All hail a true hero. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Wildflower/weed in my yard.

Unsubscribed from Paramount+.

Last night, Walter Cronkite appeared to me in a dream. His spirit is restless.

In line at CVS, a man in front of me just tried to re-adjust the security door so it was fully closed. Dude! Let that Ensure escape!

Drove to L.A. yesterday. Hi LA! Hi parakeets/parrots!

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Hey look at that, my review of Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket is up at the Boston Globe! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/01/a...

Kind of charming that the place I most recently saw Jane Goodall was in the season 17 finale of Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Farewell to a great one. apnews.com/article/jane...

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

Writers, check your work. (photo “Los Angeles” by Alvin Lieberman, 1971, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Quercus hypoleuciodes A. Camus, aka Silverleaf Oak. I really wanted it to be Albert, but it’s named for Aimée.

So, are orders for French 75s at bars in select cities going through the roof?

Every state DMV I've been to is the same kind of purgatory, except for upstate NY -- that was administrative hell but, on the upside, I did once walk past Peter Dinklage on his way out.

“.. Judge William Young concluded, in a scathing, 161-page opinion that he described as the most crucial he’s delivered in his 30 years on the bench.” @politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Having far too much fun tooling through endless photo archives.

JK Rowling: what an asshole. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Please do not disturb me when I am in my medbed

Just breaking out my Huntington coffee mug.

If I were a better person, I would not be watching this Charlie Sheen documentary.

One Battle After Another. Holy cow! Go see it!!

Oh look an IMAX screen about to show One Battle After Another.

Still unpacking, obvs, but I wanted to show off my new lamp.

Shirley MacLaine's 7,400 acre New Mexico ranch could be yours for just $17.4 million. 9,000-square foot home, caretaker's cottage, the works. fayranches.com/property/pla...

Public Enemy X Jimmy Kimmel Live #JimmyKimmel #FightThePower

OK, I’ll ask - what was that Lithub story people have been chatting about? (I was being not-terminally online)

Poor Sektion, what did you ever do? www.ikea.com/us/en/p/sekt...

Reading, writing, etc.

“All of the women are always busy and perfect and smiling! And all of the men are always happy!” “That’s a problem because?" “It’s a problem because it’s not normal, Walter! It’s not the world! It’s not us!" - The Stepford Wives, 2004 edition, all too perfect for 2025

Eventually I'll get a decent roadrunner photo.

I just spotted birds splashing around in a neighbor’s rain gutters. While that doesn’t bode well for their drainage, it does make me think the birds might use a birdbath in my back yard.

Happy rapture day! Please aim yourself at the sky in an orderly fashion so the rest of us can inherit your house

WFMU just played "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone and I still love that song. But yikes the things girls were taught to expect were OK in the ‘80s!

Saw a desert box turtle cruising through my neighborhood this morning and I’m going to say that’s a good omen.

At Trader Joe's today I saw a Jewish man (with sidelocks etc) ask the staff if they had black-eyed peas. Worlds merging, right? Sadly, they were sold out.

The only Rapture we need. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCd...

Me: I'll sit outside for a bit at dusk. Mosquitos: *come from 2,000 miles away*

“Milo, you’ve had a lock on the look of the nineties for decades now.” - Kim Basinger in Pret-A-Porter on the Criterion Channel.

Discovered yesterday that I have a native amaranth in my yard. Hooray! Except it’s been declared an invasive unkillable weed in the rest of the world and a threat to food systems. Geez, amaranth, why so mean?

Today I got lost so many times I was almost a highway.

Today I got lost so many times I was practically a generation.

In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts…

Love this story from the great Anthony Breznican: www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Rewatching Foundation from the beginning because it’s such a big story, I got lost trying to jump back in. Also, Lee Pace as an all-too-perfect emperor is perfect.

I'm a lousy but enthusiastic gardener.

Seems bad.

Is there a word for Cat-Sitting-Up-On-Back-Legs-With Front-Paws-Awkwardly-Hanging-Down-To-Peer-Out-Window?

Today I learned that “Anasazi” is an outdated term that is no longer used to describe the Pueblo people. In fact, it’s a Navajo term for them, meaning “ancient enemy.” indianpueblo.org/what-does-an...

If you're a presidential candidate whose loss brings about drastic, devastating changes across the nation, hire me as a consulting editor so we can talk about how it's vital that throughout you express sorrow and empathy, and not blame everyone else. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Remember when the ACLU was like, We must defend the right of Nazis to march in Illinois? Because free speech? Simpler days.