My mother took Tylenol when she was pregnant, which explains my obsessive love of birds, trains, fountain pens and notebooks, true crime, and Wednesday Adams-like ability to warm the room with my sunny presence and all-black wardrobe.

Rapture, hopefully

Today in Crisis Comms

I look forward to reading this lawsuit

I need a position to come to fruition because Little Miss Amelia thinks it is my job to rub her belleh in the sun on the deck. There is no pay for this, except purrs when done right and fire-truck level meows when done improperly.

disney adults showing up like the end of avengers endgame

Dudes rock

My kids asked what my first school field trip was and I said to a box factory and then went into a story about how I snuck away and ended up on a TV show. Literally that same night they turned on a random episode of The Simpsons and it was this one. But they haven't questioned it??

From State Rep Mike Connolly:

Here's NYT's explanation of how they handled the markings on the assassin's ammunition, and the gov't claim that they included "transgender ideology." The Times doesn't directly compare its relatively cautious approach to WSJ's, but you can read between the lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Anyhoo, here’s a monarch butterfly

It’s been a shitty week. You should watch this. www.reddit.com/r/StandUpCom...

The question “are you a man or are you a mouse” takes on new meaning.

If you subscribe to the belief that God is a comedian He’s probably rather displeased right now.

Why are those people all dressed up and just hanging out in front of an open fridge humiliating that one woman having trouble pronouncing the brand name of an overpriced refrigerator? Miele GTFO

BREAKING: First Colbert. Now Kimmel. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

I'm disappointed to announce I have made horrific lemon bars that I will not be sharing with the public.

I really want people to take this to heart, especially after a certain Fox News personality suggested vile things should be done to people who are homeless. 1/ www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

SNIFF

Good-bye, Old Sport. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlPj...

This handsome young #cardinal hung around me for a good minutes today at the Cherry Hill Reservoir this afternoon, feasting on berries and showing off his scarlet feathers. A day well spent. I believe he’s a juvenile; I could see his baby fluff. #birdsky Very stern gaze, tough guy.

A major reason you don't treat others inhumanely is so they don't do it to you. This is why there are rules for how you treat POWs, for example. (I am aware these rules are frequently broken) But someone has to try to stop the slide. There is self-interest here, in addition to humanity.

Jesus suffering fuck... I am so ashamed of this nation. This needs to be reported by every news agency on the globe.

What it’s like sleeping with an Irish man- #KingOfTheSweetTalk

Catching up on the Sunday shows, and I’m not hearing much about easy access to guns.

EYE HAVE BEEN REPOSTED BY @weatherishappening.com EYE CAN DIE HAPPY BUT ONLY IF EYE REPENT NOW

My friends visit every morning, like jewels on a wooden crown.

I am checking myself into Shady Pines

“Just kill them.”

Little Miss Amelia demands to go out on the shared deck every morning and sprawl in front of the …neighbors’ door. The neighbors are cool with this but I am somewhat insulted.

OTD, in 2013, around 3:15 pm, I got a call from an law enforcement official. I was off. He screamed into the phone “something very bad was happening.” I went outside my then-home in Andover and smelled the gas and saw the smoke and called the newsroom and said “The Merrimack Valley is on fire.”

Excellent day at the library book sale and yes, the all came home on my bike.

Baby Blue went in for her 3 month/300 mile tune up this week. She had 1300 miles on her.

OTD I was working in Providence. I was driving to work when the first plane hit; I realized what was happening when the second plane hit. I left my car in the middle of the parking lot and threw my keys at the receptionist. I could not reach my then-finance in NYC, because the phone lines were down.

Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when ..

The FBI right now could probably use all those experienced senior career professionals with decades of investigative experience that they fired for absolutely no reason.

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

There’s a guy named William Regal in Staten Island. Dude, I am getting job offers galore for you (warehouse work, tough guy) via email. Best wishes and if we are long lost cousins hello from the Boston branch of Da Family, kid. Yankees Suck.

Tomorrow on Fox and Friends

Thank God the Supreme Court gave the president's secret police the right to profile and detain anyone based on any immutable characteristic today, knowing the president himself will never reveal himself to be writing Zodiackian poems and pervert kiddie sketches to a world-historic pedophile.

Ew www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Oh Hi, Newbury MA, Photo by me

Be Advised someone in the building has to hold on to the condo documents and I have accepted that responsibility. I am also insisting I be referred to as Keeper of the Documents, or The Keeper. I may get a dramatic, sweeping cape. Perhaps a hat. A gown. Elbow-length gloves. Thigh-high boots.

Me: Can I have one of those blue milkshakes that symbolizes Grimace’s blood? McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood

I used to live about a mile from Flushing Meadows and would ride my bike there several times a week. The ONLY time the city of NY bothered to tend to this historic park was for the tourists at the US Open.

So, did he get the extension?

At a news reunion lasts night, I was talking to someone's (source shall be off the record) spouse and they said "When you people (reporters) get together all you do is talk about murders." Is this what it feels like to go someone's event and everyone is an accountant they talk about spreadsheets?

Accidental Renaissance Starring Cormorants on the Upper Artichoke Reservoir, Newbury MA, (maybe West Newbury) photo by me

Guys, as most of you know I'm without a job right now. There's medication I MUST take, for epilepsy. Costco/CVS/Walmart: $1000. @mcuban.bsky.social's @costplusdrugs.com: just under $18.17 For a three-month supply. DELIVERED. Thank you, @mcuban.bsky.social.

When this Regal got blond highlights the worldwide press had exactly same reaction; I to head to Randheli Island and go hiding. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/05/l...