🎵An Oxford comma can’t fix this, doo-dah, doo-dah You should google appositives, oh doo-dah-day🎶

I am once again amazed at what some string lights and curtains can do for a space.

All my knowledge of and feeling for soccer could fit in a pretty small thimble, but my desire to see England eat shit in any and all things runs deep. Go Norway, apparently.

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Why hang out on any of the apartment’s cat beds, humans or furniture when you can instead open a cabinet, pull all the clean towels inside onto the floor, and then nap in the spot where they used to be?

I *still* have a couple books of maps in the trunk of my car because I’ve had my car longer than I’ve had a smartphone.

Remember when I said the Brattle is a treasure and must be protected? Their AC broke during the heat wave over July 4th weekend, so they lost a bunch of revenue and have a repair bill to pay. Give if you can!

Remember when I said the Brattle is a treasure and must be protected? Their AC broke during the heat wave over July 4th weekend, so they lost a bunch of revenue and have a repair bill to pay. Give if you can!

I would kill or die for Larry

A car stopped in front of me to stare at a turkey on the sidewalk and I immediately started the “c’mon” gesture like “yeah, yeah, we’ve all seen the time knife.”

I have somehow become the generation that’s always complaining that in MY day, Harvard Square was grittier, artier, cooler, more fun, but there’s one thing every generation can agree on: The Brattle is a treasure and must be protected.

Went to a Mel Brooks 100th celebration at @brattletheatre.bsky.social and just thought how nice it is to celebrate someone this way while they’re still alive.

Fell asleep on the couch watching “M*A*S*H.”

Just got carded even though I was born in another century.

Extremely Scottish guy in Mr. C’s shop: “It’s been grand here. When the English get in next week, you know what to do, you’ve done it before.”

Nothing like attending a game at a Jumbotron-heavy park to remind me how spoiled we are having a live organist handle most of the music at Fenway.

“Bisexual lighting? Oh, my wife, Mrs. Columbo, she’s all about the bisexual lighting. Now me, I like it fine. Provides a nice ambience when she’s streaming Fortnite matches. But she goes all out like you wouldn’t believe. Backlit keyboard, LED headset. Mouse, even. All of it the bisexual lighting.”

Kobo users, do a lot of library ebooks work on the device? Is it easy to get library books onto the Kobo? Can you be logged in to multiple libraries? I haaaaaate reading on my phone, I’ve been a big Kindle reader but it’s hard to get library books, so I’m thinking about a second e-ink device.

People see these out of Boston and always chime in with "oh there's a bridge like that near me!" My friends, there is not *an* infamous low overpass on Storrow Drive. There is a series of at least 14 low clearance overpasses and bridges like a fucked up Ninja Warrior course for UHauls.

You REPRIMAND Tomatillo? You place him on the PERFORMANCE PLAN?

No one editor can know everything, but every editor can stop and look stuff up so they don’t make boneheaded changes.

Like everyone else, I am loving “Widow’s Bay,” but this week I have extra love for Patty instantly recognizing what genre she is in and doing all the things the audience would be yelling at her to do.

Dunked a little potato generously in what I thought was blue cheese dip but turned out to be straight horseradish and I can smell the folds of my brain

Song of the summer. Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8sFVjAX/

Reminder that Widow’s Bay creator Katie Dippold is behind one of the greatest Halloween tweets of all time:

My mouth: “I can use this stock pot to soak this stained pair of jeans.” My brain: “I’m making joup.”

Springtime

envelope my body > envelop my body #AmEditing #SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

What is the point of Google Docs’ spellcheck if it won’t even flag when someone typos “Old” as O, capital i, d?

can confirm, these are very fun. an hour goes by faster than you think!

@korystamper.bsky.social You’re a display at Back Cove Books in Portland, Maine!

Saw a guy driving the exact same deeply uncool car as me and we fully did the Spider Man point at each other.

Even robots are getting Thinged now

This guy totally cut the line at the cafe order window.

Yesterday I read “The Lesser Dead” in an afternoon/evening, enjoyed the book almost as much as I enjoyed giving a big chunk of a day over to book.

If anyone needs me, I’ll be wandering around Portland, Maine, getting lightly schnozzled. Also I muted all my notifications, so no one can tell me they need me.

All of Bluesky salutes the Mainer who somehow got the DMV to approve a vanity plate that says “TIDDY.”

Morning 😂.

Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …

Klinger, reading aloud: “Through pleasure and ecstasy they pass.” Radar: “Poetry, right?” Klinger: “Yeah.” Radar: “It’s great how they can rhyme and be hot at the same time.”

Seconds after receiving a sliver of ham, this man was caught in the act of licking my sandwich. Is this gratitude, I ask you?

My partner just walked in and, without speaking, held out a mason jar of cloudy yellow liquid while looking at me expectantly. It was ginger syrup. He made ginger syrup and wanted to show me.

“What’s living in Somerville like, Colleen?” Well I was at Porch Fest for like 90 minutes and I heard two Chappell Roan covers.

New motto of porchfest is “please don’t drive on porchfest day”

Any meeting can be a standing meeting if your cat steals your chair.

This criminal knows he is out of reach of the short arms of the me.