NBA Cares is the only nonprofit still allowed to say “social justice” without triggering a DOJ investigation and getting their 501c3 status revoked

Blasting Superchunk’s cover of “Fire in the Western World” as I prepare the weekly policy and advocacy update for my bosses

Slightly diminish a book Finite Jest

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Thinking about how the opening remarks at next week’s City Club event with RFK Jr will undoubtedly refer back to when his father spoke there in 1968 and it’s absolutely nauseating to me that they’re going to make that link when this was at the heart of RFK’s comments that day:

@demetri.bsky.social Have you come across this crate digging?

They will regret sending me to DC when I spend the whole time walking around shrieking, “Not on a field trip?? Not even on a fifth grade field trip??” like Parker Posey in The House of Yes

Doing exactly what you should be doing on a romantic weekend in the woods… repeatedly asking your boyfriend whether or not he remembers the short lived series MTV Fear

Today Chad and I both got tools in the mail to help us pursue our Art… for him, an extremely cool camcorder… for me, a hunk of wood

Chad and I are watching a doc about the Weather Underground and this incredible YIPpie said, of the Capitol bombing, “The Weather Underground bombed the Capitol to bring a little joy to America. They wanted to put a smile on our faces,” and girlie… yes, 100% evergreen political commentary

“Escaping” from the looming nuclear war by “doing my job” which today means preparing an “easy to understand” explainer on Medicaid eligibility changes and how these changes will translate into expected excess deaths in Ohio.

WFH has to be restricted and not for the reasons you think… I stopped to get a little lunch before running errands and everyone here has a laptop and not a single table has turned over since I got here. Send these people back to the office!!!!!!!!!! People like me (NOT WORKING) deserve a table!!

Some of you need to catch this

If only the meteor had hit me, I wouldn’t be here (waiting room of the dentist’s office) right now

I regret to inform you that the meteor did not hit my office building… I might never get another chance to be killed by a meteor

I’m HIGH on LIFE (went to the coffee shop and ran into so many friends and neighbors)

Still thinking about the college radio PSA I heard this morning… A riff on Reagan’s morning in America speech about how we should be proud to live in a country where you can turn on the radio and hear something you’ve never heard before. Ashamed of the US but proud of WRUW 🫡

Facts

Finally realized who the republican lobbyist I meet with every four weeks reminds me of… early coaching career Pat Riley. How did it take me nearly two years to put this together??

Inspired by the State of the Union, I will be suggesting to my boss that we start identifying a designated survivor for our weekly all hands meeting

Made some Art

Watch guys are wrong when they say no normal person knows what kind of watch you have and no one cares bc I wear a Swatch and at least three times a week someone says, with complete delight, “Are you wearing a Swatch?” People might not know or care about THEIR dumbass watches but everyone loves mine

Singing my cat a song called “it’s time for therapy” loosely set to the tune of “springtime for hitler”

Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014

Finally got an external hard drive and extracted 80GB of music from an ancient laptop and found exactly what you would expect... Multiple live versions of the Mountain Goats covering "The Sign" by Ace of Bass, an all Elliott Smith covers Lou Barlow set, the complete Bonfire Madigan discography...

Listening to the thing about the Italian Americans in court in the recent @ifbookspod.bsky.social and I cannot stop thinking about the lengthy screed in my grandparents’ Italian Sons & Daughters lodge paper about how the US legal system is rife with anti-Italian discrimination (namely RICO charges)

Yesterday my mom told me that a friend of hers faithfully wrote down all his social engagements in his calendar and then saved all the calendars. Recently he mailed her a copy of his January 1981 calendar page & she was over the moon remembering a party at Arnie’s 45 years ago.

Letterboxed has nothing on the Italian Sons and Daughters lodge paper

Thinking of her as I anxiously monitor every unsettling crack and water stain in the house, plus the newly discovered SOFT SPOT on our exterior bedroom wall

Doing my part in the discourse (made all my coworkers look at the CrimethInc pamphlet someone left in Chad’s cafe)

Currently so doompilled that I’m listening to Negazione in my open office cubicle without headphones. The social contract is dead.

Every day Chad and I see something on an old episode of Mr. Show that seems perfectly in tune with the day’s news… at first I was like, “These guys are so prescient,” and now I’m like… maybe sexual violence and white supremacy are the only two constants in contemporary US life…

Renovating hell to make it Bigger and Hotter

I don’t know how much longer we can be expected to live alongside the lie that this is not exactly what it looks like: a violent siege, meant to destroy people. The lie makes it even more destructive.

At 16, StoneColdBikini, Bitch Mag, & the Pander Zine Distro message board was my holy trinity. Today, StoneColdBikini is the only one of these things still standing. Endless thanks to Christine for putting me onto music that changed my life as a teenager. SCB made my world feel bigger 🥲

Interesting stuff in this week’s New Yorker…

Sending daily emails to the Acton campaign suggesting “Buffalo Tears” by Gil Mantera’s Party Dream as a campaign song

@deeholloway.bsky.social Do you ever think about coming back to Cleveland?

The woke left’s strongest soldiers in the war on Christmas (our cats, Ralph and Wolfman) have now knocked the Christmas tree over like a dozen times… you win, libs… Christmas is over

Today in college radio PSAs, Batman trying to capture the Joker for doing college radio, the importance of baby proofing your outlets (set to “Love Buzz”), something about unprecedented variety in genre featuring a polka-fied version of “Carry On My Wayward Son.”

Explaining to the cashier at Gallucci’s that the public execution of politicians is a more meaningful celebration of our shared heritage than Columbus Day

Much to consider…

I told some friends that I would pick up a bottle of wine to have with takeout tonight and am now acting like a 10 minute walk to the store is roughly equivalent to being drafted. “My luck has run out, my number has come up, I’m as good as dead!!!” - me, bemoaning the state of my local sidewalks.

Suddenly overtaken by the impulse to get a small laundry basket on wheels

2025 taking one last swing at Chad and me (stomach flu)

Dec 24th - Fran Kubelik confronted the married man whom she'd been having an affair with in Bud's apartment. He told her he loved her, despite affairs with other women. He then returned to his family, leaving Fran alone in the apartment. 📽️📅 The Apartment (1960)

Marveling at genius (Mary Lou Lord having not one, but two versions of “His Indie World”… she can name so many bands)

Lindsey’s Moog Foundation posting is how my dad spent $100 and ended up with a vintage minimoog signed by Todd Rundgren. What weird little noise machines will her Moog Foundation posting bring into YOUR life?

Texting with dad