I have one episode left in Life on Mars, and...apparently I never saw any eps from season 2 in 2006! In related news...did anybody watch Ashes to Ashes? How was it, relative to LoM?

The Yankees ignored my advice. 😥

Yankees were getting no-hit by the Sonny Gray through 7 and behind the Red Sox 2-0. Then they tied it up in the 9th. Then the Yankees went ahead 4-2 in the 10th. And the Sox just scored twice in the bottom of the 10th (only one out so far) Come on, Yankees...don't get swept.

Happy 100th Birthday to the great Mel Brooks! Enjoy this all-too-relevant clip from Brooks' 1974 film Blazing Saddles featuring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ...

As I just said to B... my afternoon snack today feels like an episode of Iron Chef: Cucumbers (rice cake with hummus and sliced cucumber and 2 Kosher Dill half pickles). What's a 3rd cucumber-forward snack I could have? :)

"Drop your weapons! You're surrounded by armed bastards." - DCI Gene Hunt ...watching Life on Mars for the first time in 20 years. 😎

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

"It's over! It's over! Knicks fans, this is not a dream!"

I haven't been much of an NBA fan for 25 years, but in the mid-90s, my friend P used to get great (free) tix to Knicks games & almost always gave them to me. For about 3 years, I'd go to 1-2 games whenever the Knicks were at home. Therefore, I claim last night's victory as if I were still a fan! ☺️

Following denial of permit for the original location outside MSG, Mayor Mamdani has announced a new, open to the public and roomier location for tonight's New York Knicks NBA Finals Game 3 watch party - Bryant Park. It’s free but registration is required. #BlackskyNews www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Oh no! RIP, Tony. :(

BREAKING: RM's Labubu will NOT be performing at Freedom 250

Amongst my open tabs: * an audiobook (SF) on Hoopla * historical fiction on Libby * epub: literary fiction * epub: fantasy * fantasy book that turned out to be free on Kindle! And an actual hardcover collection of essays from the library in the living room. I'm reading all six books at once. :)

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social & my colleagues @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

If you haven't yet seen what Stephen Colbert released the day after The Late Show was cancelled, here Colbert is... guest hosting Monroe, Michigan's public access show "Only in Monroe" (link goes to Colbert's new YouTube channel) (starts a little slow, but ends up great. :D)

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live Elton John Billy Joel U2 The Clash Elvis Costello Bruce Springsteen Iggy Pop The Who David Bowie Tom Robinson

The final moments of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert... youtu.be/zG0HFw0edXY?...

So far, watching the new Punisher is like watching somebody's single-player, first-person shooter Twitch stream. I haven't turned it off yet, though, so that's on me

Coo-OO-oo Coo-OO-oo - nest building call Mourning doves seem to have taken up residence in the old nest built on an unused Comcast meter. The nest was originally built by robins, but mourning doves took over the following year, and now - after a two year hiatus - mourning doves have come back

Green Peppers vs Red Peppers. I know they're just different stages of the same vegetable (technically they're a fruit, but not in the culinary world), but I have a strong preference for red peppers.. because they're sweet and I have the taste buds of a child. What about you?

Do differences in American & British English spelling (e.g., theater & theatre) matter? Nope. But...our friend Octillion (a "cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 27 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 48 zeros") really needs to decide how large a number it is.

Because I cook all the time (esp. with onions) and I'm constantly in danger of slicing my fingers, I bought a Mueller multi-blade veggie chopper, and...surprise surprise: it actually works! The onion / celery / carrot / cauliflower / zucchini part of the ingredients list took 30 seconds to chop.

Fuzzy photo, but does anybody recognize this lapel pin...and can you tell me why have it? 🤣

My first internet posts were in 1996 on: rec.arts.sf.written rec.arts.sf.fandom alt.tv.star-trek.ds9 alt.tv.star-trek.voyager alt.tv.kindred And in 1997 on alt.tv.highlander, I made my first dozen online friends (...one of whom is my current housemate. :D)

If somebody had reached out to me and said, "Hey, can you come up with the most blatantly signaled, cheap plot turn for Will Trent's season 4 finale," I would have come up with a script for minutes 30 to 40 of this episode instantly. Ugh.

