“By and by” is easily said

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I want to say on main street, since you were a bit worried about its reception, that i thought the GTOs ep was one of your best. Absolutely loved it. I had read one of Pamela deB’s books and didn’t even realize she had a band!

jar guys

listening to a girl at the next table talk about “the best pizza i ever had”: “the pineapple was so ripe”

holy shit it’s raining so hard! i heard it over the music and turned it off to be sure it was rain anyway crazy rain

i was not familiar till a friend showed me her own photos (she used to live in dallas)

weemo

i went to the farm by mistake because i forgot what day it was. now im going take a walk to try to regain the illusion of control over my destiny

oh *that’s* why everyone’s been talking about commercials. i forgot about Sports lol.

given that the democratic party isn’t a party in the traditional sense—it doesn’t respond, as a party, to votes by its membership, it’s not centralized—it’s striking that both platner and bernie went forward as popular faves and were undone via party apparatus.

big new apartment complexes are falling down in both nyc and ithaca at the same time. both in crowded areas and causing a lot of problems. In Ithaca they've evicted ~ 50 low-income tenants in a month after physical safety issues. almost as if something’s amiss in real estate/FIRE

all the beatles accounts are posting pictures of ringo today because it’s his birthday—86. It’s never seemed accidental to me that John and George died first, and that both were victims of murderous violence. george, the biggest cigarette fiend in the band, technically died of cancer,

i just discovered a memory in my brain

i was gonna say “you can’t spell palantir without platner” but then i realized you can

reply fly

after a short muggy heatwave we should get a quick blast of “dry heat” to dry everything out

i see you’ve been following the world cup

The Ferret Kiss- my take on Klimt featuring Gump and Monty

😭

flowers, ferns, berries and so forth

in the soup

stay cool, i said to my friend. i like it and plan to use it on my my friends who are old like me. i guess it’s a twist on “stay gold,” but it’s also a stupid pun so that’s always good

sublime song open.spotify.com/track/31s2mb...

went to find some DEET cuz it’ll be buggy and found an unopened jar of 20 mg gummies 🙌

tomorrow a friend from high school, who happens also to live in this backwater town, is coming over to give me a receiver that is better than the one i have. if you live long enough your friends have extra stereo equipment. i got the rest of the system from a friend who moved to england.

Unfortunately one of the world’s most iconic “Jim face at camera” moments. And it goes without saying they should let this woman drive Killdozer

rough day. not much I can do. so here's a frog.

They should have held the USA 250 events in Second Life

can’t remember why i was looking this guy up but isn’t he cute? turaco

gonna put on this long movie about gettysburg from the 90s and watch till i am ready to vomit at the confederate-apologism and complete lack of tethering to the point (slavery that is rather than white movie stars). also raises the perennial question of why i can never remember tom beresford

stipulating that i know how to look up and read media theory, but just for the hell of it--how is algorithmic listening (spotify playlists etc) different from the radio? It’s obviously automated and supposedly bespoke, but neither is under the immediate control of the listener

relatedly i find it so cute when an animal is “spotted”

I am convinced they truly missed an ultimate love match💛✨

Vampire State Building

wow this sounds so fun wish i was there

i’m only pretending to be human

Harvard Faces Pressure To Fire Confederate Generals https://theonion.com/harvard-faces-pressure-to-fire-confederate-generals/

im at the glendale dmv and the mockingbirds are imitating at least two types of car alarm

200k x 700 is 140 million. Historically Large Wage-Theft Payout, but 200k people is a lot. 700 is pathetic (update from your math genius friend)

love a vole

finally got the air conditioners out. sigh.

This is *exactly* what happened after the reconstruction amendments were added to the constitution and then, basically, deleted by the Plessy court.

Increasingly hate the reflexive response to massively evil transphobia that goes "and they're just a [small percentage] of the population!" The obsession with trans people isn't incidental, it's a totalizing, repressive gender regime to which trans people are the most clear and stubborn resistance

We had expected to start construction in the middle of June {change to road 1 block from me}, but have had to delay due to the possibility of an endangered Long-eared Bat population (update in the latest from my neighborhood newsletter)

yellow shafted feather from walk to work this morning

happy anniversary to aragorn and arwen. 88 fash years for Elessar to about ~3000 for Arwen is a very reasonable age gap

birdsongs from back yard: carolina wren, mourning dove, tufted titmouse, wood thrush, red eyed vireo, northern flicker, scarlet tanager, cardinal, blue jay, house finch, downy woodpecker, white-breasted nuthatch, robin, grey catbird, starling, dark-eyed junco, eastern towhee,

the virginia possum is giving a ride to the virginia rat

That’s a baby