reading a lot of old profiles of david byrne, wishing i had a dollar for every time the journo makes a big to-do about the guy not making eye contact

Among Diane Keaton’s many accomplishments is her 1987 directorial debut: the experimental documentary Heaven, about how people envisage life after death. It’s wacky, erratic, at times uncomfortable, and streaming in full on yt. Vale, DK 🖤

someone should give me—an autistic aunty with laser focus and great taste—a Dear Abby-type advice column (Dear Autie? Autie Aunt?), in which I dole out my incomparable autistic wisdom and opinions, i am not even joking

so i also have a big, beautiful autism announcement: i saw CATS on the weekend, will probably go again

!!!

I have an idea!

“Dicky’s daddy’s hand was shoved somewhere near Dicky’s brain stem. My throat was in my stomach. Their hearts were in vaudeville. But we were all in Kentucky.” Mina Tavakoli at the ventriloquist convention is a new jewel in the crown of ‘curious outsider explores niche community’ journalism. Superb

Surf’s up (mhmm, mhmm, mhmm) 🌊 I wrote about five of my favourite Brian Wilson songs for The Big Issue AU (though I was too sad, at the time, to mention ‘Ding Dang’) 🥕

we did it! they were so beautiful! i think we accidentally saw two mating!

we’re just normal men

thinking a lot about these four, specifically

I’M SO PROUD OF HIM 😭

nathan fielder, drop your CAT-Q, brother

Uncredited script doctoring by Elaine May

Finally, some good news for once.

An extract from my Muppet autism memoir got longlisted for a prize! Will this rush give me the courage to gatecrash the Flinders Uni Film Society's screening of The Muppet Movie tonight? (Jim, grant me the serenity to accept the eye contact I cannot return.)

Looking for narrative nonfiction books with knock-out introductions. What do you recommend?

hacks is heat for girls

preparing to teach a group of teens how to pitch and write feature articles, and i'm weighing up whether, in the section about commissioning, it's worth completely bombing so long as i get to use this image

I love living with my gf because, when we wake up, I get to say stuff like, “My love, why is there a Tamagotchi instruction booklet in the bed?”

I have oft wondered who owns the Moonstruck townhouse, and TIL it is… Amy Schumer 😐

It is World #AutismAcceptanceDay, so I just want you to know that, this year, I’m accepting lollies, compliments, weird bits of trivia, a publishing contract, a Coyote vs Acme screener, a radical rewiring of the NDIS, a free Palestine and, of course, cash

Donate to help rebuild Palestine gofund.me/d796fe4e

Name a show you’re positive no one else remembers but you

If you, like me, are in constant need of little treats, may I suggest joining @becsheedy.bsky.social’s sticker club? She’ll send presents direct to your mailbox every month! www.patreon.com/c/becsheedy/...

Please help an Aboriginal family in Adelaide recover after their home was burnt down in an attack by a racist vigilante, incited by racism in a Facebook community group: www.gofundme.com/f/random-ars...

no but why did the OT look at our PEZ collection and say, “next time, let’s talk about decluttering…”

gentle parenting my new son, the robot vacuum, an absolute dingdong

when the GP asked me last week if i was having homicidal thoughts, i said no, for i had not yet encountered the world’s most annoying depop user, that app’s final girlboss and now i have

We're going back to Japan in June to see Sparks (the band) and fireflies (the beetles). Any advice on spying the latter near Tokyo or Osaka would be vvv welcome!

There’s an injured pigeon in my yard and fauna rescue told me to watch it until they get here, so it’s now my autistic duty to stand at the window, unblinking, until a guy arrives to help me throw a towel on it

i want to go to queer line dancing tonight but i’m scared of going to new places, trying new things and being bad at stuff in public. i do, however, love big denim shorts and waistcoats. so you can see my predicament

Recently, I’ve seen the terms “non-neurotypical”, “autism-individual” (offensive to me as both an autist and a copy editor), and “person with lived experience of the spectrum” used in order to avoid simply saying “autistic”, and I just… 🫠

it's me, spring peeper

when you were a tween, did you make certificates for your doctor’s wife, awarding her for her interest and encouragement, or were you neurotypical

last week i learned that my grandad cut a little peephole in the wall of his shed so that he could see who was coming down the driveway and hide from them, as required. so i just want to say thank you, grandad, for the autism

the best thing about living with your sweetheart is getting to listen to them, two rooms away, in conversation with the cat

did your family put 2lt bottles of water on the front lawn to stop dogs weeing in the yard or are you normal

it’s hammer time 🔨

when the 🌝 hits your 👁️ like a big 🍕🥧, that’s cinema 📽️ @letterboxd.social

Thank you to @clairekoolkat.bsky.social for bringing to my attention these photos of Susan Sarandon wearing New Balance and a suit jacket on a Cannes balcony in 1978 📽

It was a treat, contributing to this list! I neeearly went with Thief (1981), but a late-in-the-game contender knocked Jimmy to (a very close!) second. Click through for my pick + the full list 🧡💚💙

At the end of a regularly horrendous year (I stopped working, my house got broken into, we thought my gf was going to die, she didn't but my mum did), I am just flabbergasted by this news. Finally, something life-changing in a nice way!!

Big news for Autists and those who love them, SOMEONE LIKE ME, the anthology of non fiction by Autistic writers that I'm co-editing with @jocaseau.bsky.social for UQP, is now available for pre-orders! www.uqp.com.au/books/someon...

Happy Winslow Leach’s Cantata-Writing Deadline Week to @realgdt.bsky.social and all who celebrate 📽

Happy Winslow Leach’s Cantata-Writing Deadline Week to @realgdt.bsky.social and all who celebrate 📽

As we head into the least wonderful time of the year for freelancers, may the ghosts of editors past, present and yet to commission feel free to offer me any writing, editing, proofreading or transcription gigs going. My children are hungry. These are my children:

muppet history is getting cancelled for sexually harassing a funko pop influencer. if you understand this sentence, i beg you to log off

i love fb marketplace