The collective sentiment in Berlin right now.

1 1/2 days between tours, and thankfully one of those days is grocery day. At the store with UK Muse, I saw as usual a big box underneath the place where the kohlrabi, filling up with the green leaves that no one wants to take.

This place is admirably stepping up to the spot that Twitter used to fill in my social media use patterns. After major events, it is so full of reportage almost immediately that I don’t have to dig very far to find out what happened while I was doing a show. Furthermore, ICE must be destroyed.

Seeing a gentle uptick of masks out in the wild, in Berlin and traveling in Europe, and at the slams. Not as many as should be, but I love to see it when it’s there.

Biblically accurate holiday star lights.

Good, keep it up. There is no basic duty, nor any such thing as a public artist. I’ll choose my venues according to the values I strive toward, which sure as shit aren’t held by that vile regime.

Staying up all night at Riga Airport so I can catch an early bus back to Vilnius because the flight was diverted because smuggling balloons with cigarettes coming from Belorus triggered closure of the Vilnius airport airspace, Ask Me Anything except wtf decade am I in.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

‘Tis the season to wash dishes to warm my hands until the landlord fixes the dang central heating.

Now that I am safely and on time at the airport, I can let myself feel the shakes of having missed my first wake-up alarm and getting up and out the door in 12 minutes. Onward to Vienna!

Today was my last deep-dive day of cooking for the next couple of months at least. Came out the other side with enough leftovers and cookies that I don’t have to buy terrible train station sandwiches for my trip to CPH tomorrow. Success! (PS smut slam there on Tues, tell your people!)

Can we please wait to “get behind” potential dem presidential candidates until after we see which of them can get to the end of this year without throwing anyone overboard?

I’m a registered dem, and have done phone banking for Democrats Abroad in the past 6 years, but I don’t think in good conscience I can do that anymore. Considering starting the DDA: Disillusioned Democrats Abroad. Maybe we body-double for an email-writing party. I don’t know. Open to suggestions!

Between soup for my family and a nice footlong, the means of resistance has never been so tasty.

Berlin is leaning hard on “fall girl summer.” Perfect for banana bread and canning.

I do not watch movies in theatres often, never mind superhero ones, but I wanted to see the new Superman because what do you even mean it’s “woke“? (And also Christopher Reeve was one of my earliest crushes, and I want to see how anyone new compares.) I enjoyed it! Sincerity is … 1/2

Just made wide rice noodles from scratch for tomorrow’s chow fun dinner. First time making these noodles, and I had to improvise w 2 small loaf pans steaming in my water bath pot. The bottoms of the pans are not flat, so some noodles are a little bit thicker, but mostly I think I got it!

Things I used to love which now I hate: Dating apps Cigarettes Riding a bike Things I used to hate, but now love: Being on stage Liver Going to bed before midnight Things I have always loved: Swimming naked Learning languages Cooking

ACAB but I can’t remember if the Vimes-era Night Watch is covered by that. They’re more like lowercase bastards with hearts of (dinged-up) gold.

Sign-up sheets from the last 2.5 weeks of touring, each one representing one person telling a personal, true-life sx story at a SmutSlam. Seven cities. Six countries. A heavy bag o’ fuckbuckets (questions and confessions). A full load of magic. ❤️

ARE YOU IN GERMANY? DO YOU KNOW PEOPLE WHO ARE? I've got four slams coming up in rapid succession here, so if you know anyone *ahem* _suitable_ in these areas, let 'em know! Heidelberg (April 11) * Mannheim (April 12) * Erfurt (April 16) * Berlin (April 21) Ticket links at smutslam.com

Coming this Sunday in Berlin, Das Ist Doch Krank! / Sick and Tired, a bilingual comedy cabaret dedicated to disability, chronic illness, and absurd encounters with the medical establishment. Burlesque, music, storytelling… and we are live-streaming, too! Tix here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1244652682...

I’m bewildered. My two jars of fig-ginger jam just sealed by themselves. I had poured in hot jam and set to cool before putting them in the fridge. But 10 mins later, I heard both lids pop. Just sealing up without a kettle of boiling water? Feels like I’m getting away w something 😏

Here’s where SmutSlam is in March! Don’t see your city? Remember: - Slams aren’t always monthly! Visit SmutSlam.com for tix out to June. - Maybe your city needs to join our route. We love pop-up slams! - We run a quarterly online slam, ooh yeah, remote access. Stay well as we wander into spring!

