beginning work on my magnum opus he's helping

reading the facemaker by @DrLindseyFitz and it's great and god almighty wwi, as if it needs to be repeated, just god almighty the civil war was the first to show what industrial weaponry could do to puny soft human bodies and then wwi refined it into a perfect hell

followed by two straight hours of mama's family reruns, yep

https://twitter.com/LostFelicia/status/1394289179245350920

i was seven and my grandparents had the remote and anyway i read a LOT as a kid

this inside of this house is

it's like somebody decided to try and express generalized anxiety via interior design

zillow.com/homedetails/12… "This is entirely bonkers but I'll tell you a secret, all the best houses are."

that's true my dude but many of those are 'charmingly eccentric' whereas this one is the kind of bonkers you take drugs for

if you know, you know my brain had buried all knowledge of this dude other than a vague, unsettlingly smooth trauma, but google was like 'i got you'

You know how people in His Dark Materials become zombified passive gray versions of themselves if they have their daemons cut away?

I think about that every time i look at San Francisco real estate for some reason there's an account on instagram that's just before and after photos of houses in sf and it is pure gentrification nightmare fuel

occasionally you see a house for sale and your heart just sort of seizes at how good it is and i can totally achieve that light by hanging stained glass in all my windows, right

escapisttothecountry.com/2020/11/19/his… that is one studio ghibli-ass house

i moved my silver/satin pothos to a room with more sun and it got EXCITED (sfx: snake-charming music)

HEAD'S UP: Actor, filmmaker, & all-around amazing person Morgan Sullivan is compiling a master list for trans film crew members on his Insta. Directors, editors, grips, gaffers--if you're trans, work behind the camera & want your info shared, hit him up:

instagram.com/p/CH3bUZQjsoR/ "I have gone to a lot of panels on trans representation in TV/film over the years, and I hear time and time again how important it is to hire trans people in front of and behind the camera, but a lot of the time when I get to set, I’m the only trans person there."

Fuck, I miss highways, and interstate driving, and airports, and shitty overpriced curry chicken wraps from airport stores, and movement, even the bad parts i miss all those weird liminal spaces, even the annoying parts

fell down a wormhole and now i am fucking obsessed with 1890s board games and how they all sound like someone making up names/topics for fake 1890s board games PETER CODDLE

what is peter coddle about? presumably surviving as some motherfucker named peter coddle, if i had to guess

so our dog has gotten too old to go up the stairs on his own so he has to be picked up and carried and boy howdy he is not into this idea watching ben carry him up the stairs and perversely all i can think of is a musclebound david prowse hauling the writer around in a clockwork orange

i was hoping jogging in cold weather would suck less than jogging in the dead of summer but no, no, they both suck good to know! jogging: it's an all-weather suck

A thing I have learned: Watching movies that try to do a thing and fail utterly and completely is still a more fun experience than watching stuff that tries nothing and falls into some kind of bland beige purgatory where you forget about it as soon as the lights come on You can dissect a failure. You can talk with your friends over beers about the endless ways in which it scrambled at the hurdles and came down crotch-first on the top bar like Mr. Bean attempting a run at the Grand National with a failure. Mediocre movie don't even get that much

A treatise on the damndable cleverness of Border Collies and why normal people should generally not own them ever: Murphy has been fucking petrified of the fireworks, which have been going on for weeks in NYC. They give him panic attacks. Generally they start at dusk, he has observed, which is unfortunate because that's when we take our evening constitutionals as well

eat shit

https://twitter.com/NYPDShea/status/1267921746595844097

i cannot get across how much shit you need to eat: all the hazelnut & shellfish our hunter-gatherer ancestors scatted, all the garum-stinking effluvium of the entire length of the roman empire, every pilgrim deuce plopped overboard in the north atlantic, tie on a bib & chow down

me: jesus, all i have in the cupboard is two tins of tuna fish, an expired box of jello, and egg noodles

1950's cookbook author's ghost, calling from hell: well well well, not so high and mighty now, are we? we're all pretty bored right now, huh

So one of the stories of St Kilda's history that sticks out in my brain is the one about the smallpox outbreak of 1727. Three men & eight boys got ferried out to Stac an Armin to hunt seabirds, as they did every season While they were out on this gigantic hunk of inhospitable rock, a smallpox epidemic swept through the village back on Hirta, killing most everybody. There was nobody to go back for the hunters

huh this is kind of a weird lamp somebody's selling, super-funky shade i've seen ones like it before though, they were pretty popular and ... wait, is that a flipper?

wow, the macy’s balloons are gaining both sentience and malice in the wind storm this morning fell asleep listening to the wind scream with a small smile on my face, imagining the chaos on the dawn horizon

A good day to remember the Radium Girls, and the Triangle Shirtwaist girls, and everybody who has ever suffered and died to make rich men richer. Everything you own from the keyboard you're typing on to the roof over your head was built by someone, and nine times out of ten that someone was grossly undercompensated for their labor.