I would be soooo much more hyped about the lunar mission if the head of NASA wasn’t constantly thanking Donald Trump for the funding and saying that the point of it all is to “assert US dominance on the moon”
Need to be locked in a sensory deprivation tank and have Duruflé's Requiem blasted in there
Timothée Chalamet is kind of the perfect example of “guy Americans think is smart because he’s European-adjacent, it’s amazing to behold
Time is so fake, “oh we added more daylight” no you didn’t, daylight is portioned by the cosmos repent of your hubris
Spring is in the air and I’m sooo emo about not having a garden to prep and seeds to start this year :’(
I love making sourdough bc it's like "oh nooo I have to go play with some slime now, if I don't we won't have toast tomorrow morning!"
The Cottage episode of Heated Rivalry promotes an unrealistic and unreachable fantasy (that you could comfortably sit around a lakeside campfire in Lanaudière QU without getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and black flies)
Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
"imperfect" or "situational" pitch, I guess
I have the most irritating type of perfect pitch (doesn't know what note is what but does know that the sound the computer makes when you drop a bunch of files into a folder is the same as the starting pitch of 'Tilted' by Christine and the Queens)
Life is great, actually
Sometimes I complain about being a grad student and then I remember that my second great grandmother was born into serfdom and shut up real fast
The BL holds letters that I need but can't afford to access for my dissertation :') guess I'll just die
What I do is not “libbing out,” it’s “feeling hope for the first time in 20 years”
What I do is not doomscrolling, it’s Acquiring Information
Damn, thank you for sharing this. What a great interview! I'm really in awe of the life that Mahmood Mamdani has led, he's going on the reading list
Italian Americans all think they have a PhD in eating food
We used to eat so good
Acutely mourning the $5 lunch shawarma trio from the little Lebanese place next to my high school
All Lestat de Lioncourt does is weep, be in love with a senior citizen, weep some more, and refuse very valuable advice from people who care about his well-being
I'm gonna be so real, the White House was never beautiful anyway. It is and has always been a deeply bland and borderline ugly mansion.
He knows.
When I say Poe is at the most dangerous intersection of smart and annoying… he has started pulling the bookmarks out of my books to get my attention at 3 am.
Watching the punk hair salon near my old Philly house dissolve into chaos over instagram. One person who did my hair is striking, another one is scabbing and just posted about job openings at the salon. Meanwhile, the shitty co-op the next block over is glad they’re finally off people’s radars.
It can be galling to see one's period misrepresented onscreen but that shouldn't be reason to deny historical truths, like that medieval people shuffled around giving it the whole 'my liege' all the time, unless they had cheekbones in which case they were the king
Doing a cross-country move has taught me that anything can be resolved simply by being REALLY CORDIAL on the phone
Anyway, moving to St. Louis MO sometime this week!
How is moving going??
✅fell down the stairs at 8:30am
✅grapefruit-sized hematoma on butt
✅International student services advisor ghosting me
✅almost wasn’t able to get moving truck into driveway because of surprise road work in front of house
✅not done packing because of butt hematoma
I have it on good authority that if you were really into Me to We in middle school, you’re 80% more likely to be losing money in someone’s MLM downline as an adult
