For the evening crowd: a huge hunk (but not all) of my great convo with DEATH BY LIGHTNING creator @mike-makowsky.bsky.social

The Gristedes that used to be catty-corner to my old UWS apartment priced everything 2-3x more than other stores AND had rats inside. Terrible places!

SANDWICH MAN INNOCENT!!!!

Help. I can't stop rewatching the video of the guy collapsing.

I shouldn't have to work after lunch. It's too hard.

I really REALLY liked Netfilx's new limited series DEATH BY LIGHTNING and it was a pleasure to talk to creator Mike Makowsky about how relevant and juicy this story is.

There is no reason why someone as kind and handsome as I am should have to know who Ross Douthat is.

Also, I rewatched Stranger Things Season 1 this week and some stuff stuck out to me... (Mainly how much I still can't stand Barb, but let's not rehash my same complaints from 2016.)

I really REALLY liked Netfilx's new limited series DEATH BY LIGHTNING and it was a pleasure to talk to creator Mike Makowsky about how relevant and juicy this story is.

Okay. Now (finally) trying MAY I ASK FOR ONE FINAL THING? (I feel like I need a new soapy anime in my life - Maomao and Jinshi, I miss you)

the Phantom in disguise: 🎶our games of make believe are at an end🎶 Christine about to betray him: 🎶no going back now, no second chances🎶 the soldier hiding in the wings: *cocks gun* me, absolutely zooted on champagne, a grand bourgeois of 1885 Paris: new opera's kind of weird

Last week I did too much meal planning and wound up with a lot of wasted food so this week I’ve done next to zero meal planning and it’s honestly been working out great. I’m spending my commutes home thinking critically about what I have and the easiest, best way to cook it. Tonight? Jacket potato!

Zohran says you’re trans now

Me, looking at my DEATH BY LIGHTNING assignments this week:

Running late for work this morning because my bean sprouts are growing faster than expected and I was struggling to figure out how to make sure they weren’t clumping in the jar. You know, normal Wednesday stuff.

new york city - november 5 2025

The man has pierced nipples. Humiliation could be his kink.

I still need to understand the cosmic frequency of today. It was so perfect I am scared

He is, however, the King of Autumn. Mr. Autumn Man, if you will. A far more curious post!

You will never not convince me that establishment journalists fled around Cuomo because they predicted him as the winner nine months ago and didn’t want to be proven wrong.

Bernadette Hogan: a Queen.

I’m still nervous, the scar tissue is too real.

I love democracy.

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

Okay. I spent the night sipping wine and watching the Mantzoukas season of TASKMASTER… and now… ONLY NOW will I switch to NY1

What’s this? Just the start of an insanely sane chat with my self-described “fiscally-conservative, socially-moderate” sister who met her husband as a Young Republican at Villanova in the ‘80s.

Just saw a news ticker that framed Mamdani's platform as "socialist freebies on tax dime" and I wanted to scream.

My elderly cat got a great bill of health, a legitimately sexy man is SMA, a great evil has died, the D train was waiting for me at the subway station, there were everything bagels in the café, my vintage Dansk pot has been shipped, and MINX is now streaming on Netflix. God bless this vibe shift.

I wish more people were as obsessed with HBO's ROME as I am because my first thought upon waking to that news was "the auguries are good."

Amongst close friends, I’ve talked about how I’ve been able to delineate between my crush on Anthony Bridgerton the character and my admiration for Jonathan Bailey the actor and how refreshing that was compared to the teen mags I read growing up that conflated fictional crushes with real actors

Jonathan Bailey had been my Sexiest Man Alive for a good five years now thanks to that first BRIDGERTON chat decider.com/2020/12/30/b...

The liminal cosmic force known as IT or Pennywise has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo

<hanging up my wife's Dedra Meero costume> Honey did you see this story about how Zohran's hot aloof cartoonist wife runs his life

ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind

Something that really helped clarify the pro-Cuomo mind last week was overhearing some of his biggest fans in the office find a way - somehow - to be contrarian about the free pizza party our EIC ordered in honor of Halloween. They were against free pizza. Incredible.

If you want to understand *how old* Lucius is, Mason Thames is *younger* than Lucius is.

Took Lucius to the vet for his semi-annual and the prognosis was so good I almost sobbed tears of joy. It was basically a good news/bad news/GREAT NEWS sandwich and my vet thinks I’m doing amazing sweetieeeee

People Magazine just announced their 2025 “Sexiest Man Alive”:

It's not my fault the apartment smells like bacon now. It's the grocery store's for putting bacon on sale.

No matter what happens this week, I am dying to read a Richard Ben Cramer/Robert Caro-esque doorstopper of a maniacally researched account of this whole campaign. Like I sometimes wonder if Caro himself is watching this all play out, like, "Fuck, why am I still on LBJ?"

Alan Moore knows the score

Rocking up to the NYC mayoral ballot box in 2025.

Got kicked out of the liberry again cuz a couple people complained about my therapy goose Insane Willie.

I want to go back and yell at past me who structured the massive multi-chapter transition from Act 2 to 3 during a big indoor (because of thunderstorm) July 4 party. It is November 2nd now and I want out of this specific place. (My brain wants to think about the autumnal/winter sequel!)

I just pieced together that Natalie Merchant is singing “Trouble Me” with her replacement Mary Ramsey on MTV Unplugged and this is the fraught, weird, petty shit DAISY JONES AND THE SIX promised but could never deliver in any form

On the one hand, I need to save money On the other, I have needed and longed for a small vintage Dansk saucepan with lid for years and did impulse buy one for less than $50 pre shipping

I have rewatched the 1990 IT miniseries 🧐

I hit pause to watch the baseball game last night and restarted today and every time the adults are like, “I can’t believe I forgot what happened,” and Mike is like, “You might not want it all to come back super fast,” I want them to be like, “Oh, fuck, we had an orgy.” And then remembering that.

Was feeling quite stressed about fitting in a bonus pottery session today in the middle of all my other usual Sunday shenanigans (laundry, meal prep, cleaning, groceries, novel writing, call to mom) so I emailed the ceramics studio and...they agreed to reschedule my session.

The way it took me several hours to understand a) how I woke up so early and b) why my cat pounced on my back to try to wake me *even earlier*