Not my fun, cozy little goblin book getting real 😭 "That's*politics*, Murray." "Well, yeah. Lotta people die of politics."

This is the first year where I truly felt in my bones that "everywhere else, it's just a regular Tuesday." Bradley & I celebrated, but no one else around me cared. I don't actually miss Mardi Gras for a lot of reasons, but it's definitely weird (& wonderful) how contained it is! ⚜️

Found a brewery doing a Mardi Gras party! Having gumbo and beignets after having Popeyes and king cake earlier. A proper unhealthy food day.

Eating Popeyes and King Cake here in Cleveland today and thinking about all my people in NOLA. Happy Mardi Gras!! 💜💚💛

New fear unlocked that I never had living in NOLA: that a very sharp icicle will break off and fall on me from above when I'm entering/exiting a building.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

So far, the toilet commercial wins for me. "Take a look at your pee" to the tune of "Take a look at me now"? Singing toilets of all kinds? No notes

I'm seeing "But would Jesus disobey a law enforcement officer??" and like, so you know anything about the story of Jesus?

This is a super important article that everyone should read. thepreamble.com/p/how-ice-is...

Watching The Golden Palace (sequel to Golden Girls), & the episode where Blanche learns about racism & the symbolism of the Confederate flag is still super relevant. Golden Girls has been pretty progressive for a late 80s/early 90s show (although it definitely has its "not funny anymore" moments).

"No one does Zoom anymore" Me having to sit through Zoom meetings all day every day:

It's truly wild to see so many people speaking out about ICE while staying silent about Palestine, or refusing to believe that Palestine is occupied. If you hate what ICE is doing here in the U.S., you should also hate what Israel is doing to Palestine.

TIL that at Disney, when they close down It's a Small World at night, they turn off the music but not the dolls, so all you hear is the soft clicking of their mouths and eyes, and this is the most terrifying thing I've ever heard.

We're trying to train our new cats to talk using buttons. There's 3 that my cat Evie uses consistently: play, pets, and all done. Just now, she walked in, hit "all done," then went and laid in her bed. I've never felt closer to her 🤣

Did y'all know that the Nuremberg laws were informed by Jim Crow & U.S. immigration laws? Black & Indigenous people have lived under U.S. fascism since the country's inception. The U.S. is not acting like Nazi Germany, it's acting as the U.S. always has.

This 2016 trend is so funny to me. I understand nostalgia for 2006, maybe, but like, I'm still wearing bras I bought in 2016 🤣 This must be the first wave of young people discovering what nostalgia is.

Who is your favorite Golden Girl and why?

America isn't Germany. America is America. Always has been. ICE are slave catchers, not Gestapo. www.instagram.com/reel/DTb2VBJ...

The journey from cable to streaming and now back to cable is so funny. People complain about paying streaming apps, which I get, but I was paying at least twice as much for cable than I do for apps. You can cut apps off & on willy nilly & do a free trial period, which you couldn't do with cable.

I'm so proud to be a founder of Artists for Palestine Cleveland! We're ramping up in 2026, and I can't wait to see what we do together. At our first 2026 meetup, we'll share what we love to create and dream up ways to free Palestine with our art.

"Choppleganger" is the best slang word to come out of the next generation. No notes.

"We've had vicious kings, and we've had idiot kings, but I don't think we've ever had a vicious idiot king like you!" - Tyrion to Joffrey in Game of Thrones staying relevant

Look, regardless of how you feel about the Game of Thrones books or the show, the theme song for the show is a BANGER. That composer made the perfect song for it that is immediately recognizable & goes hard. Kudos to them.

So we can just attack Venezuela for no good reason? This is so wild. It's mind blowing to me how there is just zero lack of accountability for criminal behavior of the U.S. or Israel. Are we living in the twilight zone? Is this an alternate timeline? This is madness.

"I've got plans to get wild on New Year's Eve." The plans:

So the 1980s women's pixie haircut is back in style...as what teen boys call the "blowout taper." 🤣🤣 Every teen boy I see has this haircut, and I can't stop thinking about the 80s "Blanche" style every time I see it 🤣

Things I made this morning: Baked apples Pepper jelly dip Taco dip Biscuits French toast bites Sausage roll ups (basically sausage inside of French toast) My breakfast board is delicious!

The Bible says we should eat the rich: "He has shown the strength of his arm, he has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty." Luke 1: 46-55

We're B6 & B7 boarding for our Southwest flight this morning, and the kids who are right behind us were like

Happy Winter Solstice! Reminder that Jesus was likely born in September, & Christmas is only celebrated now because powerful Christians wanted to "repurpose" the pagan holidays. Most Christian holidays were in fact scheduled at times to co-opt pagan ones. 😁 Happy celebrating to my fellow pagans!

Taylor Momson's Christmas album goes super hard, and I'm totally here for it. ☃️🎄🎁🎅

No matter how much y'all want them to be, "dude" and "guys" are absolutely NOT gender neutral. If you say "I kissed a dude/guy," most people will think you kissed a man. "Dude" and "guys" have a HEAVY association with men regardless of whether you think you're being "gender neutral."

Me: Why is country in my top genres for the year? I don't listen to country Also me: Top album: Gangstagrass Top 3 song: Texas Hold 'Em Top 5 artist: Shaboozey

I've launched a new platform for @tubbyandcoos.com, which includes a @binderybooks.bsky.social page with blog-like content, book lists, & paid membership tiers (although you get a lot for free!) and a Discord server! Come hang out with me!

We all know that one of the major rules of time travel is that you have to be very careful in the past, because one small change can create an entirely different future. But rarely does anyone in the present think they can radically change the future by doing something small.

So is the next Wicked movie Elphaba & Fiyero: Dune Edition?

It's truly amazing what the people can pull off when we put our minds to it! Congrats to my comrade Tanmay. Also, Tanmay won by NINE votes. Especially in local elections, your vote absolutely counts!! 🙌 www.axios.com/local/clevel...

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Why am I still awake 😭😭😭

Thinking of launching a bookstore membership and wondering what people might want from something like that. Besides discounts, what would you want from a monthly membership supporting a queer bookstore?

One of the best Boomer lines I've heard is "just wait until YOU'RE a boomer, you'll see!" Like lol that's...not how this works.

Me in 45 degrees as a New Orleanian vs as a mid-westerner

OK after 2 episodes, my current top the candidates for Mr. Christmas are Davey, Marcus, and Rustin. All have the looks, charm, and temperament to be a great Hallmark leading man. We'll see how they do with more acting, though. Also can I be best friends with Logan?? He lives in Ohio...

Man, that bookstore signing line at the beginning of the Pluribus pilot episode is SUPER accurate. I was dying the whole time 😂😂

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Are you on Instagram? If you are, could you please follow my bookstore @tubbyandcoos? We're less than 20 followers away from 5K, and it's a big milestone for us! Please and thank you 😁

Love Nathan Pyle. I've had this exact conversation several times since moving to Cleveland from NOLA 🤣

For those keeping up, I ended up watching 17 spooky movies (horror comedies mostly) this season: 10 were new to me and 7 were rewatches. My spooky season is Sep. 1 - Nov. 2 😁 Now we move into holiday season from Nov. 2 - Jan. 2!

Here's my annual "IS IT MIDNIGHT?!" nah it's only 6pm post 😭