Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words. Cartoon artist Mette Dreyer got the Pentel prise for best cartoon in 2025. Reported in today's Politiken newspaper.

On the tube

Cartoon by @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social

One benefit of binging on ER thru pneumonia is that I recognized the judge in Margo’s custody case as the (now much older) Dr Romano, head of surgery #margosgotmoneytroubles

I wish Tim Legler wouldn’t be decked out in so much makeup on tv

Done & dusted. It would probably be overegging the custard to say this @cobblehillpuzzles.bsky.social 1000-piecer-The Purrfect Bookshelf-was the best puzzle I’ve done - in any case, great fun to do.

daaaamn london

Sickening

Recommending the 5/11&18 issue of @newyorker.com: fiction by Chang-rae Lee; Daniel Immerwahr on a different way of looking at the Am Revolution; Anna Wiener profiling a tween girl negotiating "the thrilling bardo between childhood and maturity." and much more. Best issue I've read in ages, honestly

So true -

a while back there was a "Name something that seems British but really isn't" meme going around and hands down the best answer was "The contents of the British Museum"

One of my favorite pictures - hard to believe that she's graduating from Tufts this Sunday -

Binging on reruns of the 15 or whatever years of ER is getting me through the pneumonia that morphed from my flu. Actually there’s much to discuss about the show if I could talk without coughing. Season 7 is the saddest so far. Plus working on this mega hard jigsaw

Done and dusted. Last 2 puzzles I did, both @eeboo.com - they’re so much fun to do -

As a congenital over-waterer and the opposite of a plant whisperer, I can really get behind a shamrock plant that lets me know in no uncertain terms when it wants to be watered.

“Let us not fail to mourn, among the other casualties of the AI-generated student essay, “take it for granite“ (and just, “granite…”), “for all intensive purposes,” and “doggy-dog world.” May they rest in peace.” Jonathan Malesic on Substack

Good one

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

Looking at the bright side is foreign to my nature, but having the flu does give me lots of time to work on this terrific puzzle

I think this says it all

“My brother Ward was once a famous man.” is how Pete Dexter’s terrific novel The Paperboy begins and it’s stuck in my mind for 30 years. What are your favorite first lines? Please share them -

I mean what does it say about you when the Voting Rights Act is your enemy? It says everything, says a thousand things about democracy, and says one word: racists.

Still my favorite picture - my husband and I walking into the future on the Kennet Avon canal. Those dark clouds ahead don’t look great -

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov

Whoa

American Woman, Susan Choi’s marvelous novel — based on the Patty Hearst kidnapping — is only $1.99 for Kindle. Don’t miss it.

The bird photos on Bluesky are just amazing. I love seeing them.

🌞🌞🌹🌹☕️☕️*

I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.

I’m totally surprised that one of the things I randomly remember is the name of the parrot in Enid Blyton’s Island of Adventure, Castle of Adventure, other Adventures. Do you?

I love Easter eggs-in season 2 (which I’m re-watching since The Pitt is over), of ER and just heard Dr Kerry Weaver quote the 1st line of Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa (Blixen wrote under the pen name of Isak Dinesen):”I had a farm in Africa” -

Here's the short list for the 2026 Plutarch Award for best biography published in 2025: I'm hoping for Nicholas Bogg's James Baldwin: A Love Story -https://mailchi.mp/biographersinternational/bio-announces-long-list-for-2020-plutarch-award-for-best-biography-of-5758435?e=5c81e23333

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

Michelle Pfeiffer is so good in Margo’s Got Money Troubles; she’s so clearly r reveling in the role

Going through some old files, I found this 2022 book list from a talk I gave at an AAUW meeting here in Seattle; I was reminded of how much pleasure I’d gotten when I first read each of these books. I highly recommend each one.

Great novel. Here's a link to my interview with her: www.seattlechannel.org/BookLust?vid...

“It seems like you should be able to choose your ideology-“. Overheard on my walk around Green Lake this morning-

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

Release the #EpsteinFiles NOW.... #Iran #Epstein

So impressed that Jacob Robinson of @theathletic.com linked to Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself in his column today. More football! More poetry!

Good one 🙂

Pistons, for heaven’s sake, get a grip

Blessed are the pacemakers as well

Done & dusted. Needed a bit of extra patience for this New York Puzzle Company 1000-piecer. It’s called “Missed Connections.”