catching up on THE PITT and Katharine LaNasa really is the star of this show

it will never be "worth it" for any reason to have suffered this absolute monster but i hope that more and more countries do the work to suppress their own right wing factions in the future. doesn't look good, obvs, but one can hope

just thinking about the time i wrote a beautiful 10 minute speech for a major celebrity about the transformative power of an addiction treatment program and then his publicist was like, "em, he didn't do the program, he's just giving them money at a fundraiser." welp! toss that in the trash!

i have a dream one day of opening a store/ rescue called Gently Used Books and Pets, but unfortunately, retail space costs too damn much in this country

we're celebrating our anniversary early because my husband has a remote recording session with the vienna orchestra on our actual anniversary (#composerproblems) and we're now definitely at the point where we do not remember the year we got married

I watched a lot at home as a kid (die hard with a vengeance was my favorite movie for most of my childhood) but my first in theaters was probably GANGS OF NEW YORK

"right wing salad kits" is a phrase i never thought id utter until this week

you know what trend i've noticed in shows that are filmed here in LA? they're lit properly.

i went to see woody allen's MELINDA & MELINDA in theater in college (i know, i KNOW) and walked out. it's to date the only movie i have ever left. i've turned plenty off at home. but that one i just was like, no, my one life is too precious for this.

i still want to do a celebrity podcast where we talk about anything but the thing they're there to promote

i'm sure there are some stunning special effects in nolan's ODYSSEY but did they have a jack russell terrier shoot an arrow with his paws

remember 30 years ago when we had a totally functional, public space program and now we have this

i'm sure there are some stunning special effects in nolan's ODYSSEY but did they have a jack russell terrier shoot an arrow with his paws

it is a crime that this is a shirt for toddlers and not 40 year old women

the GAMS on this lady i swear to GOD

this is the tick that can make you allergic to meat, btw

For my #MareOfEasttown drink, I was just gonna crack a Yeungling but alas, they don't sell it here in LA. So instead you get a classic PRE-PROHIBITION tipple from Philly: www.instagram.com/p/Da3kEIIS-4g/

And worse, that being undocumented is a capital crime, and no court is needed to execute the "criminal" for being undocumented in America. They are shredding all our rights.

The greatest screen actor in history was born Ruby Stevens, and into abject poverty in Brooklyn, 120 years ago today.

i just had an English mystery author on my mystery-authors-podcast to talk about why the English are so obsessed with bucolic, cozy mystery and i have so many theories. i could write a book about it. especially bc american mystery is so linked to urban, modernist noir.

my new favorite thing a contracting company does: my hvac company sends you the photo and full name of the guy coming to your house it's such a nice thing to do! this should be standard!

genuinely, from the depths of my soul here in southern california, i am heartbroken you all have to reckon with the smoke and flames, too. they're a part of life here (though much worse than they ought to be) but that should not be happening to you.

i'm really enjoying a lot of men on the internet discovering that greek mythology is like star wars lore amongst a certain subset of women and girls if you're allowed to argue about greedo for like 50 years let them talk about their thing and let it ride

you have to be such an unlikable schmuck for ADAM SCHIFF to out-sound bite you

"the worst since" the one 3 years ago since eaton, there have been a *lot* of people who think that californians get what we get for living where we live, who believe that they won't be affected by forest fires and toxic ash your climate change symptom isn't any different from ours.

it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

More than two dozen immigrant children sat in federal custody in Connecticut on an average day this spring. For these six, lawsuits finally got them out. One waited more than 500 days. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

i think hell just froze over

one of life's more interesting curveballs is having a Big Italian Personality in a WASPy Bitch Body

if i were a man who was, you know, normal, well i'd be mad as hell every time some guy got on a microphone to talk about what a big stupid lunkheaded alcoholic rapist i am

having one of those days where i really am considering hanging up the hat and not writing anymore

"Everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes" In my experience lots of people are ok to do the dishes and they're heroes and usually they are women, because women don't see that work as shameful. But men do not see that leadership as leadership and so women get fed up and leave.

that is an accurate summary of Connecticut. (it's a fine place to LIVE if you have 3+ children. there is no other reason to be there.)

Lots of talk about Lindsey Graham this week but here’s an obit worthy of our attention. A life of service vs Lindsey’s life of self serving. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

i love when charlize theron has a new movie to promote because my husband has the world's biggest crush on her, he's always like, "she's so hot! and tall! and is clearly so much smarter than everyone!"

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Completely obsessed with a book I'm reading right now from 2009 called NEWTON & THE COUNTERFEITER. i had no idea Sir Isaac Newton spent his twilight years as an investigator for the Royal Mint tracking down ne'er-do-wells.

Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce

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this man is 🔥

if taco bell upsets your tummy it's probably because their ground beef is 88% grade a beef and the filler they use for the remaining % is oatmeal. add in some beans, lettuce, and tomatoes and it's probably more fiber than you're used to eating in a sitting because americans 👏🏻 need 👏🏻 more 👏🏻 fiber

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

Y’all also need to shoot anyone telling you that you can simply wash off a parasite embedded into the skin and even the folds and creases of alot of this produce. A parasite that is resistant to bleach, chlorine, and vinegar by the way. Signed, An epidemiologist

"He's lying to get access to power" 100%. If a man is saying "all the right things" but his actual life, actions and historical words are the opposite, then he is doing whatever it takes to gain wealth, fame, power and as a result impunity to do whatever he wants.

why you didn't like my book is none of my business

. @ceilidhann.bsky.social's GOSSIP READING CLUB does an excellent job of reminding us just how putrid early 2000s era shaming of teen girl celebrities was (yes, i am currently querying a fiction novel about this-ish and am running into a fair number of people who forgot or are too young to recall)

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@ghostingdani.bsky.social i feel like you're the right person to ask about this: what would you consider the first big female revenge novel? MOLL FLANDERS? like, we have such a spate of revenge thrillers now, but surely this isn't a post 2008 thing

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