Being an Xennial Woman, I always assumed I'd grow up to be a Dorothy Zbornak, but time has proven that I've become the Rose Nylund of my friend group. And you know what? I'm okay with that. Everyone needs a Rose in their life, and god knows where I live might as well be Saint Olaf.

'Instead of “How are our attitudes being reflected in TV and film?” I think the better question is “How is pop culture attempting to shape and mold attitudes?”' -- @ninametz.bsky.social

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I made a friend today at the doctors office!

Jolted out of a dead sleep today with a blinding migraine. Not how I wanted to start my morning.

Digging into the ReReWrite of the Damned for the some much needed structural edits that I've been dreading. I've put it off long enough and its not going to get any more finished but dragging my feet, god help me. Wish me luck, y'all. I'm heading in with a machete and a flamethrower.

Tiny Velociraptor Puppy, looking like she forgot why she just walked into the room.

The sky was showing out at dusk.

Handsome little baked potato boy.

A light dusting of snow today with more on the way.

Fun fact: whenever I am stuck beyond all help with the ReReWrite of the Damned, I put Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on constant rotation and usually within a few plays, that breaks the damn and I figure out whatever I needed to and get back to writing.

It’s going to snow several inches tonight so I best go to the store for potatoes and onions. Yesterday I had to go buy straw for the critters. I’m laying in supplies like it’s the 1800s what has happened to my life?

This is how drastically the light changed in the span of about five minutes this morning.

Tiny Velociraptor Puppy is burying a piece of cornbread for later. Or in hopes of growing a cornbread tree in the spring, who knows with this dog.

I’m still allergic to straw.

Just got back from driving 2 hours around this stupid hellburg I live in trying to find the last freaking bale of straw in this whole godforsaken county, but at least I found it, even if it was decorative and I had to bribe it away from the lady who had it.

The only thing on today's agenda is heading to the farmer's supply to pick up a bale of straw for Tiny Velociraptor Puppy. She loves to play in the stuff and we try to keep her a fresh bale in her pen as often as we can. Other than that, I guess I'll bake a lasagna, but that's about it.

I wrote for @slate.com about a legendary (and violent) Tennessee sheriff who more likely than not murdered his wife and the people who want to keep him on a pedestal. slate.com/news-and-pol...

When the floods hit Kentucky in 2020, we got help from all over. It's only right we return the favor in whatever way we can. Folks help folks.

Tim Curry is always hot. Always.

Someone said it out loud.

I'm tentatively hopeful that the worst of the bronchitis is over and I am on the mend. Last night was rough but the cough is mostly under control tonight and I no longer feel like I'm going to barf my guts out, and my appetite is coming back. I may actually be human again by tomorrow.

Watching the original The Taking of Pelham 123 again, and the one thing that sticks out to me every time I watch this movie is just how much Robert Shaw's character Mr. Blue has the absolute patience of God with all these idiot train passengers.

Ween has waned for another year. Now is the time of the Mariah. Listen to her mournful wailing through the trees, through the empty, hallowed halls of malls. All she wants is you. You have been warned.

I made one last pass by the window, and the candle I lit has gone out. It's the wolf hour now, all the spirits are probably on their way home. Blessed night, special ones. Rest now, and find peace.

Everyone who loves @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein, throw some love to his Crimson Peak this Halloween weekend! Superb gothic atmosphere, costumes & twists. The accompanying art book, also exceptional. 🖤🎃🎬 My retro in cinemas review! #horrorsky #horrorfamily #filmsky

A candle lit so the ones who have gone before can find their way home.

Didn’t get to do the big decorating do that I usually do for Halloween, but we did give out candy for the kids and that’s the main thing. The Capri Suns were a big hit with the littles and we had water for the adults, and we gave out chips and full-size candy bars to whoever wanted them.

Blessed Samhain.

halloween isn't just a time for tricks, it's also a time for treats. treat yourself right, take care of yourself and have a safe and happy halloween. love from wolf pupy

Morning visitors.

Tired and stressed and sick and I have not even carved a single pumpkin for Halloween. I need a hug and a lobotomy.

I checked out the link and it's legit. If you need help, this could be a good place to start. via White Rose Resistance

Good to have these foundations step up for literary arts.

I just called my reps to demand they restore funding for life-saving SNAP and WIC benefits (and extend ACA tax credits) with 5 Calls, you should too: 5calls.org

Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.

if the band looks like this you are being murdered in that pit

I think people misunderstand that IT IS OKAY if a book makes you UNCOMFORTABLE, sometimes that is the author's intent, but what YOU DO with those feelings as the reader is YOUR responsibility, not an author's, and which is why using that discomfort as a crux to mortality police makes you a dick

🎶 DIG through the drawers and SLAM cupboard doors I can’t find my goddamn SPATULA.

Yep

Finally got that character description written, and it only took me six hours to do it.

Food stamps are set to run out of funding in early November & I’m just here to remind you that if you catch someone stealing food at the grocery store then you should immediately call the ghostbusters because you clearly saw a ghost and they clearly vanished into thin air and you didn’t see nothin.

Who's your favorite Final Girl from the Friday the 13th movies and why is it Jenny from Part 2?

I want my girl back. I miss her so much.

If you're dealing with food insecurity with food stamps being cut off in November, you can find local food pantries at foodfinder.us FindHelp also has food bank and pantry listings, as well as other mutual aid orgs and resources findhelp.org

As I have become firmly entrenched in my 4th decade on this earth, I have come to value the simple comforts of my heating pad and Epsom salts on this slowly deteriorating flesh prison I inhabit.

Goddamnit I think this cold is trying to turn into bronchitis. Every freaking October I swear to God.

Sick today and it’s cold outside so I’m bundled up in my cozy warm bed with all my plushies under a million blankets with fuzzy socks on and a million generations of my mammalian ancestors are cheering.