So happy my little garden is getting this rain, it feels like it’s been ages 🌼

Yes, I’m here to see the gay musicians movie

🕳️ "The body invents physics to keep living."

It's been a few decades since I read those godforsaken Left Behind books but today I learned it's still too soon for me to joke about The Rapture

Got out of work early today due to the Sotomayor visit, first (and probably last) good thing the Supreme Court has ever done for me

Loyalty Books is so great! They hosted the last literary event I did before the covid pandemic arrived in the US Go buy some books from them!

Still a lot to do (there’s no hardware up, for one) but with 24 hours to go until our first guest I can say it’s no longer an active construction zone and everything that needs to function does! Yay!

Love: "This is what it’s like to be haunted, you think. This is what it’s like: everyone you loved a long time ago, gathered in your childhood basement forever."

Same fundamental lack of impersonal empathy that defines the conservative voter. All immigrants are criminals except the one I know, all gay people are degenerates except the one I work with, etc. Seems reductive to call it stupidity but it does seem to indicate an actual lack of mental capacity.

Help, I need fifteen million dollars, it's an emergency www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Update: I saw my friend Emily at the Common Notions table and she gave me a new ARC, life is great again

At the book festival and all three pens in my bag are dead…. Life is pain

So fun to celebrate the 250th year of Jane Austen at Goucher College today with some tea and a snoop around the archives 📚

Oh hello!!

Rushing to get my homework done (finish redecorating the half bath so it's ready for company next week) so I can go to the party (spend all weekend at the Baltimore Book Festival 📚)

Someone with taste please buy this cute house to live in before it gets turned into an Airbnb www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Happy birthday to me and Tolstoy, who also never made it on a 35 under 35 list.

Didn’t see any otters at the otters & wine event

Enjoyed watching "Sinners" last night but the ending fell sort of flat: I do not like it when movies use a bunch of flashbacks from earlier in the movie that I am still in the middle of watching! I am in the same couch divot I was in when I saw that scene an hour ago, I promise I remember it!

Feeling a sort of jittery anticipation and productiveness that I can only ascribe to Back to School season, despite being someone that hasn't back-to-school'd in nearly a decade.

For the post-long-weekend crowd:

Someone please help, the book festival’s schedule is TOO STACKED

Shoutout to the tiered rejection I just got on a story I've been submitting for a year that assures me they're "confident this piece will get picked up soon"

Seeing Ernaux everywhere, lately:

Though I read plenty of novels, the last five or more books I've actually purchased have been short story collections.

I'm the #1 fan of her work in La La Land, but somehow I never knew that Mary Zophres was behind the costumes for The Big Lebowski as well! What a legend.

A short line at Blacksauce, fig sandwiches on the menu, it’s 61 degrees, and Dobson’s still dead. Happy Saturday.

It's 68°, I made the HAD call, and I log into this beautiful site to find that old Dr. Dobson has finally taken a seat in hell where he belongs. What an absolutely lovely day.

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

I try not to get too prescriptive about grammar but every time I see "casted" or "costed" on Al Gore's internet I die a little.

They should invent a dew point that isn't trying to kill me

Hi all! Today we're spotlighting "Indicator Species," a fiction piece written by @cpasko.bsky.social and featured in our Spring 2025 Issue, which is OUT NOW!

I haven't watched yet but I am VERY excited, let's get Baranski'd everyone youtu.be/OPcod8IS214

This is a must read. 40 y/o 1st time homeowner of 4 months now & I, too, have the dread. "At our old house it hadn’t mattered when things went wrong because they weren’t our things. We just lived with them and around them. Now we owned every faulty light switch, every weeping pipe."

Saw so many deer on my walk up St. Paul this morning!

Struggling to find a wedding shower card that is adequately complimentary to my very great SIL-to-be without accidentally saying something nice about my little brother (ew)

I don't often submit to lit mag contests (because who has that kind of money) but the ones that give you a print subscription with your entry fee are the best ones because I get the joy of getting something in the mail instead of the usual "set this $20 bill on fire" feeling.

Accidentally visited Facebook proper instead of FB Marketplace and in just a few seconds saw some baby name announcements I will never forget ⭐

the pantheon of hex cats grows and grows!

Enoch Pratt Library union ratifies first-ever contract after two years of negotiations baltimorebeat.com/enoch-pratt-...

Library cat!!!!

good morning 🐈

It finally dropped below 80° and I'm getting a nice, autumnal urge to rewatch Twin Peaks again

Thrilled to get a third skull from @havehashad.com! 💀💀💀 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/unr...

Buncha library holds came in at once ⭐

Apropros this week's @blankcheck.bsky.social 's discussion about bringing back accusing someone of "high-hat"-ing you: my great-grandparents got married thanks to a high-hat accusation.

Would somebody with taste please reissue this book so I can stop looking at this cover?

I love to be in my thirties and mess up my entire day because I somehow slept on my shoulder wrong!

What I've been reading (so far) in 2025: open.substack.com/pub/countryo...

"I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss." Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶‍🌫️