Ethiopian food is like “oops all stew” and it rocks

Lunchtime snuggle friend.

This morning one of my friends found out there is a feminist bird club that meets in Los Angeles and immediately gave me a heads up. It’s beautiful to be seen and known.

The word “moist” is fine, actually.

Raisin Bran is the single, sole, solitary, and only exception to the otherwise absolutely inviolable Do Not Put Raisins In The Thing rule.

I was putting some bumper plates back at the gym. They seemed secure but then one slipped back towards me, a distance of a few inches, and broke my finger.

I busted out the ol’ dryer brush from 2019 this morning and listen…gals, why did we ever stop using these?

The news, and the state of the world, want me to have a bad 2026, but I’m simply not going to. I’ve already decided this is going to be one of my good years.

I’m not importing any of my tweets to Bluesky. Yes, there were some bangers on there that went viral. But those were Yesterday’s Bangers. We are looking forward towards the Bangers of Tomorrow.

Any smart and patient mutals out there who might know why a certain number gets a busy signal when calling my iPhone, even though the number isn’t blocked? Yes, I’ve tried a number of things and am desperate enough to try asking social media!

This is actually what was happening. The universe has a good grasp on story structure.

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

I had so much fun reading Dracula, I decided to try another novel that would one day be an inspiration for a Dark Universe movie that Universal never ended up making.

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

One day, when I shout "shield wall!" in public, people will form an actual shield wall around me. And then you all will be really embarrassed.

We will continue having new years until morale improves.

John Cleese agreed to direct a show for my sketch comedy group. I was having a nervous pee when he arrived and started introducing himself to everyone and then I heard my comedy hero say, “…what’s that? The cat is in the bathroom?”

Self soothed with the train city at LACMA today.

FRIEND MARRIAGE TRAVEL Oh is this the year I finally get married to my friends, even the one that are already married, and we all go on a little trip to celebrate?

Well, the cat that lives in my apartment finds trees to be a tasty snack so that makes sense.

This is so funny to me because my great-grandparents and grandparents would also say of someone “he has the map of Ireland on his face” (complimentary)

As hurricane-force winds showered fire embers down on Altadena in January, it seemed almost impossible that much would survive. But while some of the towering deodar cedars lining Santa Rosa Avenue were singed by fire and damaged by wind, they survived. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...

“ I love how Carol is tough enough to spend over a month on her own when the hive mind abandons Albuquerque rather than endure Carol’s efforts to undo their joining, but human enough to relent and give acquiescence a try in the season finale.”

What I’ve learned since last night is that people LOVE talking about Face/Off. Love it. Everyone gets ACTIVATED. They want to quote their favorite lines. They want you to listen to the HDTGM podcast about it. They have been waiting for the SIGNAL.

Happy Christmas Eve Day! If you’re going out to buy presents today: what they’ve got is on the floor there’s nothing more in back if all that’s left is the expensive stuff, consider it the procrastination tax.

I’m watching Face Off for the first time, and they just…they just take the faces off.

It’s that time of year again! And by that I mean time to read this hilarious story.

Happy Hannukiah Cleaning Day to all who celebrate!

There was a cat at Stonehenge for the Yule festivities www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yShGmT/

My Christmas Tree is decorated with ornaments from my travels. When I go on a trip, I get something to hang on the tree so I can remember. Technically, JAWS 50th anniversary is not a destination, but I did GO to several screenings and exhibits, so I think this counts.

I haven’t been Jewish all that long, so I’m still learning. What I’ve learned this Hanukkah is to never buy the cheap candles. What a mess!

When everything starts kicking off in Dracula

Before making suggestions, has Instagram considered that I might not want to follow every woman my ex-boyfriend follows?

It seems my entire timeline is posting about Rob Reiner and I feel like I have nothing to add except that his movies made my life funnier, more romantic, and more hopeful. I’ll never forget the joy of watching The Princess Bride on the bus during a school field trip. Never.

Wake Up Dead Man really does reward a rewatch. In early scenes, both Monsignor Wicks and Cy are shown eating an apple, because they share a legacy of being corrupted by power.

It begins. Chag Sameach!

If you’re angered and perplexed by what the new iOS did to Safari tabs, this is news you can use.

California is too warm in the winter. I long to wear jackets! There is no feeling like throwing on a jacket and heading outside.

My mind is too beautiful for this

my “I Have a Great Reason For Wanting to Chop Off the Head of This Girl’s Corpse” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

It's Victorian medicine you can just say it's to stop her uterus from giving people nightmares and everyone will probably go "oh shit good point"

"First time reading Dracula and it's such a weird and amazing book" is one of my favourite internet microgenres. Thoroughly enjoying Kat's commentary

I am personally looking forward to Wake Up Dead Man dropping on Netflix, because the Knives Out movies have become my new comfort movies and I’d like a little more variety.

Lock up your step-sisters and start writing Frankenstein.

Can’t stop singing this as I putter around the kitchen.

you will be visited by three spirits

Someone at work pressed this into my hands. It did not have the desired effect.

All of the more salient points aside, I can’t get over how greedy it is of Skydance to want to buy Paramount and then immediately buy Warner Bros too?? Like, “no, we have media conglomerates at home.”