Rewatched the latest South Park episode. It wasn't as biting as the rest of this season, but I was also distracted Wednesday night (and extremely tired). This time I picked up a few more jokes and continued to laugh at the depiction of JD Vance as Tattoo from Fantasy Island. A good watch, again.

Sarah McLachlan's performance of "Better Broken" on Kimmel Tuesday night was soooo much better than the album version. On Kimmel, she performed solo with just a piano. The album track is backed (bafflingly) by a weird electronic drum loop that serves the song not at all.

Could we please not discover radioactive shrimp at Walmart on nights when Colbert is dark?

_Cover Yo' Azz!_ is the new covers album from Cowboy Mouth. While it's missing the energy of Mouth's best studio releases, it's as heartfelt and uplifting as all their work. Highlight is the closer, a Hootie and the Blowfish tune I'd never heard, "City by a River." www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRI7...

okay don't think poorly of me, but i have like $90 in flex money to burn before june 30 and i've considered manifesting the 365 days i wish to have by spending it all on condoms. i'm joking, but also not really. :s

Connections Puzzle #739 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 So annoying. I knew that second row but wasn't paying attention.

Wednesday (this was fun) Connections Puzzle #738 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Tuesday Puzzle #737 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Monday Puzzle #736 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sunday. Ugh. Puzzle #735 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Saturday. Can't win 'em all. Puzzle #734 🟨🟪🟩🟦 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟨🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟦🟦🟦

Connections Puzzle #733 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wednesday Archive June 11, 2025 Connections Puzzle #731 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Thursday Connections Puzzle #732 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

gack. i KNEW the categories and still screwed this up. Connections Puzzle #730 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Sunday: Connections Puzzle #728 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Monday: Connections Puzzle #729 🟦🟩🟦🟦 🟪🟦🟩🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 that was less than spur.

Wow. The purple was legitimately the first I got. Blue was DIFFICULT. Didn't know it until I eliminated the green. Connections Puzzle #726 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Connections Puzzle #725 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #724 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Woo that purple category! :) OF COURSE.

Connections Puzzle #723 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #721 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 i love it when i get the purples first.

Connections Puzzle #719 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

i’m down 16 pounds in 30 days.

#10FilmsToKnowMe:

I know this is just from stress and extreme sleep deprivation, but boy am I freaking moody this evening. And tense.

Submitted my entry to the #WritingBattle spring microfiction challenge. My first time competing with this organization. I wouldn't call it FUN because writing is torture, but it was about as fun as could be, I think. :) Feel like there are no stakes except the new experience.

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Grooving to Led Zep IV in my Bose headphones as I get through my to-do list at work. Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see? And baby baby baby do you like it?

I’m making this a week of listening sincerely to musical artists I don’t think I care for but have never really checked out. Today: Pig Destroyer.

I’m making this a week of listening sincerely to musical artists I don’t think I care for but have never really checked out. Today: Korn.

I’m making this a week of listening sincerely to musical artists I don’t think I care for but have never really checked out. Today: Ghost.

I’m making this a week of listening sincerely to musical artists I don’t think I care for but have never really checked out. Today: Slipknot.

I’ve decided to make this a week of listening sincerely to musical artists I don’t think I care for but have never really checked out. Today: Puddle of Mudd. I’m one song in, and l’m like, “Oh they sing this? This is a good song.” “Blurry” (2001)

I’m sorry, Gene Park, Barry Svrluga, Chelsea Janes, Ann Hornaday, Jason La Canfora, and Sally Jenkins. 💔

finished my second book of the year, my first complete book. read most of larry mcmurtry's _lonesome dove_ at the end of 2024 and finished it january. just finished its sequel, _streets of laredo_. it couldn't have been as good (you know why if you read the first book), but it was excellent too.

Still awake at 1:39 because I'm too close to the end of my book to put it down now. :s

thursday feb 13, kahala mall, 6 to 8. meet at big round table in front of whole foods market. look for two hippos sitting on a book. At 6, say hi (or not). At 6:26, take group photo (or don't) At 6:30, read! physical book, ebook, audiobook. at 7:30, call it a night or stick around and chat!

This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak. Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds

Scene of the CRIME Sunday at 12:30—or the biography, or the romantasy, or the self-help, or whatever you bring to read, in whatever format. This is how (and where) we roll. Johny is your host. Come read alone with us! Dean & Deluca, Ritz-Carlton Residences in Waikiki. 383 Kalaimoku St. Seeya there!

Got my assignment for NYCMidnight's #ShortStoryChallenge2025. Genre: Thriller Subject: Moving to a new city Character: A hair stylist 5,883 writers participating in 210 groups. Top 5 in each group advance to round 2. 8 days. 2500 words. Let's go!

Went through the hot line for breakfast at the neighborhood vegetarian store. It was filling and delicious and with a bottle of local kombucha cost me $32. That’s a lot of Egg McMuffins.

it took 8 hours but i finally got 7 hours of sleep. had been in growing sleep deficit all week and it was making me miserable.

These are my favorite albums from 2025 so far: 1: Ringo Starr, _Look Up_ 2: Tokyo Blade, _Time is the Fire_ 3: Grave Digger, _Bone Collector_ Fully expect the new album from Harakiri for the Sky this Friday to take over the number one spot.

#QueensParkRangers are on a roll, defeating Hull City 2-1.

I considered just not getting out of bed, but I think my biggest, most helpful takeaway from therapy (before my therapist broke up with me) is this habit I am developing where I focus not on what I didn’t or can’t do, but on what I can do. “What can I do right now?” Today I can buy books and music.

If you're in Hawaii and you're a writer (however you define it) or aspiring to write, here's my monthly list of Writer Stuff -- communities, retreats, workshops, get-togethers, that kind of thing. bit.ly/writing-hawa... Please let me know if I'm missing anything.

Queens Park Rangers defeat Plymouth Argyle 1-0. #qpr

So he gets to keep his property in exchange for some amount of money AND he has to promise not to break the law in defaming the women again? If the freaking LAW didn't keep him from doing it -- even after being found liable -- what's to keep him from doing it NOW?

Tonight’s dinner from Hou Fish Market. It’s not very adventurous but I get takeout for my mother’s tastes first these days. And she just looooooves her tamago nigiri. I always think of Nadine Kam when I eat here. One of many places I tried on her recommendation. 🖤🖤🖤

Opened this app for the first time in a year, and the first thing I see is a @melissa808.bsky.social post I just read a second ago on Threads. 🙂 Plus all these friends whose absence here made it a lonely space a year ago.

This is too surreal a headline before coffee has cleared my reading vision.

pathetic. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 123 4/9: Rarity: 540 ⬜️🟩🟩 ⬜️⬜️🟩 ⬜️⬜️🟩 Play at: https://immaculategrid.com @immaculategrid x @baseball_ref

(literally) hot take: if someone orders a latte but doesn’t say “iced,” the assumption should always be not iced. i get so many iced lattes i didn’t order and don’t want to waste by asking for a redo. a latte is espresso, steamed milk, and milk froth.