never mind the suburban ennui and key party bullshit; I'm repulsed and infuriated by the toe socks in The Ice Storm.

Today. There was a blizzard in NYC and volunteers were still out in the park to give out free hot meals. These are average Americans. Don't forget.

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

so stressed that I just crocheted and info-dumped about the occult and experimental music and Nazi exploitation movies for like 3 hours on my dear friend.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

If you don't mind, if I could leave this here - it's a wonderful resource and the admins just added a page where people can leave a note of encouragement or support after making a donation and reading the testimonials. We need those today. www.standwithminnesota.com

This is a reminder that if you’ve just seen something traumatic, playing 15 min of a visually demanding game (Tetris is the go-to here, but maybe Set? Mah-jongg?) can impede memory formation and help stop it from developing into a trauma. (This doesn’t work for complex trauma but discrete events)

we went to see "sex, lies, and videotape" tonight with great friends, and I am actually shocked at how much I enjoyed it.

My hot take is that at minimum a domestic violence conviction should carry a lot more of the shame and restrictions of a sex offender; it should ban you nationally from gun ownership, jobs in law enforcement, schools, pretty much any public sector work. It’s our clearest red flag for future violence

mamdani is doing what we have been begging dems to do since obama was in office. every time he does something, he is in front of a camera. it's like a DAILY MTV kurt loder news break. those junk fee policies are biden policies, and no one knows. dems expect people to just "get it" but they don't.

FB wanted to remind me of a tweet I got about my review of "Green Book." (Please know I did NOT write that headline.) as a freelancer, I miss Twitter's incredible networking capabilities, but the rest of it can fuck off into the sea.

insta algorithm going HARD on the at-home ketamine treatments these days.

extremely grateful I am no longer required to have an opinion about shit like F1 or white guy biopics any more.

I partook of the forbidden nap. it's gonna be a long night.

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

someone actually answered at Gillibrand's office today, whereas Dan Goldman (and Schumer, of course, eternally) went to voicemail. Usually Goldman's people tell me I'm already "in the system" when I offer to leave a zip code or something, which feels... great!

where were the copy editors at HBO when they finalized the title of Mel Brooks' doc without any goddamn hyphens

I see tonight is gonna be a two-melatonin night.

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

does anyone else love the smell of mugwort/moxa? I picked up a moxa balm after acupuncture the other day and just applied some to various acupressure points, and now I smell like a mystical apothecary.

my brilliant niece friend (who arrived at our apt this afternoon sporting multiple gleaming tooth gems of which I am deeply envious) now has a special edition of The Bloody Chamber with the cool @kellylink.bsky.social intro 🖤🦇 it's essential reading for people I love, especially writers and/or women

OK, but an all-femme GWAR cover band called GOOP would be funny.

this sounds so very cool!!!

This documentary on Nazi exploitation films seemed like a good idea when we started watching it a million hours ago.

I love it!!!

For a Jewish witchy person, I use the phrase "come-to-Jesus" (as in, we had a real come-to-Jesus talk the other day) quite a lot. I really need an alternative.

Fun fact: Black Panthers doing perfectly legal (at the time) open carry in CA in the 1960s spurred then-Governor Reagan to sign the Mulford Act into law in 1965, prohibiting it. These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.

sucks to self-promote when *gestures at everything* but I wanted to re-up this thread for the Monday morning crowd.

also goff's on lover's lane when it had the Lenin statue. burgers were fine, you went for the show. (The owner was a notorious grump.) m.facebook.com/groups/dalla...

there was a Tex-Mex restaurant on I wanna say Lemon Ave off of Oak Lawn in Dallas that we went to when I was a child. their beef tacos are my Proustian madeline. and I cannot remember the name of it for my life.

Dead Kennedys made like three records about it

this motherfucker looks like he was picking up underage goth chicks at the Bat Cave in 1996 by bragging about his collection of Death in June on vinyl.

I would love to find more remote freelance gigs as an editor, copy editor, proofreader, etc.! I have a fantastic anchor client, but I have room for more in my schedule. my specialties are entertainment/pop culture, but I've also edited everything from B2B health content to science/tech.

I don't know if I have ADHD or not, but I locked in so hard on getting all of my 2025 business expenses in order for my tax prepper -- a task I've been dreading -- that I'm elated even hours later. that's normal, right? orrrrr am I gonna wake up with a migraine.

W H E W W W W W W W

the only thing i'm nostalgic about 2016 for is my pre-perimenopause mane of curls and my mom, not gonna lie.

I don’t think this guy knows many Jews because the way I find my fellow Jews in a crowded place is by yelling out “Stephen Miller” and seeing who boo’s the loudest

I loved it too. fantastic costumes and production design!

the more likely reason why a venture capitalist republican tech bro bought BUST tbh. (and he's snapped up a bunch of other stuff with valuable historical archives.... like the village voice...)

the last original Bust person got laid off today. I don't think Bust has ever gotten credit for what they accomplished/established in terms of feminist pop culture media. my thoughts on the Republican tech bro VC company that bought the magazine and gutted it are not fit for public consumption.

the verizon outage has made it so I can't even call my local rep to yell about supporting Noem's impeachment. whomp whomp!

Night Flight has the short-lived Disinformation TV show with Richard Metzger. My friend worked for Disinfo back in the day, and she took me to one of their parties, and it was a Time. This is very much my shit.

in a resolution to consume more delightful trash, we resubscribed to Night Flight. they have an entire section devoted to Damien Packard, and Rufus is in heaven.

it's the second week of January, and Rufus has already read Moby Dick. 🫠

today I spotted a tent in union square for Zohran merch. I don't think I've seen something like that since the election? It seems meaningful that people are still this excited.

The increase in anti-Jewish hatred and violence in the United States over the past decade is the direct result of a fascist project of White Christian nationalism. The goal is to deflect popular anger against the billionaires hoarding all the wealth and power towards minorities who can be blamed.

spotted in the wild! cc @rachelholliday.bsky.social

I am so excited to go shopping for presents for my adult niece friend person but I am worried I will repeat a gift (because who doesn't need a copy of The Bloody Chamber?!).

I don't know if/how this is related to the fuckery of the insurance companies fighting with their networks — I found out last week UHC will no longer cover any of my docs at Weill Cornell/NYP as of Feb 1 under ACA -- but this feels like something is about to break.