Well that was a goddamn delightful game of hockey. Thank you Fleury.

The weather was dramatic in Pgh this week, which I am taking as an omen to work on kickstarter rewards for custom-embellished 16: The Tower etchings. (I assume someone, somewhere has made a yinzer tarot deck. I mean. Clearly. Please exempt me from making one.)

Anyway it’s Friday and I’ve been poking at alternatives to Picrew. As a result, alt-brand doll-making sites let you dress up Javert. As a treat. meiker.io/play/17610/o...

You should be able to get like a 10% discount at places if you show them your library card

This is the Double Feature Game, and I’m just having the 1:30 am realization that there are enough Odysseus movies now that you could probably pull one of these together for an Odyssey theme.

zero.

Oh hey, Pittsburgh folks or anyone with funds to spare, here’s a list of fundraisers for people displaced by the Squirrel Hill apartment fire earlier this week.

Allegheny West. Allegheny Ave - Taco Bell. Caller said that some guy just stole a giant Taco Bell sign and is fleeing, slowly, on foot.

It has decidedly Been A Day about town.

PSA: My Halloween Drop is live in my shop now! The large trays have all been claimed, but I wanted to share them here anyway because I’m v proud of them. A new hand printed autumn garland, bags and lots of new prints. shop: patterned.etsy.com #artsky #halloween #linocut

enjoying the QRTs as yinzers wake up to learn delightedly that the South Side Burger King lore rides again for today's lucky 10,000: www.cracked.com/article_2801...

#iphononym mood <=> moon (This is not incorrect.)

forgot I made these badge ribbons back in april/may to give away as a con purchase bonus, and I have a lot extra that I had been concerned about because the joke is so topical that what if they become outdated by the next time I attend a ribbon con how optimistic of me

Business Bird [4] - part 2/2

Business Bird [4] - part 1/2

Just a little. As a treat.

I think being a frog in a frog sauna with my frog pals would fix me.

I’ve just listed some Robert Smith planters for sale in my shop, if you’re into that kind of thing. Well - are you?

Just out here, rescuing Kelly Link books from the library book sale. Again.

I am reminded that tomorrow’s farmer’s market coincides with Little Italy Days. Dear reader, you could not pay me enough to venture forth. (Red Currant Bakery’s plum napoleon cake can wait another week to be made.)

We need some Eleusinian Mysteries again so these tech bro dorks can get their spirits right and stop taking their fear of death out on the rest of us.

It is my birthday and I had my cancer treatment exit exam yesterday, so I’m officially in remission.

As the Tithonia rotundifolia (Mexican Sunflowers) are pushing 8 ft along the fence line, it is a daily joy to watch the hummingbird bully birds five times her size out of their profusion of red and orange flowers. Truly, she’s the bird version of a terrier. With a sword for a face.

Birdportant update: a rival cardinal has moved in, but by some quirk of fate, has no head feathers. It looks like a particularly colorful skeksis, so we will be naming Richelieu’s antagonist The Chamberlain.

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬ ‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

Hey, West Coast, tsunami watch right now: A TSUNAMI WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT WHICH INCLUDES THE COASTAL AREAS OF CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA FROM THE CAL./MEXICO BORDER TO CHIGNIK BAY ALASKA... forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatx... WWA Summary for Tsunami Watch

I don't think we spend enough time being grateful that hummingbirds didn't evolve to drink blood.

A group of errors is called a comedy.

Squinting at the VFMA’s website to determine if the Fabergé egg galleries are part of the renovation closures or not. This might be the year that I break my Do Not Interact With Cursed Objects In Museums policy when I visit Richmond in August (hashtag #howthingsaregoing).

Happy Bog Day to all who observe! Remember: bogs are acidic, fens are alkaline. Don’t mix them up.

Surely what this 90º week needed was a rotting animal carcass situated just below the big living room window as what needs to be open due to lack of air conditioning. (Getting in that area proves difficult due to 1) hedge and 2) skunk burrow behind hedge.)

The hummingbirds do not know where to escape our various midday pelting rainstorms, and are just out there vigorously shaking off the water and glaring at the sky. Hummingbird sighting CONFIRMED. This is not a drill.

Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.

Why are there military vehicles flying above my home and how do I get them to stop. (I do not like how on-brand that is for this the year 2k25 of the common era.)

Pgh takes shark week seriously (via novelty foods) and I love that for us.

A sandwich that tastes of PDX circa 2012, going hard on the brie and balsamic. (The chipped ham is a solid reminder that it was made here in Pgh, and not anywhere else.)

I’m not downloading any more apps you all can go to hell

This is where I post from.

late last night we saw three girlies in going out tops sitting on a big metal frog in a playground sharing a single cigarette…..The Norns in a magical realism novel ass kind of scenario

I made a variant of my logo as a romantasy cover and honestly am kind of angry at myself. It does not adhere to my 20+years of branding. Except it sort of does. (And, as with anything suspiciously on-trend, it was stupid fast and low-effort to throw together.)

I am, however, going to make you Google it.

Love to inflict knowledge of the BDSM vegan restaurant in Erie upon those who have not yet encountered it.

Out: “Descent into madness” In: “Maintaining a cruising altitude of madness”

Subsets of the O&C Expo Detroit crowd, Sunday edition: • packs of gothic lolitas, aggressively frilled and bonneted, with unnerving handbags • Gomez Addams as a hobbit

hey who wants to see the worlds most sinister hotel sink

So probably nothing at all weird is going to happen if I buy the canopic jars of unknown origin sight unseen from the creative reuse center, right? Use them to store cat treats, maybe?

Dear reader, yesterday I got so excited about a van towing an antique hearse that I followed them into a gas station so I could take pictures.

Can’t go outside, skunks are fighting over the cheese.

Crows are the best, y’all. They’re just really good birds and if you disagree you’re a cop