we must increase executive pay to keep the CEO happy

Not a problem at all, but thank you for asking first!

A tuxedo cat in low grasses looks into the camera from a long distance away, tail down as it stalks for a meal

I wasn't the only one wandering the salt marsh looking for birds that day, either.

A large white wader with long think neck and yellow beak stalks through the reeds at the edge of a saltmarsh

Great Egret #boodooBirds
Nikon F5, CineStill 400D

[me, slipping The Guardian a £100 note] can you say it's actually ok to wear a lightly structured jacket over a t-shirt, too? Thanks, man.

little drawing of me excitedly reading a comic and talking about it over voice chat

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that's 45 minutes right there, easy. You don't even have to do any other homework.

a dark bird with green and gold iridescence on its back and flank, black and blue on the neck and head, stands among twigs and branches in the shallow waters at the edge of a lake

Common Grackle #boodooBirds
Nikon F5, Portra 400

I have pretty high confidence tomorrow's show will be incredible. She was in great form, Seatbelts is just a really difficult mode to take traveling with local stand-ins

Steve Conte did good work, too. It was not ideal having him cover Knock a Little Harder, but his own songs he really did the thing.

Some of the highlights, for me: Piano Black, Space Lion (which I normally do NOT like so high praise), Forever Broke, and the second pass at Tank which had some more freedom to it.

When I got home Amanda asked if they played "Bad Dog, No Biscuit" and I had to break her heart and tell her the brass and rhythm sections completely fell out with each other for that one and it was painful. That was the only time that happened, but it was brutal.

Front camera picture of my jacket with a big "The Real Folk VIP" pin, and sticking out of the breast pocket is a standee of souly_ch my oshi

We do some subtle oshikatsu

literally true

24 Hours Open, with all the gunshots

Forgot my earplugs, but I doubt that's as big a risk here compared to other shows I find myself at

Marquee of the Kings Theatre, from in line, advertising a show by Yoko Kanno featuring Seatbelts (Sold Out)

Big evening

one of the little guys of all time

oh yeah I've seen that Hades fanart

wait no way, you're telling me I can't necessarily trust reporting from esteemed institutions like (checks notes) "The Free Press"?

the very same!

After a long wait! They were napping for the first ~50 minutes I was there, but one of them did wake up and go poking around for worms.

They have a ton of character. They're better in motion (not my video)

Even knowing exactly where the bird is (two of them, today!) getting good shots was really hard because I'm not great at protecting my space or taking other people's from them and everyone had their phones out all around these guys at all times. Also they were napping most of my time there.

a stout brown bird with a long beak and a flat head stands in low plant cover in a dirt flower bed

In profile now, its long beak with dirt on the tip as it digs around looking for worms

the woodcock with its long beak tucked into its wings, resting.

went and saw a celebrity today.

American Woodcock #boodooBirds

The birding itself might be, though

nice thing about talking while birding: it isn't an immediate tell of neurodivergence to talk to somebody without eye contact

It's true, I like how it looks like the goose is afraid the pole is gonna fall on him

John Wilson interview on Doomscroll bringing up Elizabeth Street Garden and Mount Prospect Park plans is weird. Hearing hyperlocal issues in what is ostensibly broadcast media. Anyway: fuck the Garden and the original plan for MPP was deranged but the current one is fine, if they want to maintain it

I think we can all agree that getting off to light fixtures is best left to American Psycho-type people, and extricate ourselves from the bit.