Wendy’s Carvers

Lost Highway/The Chair Company #sidebyside www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/12/the-...

THE CHAIR COMPANY season 1 was a masterpiece. Just a bizarre anti-mystery show about a man who might have uncovered a conspiracy and/or might be suffering from three successive concussions.

I came back to Bluesky just to read hot takes on the Chair Company

I marvel sometimes that I am constantly chatting with friends in Spain, England, and Egypt and I take it for granted … my Irish writer friend in France made this for me today because I can’t stop dropping “ensorcell” … I told him we should write a fake spell book on the hoary art of “ensorcellment.”

I think something is wrong with my brain. I looked at the full moon rising tonight and said out loud, “that’s so hot.” But really, it’s some gorgeous astrology tonight with the Taurus full moon, after a slimy week of muckraking with that grand water trine.

Parenting in 2025 is when your kid thinks you’re cheap for using the generic box of glitter cards for all the kids’ bday parties instead of buying a $7 card every time. And then watching him grieve like we’re poor cuz I only spent $50 on a gift for the kid he met at camp 🤪

Venus in Libra until 11/6 and I keep thinking about when my son was five and he was friends with a terrible little girl who put him through hell. And we kept advising him not to mess with her anymore, and he said “but she LOOKS like such a nice little girl.” Confusing the beautiful with the good.

Signed a book contract with my hero today … I’ll have to think of a better way to celebrate then wolfing down this wafer bar from Trader Joe’s 🤣. You could not ask for better astrology than today, mercy!

30-year astrologer here and I just like to remark occasionally that micro astro predictions such as these have no precedent in popular media except maybe 16th & 17th c almanacs. It’s like as soon as a new medium becomes accessible to common people, we use it to see if our crush likes us back.

#enyamentalhealthchallenge wherein you just listen to Enya and believe in the New Age and are transported back to your youth in the 90s, and you don’t have to solve genocide or save American democracy or stop climate change. It really works! 😅 I feel great …

Happy 50th birthday to goddess Kate Winslet. This is such an underrated film … one of my faves. LITTLE CHILDREN

Completely failed at getting my kid to choose Cotton Mather for his historical Halloween character at school. I made such a powerful pitch and even pulled out Magnalia Christi Americana. My kid doubted that this was really an important guy. My PhD means nothing to him.

That was a beautiful, perfect internship I had for three weeks before the government shutdown put it on hold indefinitely. So devastated for all my friends in the archive and the chaos this throws them into. This fascist regime is just uniquely STOOPID.

LA people who’s doing this with me? thelaec.com/events/the-c...

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

I think my least favorite take on the Charlie Kirk thing in the witchcraft community is that an Etsy witch couldn’t have worked an effective spell. Put a sock in it, you classist snob - lots of magicking going on in the broader community way below the level of your vaunted discourse.

I think once upon a time the only hot take would (and should) be “poetic justice.” But please, go on with your moral posturing.

WOW. Can you imagine writing this editor’s note? It’s a fascinating day to be a witch - respect to the practitioners standing by the ethics of the lefthand path. Magic is just influencing outcomes that were already in the realm of possibility (America is a gun etc.)

in these bummer days what you need to get you through is the new Mountain Goats track out tomorrow. yes ok technically it's a song in which two men bury a third with little hope for either of them on the horizon, but little hope isn't none, right? righteo, all aboard! 30tgrs.ffm.to/armiesofthel...

Wow Jonathan Rauch: “If subjectively hurtful expressions are violence, then criticism is violence, and then science is a human rights violation.”

Started my audio archiving internship and my mentor discussed his passion for Throbbing Gristle at lunch. Feel like I landed in exactly the right place 🤩

North Long Beach is a place where I can hate on kale and everyone in the check-out line rallies around me. I was borderline insulted when the checker mis-identified my mustard greens as kale. You only eat this flavorless paper crap because a top marketer decided to sell kale to you as a sort of dare

it is probably “find the river”

Parenting on a holiday: “Oh what a nice relaxing day to … oh my child has a weird ailment. Did you injure yourself? Are you sure? Is this an infection? [Web MD]. Did you touch yourself with dirty fingers? Will they let you start school tomorrow? Are we spending the whole day at Urgent Care?”

