Okay. This old blood approves.

It is storming and hailing. I really am an Earth, Wind, & Fire baby.

America is now the home of government censorship. If you thought this only happened someplace else like North Korea, Russia or Iran, you’d be wrong. Trump has put the USA right alongside the most repressive governments in the world.

My mom asked me to look up where to go for drag brunch for our joint birthday trip to Chicago (hers is the 16th; mine is the 21st). My mom remains amazing.

I knew it. I knew it in my effing soul.

Connections Puzzle #829 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,551 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

90s Banger Of The Day: Janet Jackson - You Want This

Quelle surprise

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees. In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay. Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024. Textbook corporate greed.

I solved the Tuesday 9/16/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 19:00!

Connections Puzzle #828 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,550 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Today, in spite of all the news, is still the best day, because it is my mom’s birthday. I love you so much, Mama, that I will even watch Congressional hearings with you 🫶🏻😘🥹

Strands #561 “For a fortune” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵

I solved the Monday 9/15/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 14:57!

Connections Puzzle #827 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Wordle 1,549 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Don’t forget the horrific joke he said in the opening sketch about people sitting in the back who won’t win.

If you didn’t understand the significance of Bryan Cranston giving Stephen Colbert an Emmy, allow me to inform you:

Okay but Technotronic is often a solution to problems.

We are staring down an era of The Man In The High Castle.

“The local news gets pushed back all the time for NFL games; I think it’s OK once a year to push it back 20 minutes so that Noah Wyle can properly thank his wife.”

90s Banger Of The Day: Beck - Lord Only Knows

Mike, how did Dustin let you get away with, “Mike Drops.” That is shameful, even for you.

The last time I woke up so often with tears in my eyes, it was the Cheney Administration.

Give me a mascara for these times, because nothing is holding up. My lashes grew back for THIS?!

There is not bottom to drop out. Only Balrogs. And Halbrands.

How soon until he comes for River City? I hear they’re playin’ pool down there.

90s Banger Of The Day: Citizen King - Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)

Ten days away from my birthday. Hu to the zzah. 😐

MAGAts are blaming South Park…how original. The new, scarier element is corporations bending the knee to a deranged segment of the population

My entire circadian rhythm has been thrown off, if I ever had one. After mercifully falling back asleep, I woke up early this morning, before dawn, and thought, why do I feel so off? Then I remembered, and felt discombobulated all over again.

Bonus 90s Banger of the Day: The Toadies “Away” youtu.be/uwTUAgU4d8w?...

90s Banger Of The Day: The Cranberries - Away

We need a new word for “revolting.” I just dry heaved.

…YOU GUYS PT. IIII

I’ve a knack for timing my insomnia.

Our priorities remain jacked up for the foreseeable future.

I was all prepared to cook, and then the world made me lose my appetite.

Mood. 😤🥺🫶🏻

I pretty much feel today is just about on par with every other day since the beginning of November.

…there she is. It was only a matter of time.

Remember two hours ago, when we all were slightly less miserable and terrified?

Bullets don't give a fuck how you vote or that you're only in second grade. It's the guns.

You really don’t want armed randos deciding who lives and dies. We have all sorts of bad systems. That’s an incredibly bad system.

This is shades of Serena Joy’s assassination attempt in The Handmaid’s Tale; I feel sick, on so many levels.

YOU GUYS… Pt. III

90s Banger Of The Day: Busta Rhymes feat. Jamal - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See