let's try an evening #mutualaid boost today! my friend is homeless and needs donations to stay in a motel through the end of the month.

thanks to kind souls, we're at $717/$1600, which is about enough for them to stay sheltered through Friday.

please share so my friend can stay sheltered!

I feel like being a ghost (one able to turn pages) might be a cool way to finally catch up on reading.

I need to finish this one.

(the longest, heaviest sigh)

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Usually pretty easy—and thank-you for inspiring my own brunch!

Hugs? That sounds difficult.

There were some pretty terrifying worms in Mindy Weisberger’s book Rise of the Zombie Bugs (bugs here used liberally to refer to creepy crawly things, not just insects).

Donate to Help Z with Temporary Housing Support, organized by Ike M Hi, I'm raising funds for my friend Z to stay in a hotel. Their partner was recently hospi… Ike M needs your support for Help Z with Temporary Housing Support

I made a gofundme to help my friend stay housed for the next couple of weeks. I would really appreciate if you could donate and/or share the link: gofund.me/61fa9aca4

It is seriously confusing.

Mowed my front lawn before the storms start this week—no longer the only neighbor with a totally overgrown yard. Adulting?

Cover for Octavia E. Butler’s novel, Parable of the Sower, depicting a black woman in a long-sleeved red dress and red head scarf.

Cover for Tom Mead’s novel, A Cabaret Macabre with the title in white capitals over a large building/manor house in a green cast with a red rowboat on a pond out front.

Cover for Megan Eaves-Egenes’s book Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness. The title is in large white letters & subtitle in smaller white capitals beneath against a night sky over a forest with yellow light below, blurring out all the stars.

Cover for Andy Weir’s novel, Project Hail Mary, with an astronaut floating in space with a tether connecting him to something unknown?

Currently reading: Butler’s classic scifi novel, the 3rd Joseph Spector mystery (part of a series reread), next week’s @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social selection about stargazing and light pollution, & Project Hail Mary since I’ll be seeing the movie this weekend.

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

Groan—I meant ‘positive news’.

Ohio sits atop U.S. in library usage, federal funding lawsuits resolve in favor of libraries • Ohio Capital Journal The State Library of Ohio is moving (literally) in a positive direction, as court battles over funding for U.S. libraries end, and the state gets recognized as the top state in library circulation.

Things I love about my home state definitely includes our libraries—nice to hear positive new on this: ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/13/o...

Frog and Toad folk horror?

Our minor league hockey team in Cincy always had a hysterical dachshund race across the ice on Dog Night—wonder if that still happens.

Her website Smitten Kitchen has a lot of recipes, too.

deb perelman’s recipes are always fantastic!

What cookbook (is curious)?

**hit

Glad you did not hot the deer.

And my parents retired to Georgia.

Looking forward to seeing my surrogate parents today—Pat & Steve adopted me when their son moved to New Mexico.

Thanks for showing us this one on the Friday work was slow!

I hadn’t seen it before—glad I kept track of this thread today!

Yes, I think I am!

Has this one been claimed?

I feel like that goes without saying (but thank-you for saying it)?

Legend & Muppet Treasure Island & Clue