Reading Agatha Christie in the Bangkok Airport, debating if the weight of a duty-free liter of vodka is worth it being half the price it'll be in Singapore. #travel

With the weight training finally kicking in and wearing my hair slicked back, I look like a fat Florence Pugh and I AM NOT MAD ABOUT THIS DEVELOPMENT!

You know who was great? Claudia Cardinale. Terrific actress, fine human being, never became a fascist. Also extraordinarily beautiful. She was a feminist and a UNESCO goodwill ambassador. She died earlier this year. Just remembering her today for no particular reason.

It’s a travel day. Thoughts and prayers welcome!

Whomst among us...

Functional democracy. I miss it.

Was literally talking to my Google brother about this and he said absolutely no billionaire in tech is leaving California because California is cool and you can't recreate California cool anywhere else and the last thing you'll admit is that California beat you and you had to go

Let nobody tell you this site lacks the juice. "Sinking the Bismarck was a war crime" is an all-time great post

Stepped away for a fruity tropical drink, came back to a Skyline in full Bismarck discourse. Never change, Bluesky.

Me, standing outside Vancouver, begging them to take me in:

Fun fact: men account for 77% of all deaths by "accident or misadventure".

EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME My name is pronounced "Angel", despite its spelling, and I lived in Los Angeles.

Poking around the job boards, and imagine saying this with your whole chest at the end of 2025. "... our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey." Ooooof.

Who's been to Bordeaux? What's good (besides the wine)?

How I'm walking out of 2025

Tangentially, my favorite Yeats story is that Aleister Crowley showed up at the London Temple of the Golden Dawn, demanding admittance as an arch magus or some such, and Yeats, in full wizard robes, literally kicked him down the stairs.

A hero and a legend

This. right. here.

Like my mother always told me (true story)

You know how when you're a kid, you don't care about a particular toy until another kid is playing with it? When you get older, it's the same with your spouse and the only bathroom.

and Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, shouted-

You will never guess who this is about (complimentary)

We don’t need AI to “be creative” for us; we need a world in which there is time and space to wonder, joke and play with words. To fuck around with color and texture, to experiment with an intriguing sound, without the need to immediately convert process and artifact into engagement to stay solvent.

This is part of why “what a bunch of weirdos!” actually works. It undermines the aesthetic. And if you can work some disgust in there, that’s highly effective even with a conservative crowd, since their brains are wired to perceive it more strongly. Pathos, not logos indeed.

I literally cannot imagine only wearing something 7-8 times, unless it’s like, an Oscars dress.

One of my filmmaking heroes*, pounding the pavement on behalf of a progressive candidate who also happens to be her son. This timeline has some good things, too. (*seriously, go watch MONSOON WEDDING!)

There is a crazy passivity to the common conception of the dream of “becoming a writer”, where you find the right entry point and you are accelerated, bobsled run-like, to fame and fortune. No one wants to hear it’s just writing all the time and not taking a lot of negative things to heart.

TIL: In a famously humid climate, laundry is not gonna dry the way I expect/am used to. This has been another episode of Things That Should Have Been Obvious Before Now with Angelle!

ME: Ok, Brain. I already have so many things to write and think about and do. I do NOT need any more new ideas for the moment. Nope, we are FULL UP. BRAIN: Not even a period heist movie about the Chicago gangster who tried to rob Lincoln’s tomb? ME: … goddammit *scribbles notes* #ScriptSky

make a bond movie casual Lawnraker

🎶It's the most... wonderful time... of the YEEEEEAR!🎶

IMPORTANT UPDATE: I have replaced my thinning shears lost to Peach Airlines and Incheon Airport Security. Hair improvements are imminent.

I love the way zero G makes Santa hats into gnome hats. One more way space is cool!

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

LA got weather for Christmas!

Very VERY excited to soon be following more Japanese and Korean artists on this app!

Merrrrrry Christmas!

The Songwriter sent me this I both do and don't appreciate how well he knows me! 😭😅

Very proud to have been published by Kaleidetrope, and to follow these awesome people!

Listen, if LA had Waffle Houses they would be closed right now. Sending safe and dry vibes to everybody! Except Bill. He knows what he did. Merry Christmas!

Me: I slept in a bit, which is probably good, since I slept badly. The Songwriter: How very modern entertainment of you, putting quantity over quality. Me: … If I kill him on Christmas, that’s suspicious, right?

Name your fav movie/TV show couple.

Christmas Eve treats from Bangkok's famous Puy Roti Lady! We saw her on YT maybe 2 years ago, and never thought we'd be in Thailand and be able to just walk over to her cart!

If you like a book? Review it. Ask your library to buy it. If you can afford it, buy a copy for a friend. Recommend it wherever you're social. Send the author an email, or a skeet, or a Ko-Fi. Write fanfic. Blow under the wings of the paper airplane so it can fly a little farther.

Okay, I need to full version of this so I can cry some more. 🥹

One of my favorite people to hang out with in my hometown dive bar was the local coke dealer, Old Man Will. I think he liked me because I wasn't a customer. I liked him because he had *great* stories.

HOW is it Wednesday already?!

I want to live where it's red* and/or yellow. (*not Alaska, though)

It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first. You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.

Venture capital chose to close all the radio shacks. The last line of national defense Iis the guys building guitar pedals.