Had a vasovagal situation during a manicure today and while my dog was by my side later I wondered if dogs ever faint and thought no, but I bet giraffes do. Turns out the opposite is true!

Current* conditions near Grand Haven, MI:

A free circulator bus service will operate in Evanston every Saturday evening this spring (starting tonight!) as a pilot program. We want to see this as a permanent service with expanded days/hours, so be sure to ride this spring and give positive feedback! evanstonroundtable.com/2026/04/03/e...

Very strange. I thought this site was quiet yesterday as I wasn't seeing new posts in my feeds and even the following feed was just showing a couple of new posts per hour. Today I can scroll back 24 hours and see hundreds of new posts in my feeds. Posts made yesterday that did not appear yesterday.

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) The Church 1936

Outdoor dining in the films of Eric Rohmer The Green Ray (1986) Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) A Summer's Tale (1996) A Tale of Autumn (1998)

Seems bad

My whole discover feed recently! WTAF?

Took my little sleep meds and did my little sleep hygiene routine and went to the bathroom and there was a GIANT SPIDER ON THE CEILING ABOVE THE TOILET LOOKING AT ME LIKE *I* WAS THE TRESPASSER so I won't be sleeping tonight or probably ever again.

Oy, it got cold!

It is objectively a good thing to reach & surpass the age your mother was when she died. But I was wholly unprepared for the irrational dread and anxiety and grief this morbid milestone would provoke. Apparently very common! Still feel like a bundle of nerves!

It's fascinating to me how the British (those I'm exposed to on social media) go absolutely bananas for Easter as cultural holiday but are largely critical of Halloween, despite being far less inclined to wear their Christian religion on their sleeves than Americans.

A membership at the Art Institute is one of the better ROI’s in this city. Member only hours especially

TIL if I call 311 in Evanston, I get connected to the City of Chicago 311.

Saw some clouds moving in a circle while rapidly rushing north about an hour ago. Was pretty weird.

saw a person about 20 on the subway, full on done up like Liza Minelli in Cabaret, hair make up the whole bit, except that her face was additionally done in.a queasy shade of green, a bit like the wicked witch of the West, quite spectacular (early afternoon)

Hardly slept at all on account of loud weather. At one point I opened this app to find a thread of the Gerry Adams set a timer joke being explained, as if by someone who read an explanation of it in a book, to replies of Oh. and Wow. and Thanks. Bluesky remains not beating the charges.

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

Wait, they aren't even going to land on the moon?! They just checking it's still there?

I don't understand how anyone can watch that guy's speeches.

Currently allowing myself to be pissed off at Millennials who are claiming Challenger trauma and it is not unrelated to being pissed off at the 40 year olds in all the reddit for old people subs giving advice to post-menopausal women. Christ, you guys are just too much...

Scott Fitzgerald sent a “full conjugation” of the verb “to cocktail” to Blanche Knopf in 1928 after hearing from Mencken that she was drinking far more than she was eating. A unique display of concern.

I hope they aren't going there to colonize it. 😬

Honestly all I can tell is that a rocket launched and I think there must be 2 generations of humans for whom this is novel and not traumatic BUT ARE THEY GOING TO THE MOON? So much for the benefits of staying off social media...

Sorry I genuinely did think that was an April Fool's joke. Are they going to land on the moon?

"Monks on the Deck". Frits Thaulow. 1898. Image: Nasjonalmuseet.

(Pretending the Supreme Court debating birthright citizenship is some kind if April Fools joke, for my sanity.)

I imagine Army of Shadows must have been some of the inspiration for Top Secret! But my feeble, corrupted brain wants to invert reality and insist it is a serious French Existentialist New Wave Noir adaptation of Top Secret!

Tonight I watched Jean-Pierre Melville's Army Of Shadows about the French Resistance. How have I never seen this? Incredible. Required viewing.

French archives of Spaniards who fled Franco's dictatorship now available online

The replies are worth checking out. & I'd add that the opposite of despair is not necessarily hope, but what sustains us in the moment. Hope and goals are important, but there is magic to be found in the actually existing too.

Current* conditions near Empire, MI:

The Siberian squill has carpeted the ground in electric blue, the yellow daffodils have burst forth, the magnolia trees are in full Easter bloom, and my sinuses are closed for the season.

I kinda like this early 60s bathroom.

Second day in a row with big storms forecast. Second day in a row of the urban heat island doing its thing.

Russian art critic, patron, and ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev was born #OnThisDay in 1872. This white silk bodice and tarlatan skirt with painted wings was designed by Giorgio de Chirico for a Sylphide in Le Bal, created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. V&A collection. #ballet #dress

Now France is denying airspace…

Fabergé firm, Russian, 1842 - Chick, 1899-1908, aventurine, gold, rubies. Bequest of Lillian Thomas Pratt, 47.20.254 © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Squee! They're too cute!

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Really gorgeous pink belt of Venus over the lake beneath a gleaming, almost full moon in the blue hour.

Today's high of 80 degrees breaks the old record of 79 degrees for March 30 set in 1986 and again in 1998. ☀️ How unusual is 80 degrees in March? The "normal" high temperature in Chicago isn't 80 degrees until June 14. Full forecast: https://tinyurl.com/2789m7pc 

At least there is a breeze?

Speaking of Cole Porter... 🥵

“Evelyn Brent wears a costume to harmonize with her modern living room. A gray and silver interior is accented with cerise and mauve and Miss Brent wears pajamas in chartreuse and gold brocade to advantage in such surroundings.” Photo by Otto Dyar, 1928:

I don't know why I am looking at PSB lyrics at midnight on a Sunday night, but this index of songs is like one of those harrowing predictive text Google searches.

The Rahm salad discourse is very triggering to me personally as we were at Glenn's on the same night and after an hour of watching the staff doting on him while I waited for my food a waiter came to my table and said sorry I'd have to order a different dish because they were out of salad dressing.