Got interviewed by one of my favorite writers @anniejowrites.bsky.social for one of my fave places Short Story Long @aaronburch.bsky.social

"Popiół i diament" ("Ashes and Diamonds") by Andrzej Wajda, 1958.

this is my kind of company motto right here

Let’s find an unqualified nepo-baby with zero experience in military, intelligence or government service who repeatedly says dumb things and has spent his time as housing finance director trying to prosecute Dems & make him DNI. What a joke this admin is.

it's getting real weird out there

Street Art, Lower East Side, NYC #newyorkcity #manhattan #lowereastside #architecture #cityscape #urbanism #streetart #grafitti

Book Cover of the Day:

there’s something so romantic about being sad on a walk. there should be a dramatic swell in music as you look at a tree & remember The Past

making Big Mug. stay tuned for more on this developing story

Reading a review of the new Russell T. Davies and have spotted a tried-and-tested reviewer's code-phrase for "Christ, it's bad": "Characteristic bravura".

I try to tell people Venice is culturally Wildwood on Weed and they say nah and I'm like look man, there's a boardwalk with henna stalls and iron on t-shirt shops and they're building beer pong tables out of sand, this is New Jersey (complimentary)

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

Denver writers, I will be teaching a seminar at Lit Fest in a couple of week. Check it out! lighthousewriters.org/workshop/how...

I was making an online reservation for a pretty fancy restaurant and they ask you to upload a selfie so they can recognize you at check in and I accidentally uploaded this

Calling it now, colleges are going to threaten to withhold degrees from students next year if any of them boo/heckle the commencement speakers.

we were at a preseason (NHL) rookie game & they were giving away prizes for answering a trivia question. kids beside us really wanted to try for a signed hocky stick, the presenter chose someone else. the big sib turned to lil sib & said 'it was a lefty anyway." so that's our 'sour grapes' phrase.

Guy on the left looks like he wants to put Roger Rabbit in The Dip.

A key element of mainstream news coverage in the age of fascism is feigned ignorance of all context and history.

Last week it was strawberry season but this week it is STRAWBERRY SEASON.

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

This week my lesbian bestie physically blocked my view of a lobby sofa that had been sat on one too many times because she knows a sofa like that is one of my top 14 hated objects & because she “can’t bear the monologue.” & that, babies, is a win-win relationship.

man if i had two right hands my nails would look amazing

Hush Puppies, as a word on the edge of a wood.

Alida Valli, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1921, in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (now Pula, Croatia)

Professor: if the valley is shaped like a V it was formed by a river because River has a v in it. If the valley is shaped like a u it was formed by a glacier because Glacier has a u in it. Student : Glacier doesn't have a u in it. Professor: *shoves student into crevasse* now the glacier has u in it

In the movies, when you see a character coming in the door of a place with a forceful storm outside and there's a lot of effort to shut the door and even then the character sort of still looks like they're out in the storm even though they're safely inside? I kind of look like that all the time now

My husband has fulfilled my dream of being the curator of my very own, Haunted Little Free Library. Stay tuned for the installation and filling up with FREE horror books for my neighborhood

I love my dementia clock

“The kids want liminal spaces!”

Trump endorsed her primary opponent Pam Evette yesterday in the race for South Carolina governor. A simp born every minute.

It’s a beautiful day! The sun is shining and the ravens are croaking

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

“When Harry Met Sally” is a horror movie

this is a hesperoyucca whipplei, also known as: the chaparral yucca, God’s candle, a Spanish bayonet, a Quixote yucca, or a foothill yucca.

I haven't seen BACKROOMS yet but I did use the word "liminal" a lot as an undergrad so...

taking a moment to marvel at the sheer force of will it must have taken to bring contact lenses into the world and make them a thing

Everyday beauty

I was in high school during the 1976 Bicentennial. The whole country was way into it. So many parades. Events all year. The tall ships, a wagon train that crossed the country, & the kitsch, my gawd, the kitsch. Every store looked as if the flag puked up on it. There's little of that this time, eh?

And a very happy Howard Hawks's birthday to you!

Morris Kantor (1896-1974), “Synthetic Arrangement” (1922), oil on canvas, 141 x 196.5 cm.

Come up and #Caturday sometime.

My dudes, I have won like seven fake arguments in my head today. I’m on a ROLL

Meowie Antoinette

So tired of blacking out every full moon when I really want to stay up and help the townsfolk hunt for the werewolf

High school friend reminded me that I was sent to the headmaster’s office twice: once for reading a bio of the last Grand Duchess of Russia in Chemistry & once for saying « C’est ridicule » when my French teacher said the French “drink” espresso by dipping sugar cubes in it & eating them one by one.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Buddy of mine recently bought a guy’s collection of 35,000 marbles he dug out of ghost town dumps in New Mexico over a lifetime. After sorting, here are the glow in the dark ones doped with uranium

Was reading about how they made a “smooth miles Davis” for the cover of the 2020 reissue of in a silent way and losing my fucking mind?!