and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all

"I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."

EVERYONE STOP. Briefly marvel at the fantastic craftsmanship of this handsome terracotta pig!

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Having vigorous disagreements is not the only valuable kind of socializing, nor is it the only way to learn anything. Hope this helps.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Checking in: do you have $8-$25? Can you purchase ONE box of snacks for Girls Rock! DC summer camp this year? We’re trying to clear their wishlist so more than 200 young people can have the time of their lives at rock camp this summer!

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

Not gonna lie, I kind of forgot that Anne would actually have to go to Bath eventually, despite the 🛁 emoji we're using for the book club!

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

This book is so lovely!

Ok buddies it is a special time of year. It is @girlsrockdc.bsky.social WISH LIST TIME! This is when GR!DC needs some help making sure kids have everything they need to thrive at rock and roll camp this summer. It is, legitimately, my favorite week of the year. So we’re gonna help again, yes? LFG

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

The apotheosis of hotel room TV? It's a lot more like boxing than I expected!

The virgin Middlemarch: features a weird and kinda annoying guy who is trying to assemble the key to all world knowledge The chad Moby Dick: features a weird and kinda charming guy who is trying to assemble the key to all whale knowledge

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

Hotel room TV got better.

They should make a version of The Odyssey, only it’s set in Dublin, Ireland in 1904 and Odysseus is a Jewish man whose wife is having an affair and Telemachus is an aspiring author who gets into fights in pubs and wanders the strand brooding on his mother’s death.

There ain't no TV like hotel room TV.

Bluesky mentioned!

HEY! FELLOW NEW YORKERS! You an author? Your book been banned? Has it been banned somewhere in New York State? Please do this survey to help Authors Against Book Bans et al gather data on the extent of book ban issues in our state: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... everyone else: please boost

NOTICE: Do you have an elderly or disabled neighbor in NYC? Be a good neighbor and let them know about the free air conditioner program. If they earn $3473 or less a month, NYC will cover the costs of an A/C. Remember…last summer we had 95 degree weather. Look out for them

The real message of Frogger is the dangers of commuting in a city that doesn't have reliable public transit.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

My annual Mother's Day post. Because some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true.

Happy “pictures of your mom when she was young and hot” day to all who observe

Highly recommend occasionally riding in a cab in the rain by yourself listening to plaintive music in headphones; it's good for the soul.

I gotta assume, based on Pride & Prejudice and my current read of Persuasion, that Jane Austen had a very disagreeable person in her life named Mary. 🛁

I am genuinely convinced that our shared taste for the cheapest non-Chardonnay white wine available is a load-bearing pillar of our relationship.

Reading Persuasion 🛁 for the first time and thus far my takeaway is the number of contemporary regency romances I've read has insulated me against the class/snobbery horror of many of my Bluesky book club compatriots, lol. (Also, my brain is RUSTY at parsing the early 19th-century prose.)

speaking of webcomics I still think this Hark A Vagrant panel is like. the single funniest image of all time

Well this is horrible (complimentary)

Alecto rolling up to the MetGala like

Also not for nothing but her right glove has six fingers??

The gold prosthetics!!

This is so beautiful.

This is a photo of Saturn and its rings. It's also a photo of Earth. See that bright point just right of centre? That's home. That's us.

I think Alanis Morissette wrote a song about your apartment once

It drives me crazy that my brain is suffused with little tidbits like this that I DO always bring up, but if you put me on the spot like this, I totally blank I guess the most appropriate one here is that "factoid" does not mean "trivial fact," it means "something that seems like a fact but is not"

I’m sorry, I just learned that Jasper Fforde runs a yearly fan fest and it is called Fforde Fiesta. www.ffordeffiesta.co.uk?fbclid=IwVER...

This is a solid 17 percent of copyediting, maybe more:

It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter

The Dark Crystal (1982) fucked me UP

TIMELINE CLEANSE