I’m having lunch again and I really think this habit might form.

i think in a past life ben platt was a farmer and i was his cow. i believe he hit me, milked me, and stole my calves from me. there is something that breaks in my heart every time i see his name or face.

Reading an excellent student paper on a favorite film (Y tu mamá también) in the book alcove of a favorite bar with a plate of nachos and a live band playing in the next room. This is contentment.

I’ve been trying this new thing called “eating lunch” and I highly recommend. Very fulfilling.

May the fourth be with you.

Happy May Day!

If you ever see me walking down the street, feel free to shout: “Come on, butterfingers!”

I consider it my form of public good when someone in a public forum takes a call on speakerphone / FaceTime to stare at them intently until they make eye contact with you and then continue staring at them until they hang up, pull out ear buds, or convert the call to a private format.

Huh

If I send you this image it means I’m letting you—my husband—know that I dug a dead tree out of the front yard while you were in San Francisco and did not cut the wifi line like I did last spring.

Sometimes, when you’re out on a walk and your dad is leading you closer and closer to home, you suddenly decide to explore every side street along the way or just buffer to forestall the inevitable.

Day two of the Full Frame Film Festival and here I am just prior to sobbing my eyes out at Ross McElwee’s “Remake.” #FullFrame26

Time for the Full Frame Film Festival! Here we gooooooooo!!! #fullframe26

Happy birthday to my favorite lumberjack and travel buddy, Caleb!

Big Dance Party this upcoming Saturday! Calling all my #Durham and #triangle #queers. Come shake yer booty with me @ #ThePinkTriangle! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-peach-...

There is no McTry.

Love this lil stinker.

Being an uncle is easy.

No other band transports quite so quickly to the 1990s as The Cranberries. “When You’re Gone” just came on in the coffee shop and suddenly I’m completely in my feelings.

Give the people what they want: here is this caterpillar’s very real voice reveal. Turn volume all the way up to 11 for the ideal experience.

Just making a quick pit stop in Australia on my way home. Chicago, you’re verse.

your grandparents voting for reagan

Chicago—you were fun! My one critique would be not enough assisted living facilities, but hey, who’s perfect?

The crematorium did!

@ptklein.com cites @ptklein.com re: closing movie theaters! Real?! #SCMS26

Big conference this week! My forehead: I'll give you the biggest zit you've ever had!

This is how I'm introducing myself at all work and social events going forward

Beep

Met the worst kind of gay tonight—the kind that lacks empathy, reveals ignorance, seems to have an endless supply of thoughts on the thing he’s ignorant about, interrupts you while you’re speaking, and then can’t catch a clue when you try to distance yourself from talking to them.

Want

This combination of words short circuited my brain.

Did everyone on Bluesky stop labeling their adult content, or what is going on? I feel like my "Discover" feed has recently become all hog, no forewarning.

Have you ever suddenly developed a sharp pain on the lower back side of your tongue and then in an attempt to understand better what was going on spent a disproportionate amount of time at the mirror trying to photograph it?

Sometimes I think about how supremely f*cked we all are now and how this asshat was able to win over religious zealots like my mom simply because she's a one-issue voter who thought he'd deliver her an outright ban on abortion. We really need a better education system in the United States.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride” gives strong Damien Chazelle “Babylon” vibes but with 700% more “Bartleby, The Scrivener” and maybe the most cringe inducing line delivery of “me too” ever put to screen.

What brainrot has stricken so many to believe it's okay to take speakerphone calls or facetime or listen to music and/or videos without headphones in coffee shops and other public (yet enclosed) spaces?

Get out there and vote! Let’s get @nidaallam.bsky.social across the finish line, North Carolina 4th Congressional District!

Real?

From AAUP NC President Belle Boggs's blog, an explanation of the importance of academic freedom and a call to sign our petition to the UNC BOG not to pass the proposed Code revisions frogtroubletimes.substack.com/p/academic-f...

What to make of a night out with friends who joke early on that my nice coat will get stolen because I’m letting people who are cold wear it, and then later that night my nice coat gets stolen from out of a bar’s coat check.

They knew exactly what they were doing.

“Abolishing gender programs & the lessons they have taught, will, Trump & his acolytes hope, undermine our ability not just to condemn, but also to critically analyze the policies & practices they want to impose.” Must Read by Joan Scott, member of the AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom.

Special Issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 'Video Games & Horror’ Abstract deadline: 1 April 2026 Full article draft deadline: 28 July 2026 www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-g...

Lot of Dude-Bro and Buddy-Pal overlap in this study. The South-East and PNW regions appear not to have language yet for male friendship. Notably missing terms of endearment and opportunities for future research include: "man," "my guy," "broseph," "comrade of the broletariat" and "big boy."

I’ve never been colder in my life. Keep adding layers on top of layers and hats on top of hats.

I’m really enjoying the new Mel Brooks documentary but was not emotionally prepared for Rob Reiner and David Lynch’s appearances.

This lady is a diva.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.