I found this deeply cathartic for all the times I’ve just been sittin in it in LA and can’t go anywhere. Gonna call that my natal Mars-Mercury-Pluto conjunction: don’t make me wait. I’m not clear what ASMR is supposed to do for people, but this feels like my version of ASMR. youtu.be/5qanlirrRWs

Might I quietly volunteer that we have a system worth saving: an anatomy of how every other type of government is worse. This is so good: much more satisfying than memeing into the void.

🤣🤣🤣 Full Metal Landscaping

Getting set up for my audio archiving internship 🤤🤤🤤 Entering my Mistress of the Machines era …

Oh my favorite kind of question … figures that song lyrics were the vehicle. That tracks.

OK AI is making a lot of things bad but this is the first time I’m struggling to find an inspiration photo for my hairdresser because all the images are AI. The hair has to actually be real and obey the laws of physics for her to copy the cut. So fucking annoying …

Awwww, the kids didn’t know … I actually can’t listen to this song because it will make me feel worse about whatever is happening. But I do remember crying hysterically to it on repeat 28 years ago during a break-up. “You know, you know where you are” just never stops being the anthem …

So distressing. My attitudes about mental health have changed a lot over the years. I used to always blame the parents in such cases but you can be a deeply engaged parent and still need to give your kid space to discover himself and make his own mistakes. How do you protect against this shit?

Making my kid listen to whole-ass concept albums in the car like the boss parent I am.

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Definitely not telling this straight guy that I’m into the mustache just because of how gay-coded it is.

Committed to never going back into the astrologer closet but not sure how that will translate to me getting an actual job. Today I’m describing the last ten years as “consultant” just like on my tax return. “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

I feel like when we look back on this time period historically, we will just be shocked by the breadth of minutiae we were constantly plugged into. Having our focus robbed on the daily is not sustainable for human consciousness, and future, morally aware social engineers will figure this out …

This is the beginning of an Emily Dickinson poem There was a printer — in my Brain

Denmark is my number one bucket list destination, I want to walk in Tycho Brahe’s footsteps among the remains of the Uraniborg … wish I could get there in time to see this exhibit! A friend just posted photos, and I am dying of envy …

Need someone to go to this new Long Beach bar with me for birthday festivities month but all my friends are teetotalers or doing dry July or some shit, does anyone still drink??? 😆

Snuggling my ten-year-old after a week apart, and he reported that my uptight, estranged brother had become a rodeo clown. I’m sure this is not true, but it’s one reason that it’s wonderful to talk to 10-year-olds. 🤡

Tomorrow is supposed to be the luckiest day of the year. Spend time with your sweetie. Make a new sweetie. Get up early and watch Venus and Jupiter make out. Big falling in love energy ✨ www.livescience.com/space/planet...

When having recently seen Chinatown at the Egyptian is your credit check, and immediately getting the joke in the title of the screenplay she just sold is your security deposit. I fucking love LA. #filmgeeksforever

A lot can turn around in a week. I’M MOVING TO SILVER LAKE!

I love when literary scholars tell histories. Totally, they should have known it was leading to the most acrimonious break-up of the 19th century because there was FORESHADOWING.

Women dressed in Handmaid regalia follow GOP Congressman Rep. Mike Flood NEBRASKA (R)

They are doing colonialism all over again with zero self consciousness. I hate these people so much. Here’s a thought, doesn’t the Moon belong to everybody, not a nation?

Thinking about how Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell essentially proves Arthur Versluis’ thesis that the Western magickal tradition is textual as opposed to initiatory. Much as we’d like to believe that witches are passing folklore down by practice, anything that’s printed immediately becomes canon …