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The nice thing about wearing a chainmail bi pride necklace over your black hoodie is that it accentuates the look of each.
The bad thing is when you forget you’re wearing the chain, whip off your hoodie, and whack yourself with said necklace.
It’s ok, I didn’t need to use that eye today. 🤕
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Happy start of spooky season! 🎃
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🔗 Nick Cave on where he stands
It is both calming and invigorating to hear someone speak and feel your soul nod in agreement. I really needed to read this, and maybe you do too:
I acknowledge that this may be, to you and your friends, an unhelpful admission, but I’m not entirely sure where I stand on anything these days. As the ground shifts and slides beneath us, and the world hardens around its particular views, I become increasingly uncertain and less self-assured. I am neither on the left nor on the right, finding both sides, as they mainly present themselves, indefensible and unrecognisable.
And later:
Perhaps this all amounts to very little, but I suppose, in the end, I value deeds over words.
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You can tell we’re in Trump’s world when the Harvard Co-op plays 80s hits back to back.
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One of the things they don’t emphasize about dealing with depression, is that doing the thing stops you from doing nothing, also takes energy.
Tonight, I’m letting depression have the win. Not forever, but just tonight.
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The Naked Gun (2025) ⭐️⭐️
I’ll be the one to say it- it’s not as good as the original movies. There are a few too many gags that didn’t make me laugh, but instead took me out of the flow and made me go, “Um, what? That’s a weird choice.” This type of movie should never make me think that. 🎬
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And with that, my student loans are paid off. 😮💨💸 #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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These quiet fall mornings are becoming increasingly rare. The quiet this photo was taken in was quickly replaced with rush hour traffic. I’d rather have this than a commute, though. ☕️🥐🍂
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Finished Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3. Quite the uneven season, and I think they took the lazy way out of a major plot point. Still, I’ll look out for season 4! 📺
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Of all the random connections: the Philip Johnson chapter of Bad Gays describes how he built the Crystal Cathedral. My mother watched Robert Schuller religiously, and the slow pans across that building are indelibly etched in my mind. What a shame such an awful person built it. ⛪️🏛️🏳️🌈
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Taken a few days ago: A Spotted Lanternfly. in my neighborhood. It’s such a pretty creature; too bad it’s invasive. Next time I see it, I’ll wish it a good rebirth as I kill it. 🪲
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I’m sitting in my living room, mad at myself for something I shouldn’t be.
I’m sick; it happens, right? I just woke up from a nap, wondering how I got sick and how I can handle recovery while also achieving work goals and projects, and not let my friends and coworkers down.
That’s why I’m mad at myself. This is a highly inconvenient time to be sick! Why couldn’t I have taken better care of myself? Why did I schedule all these events and tasks in my life? Why am I not strong or tenacious enough to do the work while sick? I see my friends and coworkers doing it, why am I just now waking up from a nap during the productive time of my day? Now I’ll have to cut into my personal time to catch up and lose more sleep-
Do you see? I talk to myself like an entitled fool. I should rest, that is the right thing to do now. And a large factor contributing to why I am sick today, is because of the obligations and stress I have put on myself; berating myself as weak or stupid for not being able to bear it isn’t just unfair, it’s counterproductive. Pushing myself in any way is the wrong thing to do right now, in my position.
I’m mad because my world isn’t the way I want it to be. Resting, reflecting, and taking stock (literally and figuratively) is what I should be doing. And if I do take on one of the delayed tasks, it should be because I get joy from it. Obligations have no hold on me today; needs do.
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A short rest.
A cool, quiet evening just after sunset. The acrid and welcoming smell of low tide. Occasional barking cries of sea gulls somewhere around. The overcast grey of a rain already gone by. The impossible windmill blades, resting like starships in dry dock, reflecting the many harsh suns of floodlights.
Amongst the fishing and shipping warehouses in this industrial part of New Bedford, I found this momentary respite from people and politics and news and worry. There is only this scene, and the quiet space it makes in my mind.