I feel strongly that the US left needs to get a shadow government in place STAT, if only to provide some basic clearinghouses for information and resources previously provided by the government departments that are being decimated. National, state, and local levels, fronted by… (1/2)

So many female posters popping up in my Discover tab write in disordered ways about food, and never have I been more struck at the waste of mental energy owing to diet culture than now, when we need fuel and joy and focus more than ever.

A little reminder to all of my creator/performer/culture worker friends: the world needs you, if you can keep going. We have something important to offer in the fight. ❤️🎭🎨✍️

Tonight SmutSlam kicks off the quarterly Baltic/Finland tour, with stops in… Vilnius (Jan 23, TONIGHT) Riga (Jan 26) Tartu (Jan 27) Tallinn (Jan 30) Tampere (Feb 1) Helsinki (Feb 3) Whew! Ticket links are all up on SmutSlam.com, let your prrrvy people know!

The best landmark at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, and possibly all of Berlin. Ritters definitely missed a tip by not installing a vending machine at the base. I would buy a marzipan square every time I arrive at this station, and that is a lot.

Smut Slam is international, baby! In the next 2 weeks: Barcelona (tonight!), Amsterdam (12 Jan), CPH (14 Jan), Odense (15 Jan), Baltimore (17 Jan), Heidelberg (17 Jan), Mannheim (18 Jan), Berlin (20 Jan), Vilnius (23 Jan) That's not all me, we have a NETWORK. For deets and tix, hit up smutslam.com

All these weird things that people say and feel about eating during holidays, wow, I’m glad I’ve reached some kinda equilibrium about that mess.

Wake up, babe, a new ep of "Your Life Is Awesome" just dropped. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y... True stories, wild questions, and heartfelt confessions from the live Smut Slams. If you can't attend, this is the next best thing to being there. Avail where fine podcasts are streamed or downloaded!

Everyone asking for money on the s-bahn tonight gets at least one Euro. I don’t make the rules, I just abide. Happy holidays, Berlin.

Love to have continuity in our crowd 🤩 (the ooh yeah chorus is stronger for it) thank you for persuading your people and spreading the joy!

I joined a decluttering group on FB, for added motivation to clear up my “big room” (bedroom/office space). My tasks are less mighty than many others have in that group, ha, I might say, I’m not a hoarder. On the other hand, I just discovered a new 3Tb storage device that I didn’t know I had. Yikes.

Who the Adjuster is, is not nearly as notable as how we all responded.

I have exactly 30 days before I resume touring again. One month of a break, and I wish I knew how to get maximum rest and rejuvenation out of it without putting that weird pressure on myself to rest “perfectly.”

I hate what happens when someone turns out to be a bad person, or just does something bad, and their photos are shared and instantly people will say things like, “look at them, you can tell” because they’re fat or have a short neck or big nose or whatever, and like, that’s not how that works. 1/2

All theatre fronts that I’ve seen in Barcelona look like everyone who goes in must be one bad matinee away from tearing out the seats and stealing bread on the way home. Very revolutionary looking.

The longer I am on the road, the more I want to be home making food. Thanksgiving dishes are high in my awareness, but today I looked up and said, yes, I’d like to try making sourdough bread again. Soup w dumplings, apple fritters, Chicago deep dish. Homey stuff, to anchor me there.

A hotel room that other people pay for is such a luxury. And then for it to have a total of eight pillows feels like unbearable levels of stardom for me. Like, I’ve made it, woohoo! Of course I need better metrics than this; the number of pillows is not a good indicator of financial success.

I forget what it’s like to simultaneously a) understand most of the language around me and b) not understand any of the damn place names. On thameslink on my way to Paddington, thence to CARDIFF.

Time in the security line at BER airport is never time wasted. I get to spend a few moments with my airport crush: that silver fox beardo in the security how-to video who takes off his jacket like it’s a goddamn burlesque show.

Just got offa Zoom w my new admin team for Smut Slam #vilnius, and wow, am I glad to find local supporters to work with. For one thing, each city is so different for marketing tactics. In Vilnius, it’s all about… stickers, apparently? Okay, let’s do it!

Third Monday of every month in Berlin, and so many other places too! SmutSlam.com

Here in search of better news sources, fellow performing artists, networks in places I want to bring SmutSlam to (Vienna, Cologne, Hamburg), right-on community organisers, Berlin hot goss, Good Omens fan art, and snarky feminist medievalists. And cats, obviously.