What is this witchery of which you speak 🙀

Why, why when I reply to an email thread in the Apple mail app, if I was the last sender, does it reply to myself?

They’ve got it programmed so that it gives me a follow up prompt a few hours later so that I realize that that’s what happened, but it shouldn’t do that to begin with!

Angled cup featuring spacecraft design to resemble the crew capsule from the Artemis II mission. Four astronauts float in a central square window looking at the viewer.

Angled cup featuring spacecraft design to resemble the crew capsule from the Artemis II mission. Four astronauts float in a central square window looking at the viewer. Detail of astronauts

"We love you, from the Moon"

My day: also improved

Well and when it dips back down to
50 on Monday . . .

🫠

Nothing like filing my taxes the night before the deadline to make me feel like I’m in school again.

Am also a FreeTaxUSA convert. Platform was so much easier than TurboTax. Bless them.

You know the story of this photograph? It was taken outside the back door of the theater. She had to wait for him to come out for some
time. He notoriously hated photographs. He said she could take three shots, though she managed five.

Her portraits are so compelling. Some of my favorites.

Roo, née Tess, a brown tabby with a lot of white, asleep on a knitted blanket with her paws all in one spot and her nose tucked amidst them. She looks—and is—very soft.

(Proof of cat)

I constantly have to explain to people that my cat’s Real Name is Tess (short for Madam Tesseract Jack, which is another story), but I mostly call her Roo.

Tess > Tessa > Tessaroo > Roo > Roobear, Roobird > Rooskaroo . . .

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

I do want to be in that Front Porch with a frosty beverage rn

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

Plate partially painted featuring Earthrise over the Moon's surface. Tray of glaze with sponges and rags on the table behind it.

Earthrise incoming
#sciart

I was fine-dining adjacent.

All my friends in fine dining can’t watch The Bear.

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Solar eclipse photo at totality.

Timeline cleanse: The solar eclipse from two years ago, viewed from Shaker Heights, Ohio. 😁

They’re really excellent. A gateway drug, except I can’t find a refillable fountain pen I like as much. 🤦🏻‍♀️

And the purple is perfect and I haven’t found a dupe for that, either.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

That’s AI. 😕

This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."

FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."

hmm

I still follow the old school bloggers posting real images . . . even if the blog itself has shut down.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll

She was born on March 20th, 1915

I am now doubting my memory about the millions but it was a damn lot. 😅

It’s one of my favorite places in the entire city. Winton modeled it after a Greek theater. That’s a 9 million dollar piece of glass angled at precisely 19° to be acoustically perfect to fill the room.

I got to watch Alicia Keys perform a private concert there once, my first month in the city.

no play in the history of the English language asks you to suspend your disbelief quite like Oscar Wilde making “women think ‘Ernest’ is an absolute panty dropper of a name” a load-bearing component of the plot

your kinks are your business, Oscar, but we are simply built different

Do you really feel that’s rare in actors? Isn’t that . . . the job?

(I’m not being shitty, that’s an honest question. As an actor 😅)

Braille edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

:summons @jongraywb.blacksky.app: