My toxic trait is doing my vocal warm ups in the car on the way to the gig and then drinking my protein shake once I get to the gig, therefore undoing all my prep work.

Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?

“But I really thought young men despised novels amazingly.”
“It may well suggest amazement if they do — for they read nearly as many as women.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

I guess we’re still having the same conversation about gender and readership that we were having in 1818.

‘Rhythm’ has two h’s and no vowels.

Just remember:

Rhythm
Helps
Your
Two
Hips
Move

Rhythm is also a dancer and a soul’s companion.

I sure hope so. Abbott deserves all time great status in general.

Yeah, mentally she’s who knows where

The dog was there too.

A hand-drawn poster reading "Elon Musk is a Nazi stop buying Teslas"

A hand-drawn poster reading "Elon Musk is stealing your Medicare"

A hand-drawn poster reading "Elon Musk is stealing your social security"

Hey, y'all! I made these today! I release them into the world to support the cause! They're sized for 8.5x11 printer paper. Take 'em. Print 'em. Post 'em EVERYWHERE.

3/6

in retrospect maybe it was a mistake to tell young people that reading, the arts, the humanities weren’t important and that “learning to code” was sufficient for a good life.

Other Seattleites clearly value their toes more than I do because mine are frozen now.

Social Housing Is a Homelessness Solution - PubliCola By SHARE and WHEEL Homelessness is a housing problem. More affordable housing means less homelessness. It’s really that simple. SHARE…

Social Housing Is a Homelessness Solution

"A city segregated by income and class is a fractured community," SHARE and WHEEL write in a guest post urging voters to support the social housing initiative, Prop. 1A.

publicola.com/2025/02/03/s...

We may live in a total hellscape, but at least the weather is right for snudes.

What happens when the internet disappears? Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

Excellent essay about digital ephemera:

Let these Coppola girls keep making movies, I tell ya!

Crying in the Dark over The Last Showgirl Good art about aging, show business, and beauty from Gia Coppola.

Trying something new on my Substack this year with some essays on art, not just the business of making it. Here’s a fresh essay on Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl:

open.substack.com/pub/showgirl...