I am one of the half a million people in Central Park today, and it’s glorious ❤️ 🍎

This is real. Love you New York 💜

I’m in NYC for a quick visit with teen daughter and friends, I left them in a fancy coffeeshop and am taking a few minutes on a park bench… I see a college age kid spy an obviously dying pigeon that has nested itself into some leaves to die… she sees me ignoring it and her and this tragic moment…

About last night… Minneapolis full moon. 💜

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

lol

people like me for my light and buoyant style, but what they don't know is that today I'm back here with a clod for a brain, trying to bash something that feels like mud and garbage into a string of soap bubbles.

It’s never to early to tell your Marilyn Monroes about the danger of Arthur Millers.

I guess we’re leaving the era of click bait because I saw this headline and thought: I could give a fuck… ✨

the university of Chicago essay questions are really good... if you're missing out on college application season and miss the world where writing a good essay got you something besides people yelling that you're biased! collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/essay/

This is true. It’s like having an Oliver Twist or a Confederacy of Dunces party. Just because events happen in merry spaces doesn’t make them merry events.

Apple trees don’t grow true from seed, that’s why every Gala is a clone of a Gala, every Honeycrisp a clone of a honeycrisp, etc. I assume this hearty wild apple growing on the bike trail near brownie lake is a spontaneous miracle, nice bitterness and tastes like a chestnut crabapple.

I have at least two thousand photos like this in my phone, no matter what anyone tells you this is essentially what Minnesota looks like, a word that means in the Dakota, roughly, clouds like smoke seen on water… facts. 💙💜

So… the power transformer behind my house blew up within hours of filing my daughter’s college applications, bringing real world form to my unarticulated fears that the light would literally leave my life…

Good heavens. Elle Decor, “languish” doesn’t mean what you think it does. “An oversize tub perfect for languishing” !! Though I suppose if I wanted to grow weak and fade away, that bathtub would do.

And that’s all she wrote! Baby daughter’s early decision college application is in. Send a little love to Clio the dog who has to extra emotional support work today. Being lucky as hell can be can also be hard. Sending love to all the fellow (almost) empty nesters, ❤️❤️❤️

This looks like a room to do murders in, it’s so spray a hose cleanable…

The one silver lining about inflation is that you don’t have to worry about your house getting egged anymore because no parent would let their kid waste perfectly good eggs.

I put on season one of Get Smart to give out candy to, and I’m here to say that the 1965 Ford Zebra Mustang in Satan’s Place, episode 9… might be some kind of underlying architecture of my soul that i didn’t know was there. that’s it! That’s the car that formed my understanding of all cars

This bowl has had a lot of good Halloweens. Reflections from tonight: The heath bars taste deflavorized, one inch peanut butter cups are the optimal size, and watermelon sour patch kids are, oddly, the perfect flavor for a rainy Halloween.

Town & Country is achieving self-realization!! Can shopping numb the pain? I mean, right? How did we get here? Is it all a lie? … Girl come sit by me I got you..

Minneapolis my friends. Minneapolis. 🧡

Leave your house ahhhhh!! It’s maple season!!

the absolute similarities between a supermarket hot-bar and this 79AD soup-and-bread line is uncanny. I hereby declare that this is the ur-restaurant. Look at the counter where the bread and bowls would be stacked! www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/rom...

1829, first big dinner Boston's Tremont Hotel. Would you like the boiled cod? Boiled chicken? Boiled mutton? Me, I'm going with the cold pate and maybe the potato soup. With muscadel grapes for dessert! www.historicnewengland.org/explore/coll...

Behold! I rested an egg on a rubber band so it didn’t roll off the counter and it is GIVING glowing orb / Brancusi/ Kubrick … stay tuned for more egg on a counter news don’t touch that dial

spelling is for narcs

I have been a food writer since before Moses parted the Red Sea, and I still can't fucking spell hors d'oeuvre

It’s a little asking-for-trouble, putting poly on a table in the backyard under a maple tree, but it’s also a little the prettiest thing in the world ✨

I would like more milk bars, please, they sound awesome: www.npr.org/sections/the...

Trees, man. Trees. ✨

Are we supposed to bark with laughter at newspaper headlines? Most erratic of all time! Erraticier, erraticiest—Erraticiest with a vengeance! You say unhinged, I say erratic, let’s call the whole thing off 🎶

Minneapolis having a very nice autumn golden hour… fyi apple photos asked me if I wanted to identify this landmark, I was curious and… Boston! We made it peeps. AI is our savior. Anyway reality rules ✨

This is insane. Aggrieved free speech billionaires, where art thou?

I’m in my car in the rain sending Ink Cards to my mom in NY… if you’ve never done it it’s an app, it sends hard copies of phone pics as postcards or folded cards and it’s awesome for elders/ college kids, add their address once & you’re good. link to send 1 FREE! inkcards.onelink.me/UEv2/5xpyksh...

Everything in the news is terrible but everything about maple trees is a gift proving the world loves us and giving us a chance to love the world so I guess have some maple syrup and love a tree for a second if you can 🧡

Cedar lake, Minneapolis, trees at golden hour. The robins were chirping up a storm. Beautiful world, if we can keep it. 💛

I was looking for something else, when I came upon this remarkable story. “I am a victim of HIV because of engaging in sex for fish, and I have seen many families fall apart after husbands realized that their wives were engaged in this thing,’’ Dorothy says. globalvoices.org/2024/07/30/w...

In this household we refrain from cannibalism in a clear and supportive manner

Lol. Is it drugs? Also, this is why commas are so important.

Fall dog walks are the best. And Mimi the puppy mill mama rescue is experiencing her first outdoor autumn! 🧡

My essay on no kings yesterday goes out any minute now… I felt so hopeful. Sign up for the free weekly letter at deardara.com if you want it!

reading Withering Heights for the first time since Junior High, and: Pretty spicy! that's one close set of siblings! also I have had Kate Bush going through my head the whole time. Crazy that anyone, in the history of time, has ever been this unselfconscious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-4...

trump posts himself wearing a crown and dumping shit on Americans... please file this in your file cabinet under H for: "Hillary said deplorables, an unforgivable sin which we must rend garments about, forever..." uk.news.yahoo.com/president-do...

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

I hereby declare that Squeeze's Up the Junction is a perfect formally constructed miniature tragedy in three acts. It starts with precise scene-setting 'I never thought it would happen/with me and the girl from Clapham..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQci...

when I started this little experiment in sending a weekly letter to my internet friends, I had no idea I'd be documenting my own ever unwilling, ever increasing exposure to other people's guns. it's honestly shocking, cumulatively. www.deardara.com/so/7dPctGSma...

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop