The natural state of a Nebraska basketball fan is to be wildly optimistic, while continuing to guard your heart.

My favorite David Bowie song? An impossible question to answer. Instead I offer up the title track from the first actual David Bowie album I ever owned (excluding "Best Of"s). I will always be a Never Let Me Down apologist. youtu.be/pCjeX08WdYQ?...

It's too early for basketball. .. .

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Book 1, Chapter 10 "'But that's the aim of civilization: to make everything an enjoyment.' 'Well, if that's the aim, I'd rather be wild.'" #TolstoyReadalong

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Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Book 1, Chapter 9 "He stepped down, trying not to look at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." #TolstoyReadalong

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Reading Notes, 1/8/26 📘 “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal 📚 How it's going with Anna & Jane. katenread.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/r...

How did I only realize today that Elvis Presley and David Bowie share a birthday?

Ten years after his death, we're remembering David Bowie: rockstar, fashion icon, and...secret horror host?

it’s a wicked world in all meridians

Book Rec for International Gothic Reading Month, January. Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, a landmark Gothic romantic mystery. Secrets, mistaken identities, amnesia, and locked rooms. Come meet Laura and the menacing Sir Percival Glyde www.amazon.com/Woman-White-... #Booksky #readersky #share

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Book 1, Chapter 8 "'We Russians are always like that. Maybe it's a good feature of ours—the ability to see our own failings—but we overdo it, we take comfort in irony, which always comes readily to our tongues.'" #TolstoyReadalong

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Book 1, Chapter 7 "'Therefore, if my senses are destroyed, if my body dies, there can be no further existence?' he asked." ... "'That question we still have no right to answer . . .'" #TolstoyReadalong

Why must shopping for women's clothes be based on occult numbers instead of, you know, measurements?

Daily bunny no.3192 is tampering with the past

Even on off nights and under late-game pressure, the No. 10 Huskers keep answering the call by finding ways to close out wins.

My husband will probably get this one on "vibes" too... 😒 Framed #1397 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 framed.wtf

Morning Earworm: (though it is now past noon here) The White Stripes – "Icky Thump" youtu.be/1OjTspCqvk8?...

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Bk 1, Ch 6 "When Oblonsky had asked Levin why in fact he had come, Levin had blushed and became angry with himself for blushing, because he could not answer: 'I've come to propose to your sister-in-law,' though he had come only for that." #TolstoyReadalong

Nonsense, 1/5/26 ~ Reading Stats 2025 TLDR; I read 36 books and 64 other short stories. Mostly fiction, mostly physical books from the library. katenread.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/n...

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Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Bk 1, Ch 5 "Levin was silent, glancing...at the elegant Grinevich's hands, with such long white fingers, such long yellow nails curving at the tips...that these hands clearly absorbed all of his attention and did not allow him any freedom of thought." #TolstoyReadalong

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstory Book 1, Chapter 4 "She still kept saying she would leave him, yet she felt it was impossible, because she could not get out of the habit of considering him her husband and of loving him." #TolstoyReadalong

Tricks, 1/3/26 ⭕ Movie ~ Bring Her Back (2025) 🕰️ Book ~ About Time by Jack Finney 💎 Movie ~ Warlock: The Armageddon (1993) katenread.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/t...

That moment while checking in on the internet that I realize I need to go read the news . . . (It's never because I suspect something good has happened.)

Anna Karenina Book 1, Chapter 3: "It turned out that he had forgotten nothing, except what he wanted to forget—his wife." #TolstoyReadalong

The No. 13 Huskers got a court-storming home victory over the No. 9 Spartans to stay unbeaten on the year.

Caught up with some 2025 horror and realized I've never seen Warlock II. #LastFourWatched

50% for the year thus far! Framed #1393 🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Anna Karenina Book 1, Chapter 2 "There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious." #TolstoyReadalong

Morning earworm: R.E.M. – "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" youtu.be/mgiCechWNCo?...

Well, it *is* on my watchlist . . . Framed #1392 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 framed.wtf

Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Book 1, Chapter 1 "He had not managed to prepare his face for the position he found himself in . . ." Yes, the first line of this novel is ironic, but this one resonated with the autistic in me. Also, hard not to read on. #TolstoyReadalong

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Your daily fortune: It's good to challenge yourself. For example, how much cheese can you eat before it becomes a problem for the world?

I couldn't pick just one: katenread.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/n...

The Anna Karenina #tolstoyreadalong begins tomorrow, so I decided to read the introduction today. I bought my hardback copy at Bookman's. "As is," it said below the price, which I thought odd because of course! It's a 2nd-hand copy. Let me tell you, this book's spine cracks almost as much a mine!

The last few days have been hitting in my original wheelhouse. Framed #1390 🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Always kind of funny how I don't engage with social media (or the internet in general) over a weekend, but don't really realize it until Monday.

Morning Earworm: Soundgarden – "Outshined" youtu.be/sNh-iw7gsuI?...

It's almost time for the #tolstoyreadalong Are you ready?! #americanreadalong Preparing for the 2026 Tolstoy Chapter-a-Day Read-Along nicksenger.com/readalong/pr...

Tricks, 12/27/25 🎸 Movie ~ Sinners (2025) 🥫 Movie ~ Weapons (2025) katenread.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/t...

Next year is Thursday.

I should have made my guess on #1. Framed #1386 🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Your daily fortune: Eat, drink, and be merry. Then read, sleep, and be wary.

Nonsense, 12/24/25 Reading Challenges for 2026: 📘 Tolstoy, a chapter-a-day 💀 International Gothic Reading Month katenread.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/n...

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Your daily fortune: Not every day will be a great day, and that's ok. You can still eat some fried potatoes either way.