The Man Who Fell To Earth. Or maybe it’s just an weird movie to watch, at a screening in an art museum, with your dad. There were a few too many flaccid members on screen to be comfortable sitting next to family. He didn’t remember that much nudity either as he saw it when it first came out in 76.

Concerned corgi is concerned. He’s actually perfectly happy because he loves the snow and walks, but he’s camera shy and this is as close as I could get to him looking my way..

It’s #caturday and I am merely a pillow for my shadiest, naughtiest, weirdest little cat.

If being next to a vehicle going 2 mph caused internal bleeding, it might be time for that murderous douche to retire. His health clearly isn’t up for the job of harassing the populace.

Last Monday this (indoor only) cat got a stomach virus. Took her to the vet Tuesday to confirm but weird everyone else was still healthy… and we spoke too soon because each cat got it & as of today the dog has joined the fray. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Dot Matrix.

I can't help but feel I experienced the world in microcosm on the way to the shop today. I saw a queue of cars stuck trying to enter a single lane tunnel. I thought the roadworks on the other side must have caught everyone out with the different traffic lights. Then I got closer. 1/9

When my great-grandpa was somewhere around 103, we took video of him singing. He was on the porch at his home & told us he could see Ireland. From Lakewood, Ohio. I believe he could see it across the street, just like Trump is seeing a ballroom in the dirt.

Pettiest of complaints about the admin given everything else going on, but not being able to get packages from overseas due to tariff just really irritates me. I wanted to buy a CD, but La Poste won’t send to the US. Il est temps de retourner en France pour des vacances. youtube.com/shorts/GHMdL...

And people can request Tom’s books through their local library system if buying yourself is out of budget. I’m in the US and Libby & my library’s website make it easy to borrow books they already have and request titles they don’t.

Love seeing everyone’s 2025 book lists. According to my StoryGraph I finished 52 books, about 80% audiobooks. I always have a bunch of half-read physical books-in-progress around too. Will have to think about my favorites as I am a very bad StoryGraph user & never review or rate. 😬

Happy New Year! Kiddie cocktails in my jammies, takeout sushi, Lego, a cat on my lap, & catching up on TV.

our top blog post of 2025 was a detailed analysis of rainfall metrics and stormwater management. go figure.

Finished this book yesterday & can recommend. (There is some animal death, humans too, injuries, self-harm, so if those things aren’t for you…)

Caught Vinny about to yawn.

Forget the Yule Cat, the Christmas Corgi will eat your soul!

Saw it as an adult & it rubbed me the wrong way. Like the worst sort of Christian-coded lesson on the nobility of suffering. Yeah, everyone rallies around George in the end, that’s his reward, but nothing about the system or obligations that wore him down to start has really changed.

It’s a bit of a raggedy day already, so everyone enjoy my suspicious corgi, Charles.

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

A watercolor from @sarahbecan.bsky.social arrived. Thank you, it is lovely & now framed & up. (Ignore the glare, the lighting in my kitchen is all over the place & I am overdue to repaint the walls.) Folks can check out their profile if they’d like to buy some art too.

I’m basic and an 80s baby, what other film would it be?

Cute! I do already have this in my Libby queue but that copy won’t be lovingly chomped by a dog.

What a sad, insecure little man. I already have a nice bottle of port ready for when it’s his turn. Unlike Mr. Reiner, who seemed like a lovely man & creator of so many wonderful films, that orange asshole will be remembered only for cheap fakery & the misery he inflicted.

it's so genuinely disheartening when forces for good die and evil just lingers every day to inflict new pain and gold-painted styrofoam on the rest of the world

Post a bird to tell your followers not to buy Starbucks through the duration of their ULP strike 🪶

My cat is doing his cooked shrimp impression under the heat lamp in the bathroom.

These illustrations are so cute!

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney animated, or Pixar.

for every family with children who celebrate Christmas there was at least one year where some stupid toy you wanted took forever to put together and your parents were up until two am swearing and muttering curses at Mattel, knowing you would run into the living room screaming at 6 am to open it

Please enjoy this picture of my old man cats snuggling.

First tree with ornaments since my menace of a cat joined the family 8 years ago. This shelf was high enough to keep him from a 1-foot tree last year so I upgraded to a nearly 3-foot one. 🤞🏻

This is so cool looking. I remember visiting Charlottesville many years ago & being struck by how odd the original statue was (I’m from the north, haven’t spent much time in the south, it jumps out as strange to have these monuments.) I really like this repurposing.

A little #Caturday side-eye for everyone.

This plastic skeleton lawn ornament looks eerier now that he’s getting festive & wearing Santa’s skin.

Settling in with the pets for some post-Thanksgiving reading.

As long as the swinging isn’t with your own gender-swapped clones (plural) it’ll stay less embarrassing than many “classic” sci-fi authors. 😆

Yeah… my dad is also in his 70s with blue eyes & looks a hell of a lot better than Bobby Jr here. No weird diet, exercise, or fake tanning needed. What are people smoking to be so awed by the epitome of “rode hard & put away wet.” Is the Kennedy name that hypnotizing?

Did you ever wonder what return period Atlas 14 would assign to this 5 min damp Tom Holland event if it were to occur in NE Ohio? Well do I have the post for you...

What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are: 1) murder in a country home 2) princess-type bickering with cocky dude 3) teen/YA ensemble comedy that probably won’t age well 4) vampires 5) period pieces with anachronistic costumes or set dressing because I enjoy spotting it

That is pretty cool. My favorite mug from Malia Landis was shattered by my cat & now only holds pens. A tall mug by One Eyed Cat Crafts has been serving in its place.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

I don’t even need to drive out into the country this time. Wow.

This movie was so good and so fun. I am not a horror person, but this is colorful, campy, and great seen as a group.

Sharing because I went through similar stress with Oscar rapidly getting a 5-figure ER vet bill & emergency surgery last spring. Image of my guy for cat tax.

My targeted ads have weird ideas about me. I don’t think I know anyone who needs these. Especially not the $775 pin that looks like something I made in Brownie Scout day camp at age 8. (It’s even the right colors!)

What nonsense. I have a small kitchen so have no interest in making space for a crepe pan or tagine, but I’ve had an electric kettle since college. I have plenty of tea towels, a pepper mill, & casserole dishes (just not French & Spanish ones) & have flat metal chopsticks I use regularly.

Enjoying Episode 3 discussing Taylor Swift’s new album and fandom right now.

Tackiest motherfucker on the planet. It’s a tough competition, to be sure, but somehow the pudding-brained narcissist on the verge of congestive heart failure is pulling it off over younger, spryer rich douchebags.

I will repost this forever.

I do as I am told. 🐖