...and another month later, the Strait of Hormuz has been ranked one of the top MMORPGs: massively multiplayer open-ended role-playing game.

The U.S. National Park Service really aims to please. Find out why in my piece @SlackjawHumor.

What do Goober Peas, kink, historical reenactment, and celebrating our national parks this 4th of July have in common? #FetishFridayNights

WashPo's headlines today are cracking me up. "Surprising ways menopause can affect your mouth" (you mean this spicy truth-portal right here?) and "Parents are ‘going broke on berries’," a story that required 3 journalists to break. 3.

I heard that boo last night from uptown Manhattan. Hieronymus Bosch heard it, too. (He was Dutch, so obvs a fan of the Knicks and not of that ex-NYer.) || detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights

Didn't really want to think that this ha-ha piece would be relevant w̶e̶e̶k̶s̶ months after I first thunk it up. But here we are.

The sense of shock and loss was apparent in everyone I interviewed for this piece. Read on to find out why.

Want to learn how to flaunt your naughty inner Magdalene? How to fake a Rapture? Pastor Peg's got your back. Read more in Jane Austin's Wastebasket:

TBH I like Hieronymus Bosch's drones better. || detail from Haywain

to figure out whether a prohibition on drug users possessing guns that passed in 1968 is still legal in 2026, one must figure out how drunk the Founding Fathers got in 1776 --the Supreme Court, basically ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/us-v-...

- The govt "state of exception" (emergency powers) suspends constitutional protections - Detention, once <72 hours, is now up to 15 days - The sole organization campaigning to decriminalize abortion is shuttering Tennessee or El Salvador?

You could read "The Overstory" by Richard Powers to realize the horror of cutting old-growth forests, of bringing down a tree that has stood since before the printing press existed. Time's short, tho—read these resources for now and COMMENT to stop the BLM's plan. I did.

Rent is due. gofund.me/7c4a7a66f

Lovin' this NYC blizzard stuff. Doubtful that the promised 20+ inches will arrive, but the woods are lovely, white and deep.

Realizing that Hieronymus Bosch—who seemed to be tripping balls while painting flatulence, creepy critters, and vice—kinda nails the current administration and state of affairs. Global tariffs || detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights.

This ice “fish-fluencer” wants ICE to get out of Minnesota. Nate Pischke has turned his indignation and outrage about the largest deployment of masked and armed ICE agents in US history into a call for hunters and fishermen to speak out. "Nobody wants these ding dongs in our fucking city."

War-doing is a cycle of trial and error. —Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half Her mother risked going into work when ICE took her away. At home waiting for her were her 16yo daughter and the 3mo baby The teen tried to feed the baby, who was exclusively breastfed, formula to no avail 19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...

The importance of being caffeinated.

$ to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota? ✅ $ to Mercado Central? ✅ $ to rent/food support for the Deaf immigrant community? ✅ A little glitter here, a little glitter there...

Some kiddos in Minnesota don't feel safe enough right now to go play on the ice with their team. I'm anti-ICE-skating here in NYC for you today, Minneapolis-St. Paul Starwhals!

🖤 Art is not neutral 💚 Connection is an act of resistance 🩷 Gathering is community care 🧡 JOY IS DEFIANCE! Quote courtesy of the cool folks at artshantyprojects.org. Especially that last one....

"What makes the community response in Minnesota so heartening: We’ve seen an astonishing outpouring of action and support from ordinary citizens who have decided not to accept this dual state. They refuse to be lulled, and insist on their continued citizenship in the constitutionally governed US."

“My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. What I’ve seen here is what I’ve seen there—a powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people.”—Rachel Sayre, director of Minneapolis’ emergency management department

“When your neighbor needs help, go help. When neighbors work together, nobody’s done until everybody’s done.”—Wendell Berry, The Art of Loading Brush

protests are our mid-midterms

Protest trifecta: you can get your anti-ICE-ice-skate on, head right over to Broadway and then down to Union Sq.

Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders and community activists are calling a general strike on Friday, encouraging Minnesotans to stay home from work, school and refrain from shopping.

"We operate on the ethos that joy is resistance.”—Daniel Goldschmidt, Brass Solidarity

Ah, Minnesota! I see you.... See the Protest Art, Colorful Cardboard, and Fierce Joy of the 2026 Powderhorn Art Sled Rally - racketmn.com/see-the-prot...

This terrific opinion piece by @polgreen.bsky.social in the Times captures the current scene in MN better than any I've read so far. Why “Minnesota represents everything that the administration hates,” per a source. And why “If Minnesota falls, the country will fall.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Whoa, there is protesting🧊and then there is protesting🧊in Powderhorn Park, Minnesota. Love this‼️💪🏾💪🏽💪

"A surveillance-industrial complex and a democratic society are fundamentally incompatible....On a long enough timeline, any surveillance tool you build will eventually be used by people you don’t like for reasons that you disagree with."

Beard envy writ for living large @pointsincase.com. www.pointsincase.com/lists/im-gro...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Donate to your local food banks, people! No government should allow its people to starve, and no kiddo should go to bed hungry. STEP UP.

An ode to bad candy and the consequences thereof....

Sharing a great poem by Burlee Vang that hits all the right notes this Halloween. poets.org/poem/live-zo...

Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories

“The audience’s former perceptions of being ‘in control of’ or able to ‘use” time will be shown to be illusions at best.” By @deannesmith.bsky.social Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/interview-wi...

Nearly 100 submissions from reproductive rights advocates around the world paint a clear picture of censorship in action: abortion content is being removed, restricted, and silenced by platforms at an alarming rate. www.eff.org/pages/stopc...

Nooooo, not Jane!

Sperm Racing Start-Up Attracts $10M in Seed Funding...missed an opportunity with the headline, here. And missed unpacking the comparison of female repro systems to a speedway ("we've designed a microscopic racetrack that mimics the reproductive system"). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Whose cheese is blue? Find out in my first piece for The Belladonna Comedy.

The "adult content" in the image: old-timey painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and there are nipples.

You should keep an eye out for The Guardian's Poem of the Week. You really oughta. Delighted to see poetry, and poets, elevated in a news outlet. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

All that and a bag of chips.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

"Walking is our driving." Truth. Sidewalk and other NYC etiquette at Gothamist. (Though I'd have added no feet on the seats and only hands on the poles for subway riding. ONLY HANDS.) gothamist.com/arts-enterta...