hearing that today was a pretty wild episode for you news stans

Explaining to my wife why I’m not very into Westerns or space stuff: I dunno. Men seem really into both of them. So that makes me wary about the whole thing.

Move your turkey from the freezer to the fridge today!

On our final vet trip, I wasn’t prepared to make arrangements because I’d never lost a pet as an adult. They’re listing them off, and one was to have Janet cremated and scattered at a coral reef and all I could think in the moment was “…our cat never expressed a desire for the sea.”

Reskeet with a time you looked cool.

True story. Before ADHD meds, to fake highly-functioning, I smoked two packs a day and chased them down with a daily 12-pack of Diet Coke *and* 12 cups of coffee (or 12 espressos in to-go lattes). Every day. My whole adult life. Now I often forget to even finish my first coffee after I pour it.

Alert. Orville Peck has released a cover of Maybe This Time from Cabaret.

Ooh the Andrea Gibson documentary Come See Me in the Good Light is on Apple TV and so far, it will break your heart, but so did their poetry and I’m glad to see them remembered.

My mom (usually amazing): You said you had a hard week. What’s up? Me: Um. My next door neighbor burned to death in a house fire and then my cat died… Mom: Oh. I thought you meant work or something. M’am. Is this not enough for you?

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Every time I start to plan where to be when for holidays, I become convinced we should go back to the old ways where marriage means you become of the property of a new family too far away to be expected to ever see the other one again. Just a tasteful letter once a month. Feels more reasonable.

Talked to a fancy statistician with a royal flush of degrees and it took him a full 30 minutes of lecturing to let me get in a word edgewise to let him know that I had been working with these new-to-him reports for a decade and didn’t need a primer. Be curious about other people first, sir.

I really like the Sharpie fine-point felt tip pens and every time I leave the house I grab one and toss it into my purse in case I need a pen. I just found nine identical pens floating around in my not-large bag.

Thing that rattles around in my head: Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour." I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.

One problem with liking spooky old house movies is that often you click to watch and expect the “family’s dark secret” in the description to be a ghost/ demon/ dark ritual, and it ends up just being generations of human violence against women.

You’d think a person from Georgia would be sick to death of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, but nah. Play it again.

i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable

My Georgia Bulldogs play at 7:30 pm which is so far away. Practically after hours.

Of course someone at work has a great idea for a new outreach campaign for *me* to run. Why don’t people ever get ideas to add work to their own plates, I wonder?

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Having lived in Atlanta & DC, Pittsburgh feels like a miracle, cost-of-living-wise. No city is perfect, but between being *shocked* to meet a Republican in city limits, lack of pretension, and good people, it’s pretty great. Yinz are all welcome (but you gotta act right). apple.news/A9EJpP3kxTre...

[giving you a tour of the office on your first day and stopping at the paper cutter] this is where we keep the sword

Hoarding pennies like beanie babies and then leaving them as my full coppery estate.

Imagine smiling in photos for years, having your best friend killed in prison, having that on your conscience, and THEN finding out that your best pedo friend has been emailing everyone you know about what a slime ball YOU are and how gross you are. If you had human feelings, that would be a blow.

so crazy to see the damning emails of the powerful.....most of the stuff i get and send is like "come to my birthday party" or "what's a good place for dinner"

Bad Janet’s heart and kidneys were struggling so we had to say goodbye last night. The vet ensured it was very peaceful and Lex was holding him when he went but we are devastated. I hope that heaven is a sunbeam and birds outside the window and a soft place to lay your head, sweet boy.

Kendrick Lamar ft. Joyce Carol Oates "Not Like Us REMIX"

Bad Janet is so listless and not eating that we took him to pet urgent care (a thing I just found out exists) and after diagnostics they’re having us take him to the Vet ER for overnight IV for his wee kidneys. Our tiny son. Not sure what, but they think he may have eaten something bad. Poor baby!

Gender is made up and I love my bearded Nana.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

My wife @luxastarte.bsky.social was born today. They immediately developed a hard outer carapace to protect their marshmallow center.

I have hit an administrative wall that involves a company *postal mailing* me a form to sign and postal mail back. I thought we had shut that down in 2020. This is ludicrous.

Our local newspaper guild has been on strike for over THREE YEARS and this is a huge win. Delighted to see it.

I know that I’ve had an abnormal and stressful few days, and the time change, and it’s raining and possibly going to snow, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be frustrated with myself that I only want to be in my bed forever.

Our next door neighbor’s house burst into flames just before 5 am and he did not survive. Grateful for my wife seeing something bright out the window and calling 911 and the fire department arriving swiftly and herding us and our cats outside into the car until it was safe to come back inside.

If Guillermo del Toro’s design team ever needs a concept space to test out some looks, they are welcome to fully redesign my entire home any time.

Dreary fall morning rewatch. Still emotional agony to watch, but truly gorgeous agony.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

I’m not saying dinosaurs wouldn’t eat people, but to a lot of them, people are smaller than like one shrimp. Not a satisfying snack morsel. Barely an amuse bouche.

I don’t understand how Uber drivers always have someone to talk to on the phone all day. I don’t mind at all, but like, I made three total phone calls in the past week for a total of seven minutes, so I have no idea what you would even talk about for an all day shift.

Congratulations to Fat Squirrel, the king and captain of our garage.

My wife just informed me that this full moon is apparently called the “Full Beaver Supermoon” and my question is WHY HAD I NOT ALREADY LEARNED THIS FROM BLUESKY?? I don’t know about you but I pay good money for a subscription to this website.

Offering my bestie a Hug of Christian Friendship (I’m in leather clutching your hair, you are in guy liner and married to someone else). Oddly, he declined.

I’m not accusing your email of being spam, but if you are writing from the “US HQ” of a major corporation, the corporate mailing address in your signature should not be in Switzerland.

I thought we were out of clean coffee mugs but it turns out my wife has also been storing them on the THIRD shelf in the cabinet, a place so out of my reach that I assumed nothing was up there. What other mysteries are hiding where I have not even dreamed to go?

The Mayor is here at hand.

I am so happy for New York! I want this for all of us.

"this is the future liberals want" and it's just some guy taking a free bus to buy a dozen eggs for $2.99

I love that People news has entirely stopped matching the preview photos to the subject headline.

Added a little thrill to our poll workers’ morning when we rolled in for provisional ballots because our mail-ins haven’t been marked received yet. They handled it great! And we got stickers!