annual repost

Pets shouldn’t die

a lane on the freeway only for people who need to pee really bad

Yeah nah, it's springtime on this side of the world, so time for Yoji Yamada's 'Where Spring Comes Late'

Does everyone in Melbourne know that you're supposed to plant your tomato seedlings on Cup Day, or is that just my family's rule? Because the other rule is you prune the roses on Dad's birthday, and that's definitely my family, because not all dads were born in late July.

that's Ken on the beanbag that's Ken in the spotlight snoozing's his religion

that's Ken on the beanbag that's Ken in the spotlight snoozing's his religion

Kenta is really, really excited about going to visit his friends

Simon & Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park, occasionally swapped out for Creedence or Linda Ronstadt. Drumming on the steering wheel like a madman.

*gently to my cat*: you cant be a little fucker. You have to be good. No more being a little fucker. *My cat, purring*: the Being a Fucker hour draws near

This map is how the real gerrymandering pros do it. Looks totally fair and random! AND YET

showing my age here, but the Jimmy Barnes/Tina Turner duet of Simply the Best is just the most viscerally upsetting thing I've ever heard. Stop shouting at each other it makes my throat hurt! and it makes me think about sports!

I did it letterboxd.com/katejames/li...

just occasionally something good happens

I thought the sad beige children trend was over but yesterday I spied these dystopian sack gowns in sand and ecru in the middle aisle at Aldi

the only Wuthering Heights adaptation I need

idgaf about Wuthering Heights so I'll probably enjoy hate-watching this (I'll rabidly avoid film adaptions of books I adore; cf We Have Always Lived in the Castle, all the Janes Eyre)

mani-pedi hit list cash-cow floppy disk slimeball, kickback, intertextuality glam-rock overhype user-friendly soundbite blaxploitation, women’s studies, blended family WE DIDN'T START THE etc etc www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...

In explaining why he didn't like a song, @stobiepole.bsky.social just described it as containing "the two dumbest chords"

Me in my 20s (with the body of a porn star): omg I’m so fat and ugly Me in my 50s (with the body of an elderly rhino): I AM THE HOTTEST PIECE OF ASS TO WALK THE EARTH

worth remembering that any time i say 'it is happening!' taiga and kenta are licking the beaters

A couple of good bio docos this week, plus an absolute banger of a Czech scifi/war/farce mash-up #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Member for Mildura Jade Benham has had the image of a vanilla slice tattooed on her hip, in support of a local event and small business.

Each, in its way, a beautifully shot, thought-provoking work about death and trauma #last4watched #letterboxdfriday

I edit guidebooks, including hiking guides, for [name you'd recognise] and say what you will about the currrent trajectory of the company, I can guarantee the authors I work with have all hiked those hikes and will get quite shirty if we don't get the maps exactly right.

is it too early to brush my toothypegs, put on my piggyjimjams and go to sleepybobos

I think this ball contains a literal demon, it made the dogs go completely bananas. Kenta was making noises I'd never heard before.

a tween girl on the street today made the mistake of going in for a hug with her mouth slightly open, and I think that might have been her first real kiss

Furthest I've been N: Isle of Skye, Scotland E: Rotorua, NZ S: Hobart, Tasmania W: Cork, Ireland (never been to the Americas, suspect now I never will)

CAN I LICK THE BEATER MUM

Here's a preview of the new, as yet untitled, Gerald Murnane album. The track is called Imre the Bandit (a Hungarian poem about a bandit named Imre Bogár) and features Jon Rose on violin! soundcloud.com/stobiepole/i...

same here, Cat Who Lives at the Vet Clinic

I was born the year that it was time

Went to the emergency ward Monday afternoon to get what I thought would be a couple of stitches to my pinky finger after I ill-advisedly stuck my hand in the middle of some canine argy-bargy ... 48 hours, five rounds of IV antibiotics, one surgery and 8 stitches later, I am finally home.

This is wild. I've written/published two memoirish nonfiction books, and the GUILT I felt about trying to improve the structure by making the tiniest of unimportant tweaks to the strictly true facts...

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We've been watching the extremely niche (but excellent) genre of 'train-themed movies starring Ken Takakura' #LastFourWatched

Gokudō (Scoundrel; 1968)

He's a disobedient little furry monster, but then he does give a good cuddle. The dog's OK too I guess.

which of these two buttheads is more likely to have inhaled half a boiled egg from off the bench while my back was turned for two seconds? they won't say

Watching an endless loop of ten second clips? Haha this younger generation. When I was your age we used to watch a variety show starring an ostrich puppet, a man with a cowboy hat and a reel to reel sound player. It was so racist Harry Connick Jr. made a formal protest. It was three hours long

we've been trying to work out what breeds Kenta is made up of, turns out it's mostly mountain goat

Ah teenage dogs, the cause of, and solution to, all my blood pressure problems.

clear up some mental hard drive space, get an editor

peace out losers im going to Dog World

how can you not throw the disgusting slobbery ball when he looks at you like that

It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky

This comic by @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social is so perfect. The TIMING. It gets me every time.