I write emails like this to myself because I have simply never priced an Eggleston, and why should I not

Ride was never good, just loud, and the press frenzy over Going Blank Again’s release tanked an album much more deserving of its praise: Blind Mr. Jones’ Stereo Musicale

accidentally switched to For You tab while Showing Screen in a Meet and everyone was like WOW that’s a lot of Adult Content warnings is Bluesky that horny and I just rolled my eyes, that’s how my little wheelchair seat company found out about gays and fcf

that kinda morning

I haven’t shown my mother’s best friend (since 1970) footage of Mom for a while in fear of what that might bring up, but finally did today, and it went okay this woman acted as my second mother through my entire childhood and deserves all the respect and grace I can offer

amazing

I misjudged when the rain was gonna come and now contain the world's moisture

there’s a Whataburger outpost in Illinois and I wanna see the menu but I’m not allowed to because it’s more than 50 miles away also I’m not allowed to look at it with location access turns off straight to jail

why is every Adobe tool suddenly pushing Express so hard

for today’s stunt I will generate a piece requested to be mostly visual in nature, but without any applicable photography, and also ten pages of text talking entirely about the point I have been asked to avoid, then present to two twitchy VPs like what could go wrong

it’s so weird owning a century-old building that later got badly flipped everything is a trap daring me to try and fix it and threatening to kill me if I do it wrong

IT'S MY DAY

oh girl wait today was payday

Friends S10E11: The One Where the Stripper Cries this is almost entirely Costumed and Bewigged Flashbacks to the late 1980s, including Monica dancing in a fat suit the stripper in question is Danny DeVito it’s amazing

I was unaware this was his username

my blinds for my studio have appeared, well-timed to the week the sun suddenly reappeared in Chicago (locals are terrified)

he loves to sign everything in Sharpie and he always portrays himself as a hero to products he likes next topic

window season has begun

oh my godddddd trying to get a print estimate on a very specific thing and they changed the paper, changed the inks, ordered me to change my art sir I know more than you do, stop this

spent yesterday organizing the two most recent adoptees’ vet paperwork from their previous owner and am now viscerally angry at this person who never figured out she was the reason they were sick, off and on, for like a year

hospice program is sending around a volunteer today, which is always a situation wherein a nitwit babbles for an hour and a half while Mom stares and says “okay” over and over it’s like two phones with open ChatGPT accounts sitting next to each other

Friends S10E9: The One with the Late Thanksgiving Phoebe pressures Rachel into putting Emma in a Baby Beauty Pageant! Ross and Joey sneak to a Rangers game! everyone’s late for Thanksgiving at Monica and Chandler’s! and then they pull this gag:

this looks so stupid and I will one hundred percent watch it

I’m reading in Vulture that For All Mankind is back and it sounds like this season is going to be full gas leak mode, which is, frankly, delightful

do I have this ten-miler in me considering the temperature NO am I gonna do it anyway YES

oh my god Kotaku’s still using the logo I designed for them, approximately seven thousand years ago

ComEd cut the power for the block at 2:45AM sending the carbon monoxide alarms into a paroxysm of screams and all four cats into my bed while I tried to explain to The Lady With The Frontotemporal Dementia that everything was OK and I am not well-rested, good morning

unsuspecting marketing colleague sent an “oh this is nice” sort of post about the 2028 LA Olympics identity reveal at which point I LOST MY MIND and replied with like ten posts about London 2020, Chicago 2016, and Mexico City 1968 and I bet she’ll never do that again

husband voiced dismay that nobody at his bar responded to his closing time choice of The Rains of Castamere and he absolutely did not appreciate me pointing out the Red Wedding episode aired 13 years ago

people calling this nostalgia politics: possibly true but, also: fluency at encoding written forms into multiple shapes expands the range of forms you can *identify as written language* simply by understanding there can be more forms is this self serving to me, a type designer? sure do I care? no

as someone who grew up in Tennessee: this garbage plays really well to older voters in the South

I once blocked someone for reposting one of my cat pictures just because their profile was “I like cats civility and the way it was” and I was like NOPE the way it was is GONE and baby SO ARE YOU

top tier headline game happening @defector.com today

Sunday at Niece's 22nd birthday party, Husband and I got referred to as Guncles and I went "if we're being honest being gay is one of the least interesting thing about us so I prefer to be a Drunkle" and the 22yo gay boy in attendance goes PREACH so that was a nice bit of affirmation

pet microchip database businesses love to buy your previous microchip database business, attempt to sell you useless services, realize their business is worthless, then get bought by a new pet microchip database service, every 4-5 years

the best thing about this hospice system we’re using for Mom is the preponderance of Polish nurses like I hear that accent on the phone and I know a humorless lady gonna show up, there will be no fucking around, then something’s gonna get DONE

today’s sole task is to get a piece of art approved by a CEO who’s either gonna go yeah sure or have an ADHD spiral, there will be nothing in between

does this mean I can make my dementia-addled mother who no longer understands solid food into Content

girl they got upgraded to salt shed this tour I did not know that health was our first show out of lockdown at Park West (I think) and I stood there for three hours and went blissfully deafblind in company of friendly strangers

there’s this desperately afraid little gray and white clouded cat up for adoption at the Six Corners PetSmart and I hope someone who’s Good At Cat takes a shine to her; she’s very pretty she’s not been at ease a single time I’ve seen her and I really hate that for her

this is the gayest post I’ve seen today and I don’t mean that as a read I mean it as “I admire the research clearly on display”

Hair On Film is one of my favorite subgenres of movie journalism, because it's always interviews with frazzled wigmakers, pissed off nobody understands fake hair is difficult and very expensive & that they got hired at the end of pre-production

this👇🏻

who just spent two hours carving into the side of a busted century-old door to make a new doorknob fit ME is it nicely finished GOD NO is it functional YES am I gonna fill the nicks and stain the patch MAYBE LATER

I feel like six people on the entire internet will understand this but there’s a new Daughn Gibson record out and I’m super excited about it

hand-drawn Q R and S from Mark Simonson the genius part of this is knowing he had to draw the intersection inside the R into the left stem and also understand that the bottom edge of the R’s bowl needs to sit at the same height at the S’s bottom stroke

gentrification signifier: built shirtless runner at Milwaukee and Pulaski headed NW to Six Corners

walked into Rejuvenation to buy a single cabinet knob and got such a withering look from the cashier then he saw my previous purchase list like just put the fries in the bag please Kayden

I’m currently obsessed with the Whataburger website that literally will not let you see the menu if location is turned off or doesn’t find a location within 50 miles like what if I want to drive to Romeoville what then

my Friday morning bike is through a Muslim neighborhood on Montrose and today I said Eid Mubarak to two girls going to the Muslim Community Center and one went “did that white man just say..?” while the other immediately started furiously texting