤️ NY.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Presidential election–level turnout at my local polling place—LET’S FUCKING DO THIS, NEW YORK!!! 🗽🗳️🤘🏻 #ZohranForMayor #NYC

I am about to become SO obnoxious… #OnePlusTwoPlusTwoPlusOneBitches!

Halloween Costume Number 2: Office Edition

Fuck yeah, post office. ✊🏻

Get in, losers—we’re going stabbing. 🔪🚌

Who won the duel—UMK Erika or EBU-approved Erika? VOTE NOW! 🎤🇫🇮💦🎉

THIRD PLACE BITCHES!!! 🥉🙌🏻🎉 *And* there was another Erika, as well as this guy, who came (pun totally intended) as the giant microphone. 🤣🤣🤣

HAPPY EUROWEEN!!! 🎉🎉🎉 (The party doesn’t start for another 2 hours. 😂)

Phase one… 🎤💥💦

Finishing touches for my Halloween costume, debuting tomorrow. Douze points and a fondue set to whoever guesses who I’m going as…

Fell asleep last night right after learning the Hudson River Tunnel Project was “terminated” and woke up to learn MTV is shutting down. Can the horrors at least pace themselves if they must persist?

I thought I had until December! I’m not ready to say goodbye! 😭😭😭

My subway station no longer refills MetroCards. ☹️ Thanks, I hate it.

Sometimes coming in to the office is a worthwhile endeavor. 🎨📚🧀🍓🥂

Poll is flawed, as Bambie and Hatari clearly belong to the branch subset “Goth Weirdos.”

Sang Veronika at karaoke yesterday and one of the guys asked me afterwards if I actually was Slovenian (I’m not), which I’m pretty sure is the gay equivalent to being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I am once again breaking out this seasonal chestnut.

Doing my part. 🫡 (Note to self: start carrying a Sharpie to be more effective.)

Working in children’s publishing is a never-ending delight. 🍑📖 #KidLitLife #ILoveMyJob 📚✏️❤️

Words of wisdom from a middle grade novel I am working on.

ATE 💅🏻🫰🏻💀

Loving (by which I mean “smirking and chuckling smugly at”) this “hoco dress” drama happening on TikTok. Pretty sure that way back in the Year of Our Lord MCMXCI, I wore black velvet harem pants and a sleeveless emerald satin tuxedo shirt to homecoming and I fucking slayed the house down boots.

I’m really proud of that tag. #IYKYK ❤️💚

You’re never too old to be a metalhead musical theater kid: The Return. 🩷🤘🏻🖤

EurovisioNYC karaoke again tomorrow! 🎤🎶🎉 Last time I did a song in Portuguese and another in Italian. This time I’m planning on one in Slovenian and one in Spanish. I speak none of these languages. 😆

*screaming crying throwing up*

So a friend just introduced me to Survivor: Australia vs. The World, and THERE’S A FINNISH GUY ON THE WORLD TEAM??! WORLDS COLLIDE!!! 💥😱 I wasn’t even aware Finland had its own Survivor. Fuck the US players—hyvä Tommi! PELIÄ! 🎉🇫🇮🎉

New York needs your “help” like we need radioactive rats, you feeble fascist fuck.

THAT FAN WAS ONE OF MY GIFTS THEY ACTUALLY GOT MY GIFTS THE UNIVERSE LOVES ME VITA YOU ARE A ROCKSTAR AND I AM FOREVER IN YOUR DEBT

Today I learned that John Oliver is a fellow violist and the rush of kinship this bit of knowledge elicited was *violent.*

Pieni ystävä. 🫎🇫🇮😊

Not even a designer, but from a copyediting perspective, this is a mess—either capitalize every letter, use initial caps, make it all lowercase, or have some discernible/symmetric/aesthetically pleasing pattern. Why, for the love of God, are the R, G, Tx2, and ONLY ONE E uppercase?? 😣😖😫

Oh, New York…I did NOT miss this disgusting tropical humidity.

Turku, you were lovely and I miss you already. From getting lost in the grocery store and hit on at the pizza place to being acknowledged from the Logomo stage by Bojan freakin’ Cvjetićanin, it has been an absolute blast, a pleasure, and a privilege. Kiitos paljon, ljubim te, ja moi moi. 👋🏻🥹❤️

Those are my arms. It’s fine, I’m fine…

Also proud to report I have survived tuplasalmiakki jäätelö…but just barely. 😟

Today’s tour of Turku has included trips to the Castle, the Cathedral, and this fine cultural institution: