fyi the matchbooks are good matches. They strike easily. They burn long enough to light multiple candles. They shame other random matchbooks in my drawer.

what does it mean when a long libby hold for a recently released novel shows up as a "skip the line" opportunity multiple times a week, for weeks in a row? I've never seen a book with a long hold be more immediately available.

she doesn't even have her mouth open! how is she breathing! sinus lies!

I do judge you if you go into a crowded indoor space to socialize with an obvious illness and no mask How rude.

honestly offensive that neti pots are marketed like this when I only use mine with an achingly red nose, salt water dripping out my mouth because I'm too stuffy for it to go out the intended channel

There is no reason for weapons like these to exist. None.

late last year, I think, there was a great thread breaking down point by point why NYC schools incorporating AI was poorly planned & inappropriate. I'm trying to write to my own school district & would like to borrow some points but can't find it. Does it ring a bell to anyone?

I wanna know about the confetti cannons at the super bowl. They must be ready with both team colors, but does that mean double sets of confetti guns ready to go? Or giant sacks of confetti in each color pairing ready to hook up at the last second? If there's a last second upset are they scrambling?

damn, Bad Bunny, ok giving me feelings during a halftime show, that was great

We got an antenna so we can watch sports & I'm cruising channels trying to figure out what they are when I stumble on a Designing Women marathon, talking about the false conflict between working/stay at home moms (it's all work!) & it's still funny & surprisingly timely even when they bring in a

I will wait YEARS, eagerly, for something written by an author who has caught my attention with their own unique voice. In the meantime there are endless other books with unique voices, ideas, perspectives. Why fill my wait time with slop when I could fill it with gold?

My child has been home sick for two days now and while I love my child more than I can say, I have also been hearing "mama, mama, [monologue or request]" every few seconds for long enough while trying to keep up any semblance of my usual weekday that it feels like I'm going to lose my mind

I finally got out of the house to attend craft night at the community center and I'm the only person here 😭 How do you reinvigorate a club when you were attending to meet people in your city in the first place and have no one to invite?

I went out to do some yardwork (front yard looks much nicer now) wearing boots that fit snugly & go up to my calf. So how did a slug get all the way to my foot, I ask you.

you know, I've never been particularly good at tetris, even for mind soothing/trauma dealing purposes. but I quite like suika game, and figure it must have at least some amount of beneficial overlap. If nothing else it helps my body calm down, helps me breathe.

Oh. I spent many, many years wanting to be Catherine O'Hara, or even a smidge of her. How lucky we are to have gotten so much of her.

Cold Snap

these calendars are very cool, btw. I've got an assortment of stamps ready to pick from as soon as this month ends and January becomes a cool art postcard with which I can send some love to a friend.

me over here Miette-scowling "jail for one thousand years" at the sky for making it wet out when I have errands to run

i made an informational chart showing the nuanced ways in which the weather can subtly impact my mood

I browned butter for rice crispy treats & then watched watched a documentary about the scope of the universe & cried because our existing at all is such a miraculous fluke & we spend that hurting each other? What a gratuitous waste of our precious time that would be better spent browning butter

Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died in ICE detention centers already in 2026 than will die from mifepristone all year. These politicians are extremely dangerous to women.

maybe the path to things like UBI is to just keep running experiments. More experiments. Bigger experiments. More, and bigger, and more, until basically we've done it without objectors realizing it has happened.

I was born & raised in LA, worked on/off broadway and in hollywood, met lots of celebrities, normal people, whatever. Only celebrity who ever left me speechless was Ann M. Martin in, I think, 4th grade at a Scholastic warehouse book signing. I couldn't even look at her I was so awed.

and it takes SECONDS to do. Seriously, it took literally 42 seconds for me to hammer this message in again with a call. 42 seconds.

Someday - someday! - I will make a food without my children grimacing "not to my taste 😬" Tonight's strikeout: creamy tomato soup and grilled cheese. It really is rather good.

A fun fact a lot of people don't know about me is that I studied journalism in college ~ Anyways I always encourage people to practice media literacy (ex; ask "why is this disparate pull quote so far from its context?") when reading ~ So here's a thread of some basics I learned!

I made a hot cocoa cake (chocolate with heaps of thick whipped cream and marshmallows) for my kid's winter wonderland party. Just look at it.

drives me nuts when a recipe is called like "Smoky [food that requires heavy seasoning for sufficient flavor]" and the "smoky" turns out to be like 1/8 tsp of smoked paprika in a vat of food gtfoh

Why?? is my car always growing moss?? It's been washed recently and yet. Does the moss know I don't trust it and comes to me like a cat would? Is my car infected somehow? I am not ready for my car to lie down in the forest and let the moss take it

busting out the S&B Golden Curry blocks from the pantry, gonna have a comfort dinnerrrrrrrrr

Nothing like other parents refusing to parent their feral children in an indoor restaurant to make your own children shine like perfect angels & simultaneously build your resentment even before drinks have arrived!

tonight I made quesadillas with jammy sauteed zucchini and spiced black beans and roasted pine nuts and it was so good and there's that, at least

Sometimes you call because failing to register your objection functions as tacit approval of what is being done, which is unacceptable.

and somehow I still need to mealplan and negotiate between kids and fold the laundry like it's every other day, wash & repeat over & over again

Watching the Rose Parade feeds in full sickos mode for commentary like "the skin is made from thousands of crushed split white peas!" "locals collected native acorns themselves!" "the hippos' bath is 15,00 lavendar and mums! the hippos are lettuce seed!" fuckin' love it.

The point of the 1982 Billy Joel performance of Auld Lang Syne when my 6 year old called out "it's Baby Jesus!"

Over here looking up obscure-to-us time zones to customize when we tell our children the new year has struck while reasonably respecting bedtime

Small kindness big impact: Context: I was aggressively overworked in a bad living situation with a destroyed social life, very lonely & worn out. I stopped at the bodega at some random too-late hour for some instant mac early AM dinner & the older guy behind the counter took a second to see me +

When I subtract the handful I borrowed but chose to walk away from partway through, it would appear that I read ehhh approximately 136 books this year? November was a real slim month, what with all the fever dreams, but it still averages out to a bit over 11 books a month. Huh! Hooray Libby!

well I'm not ready for an influx of year end posts at all

oh dear, I'm either an honorary teachers assistant or the power what powers the apparent universe. I feel both over- and underqualified.

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

keeping my spaghetti from going cold. keeping my buttered toast toasty. keeping my quesadillas melty. my plate cabinets are so cold in the winter and my food never knows.

my kid told me my boobs looked like a sad sad big duck in that sweater. two sads.

you know, having indoor shoe slippers is lovely. Shoes I can put on the couch, keeping my feet warm without dragging outside dirt upon them, oh! bliss! who ever started bringing outside shoes in? jail a million years, couch slippers forever

Consistent top-tier moment of xmas: When Magic Johnson tells Pee-wee "Magic Screen and I are cousins!" And Grace Jones, of course.

Game design lunch notes: it is always worth fighting back against tyranny, even if you know you cannot win, when the alternative is offering tacit approval of the evils being done.

I just made it through holiday-crowded costco, winco, and trader joes in under 2 hours with @itsdanphipps.bsky.social steering the cart like a getaway driver. Praise us.

Currently: - fireplace video playing - pine candle burning on one side of the house - big pot of tomato sauce slow simmering on the other - 3 loaves of banana cranberry bread cooling - making xmas crackers - kids away at friend's house It's pretty cozy & good smelling around here