In other news, water is wet, the sky is blue, etc.

This was yesterday, of course

Golden hour was more beautiful than usual and I decided to try to take a picture. Otherwise I would have missed this. Lifted my heart.

Trademarks in the wild: SOURACHA Candy #trademarks

No visit to Brookline would be complete without a wild turkey sighting (I counted six total) on your morning walk. At least they weren’t aggressive.

Harmless and true sign at NoKings Pasadena

It’s time #NoKings

Some signs from #nokings in Boston today. I love this town.

Found the paid protester

It’s a beautiful day to protest fascism.

Y’all - Boston has TURNED OUT!

You rock, Boston! No Kings! Toss that tea! youtu.be/5apEctKwiD8

Dude at the Boston No Kings protest just talked to me about how there are a lot of posters by the “aht students”from all the “aht schools” in town. My heart is full.

When they keep emailing you that the VIP tickets for a band you’ve never heard of are going fast

My neighbor Judy hits it out of the park again with her Halloween yard skeletons, this year the busted “Coldplay Couple”.

nobel peace prize is not awarded posthumously just a little fun fact to file away for next year for absolutely no particular reason

One day you're young and hip, the next you're using the camera on your phone to zoom in on the little, practically invisible, symbol on the bottom of a sour cream contain in order to see whether it's recyclable.

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul. “Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Happy Mountain Day to all who celebrate!

For those interested, my review of three (fairly) recent books on Roman emperors is out in @nybooks.com.

If only we’d known in 2015 that we could just turn off the escalator.

Transformative work of the day, European edition

Morning visitor

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

I promise we do actually feed him, but you wouldn’t know it from the way he keeps breaking into the bags of dog kibble and helping himself.

when he does finally go i will demand not just the death certificate but the long form death certificate

Asked the 10 YO to explain a slang term I was unfamiliar with. 10 YO: sorry, I forgot you’re too old and too white to know that word. I mean, apparently she’s not wrong.

I know this is a widely held misapprehension and pushing back on it will do little good, but Charlottesville has no more Nazis per capita than the average American city, and at the moment considerably fewer than Washington D.C.

Seems to me that stalking an animal with the intention to kill it counts as provocation.

Every once in a while one of my Canadian friends will ask me how I am and I'll unthinkingly say "livin' the dream!" and then they'll go "awesome!" and I'll once again have to explain that "livin' the dream" is "kill me" in American.

Very sad to see this. Tom Lehrer provided a good chunk of the soundtrack to my childhood, as well as my college roommate/friend’s and my outgoing answering machine message in the fall of 1992: “Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.”

tfw you read your old briefing to prep for oral argument and you come across a zinger that still zings

Dealing with various problems Previous Me saved for Future Me, and honestly I can see why Previous Me punted on most of these, very relatable

5. Raindrops on roses. 4. Whiskers on kittens. 3. Bright copper kettles. 2. Warm woolen mittens. 1. Schadenfreude on ketamine.

I dunno, but this intersection seems to be missing something.

Rainbow time in Charlottesville.

I humbly offer “a distinction of trademark attorneys.” #INTA2025

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if your skeet gets any attention at all, you will later find a typo in it. Or maybe it’s just me.

Now soliciting suggestions. “A [blank] of trademark attorneys.”

Sigh #INTA2025. My kingdom for an edit button, even for just five minutes after posting.

Buckling up for my worlds to collide - Dewberry TM case is coming up #INTA20205. #cville

Trademark folks require their own brand of trigger warning. #INTA205

Settling in for US Year in Review at #INTA2025. Always a highlight.

I'll bet that AI knows what habeas corpus is.

Overhead at the Hotel del Coronado: Man - I see a Bloody Mary in my future (Presumably) his wife - Already? (It’s 11:20 am) Refrained from saying “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere.” Please clap.

Today in truth in advertising.