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I’d tweaked my back again yesterday, so I’d feared all my plans were lost. But no! I made it to D&D last night, and the opening of the show my friend Brooke curated. My heart is full, even if my back is angry.
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Solving the daily Wordle in two is certainly a way to wake up in the morning! 🧩
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I find it hard to have much sympathy for Charlie Kirk’s death. A man who openly courted and excused rising fascism, who said dead people were an acceptable cost for his interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, who peddled conspiracy theories and outright lies around immigrants, COVID, and the January 9th insurrection, and who stoked hate against anyone deemed wrong by his christian nationalist cohorts, is not someone I will pour one out for.
But he also had a family, a wife and two children, who were reportedly in the crowd when he was shot. He had friends who loved him and felt love from him. I have plenty of sympathy for them, and I hope you, dear reader, do too.
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Over the Garden Wall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
One review called this the Western Spirited Away, and boy does that sum up this beautiful, haunting, sweetly somber tale. It’s close to perfection, made by crafters who understood what they borrowed from and created something unique. Have some cider and enjoy it!
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I love creative protest! 🇺🇸🪧✊🏻
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Ludovico Einaudi - Midsummer Echos
A new album of soft, gentle piano music, perfect for a stroll or sipping tea as you start your morning! 🎹🎶
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More peaches news: I ended up needing a day off work to let the antihistamines do their job. (I always turn into a zombie when I take one; it’s not worth letting a screen destroy my eyes for.) So, in scheduling an appointment to review my allergies. I’d really rather not go through this again.
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Here’s to beautiful late summer mornings with friends who bring you peaches from their backyard! 🍑👯
Edit, 24 hours later: I found out I’m mildly allergic to peaches! So two more of my friends are enjoying the rest of them.
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Monday morning at the cafe. A threesome of twenty-somethings loudly talk about pop culture stars and the movies they’ve liked. Five dogs have walked their owners by. Two babies have stared at my disheveled hair and unkempt beard. No birds have begged for crumbs, while too many cars grumble by.
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Review of _Fantastic 4: First Steps_
[Fantastic 4: First Steps][https://trakt.tv/movies/the-fantastic-4-first-steps-2025] ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
I liked it. I loved the aesthetics, a bit of Tomorrowland and 1950s-60s era graphics and style. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if this movie was supposed to have taken place in its universe’s 1950s.
In fact, the whole feel of the film is as if they plucked a writer for the comic out of that era, brought him to this time to show him what we could do, and asked that expat of time to write a movie script. The story is thin, the plot is minimal, the characters more layered cardboard than flat, and the action is a bit underwhelming compared to recent Marvel fare. That’s sums up what I remember from reading comics of that era, too. The core of the story, the family that the Four have made together, is the focus here. The movie isn’t trying to make more than that happen.
It’s as if Marvel has caught itself from trying too hard to replicate the intensity and build-up of the first arc of movies, from Iron Man to Avengers: End Game. That was an intense and gratifying story arc, but not everything following it has to replicate the same feeling. Fantastic 4 isn’t a backpedaling, but a loosening up, a willingness to try new styles and new kinds of stories, and in my eyes it works wonderfully. I found myself asking all kinds of questions about the plot (I won’t spoil them here), and wondering why they were papering over what could have been some good drama and questions (again, no spoilers), but not once did I feel the movie was less enjoyable for avoiding those points. It’s a story about family, a group of outsiders hanging together and trying to do the right thing. It’s not trying to do anything more than that, and it doesn’t need to. If you want to learn more about those questions or plot choices, read the comics.
I hope Marvel takes more of these chances. 🎥
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Hey hey! Puzzmo knew exactly who they made this puzzle for! 🕹️🧩
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When I was in Nashville, I saw my father and stepmother with hearing aids. They’re old, past merely getting on in age, so it’s expected. I myself haven’t crested 50, so I should be fine, right?
Then I attended my D
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