I swear they’ve got to be doing shit like this for the engagement.

we love to throw the “there is no ethical consumption” badge out as an excuse for our own frailties but the *attempt* to do better remains crucial even when no one is keeping the score….

It’s a warm spring day in Florida and the fence lizards in my backyard are frisky.

Check out this bird - Barred Owl Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

There is a loud ass owl in my backyard, and I love them.

merlinbirds.org/species/brdowl

Every other post is fake. But the reactions and the memes. Those are real.*

* Nah, a ton of those are fake, too. But at least a few are from people I know.**

** Ok, am parasocially attached to.

Screenshot of a radio playlist for KMHD, jazz radio in Portland OR. During the 3 o’clock hour, the following tunes are played BETTER GET HIT IN YO’ SOUL, by Charles Mingus JAYHAWKS TALK, by Carmella Jones CUBANO CHANT, by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

@kmhd.bsky.social giving me about the best 15 minutes or so with this set.

Just gotta shout out that Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus swings so damn hard!

I was reading a book in the sun on a Friday afternoon and I fell asleep. It felt good. It didn’t feel like anyone else’s time for a little while.

a man with a beard and gray hair is smiling in the dark Alt: Willem Dafoe cracks a mad cackle in 19th c costume in a black and white shot from the film THE LIGHTHOUSE

Just in my kitchen working for the fam muttering verse in a quasi-lighthouse keeper voice like I’ve gone mad on a rock at the end of the world. Normal Friday vibes.

Recent activity on letterboxd. Four movie posters left to right from most recent watch. The Medium (Banjong Pisanthanakun) The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent) New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara) Just Another Girl on the IRT (Leslie Harris)

#LetterboxdFriday why not? I’d rather watch movies than anything else rn

Recently I set a goal to watch more films directed by women. For Int’l Women’s Day, I can report that I’ve seen some really good films so far:

Wanda, by Barbara Loren
The Nightingale, by Jennifer Kent
A New Leaf, by Elaine May
Just Another Girl on the IRT, by Leslie Harris

An outdoor photo of small open-sided shelter in brown and dark green. There is a red sign that reads “Charcuterie Pick-Up,” but the shelter is completely empty. Sadly no cured meats are to be seen in this photo.

I have also found the only charcuterie stand in Northern Florida. Sadly not equipped to give me the prosciutto or bresaola I was suddenly hankering for.

Weirdness! at the Arboretum.

Apparently it was Pokemon Go day at the Arboretum. All the trials had clumps of people in black wandering around on their phones, and the PA system was blaring Poke-songs.

A handwritten whiteboard poll that asks “Would you rather be lipless or be tongueless?” The hash mark votes favor “lipless” by 4 to 1 margin.

The librarians at my local branch pose a different diabolical poll each week, and I love them.

Searching for this clip I learned that this is now streaming on HBO Max. Wasn’t available for a long while. I got tired of waiting and checked my library system.

Shin Godzilla Atomic Breath (Aliento Atomico) YouTube video by Antonio JC

The atomic breath scene in SHIN GODZILLA is pure cinema. youtu.be/UPuWdr6lyfU?...

This is really it. The project has been an imposition of fictitious history, fictitious science, fictitious modes of inquiry. Experiencing the ongoing progress of this project has been to live under an ever weightier cosmic horror.

I used this as a header image for punk when I used to teach history of rock.

It’s after midnight, I can officially and heartily declare, “Fuck all the way off, January 2026.”

Truly the duck we need in the place we need them.

Sudden Burst Of Confidence Not Sure Where The Hell It Came From Either

Sudden Burst Of Confidence Not Sure Where The Hell It Came From Either theonion.com/sudden-burst-of-confiden...

To think how many times he’s seen you on the street without recognizing your duckness in disguise!

A photo of a spiral art notebook open to one page. There are four elements. Top left, a maze or straight-line spiral with the whole design x’ed out in a way that gives it a sense of abysmal depth. Shapes that may be letters are drawn over top. One looks more like a cooked shrimp. Bottom left, a rectangular hole that goes more than one page deep into the notebook. Next to this, in a slightly unsteady hand, the words “Don’t Go to Sleep” are written. Right hand taking up most of that side,, a sticker of a cartoon figure of planet Neptune or Uranus with arms and legs, smiling broadly and wearing heart-shaped sunglasses and a jaunty dark blue-green hat with flower on it. The juxtaposition of left and right is unsettling. The quasi-innocence of the sticker is in the wrong context and menaces now like every child’s toy or entertainment in the film SKINAMARINK.

Ominous activity work from the seven year old.

Why can’t I go to sleep? What happens??

Is he doing a one-page HOUSE OF LEAVES or are these dispatches from the SKINAMARINK house?

lol, I remember taking that picture - I nearly didn’t make it to grocery store, I laugh snorted so hard in the car

a man with a mustache is wearing a striped shirt and a tie Alt: Danny Glover from Lethal Weapon (1 or 2) closing his eyes, rolling his head, and saying “Oh, I’m too old for this” with a fatigued look on his face.

All this shit AND I have a difficult seven year old.

That’s pretty impressive visibility. Gainesville’s airport is tiny, so you’re not likely to miss this!

I usually don’t bother to think about what * I * want because there’s a 7 year old about.

A few days of “what do you want to do” have arrived. But I don’t have an answer. Wander aimlessly? Have a drink and play cribbage? Watch movies under a blanket?

This and the OP are exactly what I’m looking for out here on the post-Xmas scroll.

Framed wire art work, about 18 inches tall by 5 wide, a series of descending wave lines in blue and metallic white.

Close up of a wire art piece showing woven wire with a mostly horizontal physical texture and vertical wavy lines of blue, silver, and metallic white.

My mother in law is an excellent metal weaver. For 2026, I hope she finds some time to get a little more web and gallery presence. But I might have to call dibs on this piece if that happens.

Second the gatekeeping will degenerate into political battlegrounds (not party political, but balance of power and influence guided politics).

Third the networked means of communications needed to make a worldwide system of knowledges will be compromised by the tech media and tools it would live on