A viciously $$$ roast tonight. We don't eat a ton of red meat so when we do we get the expensive ~organic ~grass-fed shit from our local butcher. I cut it in half so we could freeze half and I could justify the cost by thinking of it as 2 meals, and besides it really wasn't that unreasonably priced.

He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

Salmon and rice tonight. I am coming off day 4 of some monstrous migraine situation so low effort was the name of the game.

Watching a random episode of Um, Actually and my spouse made the mistake of asking me an Animorphs question so see you in a year, shorms of mine.

Booking a new tattoo appointment because the world is as it is and I care too much about early humans and chronic pain (getting some Õtzi-inspired lines on one leg to balance the eventual planned bow-and-quiver piece for the other leg). Might fuck around and get an Altamira bison too, why not.

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

@johnrogers.bsky.social I'm sure you can't for any no. of reasons but I was looking something up (for TTRPG reasons) on KFMonkey and it'd be lovely to have a Making Of Leverage book or commentary transcripts; anything in text form would be amazing. Also thank you obvs for the show, it's my favorite.

After we watched this, my kid, who despite me loving watching skating and gymnastics my entire life has zip interest, sat and watched old Kristi Yamaguchi / Oksana Baiul / Surya Bonaly performances, rapt. "How do they do that?!" Liu is magnetic to watch for her the same way Kristi was for me.

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

No, YOU fucked up and reread "The Pain Scale" because your hands and feet have been big undifferentiated blocks of pain for several days in a row and so now you're crying and they still hurt so much it's hard to think. You, you did that, that's you.

Colorado-based Cobalt Abortion Fund spent almost $2.5M in 2025 helping people access abortions across the country. Most of that money — more than $1.7M — directly supported a patient’s ability to pay for a procedure. That’s an 84% increase from what it spent in 2024. By @lindseytoomer.bsky.social

I keep hearing my younger coworkers talking about the new dragons and mud show I'm not watching and anyway today they learned 1) my auditory processing is shot re: proper nouns 2) about the existence of Baylor University 3) that I alone on the team have read the stories the show is based on.

We're in the world, not against it.

I just saw someone describe @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social 's DMing style as never punishing the players for kindness and it's never not gonna be on my mind. Love a betrayal, but I don't have it in me, not as a gamerunner, to punish my players for being kind, or generous, or trying to help someone.

Tonight was baked pork chops and couscous. Pork chops are one of those things my spouse hated as a youth because they were always so dry. This is easily remedied by a cooking thermometer; same for meatloaf and chicken. If you don't have one please get one. You're almost certainly overcooking things.

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

In episode 17 of Where We Parked, we hear Kevin Defunctland and Jack Theme Parks progressively lose more and more of their shit as they realize they actually do know every OneRepublic single and just didn't know it. I can't recommend it enough. Today's not going especially awesome, obviously.

I would really, really like if my hunger cues were normal. If I knew when I was hungry before I got such bad shakes I drop my phone. If I knew before I started eating whether or not I was hungry, rather than realizing it two bites in. If I didn't hate most foods and leftovers especially.

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines. '"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

My players all get a vibes playlist and tone references before a new campaign. This is as much an exercise for me as them -- playing in a Hobbit vibe is very different than playing in a Blood Over Bright Haven vibe -- and in the process of making their list I often find something I didn't expect.

The largely immigrant workforce at JBS’s flagship U.S. plant, in Greeley, Colorado, is refusing to back down after accusing the company of poor working conditions.

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024. Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

The tween girl D&D table is talking impenetrable tween slang and I'm just being a witheréd ancient crone over here.

I routinely recommend this book to people and struggle with how to pitch it other than "it fuckin rules," and this does it extremely well to a banger song in under 3 minutes, so. Go hence!

DENVER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. THIS IS FUCKED, WE'RE FUCKED, THE WEATHER GODS THEMSELVES ARE STARING IN DISBELIEF. YOUR FUCKING WEEKEND: FRI: 66°/37° SAT: 66°/36° SUN: 67°/39° MON: FUCKING 69 DEGREES WTFFFFFF

My kid's school had a walkout recently, which gave me a chance to remind her and her pals of good etiquette at any protest/demonstration. Stick w your group, make sure someone not there knows where you're going, take care of each other, heads on swivels, hydrate. From her I got a mild tween eyeroll.

Tonight no one had to work, so a dinner project: stuffed cabbage (I fucking hate making it because I tear every goddamn leaf badly but spouse loves it), with rice (that I may have fucked up, I mis-measured my water to start; I fixed it but it may still be fucked) and green beans. Fingers crossed.

Dinner tonight, as my spouse is working late and I will have zip time between getting out of work and driving the kid to the place, aims for speed. Oven-roasted salmon and delicata squash + couscous. Relatively fast and the kid will eat almost all of it (nay to squash but she loves couscous, so).

You can't trick me into trying cryptic crosswords @avcx.bsky.social, I know my limits. Also I highly recommend them as an NYT alternative for anybody looking for one.

Dinner tonight is the lazybones classic of pasta + jarred sauce w some additions + garlic bread + a bag salad. Vegetarian and easy even if I don't happen to have a jar of sauce handy, I never don't have tomato sauce and oil and garlic and onions and seasoning handy. Plus the kiddo will eat it all.

Sometimes the younger people on my work team react to me in a way that reminds me of the way people often have laughed as though I'm making a joke and it takes me a minute to realize that's what is happening. Them: "How are you?" Me: "I remain extant"/"Corporeal at the moment" Them: laugh at joke!

2026 Reads: January New-to-Me Faves: -> Role Model/The Long Game -> When the Angels Left the Old Country

I've been given cause to, lately, be thinking about gamerunning in a...not abstract. In a (sorry) pedagogical way, almost. I'm running a table of newbie tween girls, finishing up a 4+ year campaign, and also talking to a few people to encourage them to try running a game for the first time.

The world may laugh again, And I may live to do you kindness

catherine o’hara was absolutely god-tier at harmonization, first of all, and then the fact that she performed this number in character, with all those subtle expressions and moments, is just…fuck. a once-in-a-lifetime talent

Anyway, you can give $5 tax deductible to PBS for their app and get Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc along with Lupita and Sandra Oh in Twelfth Night and not pollute all of Memphis while you’re watching it.

A particular thing of my brain is I will get a snippet, a couple of seconds, of a song on loop. For hours. All day. It doesn't even require that it's a song I like or have heard in years. Just my whole fuckin day is that 5 seconds or fewer of a song with which I was not engaging prior to this.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

I have less than no interest in the new Game of Thrones show but the guy playing Lyonel Baratheon needs to be in so many more things. Charisma off the charts even just in gif form.

“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Fuck, fuck everything, fuck this, fuck me especially.

I'm decompressing by, as I always do when prepping a new D&D campaign, making a list of words I like that capture a vibe I'm thinking of. First I make the map. Then I plan the pantheon. Then I make this list, and even if I use nothing from it, it helps me shape my subconscious to start its work.

This doesn't matter at all but I just got reminded that the inexplicable Kraven the Hunter movie used the song from one of my all-time faves, The Hunt for Red October (1990) and it made me disproportionately mad again. This is probably just displaced rage at the everything but also how dare they.

Chicago likes to dunk on DMB for very legit reasons but if we're being serious: dude has always been like this and was like this before it was cool and deserves our support.

Look. All I am saying is, if local and state politicians did this kind of thing more loudly: "This is what your tax dollars do. This is what I spend my time doing. This is a neighbor of yours who's part of this process. This is what we are doing to help you and here's how you can help each other."