Reached an important milestone in my book writing: the “cuts” document is now more words than the manuscript itself.

Oh man when the bass comes in at 7 minutes

New Yorker getting close to just pasting the dude’s face into the Eureka cover art.

It turns out that the Maurice Sendak books my mother in law sent us for the kids are first editions, which we did not know and probably should have. But probably Sendak would be happy that a first edition of In the Night Kitchen spent so much time in my kids’ beds.

Rushmore

BOY TWIN: I’m gonna [inaudible] ME: What’s that, bud? BT: I’m gonna headbutt daddy ME: You’re gonna what? BT: [runs toward me headfirst] ME: Oh

The beautiful thing about “Gay Dad” as a band name is that it could have been the nadir of almost any anglophone rock scene in the last 30 years.

The Mohawk, though in terms of “nearest flowing body of water to my house” it’s Oriskany Creek (unless you count the Erie Canal).

"@kirinmcelwain.bsky.social's exploratory album 'Youth' turns toward crystalline feedback, chaotic oscillators, and intentionally harsh tones to express the feelings of desire and shame occupying the same cognitive space." - @thetonearm.com www.thetonearm.com/kirin-mcelwa...

I didn’t appreciate the title “One Battle After Each Other” at the time (since it’s Not Vineland) but now I like that it’s not The Last Battle or The Most Important Battle or The Battle For Everything. Battles are going to keep happening!

An incredibly evocative piece of writing from @jeremygordon.bsky.social about a terrible, ecstatic moment

The venue where I saw my first concert, and the act. www.setlist.fm/setlist/bb-k...

Feeling distressingly compelled to write something about why I like Geese so much.

Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down

Had the twins’ fifth birthday today, here’s how boy twin spent about half of it.

Our knockoff K-pop demon hunter bags have a distinctly Jen and the holograms vibe to them.

This one has an Aura for me youtu.be/x9UV58U9DyU?...

The drum solo here is BANANAS

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Saw someone say they didn’t respect Prince because he wouldn’t authorize a Weird Al parody and had my strongest “we need to bring back bullying” flash in a while.

Is there an established Harry Potter replacement for elementary schoolers? We’ve had the “we don’t support this person” convo, but I need a guaranteed hit to read instead. The subject in question is very into Dog Man, 13 Story Treehouse, and science books.

I’m unsure about the value of media literacy education, but I’m 100% certain that the schools need to teach etiquette courses on how to be polite on the internet.

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Many questions here

Like 12 years ago my friend sent me this picture from his work and it immediately, permanently changed the name of this utensil in my head. The bytes were fully overwritten. I don’t remember the former name of this item and frankly I don’t care

If you’re stressed out by the news, I assume the idea of not following the news makes you more stressed out, but also: you know that thing about how you need the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can, and the wisdom to know the difference?

The twins’ classmate brought bracelets back from her winter break trip for the whole class. She decorated them with a reference to the class’ name, the “ice cream pandas,” which is very cute but also has somewhat unfortunate initials.

When you declare a common behavior to be immoral and incompatible with being a good leftist, you convince people who aren’t going to change that behavior (whether because they can’t or who just don’t think it’s a big deal) that they apparently aren’t a leftist and so should vote for the other guy.

Spent the morning going through in my head how different 90s rappers would deliver the line “let your haters be your waiters at the table of life.”

This gets funnier every time I watch it.

The administration keeps doing political science field experiments. This week’s is “do you get a rally around the flag effect if you do zero groundwork outside your base?” Looks like no!

Cackled at the idea of every single AI summary for anything including the caveat “other contributing factors: tower of Babel”

Did we talk about how that food delivery app post on Reddit everyone got mad about was entirely made up? www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

Some tests with the #feedback patch last week turned out much more musical than I'd anticipated, and now you can hear them. (Now you're in the loop.) $0/name-your-price at snwv.bandcamp.com/album/feedba... #maxMsp #originalMusic #darkAmbient

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

A great piece, clear and specific about why W was like that (eg his MBA cohort). I wish social media certainties about politicians’ motivations were this grounded in evidence. If we do care about that (though we don’t have to!), we need more than parallelism, analogies, and standalone fanfic.

I understand that Pluribus has limited screen time, and I love the tone. That said, I don’t understand how there’s not at least one character asking the weirdos about every piece of hidden knowledge they can think of (who killed JFK, what happened at Roswell, etc.).

The great thing about having a folder called RIFFS for all your riffs is that when you take a video and your phone is like “do you you want to save this to RIFFS” you can be like “hell yeah” and hit the RIFFS button.

Hey all, I'm now a published writer! Here's me on the Synchronicity album, and horror themes and narratives across The Police's discography. Been looking forward to sharing this with everyone 😁

My wife was having trouble waking up and I was like “let me just read you some headlines” and that did the trick.

Anyway I hope the next time people start saying that this admin is finished, kaput, etc. we can all remember this demonstration of how American institutional power operates independently of public opinion!

MTV going off the air with “Video Killed the Radio Star” is very appropriate insofar as it evidences the total lack of vision and originality that caused them to go off the air.

Got overly snoopy about a Maryland nudist colony and accidentally joined their events calendar. Looks fun!

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Scrolling Reddit and someone posted a list of how many times they pooped each month in 2025, and I need people to understand that, before social media, this sort of thing would happen to you maybe once and you’d tell the story for the next decade.

Watching Shrek for the first time, in case you were unclear how old I am.

3D printing the Pacific garbage patch, so the Atlantic can have one too.

Very weird to drift off when the “people we lost” montage is Diane Keaton and Ozzy and then the next time you look up it’s Dick Cheney.

Had Rilo Kiley’s “A Better Son/Daughter” playing and Girl Twin went and turned it up real loud. Is that bad