There was an apocryphal story I heard in college; I can't vouch for its truth. But it was said that a group of students got drunk and wandered out of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with a Picasso. The next day they panicked, then got caught trying to put the painting back.

Date night in Chelsea. (We went to Viola's Room by Punchdrunk--pretty amazing--then drifted to a random cocktail bar on 8th Avenue.)

New York City is out in force.

It REALLY would have been smarter for them to completely ignore No Kings, or at least to pretend to ignore it. Their naked panic shows that we have far more power than we knew. See you soon, friends.

Wouldn't miss it for the world! See you all on Saturday.

I have a sick feeling that the only real question at this point is whether the US breaks apart with extreme violence and loss of life, or relatively peacefully.

Okay I did it, I got really good tickets for Wicked for my kiddo's 8th birthday. I'm so used to being broke that it stresses me out to spend that much money, but the fact is I'm doing better this year and it's okay.

Another thing I love about Mamdani is that he's constantly talking about NYC history and how it illuminates his efforts. That is, he's constantly undermining the AI-Trumpist attempt to establish a world of perfect unmeaning, pastlessness, antitruth: just a neverending Bowling Green Massacre.

OMG. Zohran's candidacy is such a source of hope in a terrible era. It means so much to see him stand for all of us.

I would like all the advertisers of this beleaguered country to know that I won't be elevating anything under any circumstances, so please stop asking already.

I love my city and I love all New Yorkers, even ones who get on the subway and then just stand there blocking the door like utter douchebags, and if Ukraine can hold off a vicious dictator with courage and cleverness then perhaps we can too.

Just saw someone saying it's hard for artists to spread hope and happiness when they're short on those things themselves. But an artist's job is to create communities of feeling and meaning. It's totally fine if the feeling in question is a dark one: shared darkness is still a refuge from isolation.

Yeah, what they hate most isn't even paying artists--as the Anthropic case shows, that's a pittance for them. It's *consent*. Asking for consent, as if artists were actual people. Because most of us would tell them to go fuck themselves.

My kid is obsessed with Wicked, and Wicked on Broadway is *really* expensive for a scrappy midlist novelist and freelancer like myself. But, well, they're only going to turn 8 once.

Thanks, New Yorker

These ICE dudes might wanna think about the fact that they're hanging all their fantasies of impunity on the chance that a doddering, decrepit wretch will somehow live indefinitely. Just fucking saying.

These ICE dudes might wanna think about the fact that they're hanging all their fantasies of impunity on the chance that a doddering, decrepit wretch will somehow live indefinitely. Just fucking saying.

FUCK ICE oh god these Nazis need to be flung straight into the earth's molten core

Researching woodstoves because five of my books are on the Anthropic-ate-my-entrails list. Our house tends to be cold as hell in the winter. Maybe my soul has been chewed into pap, but at least I'll be warm?

Okay it's here! Five of my books are definitely on there. Still not sure what it's going to mean in practice. Thank you to Courtney for posting this!

A lapcat makes everything better. (Mango, also known as Fluffman, Bunny Boy, and Bun Bun.)

Oh how thrilling, the fucking US government is at war with my city: its music halls and the children on its playgrounds, its subway-riders and museum-goers, its warehouses and fruit vendors and the little old man who sells quail eggs on the corner.

I wish someone would do for instagram what Bluesky did for twitter.

Got out and canvassed for Zohran yesterday, and only one (1) cranky old dude yelled at me about communism. NYC is going to bring hope to the whole country and show that it's possible to create a more fair and just society.

79. American citizen.

Got out and canvassed for Zohran yesterday, and only one (1) cranky old dude yelled at me about communism. NYC is going to bring hope to the whole country and show that it's possible to create a more fair and just society.

C'est moi

I loathe these vicious scumsuckers. ICE must be abolished.

I'm canvassing for Zohran on Saturday and my beloved city is going to be a beacon of freedom and justice in dark times, damnit. Our city, our choice.

Oh. My. God. You know they only figured out that giant squid are actually quite common because sperm whales' stomachs are full of HUGE BEAKS?

A can of soup is like $8 now. But if I make my own I can have seconds if I feel like it, and I can have leftover soup, and I can say oh look some darling person made me soup! They must love me.

Oh. My. God. You know they only figured out that giant squid are actually quite common because sperm whales' stomachs are full of HUGE BEAKS?

The Cuteness.

The Cuteness.

About. Stinking. Time.

Vance could get impatient and drop Trump in a piranha tank and the magas would all say that the left must stop resorting to violence.

OMG Scavengers Reign

MOOD

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

My favorite Pilates teacher is always saying, "Use minimal effort, like you're floating!" And "You are not doing the movement, you are being moved!" And honestly this is sound advice for other endeavors too, like writing novels.

The way novels come into being is just weird. A novel recently rolled in and asked me to write it, rather imperiously at that, and it's brighter and brasher and more playful than my other books, and yet that couldn't be farther from how I'm feeling these days.

My favorite Pilates teacher is always saying, "Use minimal effort, like you're floating!" And "You are not doing the movement, you are being moved!" And honestly this is sound advice for other endeavors too, like writing novels.

Do these alliances strike anyone else as preludes to secession?

I'm probably supposed to be happy about this because in theory I could get like 20k. But it's making me angrier because it's just enough to drive home how devalued we all are. (Maybe we'll get a wood stove. Yay?)

I NEVER would have agreed to let my work be puréed for AI to suckle and barf back at us for 3K a book. But I won't pretend I don't need the money.

We're about to get solar installed and it's so delightful to be part of the One Good Thing that's happening now.

I prefer to follow people back, because reciprocity and equality etc. BUT if your account is nothing but retweets AND your bio is a string of vaguely left non sequiturs AND it happens to be identical to the bios of three other accounts that recently followed me... then I might just not.

Hey y'all. A favor to ask (don't worry, it's fast and easy): watch this video :) It's 45 seconds of the awesome Kaneko-san doing her mystical fox dance. Then please hit the like button. Extra points for sharing/reposting :) That's it. I'm trying to get more eyes on it. youtube.com/shorts/-edRz...

20 years, and still a fantastic idea! Love you Todd Polenberg!

20 years, and still a fantastic idea! Love you Todd Polenberg!