Moments before disaster…

Dog butts above the sea of fog.

The scariest thing about the Los Angeles mayoral race isn't "We deserve better than these choices" but...what if we actually don't?

Canned fish is gross and stinky but you sure can make a lot of great, cheap, high-protein meals out of it.

Is this a safe space to admit I burst into ugly tears every time I run across this Laura Gilpin poem?

To whoever in the registrar’s office who made mail in ballots the same color as WGA residual envelopes: fuck you.

"Big guy stands next to an even bigger guy" is a genre of photo I never, ever get tired of.

The normie reactions to the recent Ben Sasse interviews suggest that under the surface we're a far less polarized country than we appear to be at first glance. A lot of liberal-left people in my circles have been downright delighted to find a conservative they can like and admire.

In my happy place.

A reminder that the popular understanding of "Reichstag fire" as "false flag attack" isn't accurate. The actual meaning is "idiotic and ineffective spasm of violence that ends up completely playing into the other side's hands." Just FYI.

Standing on Charlie Chaplin’s footprints.

Apropos of nothing, here's a recipe I've been experimenting with for a salmon or tuna salad that's high in protein, delicious, inexpensive, takes about ten minutes to make and in my case is put together with ingredients found at Costco and Trader Joe's...

I know I'm not objective because Duncan has become a "would lie in front of traffic for" person to me, but I think this is really going to knock a lot of peoples' socks off. He and his team have done incredible things using human artistry to stretch the capabilities of Unreal Engine.

WE DEMAND THE DUNCAN SILLY VOICES CUT ON THE 4K!

The BlueSky algorithm is improving. I’m getting more uplifting dog videos on my “For You.” I approve.

The burned tree stump on the hiking trail looks like a giant buried metalhead throwing the goat.

Seeing this smile makes every morning better.

So which of his relatives shorted oil before the announcement?

The visual joke from the Simpsons prohibition episode where Moe asks "Who wants a bathtub mint julep?" never fails to crack me up.

There's a sneering critique of the No Kings rallies as being mostly old people that I don't understand at all. Isn't the big criticism of boomers that they're too self absorbed? So seeing them out there protesting for the sake of future generations should be inspiring.

Two California ravens watching us.

A blessed Eid to all my Muslim friends and mutuals out there!

Congrats to Jonathan the tortoise on his Oscar win last night. I had no idea he had such range.

Our daughter is extremely happy that K Pop Demon Hunters won. This is the beginning and end of my Oscar commentary for the night.

this is kind of a crazy story! the headline predictably understates the role of the scientists the guy worked with as well as his own expertise, but the article is great and it does seem pretty clear that he would never have been able to do it without LLMs www.theaustralian.com.au/business/tec...

Hearing that the nastiest director I ever worked with is being a piece of shit to another writer both makes me sad on behalf of the writer but also a little gratified that the director didn't have some kind of a grudge against me, he's just an awful human being to everyone.

My Facebook "On This Day" feature for February and March plays like the first 45 minutes of a disaster movie, with steadily more ominous Covid updates culminating in today's date in 2020 when Los Angeles collectively agreed to freak out.

I've fallen down a rabbit hole of Youtube videos of Filipino bands doing impeccable cover versions of every classic song I love. How are they so good at this?

Between AI videos, propaganda, wishcasting, and monetized engagement accounts, social media has become completely broken as a place to follow a breaking international news story, especially a politically charged one.

Happy International Women's Day to all who celebrate.

Gilmour's been an affable old guy (who plays incredible guitar) for so long that it's always startling to see how, well, dead sexy he was back in the day.

When you see the Kurds about to trust the United States again:

It's sadly ironic that at a time when trust in traditional news media is at a low, an international crisis and social media getting overrun by AI slop and propaganda accounts starkly demonstrates the need for professional news gathering and analysis.

I loathe George W. Bush and continue to think the 2nd Iraq war was a world historical tragedy and crime...but he at least spent months making the case to the US people and international community, as shoddy as it was. This Leeroy Jenkins approach to war is something different altogether.

Travels with Stella.

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You have every right to be upset that Dan Simmons turned into a right wing crank after 9/11 but any honest reckoning will reveal a large percentage of the last century's best genre fiction was written by right wing cranks and it's your loss if that's a deal breaker.

With Bill Duke finally getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, I'm re-sharing the career-spanning conversation I did for @indiewire.com with him.

It's insane that there's never been a proper adaptation of Zelazny's Damnation Alley (the terrible TV movie doesn't count) because it's the cleanest most cinematic premise ever--the Nome vaccine run, only across an irradiated, post-nuclear wasteland.

This might the first week in living memory that this site has actually been less contentious and angry than the other one. I could get used to this.

The Downton Abbey movies remind me of watching the original cast Star Trek movies from 79-91. Some were great and some weren't, but mainly you were just glad to spend a couple of hours with those characters again.

Physical fitness is great, but the Manhattan Project & building of the Pentagon were overseen by a dude who was built like young John Goodman so maybe not the most important trait in a military leader?

Bay Area excellence.

Snow day on Mt. Wilson!

It turns out there's a coyote in Yellowstone who hams it up with an old injury to beg for food from tourists, and he's now teaching other coyotes how to do it, too. cowboystatedaily.com/2026/02/20/y...

The vitriol in the comment sections of articles about the skiers killed in the Tahoe avalanche is really sickening. Some people seem to think that moms should keep themselves in bubble wrap every moment they're not with their kids and not have any kind of lives.

I declare this to be canon.

So I finally got my X account back and dipping back in to say hi to old friends and apologize to anyone who got hacked by my account really reminded me that I need to be spending less time on oligarch-owned social media and more reaching out to friends directly.

I hate these people so much. Just pure petty cultural vandalism at this point. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

The Nazgul the wolf dog memes are getting good: