Joker as a loving father figure who hates Common Core is also top tier comedy writing.

I watch the Harley Quinn animated show in small bursts because I find it too delightful to binge.

Anyway, the season three running joke that Bane is mad at them because Ivy won’t return the pasta maker he bought for her wedding to Kite Man absolutely kills me.

The Danny Ketch "Ghost Rider" run by Mackie / Saltares.

Pretty sure I still have the issues in a box somewhere.

The unique name also means it's very easy for me to search up in Teams when I desperately need to know about the state of card ingestion. (More often than you might think.)

I have probably mentioned this before but my side chat where my producers and the Arena cardset PO exchange notes is called "Cardset Producers + Ian (The Theater Kids Chat)" because one day I realized all of us (except Ian) were ex-theater kids in high school.

Aside: she also made me the best latte I had in Portland I CANNOT SAY GOOD ENOUGH THINGS ABOUT THIS PLACE.

The chai has a little bit of heat on the back throat. Predominantly cardamom forward with other spices. I brewed as recommended on the box (with milk and water) and do recommend this method.

A bright red tin with a black lid and the words street chai “swicy” on it. Next to it is a glass cup with a milky substance inside.

PORTLAND TEA HAUL

Hell yeah I bought tea in Portland. I’ll post thoughts as I drink them.

FIRST UP: Keia & Martyn’s “Swicy” Street Chai. Keia told me this was her blend! She’s a delight and if you see her at Tiny Little Cuppa you better be nice or I’ll beat you up!

Please tell this story to be good, too.

I went back and re-read one of my stories and y'know what, I think it was good, actually.

I love my son and his curious heart and his quiet love of magic and wonder and I did my best to let him solve the problem on his own but at some point I did poke my head out and let them know I’d heard ALL OF IT and needed them to knock that shit off.

My son was making potions in the backyard and some of the other neighbor kids teased him for it and I just want kids to not be assholes.

All mine were from ??? years ago when I first joined and used them in applications that helped me repopulate my social graph. Uhhh. Yeah. I nuked them. No reason to keep those permissions around.

I guess this is why other companies auto-expire tokens after a while?

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

The scene where she goblin faces while drawing under the bed made me simultaneously embarrassed for my preteen self and laugh way too hard.

Mom wouldn’t buy me that Hot Wheels garage but JOKE’S ON HER I had a boy and now I play with his (with him) (tho admittedly he’s largely grown out of it now).

Also man amazing that the studio that greenlit SOUL is pulling shit like this. TURNING RED was so good.

Thank you for fixing me of my occasional interest in this product.

Grove Co. did the same thing to me (signed me up for a sub without my permission), but this was pre CS chatbots so I fixed it with a call. I was about as pissed as you are over shitty hot chocolate. It’s the principle of the thing!

Obra Dinn is always the correct answer.

The Long Winters have an excellent song about Columbia called "The Commander Thinks Aloud". The Song Exploder (sorry!) episode on it is great.

I'm glad the crew of Artemis II are safe and home again.

My weird tick is I don't watch NASA launch OR re-entry footage because I was a bewildered and horrified kid in 1986 and a woman crying in her car in 2003.

My theory is Copilot, loaded into every Windows machine for the last ?? years.

Beignets at Javaman in Portland.

A recipe found in a 1971 cook book at our hotel. Text: Mushrooms Vinaigrette Serves 3-4 8 oz button mushrooms 6 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons tarragon vinegar 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon dry mustard teaspoon salt freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon chopped gherkin 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 tablespoon chopped capers Remove stalks from mushrooms. Wipe mushroom caps with a clean damp cloth and place in a bowl. Put olive oil, vinegar, sugar, mustard, salt, pepper and chopped gherkin, parsley and capers into a screw-top jar and shake well until ingredients are mixed together. Pour dressing over mushrooms and allow to stand for 1 hour. Serve Mushrooms Vinaigrette chilled with slices of French bread, if desired, to dip into the dressing.

Double cherry blossom blooms in light pink

Absolutely incredible biang biang noodles in a spicy-sweet-sour-garlicky sauce from a very called Stretch the Noodle.

We are nearly home from our annual trip to Oregon, where food is good and the public transportation in Portland makes me jealous.

If your favorite bbq restaurant doesn’t have a handwashing station separate from the bathrooms, it’s mediocre at best.

A drawing of Calvin and Hobbes.

Youngest drawing at the restaurant.

Christine Lavin even wrote a song about it!

Congrats to the Artemis II crew and all involved! It has been such a pleasure to watch, am in awe :)

ANCILLARY JUSTICE is very good.

It’s also got a heavy dash of Tumblr and Nextdoor thrown in for good measure.

THE PITT is a show built for the Twitter/TikTok/ADHD brain that needs quick hits of info every 2-5 minutes and that’s probably why I love it.

Had to remove myself from a great drink a few weeks back because the person two seats away was rambling about why he voted for Trump three times and it was not in my mental health interests to continue listening.