Tired: Wine moms Wired: Maenads

No, YOU'RE reading a 267-page RFP for management of the Torpedo Factory instead of doing literally anything you're supposed to do.

It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.

Ok, that's enough being mad about everything for today. Time to think about something else, like what kind of soup I should make for a rainy day tomorrow. Classic chili? Lentil? Chicken stew of some sort? Potato chowder? Sausage, kale and white bean?

This fucking university, ISTG

Putting my hands in a vise to prevent myself from replying “*whom” bc it is NOT THE POINT. But… *whom

Perfectly spaced little sparrow formation

no i’m not “detail oriented” that’s where the devil is

The potential of a cascading series of local special elections has me gleeful like a kid at Christmas.

Put. A. Stop. Sign. There.

Sharing mostly for @bakerdphd.bsky.social

Del Ray people: Do you pronounce “Bellefonte” as if it is a French word, and Italian word, or a secret, third way?

Just got told my optic nerves are perfect, which is weirdly like being the teacher’s pet.

This is a work of art.

Made this tonight and it was a hit. A tad more involved than what I think of as a “quick weeknight dinner,” but worth it!

@trey197.bsky.social All of these, but especially the gull ❤️

if you're an nba player in the middle of a game, i think what you really need to do is take a long, hard look at the basketball. every game has got one. figure out who has it, and what you need to do to get hold of it. put it through the basket and you could score yourself two points, maybe more

You have an earworm of the Macarena. I have an earworm of the toddler saying “it’s a fucking goat outside.” We are not the same.

LOOK AT THE NAME OF THIS YOUTH BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

In my "Please, brain. Please just put words on the page" era.

Goddammit! What if I want to take arts & crafts when I'm 121??

What fresh hell is this? (Monday)

Au contraire. I auto draft every year and love to shit talk the people in my league who studied hard only to lose to my team of accidents. Won the league last year. 5th/12 this year - LOL

Let’s drive out to the mountains and walk through a tunnel with no lights, dripping water, and bats!

Watson-dog is having a bad day, which means I am also having a bad day. Will saltine crackers help a barfing dog the way they help barfing humans? Stay tuned to find out.

The math is mathing

I saved the bone from the xmas ham for today's black-eyed peas, but I didn't think about the fact that the ham was sugar glazed so the peas turned out weirdly sweet. Resist spice is helping a little (who else still has umpteen packets?) Now to convince my kids to eat one single pea for good luck...

Includes print & audio books, but not romance novels, which I don’t track in GR, but Libby knows (45-50+). Faves: Longbourne, Demon Copperhead, Unruly, You Dreamed of Empires, T. Kingfisher’s Paladin series Least: Lives of Puppets, A Dangerous Business, Ghostland, Nothing to See Here, Vaster Wilds

Um.

Keeping up with his busy schedule of investigating the other dog’s backside and then getting directly in my face

happy new year to all my extremely online friends

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

Target audience for this: people who wish DC was more like Vegas?

I have no idea if this was a compliment or not: In my late 20s I went to an Irish bar in DC. Bartender carded me, looked at my ID for a long moment and then yelled “JAYSUS CHRIST!” and gave it back.

how about "auld" acquaintances learn spelling and grammar. how about that

Not gonna link to Solomon's 🐍-handling convo bc I would like to stay married (& Trey is anti-🐍), but I DO NOT UNDERSTAND the yelling & dancing around part! If I'm handling any snake, esp a fangy one, I'm gonna be as calm and quiet as possible? Why do you need to increase the difficulty level??

@asherperlman.bsky.social is inside my head as usual

A conversation in the car about Colonel Sanders led to the 17yo reading us the entire plot of “A Recipe for Seduction,” starring Mario Lopez as (Colonel) Harlan Sanders, and let me tell you, it is a roller coaster.

I had missed this news! Glad I won’t have to flip a table.

My quesadilla and Sean Doolittle at Chipotle in Alexandria VA

damn that baby looks cool as hell

We went to Charlottesville for the afternoon to see Trey’s parents. The dogs were very busy while we were gone.

Remembering the time in grade school that our teacher had to leave suddenly so the vice principal, a nice guy with a pronounced lisp, stepped in to lead our phonics lesson. My friends… That day’s lesson was S.

Game’s been on for five minutes and the announcing already feels like it’s the Mizzou Show and, oh yeah, whoever they’re playing. Typical for UVA games on national broadcast 🙄 #uva #gohoos

Gator Bowl time! I road tripped down when the Hoos played OU in 1992 and, of course, lost.

17yo aptly compared the Pop Tart Bowl aftermath to a cult ritual.

Can’t wait for the celebratory dumping of grass clippings over the winning coach of the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripes Bowl.

Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give A Shit

We used to be a real country

Need more light for crafting. Super bright ring light has a USB plug. Power strip with USB is too far away… 💡! USB brick + Christmas tree light string to the rescue.