Another primary accounted for! #IVoted

Just started reading The Arrogant Ape by primatologist @christinewebb.bsky.social (2025). The book’s a critique of our belief in "human exceptionalism" instead of recognizing that we're just"one part of the web of life" (Darwin), and so far (50 pages in), it's great.

Without being all "Well ACK-SHOO-ALLY, those aren't technically vegetables," what are the 10 non-legume veggies you cook with most often? (Mine, in alphabetical order) Carrots Cauliflower Corn Green Beans Mushrooms Onions Spinach Sweet Potatoes Tomatoes Zucchini

Obama and Mamdani and a classroom of NYC four year olds. :) (note: youtube is acting weird, so you'll probably have to click the link and not the image) youtu.be/jYiexkNTgKY?...

All, a dear friend just lost her daughter after weeks of hospitalization & complications. Since this happened out of town, my friend has incurred a ton of unexpected expenses, so we've started a GoFundMe to help her out. If you can, please donate, or at least, please share.

#Paradise #YourFriendsAndNeighbors How is James Marsden currently in two series, both of which are streaming on Apple+, and playing a rich widower with a teenage kid in both? 🤔

I tried four times this morning to make Spelling Bee accept "gafiating" as a word before I remembered that unless the Spelling Bee editor is a Fan, niche fandom terminology is probably never going to count. :)

Peter Magyar says Viktor Orban has conceded victory in Hungary election

This is AMAZING! The astronauts just would NOT talk to the orange man. I mean, I had second hand embarrassment from the silence, but I was loving it. :) youtu.be/jmmuJ64bnBE?...

I mean, you don't really need a translator

The $450 Barbie Dream Fest in Florida seems to have the same energy as Dashcon's ball pit... (note: the Fest is apparently refunding everyone's money)

I keep seeing vid recs today, so here's one from me: "Handlebars" (2008) by Seah & Margie (aka Flummery) Doctor Who - Tenth Doctor character study www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9fl...

So apparently I'm Generation Jones (1954-1965), which I hadn't actually heard of until today. No wonder I never recognized myself in discussions of Boomers or even Gen X.

Everything related to this administration just gets more and more embarrassing.

W.B. Yeats seeing us from 1919: "...Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity...."

Got to the part of R.F. Kuang novel Katabasis that focuses on a character with Crohn's Disease, then skimmed the Library's Book Page magazine and saw a review of Finn Longman's The Wolf & His King, which reframes the Bisclavret werewolf tale as a story about chronic illness. I love coincidences.

I took a Women's Studies class in high school (1975, public HS), and the two instructors wanted to use Our Bodies, Ourselves as one of the main textbooks. When the Board of Ed wouldn't approve the purchase, our principal - the late Dr Joyce Jackson - bought a copy for everyone in the class!

The question on a youtube short I just saw seemed to be simple: What city has the largest French-speaking population. Without looking this up, do you think you know the answer? Because I can tell you that I didn't. :)

Without looking anything up or looking at any comments that might appear, do you know the second part of the chant that starts "we want a pitcher!" (And how old are you?)

Oh wow...when I was living in England, I read 2 books by the late (and wrong about almost every political issue) Jilly Cooper - Riders & Rivals - and the 2nd one I loved, for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture. And today I learned that it was a tv series starring David Tennant. :)

I was watching a clip of Neil Sedaka on the old tv show "I've Got a Secret" and at the end of his segment, he played Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu. Halfway through I realized that the song "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" was swiped from that Chopin piece. (this isn't a secret, but it was news to me)

I spent three months sleeping in a dresser drawer in Bavaria

Day #4 of "songs all my friends knew during my 1960's childhood and regularly sang during grade school music time." On Moonlight Bay - Doris Day (youtu.be/Ud7ZTU4FS3U?...)

"...it's a little weird to get a lifetime achievement award at the half-point of my career." -Harrison Ford, at least night's SAG-AFTRA Awards