The beauty of kittenheads.

When Symbol Placement Goes Wrong

If Jackie Rogers, Jr. were a cat.

@nytimes.com So even *you* can't use prepositions correctly anymore? This "to" should obviously be "for".

Trump at the Coast Guard graduation thing.

@thedailybeast.bsky.social Your email for The Swamp doesn't work. How does one contact them?

"Children, today we're going to explore the phrase 'self own'."

My garden is alive with chattering bluejays.

It was the best of times for irony, it was the worst of times for irony.

The very sight of Steven Cheung makes me recoil, and I'm usually pretty okay with revolting-looking people.

Just been speaking with an experienced architect, and it turns out building a city on rock and roll is neither safe nor legal.

Pick your fifth Ninja Turtle: Isambard Kingdom Brunello

Me, ordering breakfast from a local joint infamous for its terrible coffee: "They moved locations a few years ago--I'm sure they got a fancy new coffeemaker!" Me, drinking their coffee: "They did not."

MY CHURCH FINALLY GETS A WIN

Those of us of an older vintage can recall a time when we couldn't even envision a senior political administrator of any nation using a word like "suck," well ... anywhere. Are all of these American apparatchiks fifth-graders like their boss? Pretty sure Canada will survive this devastating burn.

An episode of American Dad features an ad for a product called Beer Water and I'm like, isn't that just American beer?

From @joannacoles.bsky.social: David [Rothkopf] explains that "it’s not that [Trump's] playing 4D chess; it’s that he’s eating the pieces."

Not my pic, but I saw a yellow-bellied sapsucker in our birch this morning, and it looked much like this.

Well-done, Hungary. Well-done.

My husband actually likes orange Jello, if you're wondering what sort of weirdo I married.

Why do American shows set in the present day still have characters named Hank?

Imagine being a grown-ass woman named Taylor Frankie Paul.

The upcoming CPAC is to be held at a place called the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center and I just love that for it.

Peter Theil seems to be made of malice and nothing else. He doesn't even pretend to have one redeeming feature.

Sternly worded letters to the past: Dear Joan Didion: It's "play it where it LIES."

You know, to the eternal question "What the hell is wrong with the United States?" one need only look to the fact that grown-ass men there are called things like Boo and Skeeter.

I'm...I'm pretty sure I do?

It was the only logical thing to do.

Imagine voluntarily going through life with a name like Gabby Windey.

No. No, I haven't.

"How do you think the Fonz got so cool? He stretched his pelvic bowl."

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."

I find it deeply fascinating at times to contemplate that I live on the same Earth as people who find Dr. Pepper appealing.

So, none at all, then?

Anna Wintour doing an interview along with Chloe Malle, sitting *indoors*, wearing those blackout shades. Imagine being that pretentious a twat.

Going to ban the term "close-knit" once I'm in power.

Imagine naming a helpless infant Tuppence.

Is there some sort of American sports match going on?

Morning hearthside meeting.

Even Johnny Cash couldn't save "Won't Back Down."

The view from the living room window into our garden.

Current mood.

A surprise gift from my lovely, lovely husband.

Random, but in fact seems strangely appropriate to virtually any American context right now.

How seriously can you expect to be taken as an adult if you call yourself Mikey?

Kind of glad I didn't have to go through life with the name Penny Tinkler.

Is some sort of American football match taking place?

Waiting for Donald Trump to claim this prize really should have been awarded to him.

Once again @tatler.com.web.brid.gy hits it out of the park--"Zarazuela" for "Zarzuela" and "providence" for "provenance". HIRE PROOFREADERS IF YOU WON'T HIRE LITERATE WRITERS.