kristen schaal is a horse! kristen schaal is a horse!

god robert redford was so hot

matt berry so sexy

the snow was not quite right for a full igloo so we spend 2.5 hours making a volcano fort with a tunnel entrance

oh my god #mnufc

Shrinking is such a goddamn delightful show. every episode makes me cry, Harrison Ford and Jessica Williams are the fucking best.

have been to kowalski's and costco today and a minnesota snowpocalypse is very polite but still very overwhelming. this better be worth it (we better get lots of snow)

sometimes i draft really long threads on here and then delete it because i remember i don't want to deal with having anything be noticed on here

writing an essay today about life, and survival, and i guess it's gonna talk about AI too (boring) but i did just write a sentence that lets me link to this classic far side

one of the cool things about freeing myself from gender concerns and just noticing what registers is i can come across songs like this and be like yeah, damn, that hits home youtu.be/BB98YEJE0-s?...

the St Paul Corduroy jacket is an absolute compliment magnet. Genuinely nearly every time I wear it I get a compliment (this jacket: racketmn.com/this-corduro... )

god the Matrix still kicks ass and it's even better now that i know it's a trans story

gonna show my kids one of the great trans films tonight; The Matrix

god I miss Scott Hutchison so much. Every Frightened Rabbit album is gorgeous and so meaningful to me. I wish he'd been able to stay alive.

i had a shit evening and not even sufjan is helping. laying on the couch deciding whether to cry some or just go to sleep or probably both.

for personal reasons i am reveling in the memory of screaming my lungs out to Frightened Rabbit at an amphitheater outside of Portland in the PNW rain many years ago, singing this song youtu.be/ns2zhTNKhIQ?...

i have not scrolled or read anything that happened in the broader world today, so i'm just gonna presume that a generic "what the fuck" covers it all.

feeling like i'm in my Gillian Welch era i wanna do right, but not right now

listening to chappell roan to psych myself up for crying in therapy, i think it's working

i need a quick consulting gig so i can get a house down payment because there are no goddamn rentals available in st. paul that meet our criteria

i should buy a boat

Minnesota! Single! Payer! Socialize the healthcare!!! (The republican response is absolute bullshit, focusing on the agency for not "finding" the fraud, rather than focusing on who perpetuated the fraud). minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/10/g...

i don't talk about my sexy pinup tardigrade tattoo enough

sometimes i open up the post box to dunk but then i realize that what i am feeling is grief and sadness, and so i don't dunk but I do honor my belief that better worlds are possible. (that said: fuck jacob frey)

i miss the Pome newsletter immensely, I need a daily poem in my inbox like whoa

i had really hoped we'd get this administration to face the consequences of their incompetence without a war, but the republican party kind of made this inevitable huh

oh no i went to create a new password for a thing, and then realized it was dependent on a thing and another thing and another thing and now i'm messing with DNS and changing email providers, shit

Offline for the weekend except but had to post this review essay, which looks boring and starts with two pretty mild reviews before abruptly pivoting into an absolute bloodbath, name-checking accountability sinks along the way. Gift link. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

IT HAPPENED TO ME: i clicked on an article an online friend recommended and suddenly had 3 more books on the wishlist

beginning to suspect that half the excitement about LLMs is the feeling of agency/control they give, because nothing else in the world is controllable at this point. not sure that's the right way to solve the problem!

found a free stereo cabinet on the sidewalk yesterday so used that as an excuse to rewire my kid's stereo system (grandparent hand me down) and that means they are waking up to Whitney wanting to dance with somebody on cassette this morning.

it was warm enough today for people to show tattoos and gosh i missed reveling in all the art people adorn themselves with

wheelchair curling even more gripping than standing curling

holy shit

who is doing the best writing on the war against Iran from a progressive perspective (or at least liberal) and aimed at people who are really tired and just need clear info. newsletters are fine.

intended to watch the new season of Shoresy to laugh and forgot that it's now a show that makes me cry

come on loons what the fuck

thinkin about uncle baby billy for some reason tonight www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne-7...

song of the day youtu.be/mp-f6cG6rco?...

family movie night tonight is The Lost City, because sandra bullock and channing tatum are so hot (and it's so funny)

can't hear the name steve aoki without this song getting stuck in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHij...

when i get the @blackhartstp.com Saint Paul Liberation Front shirt to wear under my cool dad corduroy Saint Paul jacket, that's gonna be it for me, right? nowhere to go but down from there

don't ask me if you should get divorced if you don't want honest answers lol (same goes for whether you should have kids or not)

today my oldest kid sent me a youtube video a friend sent her, that she thought was funny it's starting i'm so excited

Can we general strike the time change

random memory of the time a coworker and i did a karaoke duet of I'm Just Ken from the Barbie movie at the company offsite and fucking killed it. we were hailed as gods. or at least given some nice compliments i guess.

good for Pastor Glen, he deserves this big break. the real passion play was the media he made along the way I guess (y'all need to watch Letterkenny and Shoresy if you haven't)

the new season of Shrinking apparently has a scene with Jason Segal covering REM's Nightswimning, excited to know in advance something that will make me sob (i adore that song)

sufjan has an immense library of beautiful songs and i have emotional connections to so many of them but the one that seems to remain eternally relevant is "I Want to Be Well" with the profound lyrics "I'm not fucking around (well, I want to be well, I want to be)" and like, yeah, that

i am stubbornly trying to develop a writing practice amongst all of the bullshit life is throwing at me, and to help focus and think i do longhand drafting. in early january i sat down to write and managed this lol.