Sagittarius: Be confident! There's nothing to be gained by doubting yourself. Let everyone see the real you. Which is what you must believe you are. Steady your hand and eliminate the duplicates. You don't need to be first. You need to be last.

Posters for Harry Kellar (1849–1922) the hugely popular US magician who inspired the likes of Harry Houdini, and reportedly acted as model for the bald-headed wizard in the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published in 1900 — http://buff.ly/2pqza4I

This movie was heavily referenced in a video essay I watched just yesterday! Framed #1540 🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 25 "And this question always called up another question in him—whether they feel differently, love differently, marry differently, these other people, these Vronskys and Oblonskys . . . there gentlemen of the bed-chamber with their fat calves." #TolstoyReadalong

Two bangers of very different stripes, a mid 90s movie, and a holdover from last week. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

I feel justified DNFing a book due to a fundamental mistake. If you're writing about a niche topic and neither you nor your editor caught a mistake that I, a dilettante, easily caught, I wonder what else you're wrong about.

Reading Notes, 5/28/26 💀 Just a little bit more Gogol 📚 Short story picks katenread.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/r...

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 24 "The cessation was an accomplished fact and everyone saw it clearly, but Alexei Alexandrovich himself was not yet aware that his career was over." #TolstoyReadalong

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt. 5, ch 23 "All these loves, now waning, now waxing, filled her heart, gave her something to do, but did not keep her from conducting very extensive and complex relations at court and in society." #TolstoyReadalong

A bathing Purple-crowned Fairy #hummingbird in the stream at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature

A guess, but I initially got the filmmaker's vibe from clue #1. Framed #1537 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 22 "... it was so necessary for him in his humiliation to possess at least an invented loftiness from which he, despised by everyone, could despise others, that he clung to his imaginary salvation as if it were salvation indeed." #TolstoyReadalong

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Monday Miscellanea, 5/25/26 🥏 The end of an ultimate frisbee era for me. 🖊️ A subs update. ... and other bits and bobs. katenread.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/m...

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com. Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 21 "Without realizing why he was doing it, he strained all his inner forced during those two days merely to look calm and even indifferent." #TolstoyReadalong

Morning earworm: David Bowie – "Underground" youtu.be/Qga12-bAS4A?...

Sagittarius: As a fire sign, never forget the flame that burns inside of you. INSIDE of you. Please don't do another arson.

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 20 "No sooner had the one mystery of death been accomplished before his eyes, and gone unfathomed, than another arose, equally unfathomed, which called to love and life." #TolstoyReadalong

I ordered from Bookshop.org and it showed up on my doorstep yesterday!

TONIGHT Free Frisbee on YouTube 🥏 A rematch of last week’s all-time, sudden death thriller between two historic southern rivals Atlanta at Carolina 📺 UFA YouTube | 7 PM/ET

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 19 "Despite his assurances to the contrary, she was firmly convinced that he was as good a Christian as she was, or even better, and that everything he said about it was one of those ridiculous male quirks ... " #TolstoyReadalong

We'll just say that it's been an interesting week. #lastFourWatched #letterboxdFriday

Played ultimate (well, mini) for the first time in over a month! Managed to survive.

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 18 "And pity in her woman's soul produced none of the horror and squeamishness it did in her husband, but a need to act, to find out all the details of his condition and help with them." #TolstoyReadalong

For a few clues I was very at sea . . . Framed #1532 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

To wit: LFG will always be "looking for group" to me.

Here’s some Antonio Ilievski art to make your Wednesday a little better.

It's 20 Books of Summer time! Or, ten books if you putter along with your reading like I do. 📚🌞📚🦩📚🌴📚 #20BOS26 katenread.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/2...

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 16 "...(and how strange it was for him to think that he, who so recently had not dared to believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!)..." #TolstoyReadalong

I can't fathom using GenAI to do research for you. Research is literally THE BEST PART.

Deep down, aren't we all the same? A shuffling collection of weary bones wandering the earth searching for fried potatoes?

Bailed out by the 6th clue. Framed #1530 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 framed.wtf

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 15 "But it is hard for a discontented man not to reproach someone else, especially the very one who is closest to him, for his discontent. " #TolstoyReadalong

I just resigned from the volunteer thing that I've been doing for much longer than I ever thought I would.

A movie I ended up seeing several times the summer it came out, with little effort on my part. Framed #1529 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy p5, c14 "Only then did he understand clearly for the first time what he had not understood when he had led her out of the church after the wedding. He understood not only that she was close to him, but that he no longer knew where she ended and he began." #TolstoyReadalong

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 13 "Vronsky defended Mikhailov, but in the depths of his soul he believed it, because to his mind a man of a different, inferior world had to be envious." #TolstoyReadalong

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5 ch 12 "The word 'talent', which they understood as an inborn and almost physical ability, independent of mind and heart, and which they wanted to apply to everything the artist experienced, ... 1/2 #TolstoyReadalong

Total vibes guess because I don't remember if I've *actually* seen this movie. (If I have, it was probably 30+ years-ago in college.) Framed #1526 🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

This week's #LastFourWatched: A surprise, a classic, and two enjoyable rewatches.

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 11 "He had often heard this word 'technique' and decidedly did not understand what it implied. He knew that it implied a mechanical ability to paint and draw, completely independent of content." #TolstoyReadalong

Reading Notes, 5/13/26 👻 Mostly more on Gogol katenread.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/r...

Yeah, I nearly forgot this existed too. Framed #1525 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 framed.wtf

Your daily affirmation: Don't underestimate yourself. I'm sure there are new levels of sloth and procrastination you haven't unlocked yet.

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 10 "He always ascribed to his judges a greater depth of understanding than he himself had, and expected something from them that he himself did not see in his picture." #TolstoyReadalong

Oh. Heh. That was a wild guess on 2. Framed #1524 🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Your daily affirmation: Always try your best. And if your best is only 12% today, that's ok. Carry on.

My bachelor’s degree in a nutshell. 😆

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy pt 5, ch 9 "But now a new type of self-made freethinkers has appeared, who grow up and never even hear that there were laws of morality, religion . . ." #TolstoyReadalong