And burritos

Takagi Haruyama, Hare, 1850’s

And I’ve run out of Oh never mind

Among other things, we often contrast in Greek military thought between the personal-excellence 'Achilles' ethos and the clever-tactics 'Odysseus' ethos. Whereas Pete Hegseth recalls the Ajax-the-Lesser ethos of being forgettably bland and unimpressive except for doing a bunch of sexual assault.

This is - and you know how much it pains me to say it - but this is perhaps a touch unfair to the Greeks, who were more militarily sophisticated than Pete Hegseth.

Chilean artist and illustrator Paulina Silva Chala, born in Santiago de Chile in 1990 #WomensArt

You can donate to my friend Titus Androgynous . . . or you can just keep scrolling. Which would be foolish.

I invite to join me 54 minutes into video for one of the peak experiences of my life: Renowned folk music collector & performer Sam Lee & I do a performance of words & music from my novel THOMAS THE RHYMER. He insisted I sing the Thomas ballad, though, not him. I took a deep breath & did it.

My esteemed colleague speaks for me as well.

This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming

night flight has three whole channels of this, it’s all the weirdest shit you have ever seen, it rules, and it’s cheap

I think we know EXACTLY what our esteemed sages would post. R' Papa: dick jokes and pictures of craft beer R' Yohanan: thirst traps R' Yirmeya: 64 post threads answering questions nobody asked Rav: wife guy content Abaye: "one weird trick" click bait R' Kahana: consummate reply guy

Nowadays, it's random people's conversations that you eavesdrop on in your social media that suddenly send you spinning in new directions, to find books, art, films, music or fandoms you never knew existed..

"I did not start my full time career as an artist until I was fifty and I have just turned 76 in July....I hope my story will be one that inspires others to pursue their dreams no matter how old they are and not to give up." - Jeanie Tomanek To see more of her work: www.jeanietomanek.com

Stephen Miller will dismantle Antifa. And I will dismantle this triple banana sunday with extra hot fudge. Bite me.

"You're not broken for having 99 interests. You're not "unfocused" for jumping between piano AND photography AND writing. You're a Swiss Army knife in a world that only wants butter knives. Stop apologising for being polymath minded."

oh dear It's not like I need another set of measuring spoons

I Was Always Clear

‘1 thing I did learn in Russia is there is no way to make this feel “less bad.” You are not crazy for feeling terrible, & no amount of perfect habits will make a legitimately bad time feel less bad. All you can do is find some balance by increasing the dose of good. This is where art comes in, too.’

Just dropped a new one:

I can’t think of anything. Or maybe I’m just crap at memes. I’m curious now: what would you put up as the energy I bring to Bluesky? 🦋

There was never a shortage of people fleeing the countryside to work at those dark, Satanic mills.

I love this observation, but maybe it just means I'm old.

I was just thinking: It’s time for internet samizdat! Wonder what that will look like? I look forward to reading this.

This was the absolute norm for any US politician until, well, Trump. Even Mike Pence said it when he was booed at a staging of Hamilton just after they won in 2016.

Good stuff here

I mean will it also pay them, since it’s going to be dictating their story choices

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

We haven't come up with a single use of the internet I really like since "Can check ebooks out of the library at 11:37 p.m. if I want to."

'Someone asked me about my playwriting "career" and all I could think of was the second meaning of the word: "To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way. The coach careered across the road and went through a hedge."' -- Liz Duffy Adams, author of BORN WITH TEETH #lifeinthearts

No lies detected

FFVII first came out approximately seven confederacies ago 🤷🏻‍♀️

Trump essentially sold off this part of the government to RFK Jr. in exchange for Kennedy’s electoral slice of conspiracy theorists. The GOP Senate could easily have blocked RFK’s confirmation, but would have had to cross Trump. They declined. Now medical flat-earthers run our public health

The Seventh Swan

Help my friend Coco who is going through a lot right now. Every dollar helps.

This 👇

A personal fave

oh looks like jill lepore wrote the book i thought i might write www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/b...

In the end there’s no absolutely safe way to oppose a regime like this, but we can minimize the dangers we face. I think it behooves us to listen to the one who was there 3000 years ago when the strength of men failed.

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

I didn’t have agreeing with Ted Cruz on my bingo card. “Ted Cruz says FCC chairman Brendan Carr sounded more like an organized crime boss than a federal regulator when he threatened to revoke ABC’s licenses”

Sending love to my trans peeps out there fuck the administration cis folks: donate if you can southernequality.org/tyep/

I can’t think of anything. Or maybe I’m just crap at memes. I’m curious now: what would you put up as the energy I bring to Bluesky? 🦋

Have Disney pulled the Indiana Jones movies for being mean to nazis yet?

If you cannot donate would you please repost? That helps very much. Thank you 💖💖💖

You are fucking kidding me. I used to work with the NYC children's theater that did PINKALICIOUS as a musical. (We also did my GOLDEN DREIDEL: A Klezmer Nutcracker for Chanukah [written with Shirim Klez Orch], but they decided PINKALICIOUS was more profitable.)

The irony is not lost on us. AND we need to think less like the enemy when feasible.