new pearl song to the tune of “my darling clementine”:

oh my goblin, oh my goblin
you are sitting at the door
when i see you, let me kiss you
and then let me kiss you more

i mean, he’s not technically wrong…

isn’t this the gist of roger ebert’s (?) original review?

many such cases

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

I mean, it’s not wrong.

EXACTLY

me going into a tax prep appointment: it was a bit confusing for me but i’m sure it’s a walk in the park for a professional.

my nervous system going into a tax prep appointment: you’ve committed ten thousand felonies and they’re going to execute you on the spot.

“if you’re craving [sweet treat] your body actually wants [vegetable]!”

no. my body Told Me that what it wants is a honey bun. and i’m the one who made it hike six miles so who am i to deny that demand

You are a senator.

The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!

he’s currently wearing a very crisp waistcoat and a bolo tie that my mom collaged for him and looking like the most respectable sheriff in the west

today i learned my dad was in one of the only racially integrated boy scout troops in baton rouge in the early 70s

this whole rigmarole with finding properly fitted joint support makes me SO mad on behalf of fat people.

i have made A Purchase, i'll let y'all know if it pans out...

i just want a pair of knee compression sleeves that fit my thighs, don’t bunch up painfully behind the knee when i sit, and aren’t marketed with magical bio-fabric. i won’t even ask for them to be full leg.

what i really need is a quarterly retreat with my weaving friends where we spend like 3 days collaboratively warping all our projects

No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.

Re: my last reposts

“Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

i think i need to make a lot of art about it.

it’s gonna take a good long minute to come down from the high of pulling off this event as a two-person team. i cried intermittently all morning both from exhaustion and from the knowledge that all that care isn’t going into the void, it’s being received and shared on and handed back in kind.

two different elders claimed me as a kindred spirit this weekend and i can’t believe i’m lucky enough to do this work with such incredible people

the entire family assumed it was a local publication. still cool but not SOUTHERN FUCKING LIVING

months ago my sister mentioned writing up a dessert recipe to go with a magazine feature on the restaurant where they work and it turns out the magazine is SOUTHERN LIVING??????

so anyway. check out the may issue for a killer carrot cake

but there’s queers in huntsville and god knows we can’t have that

this dipshit (james lomax, not my district) is running reelection ads for the AL state house on the platform of “ban sanctuary cities.” my dude there ARE NO SANCTUARY CITIES HERE and more’s the pity!!

nodding sagely

i don’t think blanket shunning is the way to go (have we learned nothing from religious deconstruction?) but also white people are the ones who need to step up and do the direct work of rehabilitation, not ask our siblings of color to take more hits in the movement’s name.

my takeaway from current debate on how to treat right-wing defectors (accept vs. shun) is just that we all play different roles. some are willing and able to be landing pads and guardrails for these people; others, especially the most harmed, focus on their existing work.