Caught Project Hail Mary last night, and thought it was a very solid popcorn flick. Reminded me of other, better sci-fi films, but still enjoyable and I think Ryan Gosling is the main reason the film holds together as well as it does. He's very good - funny, and easy to sympathize with. Project Hail

I had never heard the term mukbang until my husband did electrical work for a mukbanger - a man, not a college girl. Business seemed good - he paid for a lot of electrical work. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Feeling inspired to listen to The Afghan Whigs after catching them in Woodstock on Saturday night

I have truly hit of life’s milestones - I just got my shingles and pneumonia vaccines

Max Shulga leaving the hotel with Catan in hand

nick nurse playing joel embiid 34+ minutes in a blowout loss when he had an appendectomy just a couple of weeks ago

It almost easy to forget the injury at this point and how unbelievable it is that this guy is playing at all let alone at this level.

11 states have seen #gasprices fall over the last week while 39 are higher. meanwhile, diesel prices fell in 46 states while rising in just 4. both will likely track higher this week.

Caught up with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which came out three years ago when my son wasn't old enough to see it. Now he is, and we watched it together. Fun times for both of us - I found the animation absolutely exhilarating, and he liked the action and story. I cannot believe that we

Jordan and Baylor hitting threes????

Mohawk River

Good day for a bike ride

Becoming a parent made me feel this more deeply than ever before

In this video, Trump cannot get out of his chair, struggles to stand, takes a few steps, falls to the floor, struggles to stand again, and then walks off the stage. The question should be: what about Trump's health is being kept from the public?

Appreciate the Red Sox for liberating me from having to care or think about baseball for at least another year. Frees up a lot of time and energy. My dad: "Time for John Henry to sell?"

Greg Dulli, looking a little older than the last time I saw him and his band The Afghan Whigs At the Bearsville in Woodstock

Our cat does nothing to stop this invader from entering the house

Watched Werner Herzog's 1974 film "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser," a mysterious, sometimes mystical, movie about a man who has been chained in a cellar his entire life and is dropped off in a town square, taken in by the villagers and eventually a kindly caretaker. There is humor and heartbreak -

Jayson Tatum buries a massive 3 to put the Celtics ahead 106-100, with 25.3 seconds left. He let out a road after, then got mobbed by Boston’s bench. Caught the very end of it.

I’ve been thinking about how triggering it must be for MJ's victims right now cuz of this biopic, but it may give others the courage to come out as survivors. The details about how he ingratiated himself into their whole family match the accounts in Leaving Neverland www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/a...

I can barely breathe. This basketball game might actually kill me.

I’m fascinated by these media cycles that are unmoored from any actual development or event in the real world, but which fuel days, even weeks, of content production and commentary. Someone tweeted something, then the Times made a vitality-bait video, now TCW does his little dance—all about nothing.

"But there is a way to disguise a lost war: Turn it into a forever war." www.forever-wars.com/from-lost-wa...

Just polished off this delicious bowl of tiramisu at Rain Modern Chinese in Albany, courtesy of a woman who recognized my husband as the electrician who worked on her house and bought us dessert

In a saner world, this would be the biggest headline of the day: Michael Stipe announced that his first solo album, which he's been working on for a decade, will come out this fall. Here's a completely new song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERgx...

I swam 45 laps this morning. Always a good way to start the day!

#NowListening pylonband.bandcamp.com/album/pylon-...

" ... our government is angling for a 90 percent stake in the broke, universally detested Temu Greyhound of the Skies, best known for nickel-and-diming customers ..." I flew Spirit once and said, "Never again." But, sure, let's bail out this terrible airline. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-flailing...

Hawks going to blow this?

A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was arrested for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits, according to a person familiar with the matter. www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/p...

"If Mike Vrabel had an ounce of integrity, he would have been publicly honest about whatever he’s been up to, at least to attract some of the abuse his way instead of letting Russini bear all of it." www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

This is a bummer. My cousin went here.

Today’s flowers

Stepped out at lunch to catch the gifted fingerstyle guitarist Kinloch Nelson perform at Hudson Valley Community College. Here he is with his homemade harp guitar.

This war is spreading misery all over the world: www.reuters.com/world/iran-w...

Watched the 1979 Cuban-American film "El Super," about Cuban exiles in New York. The main character is Roberto, who maintains a Washington Heights apartment building. When the movie opens, it is the dead of winter and tenants are yelling at him because the boiler isn't on. I really enjoyed this

Good dispatch from the trial of the Alabama woman arrested in a penis costume at a No Kings protest theintercept.com/2026/04/22/r...

"50 years on, Ramones still sounds like nothing that came before it and like everything that came after it. That is not a contradiction. That is the whole point." timnapalmstegall.substack.com/p/hey-ho-50-...

FWIW: SPLC’s use of paid informants has been public knowledge since at least 1994, when the Montgomery Advertiser did an investigation of the group (a Pulitzer finalist). Its anti-Klan activities go back to the 1970s, and to say disrupting the group equals subsidizing it is pure lunacy.

Waking up to this incredible gospel album A first listen - so far, I'm blown away parchmanprisonprayer.bandcamp.com/album/anothe...

Good thing nothing important requiring the attention of the Navy is going on just now.

Lol

#Winning www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Nine of the last ten members of Congress to die in office have been Democrats.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

"From my own point of view, the motivating difference for political activism now as opposed to in the past is the vivid moral drama playing out in the realms of both politics and religion." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-untapped...

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

Dear NBA, I KNOW it is all about the money and you don’t care about our convenience, but this having to use 3 different streaming services to watch playoff games each night is, (and I say this with all the love I can for the game,) complete horseshit.