The entire #Rockets team went to Jabari Smith's high school in Georgia to see his jersey retired. That's some adorable team chemistry. I am feeling really good about my Rockets this year.

I had no idea that Bipolar Disorder was so common and that the US has much higher rates than the rest of the world. I also learned that it can triggered by stress and trauma, so that checks out. apple.news/AyCOAUekYTaC...

This is a great post/point thus I won’t nitpick that purity rings were longer ago than that; but I will mention that 10 years ago, ironically, it was anti-human-trafficking.

Toyota Celica ass name

So I guess the Amazon thing took out Starbucks’ online ordering? There are like 2 people in my local Starbucks. Maybe our billionaire overlords overpromised….

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.” Damn. Just … damn.

We are going to fucking win

Houston #NOKINGS. Bless this guy’s heart. He stood there alone, sweltering under his gear and guns, watching us in our joy and solidarity. Terrible life choices culminating in a solo fascist project.

No Kings protest in The Woodlands, Texas (north suburban Houston). This is the first such protest to occur in the community. I overheard a number of folks telling others that they had never attended such an event before but had gotten to the point of feeling they needed to do something.

Houston #NoKings 📸 by @htownmark.bsky.social

“No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Groovy time for Republicans to systematically destroy public education, at this moment when the world is being inundated with AI slop and misinformation.

I wonder when normal, decent Republicans will stand up and stop this insanity. Then I wonder if there are still any normal, decent Republicans among us. Strong Invasion of The Body Snatchers vibe.

This season of Project Runway was hot garbage. Auf Wiedersehen. 21 year run over for me.

These fucking people

Just advised my son who is applying to M.Ed programs: stay in Colorado and build a teaching career there. Don’t come back to Texas. Makes me kind of sad to tell him that.

Enjoying the original True Grit. "I also notice that the men of Texas gouge their mounts with great brutal spurs and cultivate their hair like lettuce!"

what can i say? i’m good at what i do

Same, Werner, same.

Okay by special request from @ohrobin.bsky.social and others…Wally barking at me to get Kirby to come in at 9 pm Part 1

Flag flying high at my neighborhood Whataburger. Fascism not on the menu today.

I don’t even understand how Wally is able contort himself to get in these positions. And yes our 50s wood wall panels are completely jacked up, but that’s okay, a bears gotta be comfy.

I wish corps would stop this trend of requiring employees to greet me when I walk in the door. Leave me alone with my thoughts. I don’t need or want forced salutations. I want to be treated like I am back in Germany. Only acknowledged enough to complete the transaction.

When Oscar Wilde said "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much", it was funny. Because it was theologically wrong, but wrong in Wilde's cheeky, clever, inimitable way. When Charlie Kirk stole the line it was deeply wrong - the weaponization of faith that was his specialty.

I have three spot assessments this year. According to two I am in the top 12 percentile. According to the third I am in the bottom 12 percentile. The wonder of “snapshot” observations! I am Schroedingers teacher!

The only bagel shop on my way to work doesn’t toast their bagels and doesn’t have salmon or any other fixings besides cream cheese. It’s so cruel. And they call themselves an “NYC style” bagel shop.

Goals.

In today’s installment of “Billionaires Ruin Everything” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How cool! This is the story the film is based on: necessaryfiction.com/stories/jenn...

Super pleased that my short film In Event of Moon Disaster, written by @htownjenny.bsky.social was selected by Klipist. klipist.com/watch/in-eve...

The answer to the first question is obviously a hard no, and thus endeth the lesson.

Need more of this! #texas #notofascism

The best cottage cheese in the world is Good Culture, by far. Empty shelves in every HEB and Whole Foods. I hunt, in vain. I am starting to think California has cut Texas off. And I can’t say I blame them.

Hero

If Altman’s foolish and unreflective ego can provide the materials for a solar system sized Dyson sphere, then it could be possible.

Slightly diminish a band: Led Blimp

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading

My Saint is such a weirdo

Really happy about going back to teaching under HB 1481, the new TX cell phone ban in schools. Passed the tax house almost unanimously. When they take a break from kissing 47s ass or wasting money on fascist projects, the TX GOP might try solving more problems like this.

Discovered and digging new music: “ØXN exist at the uncharted intersection of experimental doom folk, motorik euphoria and glorious Lynchian meta-verse.” Translation: @htownjenny.bsky.social will instantly turn it off when I play it in the car.

I learned this from @ethanhein.bsky.social’s 38-minute dissection of the song ‘Need You Tonight’ and I’m truly shook, what might my high school life have been like without this song and album. I shudder to think.

Today I learned from @htownjenny.bsky.social that INXS was offered 1 million dollars by their label Atlantic to NOT release their finished groundbreaking album Kick, and record something else. INXS said no. In case you needed a reminder that "executives" truly suck at fostering creativity.

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

No cheating! Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? #FilmSky 🎥🎞️

Watched Kurosawa's High and Low tonight. So good. All billionaires should be strapped into chairs Clockwork Orange style and forced to watch this film.

Just saw ICK at its Houston premiere last night. Kinda sorta a Houston movie. Worth seeing in theaters next weekend if you are into wild, fast-paced comic #horror. But this poster is a crime against Brandon Routh and Mena Suvari. They are still gorgeous on screen.

This week I watched the Smithereens and Barry Lyndon, and I realized Wren and Barry are the same insufferable, grafting, drifting jackass characters. Quite the convergence.

So I got a notification saying I had not filed for one of my businesses. My accountant said they had most definitely filed an extension, but lots of people are getting erroneous notices. Cool cool! Just the IRS breaking down after 11k people fired. Nothing to see here.