This. Can (and will) I eat 3 pounds of cherries in one sitting? Yes. Will I regret it… perhaps?

Happy Pride Month! I always have a bunch of half-read books in progress, but here’s what I finished in May. I aim to make June’s selections even queerer. 🌈

#Booksky So…we’re getting hit with a big property tax/insurance hike on the home office this month (due in a few weeks) and sales have been…not great? If you’ve been thinking about buying a great queer book or two, now would be a splendid time! 1/4 queenofswordspress.com

people tell me all the time "I'm looking for a husband and cant find one" I tell them look for a wife... what about a husband from the raw historical data that suggest that's something that you want?

Blankest Year by Nada Surf. youtu.be/EXRLUeVXpMA

Thank you to @zineclubchicago.bsky.social for inviting Wild Ramp to the Southwest Side Zine Library! Check out our zines and all sorts of great Chicago zines at 5055 S Archer St!

A staggeringly ugly, glowering official portrait. I bet psychologists could write so many papers just on that selection.

If the corporations are doing well and the people are doing poorly What you have is a hostage situation not an economy

Every shift, numerous times an hour. (Midwesterners know.) Although that summer job also exposed me to Rob Thomas & Santana’s Smooth at least once an hour over the PA system as well. youtu.be/CR7MottApy0

Love Paul McCartney.

I still confuse MGMT and Metric and thought they were both Canadian until (literally) last week. Even though Time to Pretend is still on my old Shuffle under my “jogging mix.” Where do I surrender my Elder Millennial card?

1. Who writes the chyrons? It’s “the Duffys on cross-country…”, no apostrophe. Don’t listen to autocorrect. 2. Rachel, why are you contrasting your family vacation to porn? Why is that your first thought? Just say it’s wholesome or fun unlike those reality shows where you met Sean.

I get the feeling this incurious buffoon is going to leapfrog JD in 2028. Another grinning reality-TV fool for President. Everyone in the cabinet is just auditioning, job performance doesn't matter only looks.

Got distracted when this went live a couple days ago but finally went back to that open tab. 😁 Hoping they get to $70k for the audiobook stretch goal. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ale...

It's Tom Holland Umbrella Day, you know the rules

Post your favorite LOTR character, wrong answers only.

Spontaneous recent botanical garden visit. Why just run errands when you find yourself going past a nice park or arboretum? Errands can wait. Even better when the parks are free.

It has come to my attention that today is a very important anniversary. 35 years. The smell lingered for a while. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiscons...

I was starting to type “you have beautiful handwriting” to someone, so why did my phone volunteer to auto finish with 1. eyes (ok, reasonable) and 2. feet. I don’t think I have ever typed either compliment before. Definitely not the latter.

It’s #caturday so enjoy my half-hidden by his tail cat (who is currently chasing his sister around the house, to her dismay) & my “just stopping in for one book” that turned into a collection.

As someone in middle age, I say this gently, Tom Cruise is not middle age. He is 63. He is nearing retiree age. Lucas is 81. Fully elderly. Maybe these guys aren’t the poster children for this article? And that doesn’t touch the gross framing of hot over health or even putting health on a pedestal.

Tabby Day?! I currently have a tabby pile at the foot of my bed. (Reposting because I somehow forgot alt text before!)

New books which get to jump the TBR queue & get read now because it’s @kjcharleswriter.com

Delightful video amid the day’s horrors.

Advertise your account with a Simpsons quote. “Oh little chipmunk friend, I’m allergic to everything.”

I know it’s one of his lesser crimes but the way he’s stuck all that tacky gold shit over one of our National Monuments is one of the more personally offensive things he’s done.

#tongueouttuesday with Charles.

A pretentious student film. Not very well-scripted or acted. Pretty dull, actually, but the director thought they really had something there.

Blurry buzzy bees on rhododendron flowers.

Quote-posting in part to remember to sign up through a browser at home later (so Apple doesn’t take a cut through the Patreon app) but also because maybe some of you want to sign up too? Or pre-order John’s new book?

Dark & storming now, but the trees are starting to bloom & the rhododendron is attracting big fuzzy bumble bees. (Didn’t get a picture of the bees, just heard them.)

As was once said of another Chicagoan, “he’s a righteous dude.”

Finally! I would go to more concerts and such in Milwaukee if winter driving wasn’t a concern 4 months out of the year. We’d have had this already if Gov Walker hadn’t screwed us all over in 2011, but better late than never.

Local tea shop has a low tech solution to indecision. $5 mystery drink. They ask if you have allergies & do you want hot or cold. Then you get what the barista feels like making. No energy burning ChatGPT or app needed to offload decision making.

I can’t wait. I’m re-reading Running Close to the Wind, again, right now. I need more of their writing. 💙

Menace. 2 of my cats make Charles nervous. This is one of them. #caturday

I can’t believe that we’re on the brink of nuking Iran because a smart Black man in a tan suit once made fun of a reality tv host.

This is terrifying and I am so sorry we (the US) are doing by this.

A whole bunch of tiny coots on the lake on my drive home. Can’t deny I am now middle-aged because I am way too excited to see birds.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

Phew… I love football ⚽️ but I will stick with season tickets to the local club for a hundredth of that price. Is the action quite as skilled? Eh. 🤷🏼‍♀️ But it’s still exciting.

Really blown away the first time I saw The Frames live. Finally saw Tori Amos a couple years ago. And cheesy, but I still love NKOTB.

Yes, it’s a blurry camera phone image, but I watched a sandhill crane bully a turkey for access to some bird feeders yesterday. Normally they coexist with the turkeys, but the cranes (there is a pair) seemed a little extra feisty for some reason. Maybe there will be chicks this year. 🤞🏻

By contrast family visited me in Cork years ago, drove to Killarney for the day & locals seemed surprised we’d drive that small-by-US-standards distance (90 km one-way) in one day & not stay the night. Seems some Europeans have a Midwest US mentality though. Lots of Norwegians in the Midwest. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Funny enough, not the first time there has been a loose kangaroo hopping around Wisconsin. The laws here are extremely lax about what wild animals you can have as pets. As long as it isn’t native to the area, anything goes.

I had to try to explain to TSA what my sealed/unused Instax film cartridges were. I had an album of photos I had just taken, but we had to check them for explosive residue anyway. I was afraid I was about to miss my connection & be stuck in Florida. Nevermind the groping I got in Montreal once.

Opened the door? No, it was already my plan regardless.

World’s in shambles so took myself to a movie. The Bride! was very enjoyable.

My dad has a tendency to put on an album & listen ad nauseam for weeks. I have inherited this trait myself, but hearing Emerson Lake & Palmer, Steely Dan, Bowie, & numerous other groups I can attribute to him & listening at dinner every night. youtu.be/yRvljAT4O6Q

“Enjoying” the blizzard and a rare snow day from work. Shoveling in stages. Now time to bake some cookies.