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it is possible, it really can happen
January 23, 2024
when i got to the doctor's office right when they opened at 8 this morning (i had to fast before bloodwork) they asked me for my phone number and i literally...
boycott, sanction, divest, and
January 21, 2024
e sent me this text while listening to graceland earlier i was thinking about my appreciation for songs that start in one place tonally / melodically / etc...
dexterity rolls
January 17, 2024
as a lifelong pedestrian married to a driver who does not enjoy long strolls in inclement weather, i always appreciate when we're snowed in (in bloomington,...
saltburn viewing party
January 14, 2024
ec's saltburn viewing party friday didn't get cancelled due to inclement weather arriving more slowly than expected and we carpooled with k and t (with a pit...
throwing panties in the pool (justin's version)
January 10, 2024
when we were on molly saturday and lying in bed in each others arms after fucking, deborah brought up a yoko ono meme i'd shared recently (where yoko had...
the most positive development in my life as a hater
January 6, 2024
delightful run of texts with e about AI after she sent me a link to colin meloy's newsletter about using chatGPT to write a song prefaced by "i feel like you...
kissed at midnight
January 2, 2024
on new years eve did karaoke in the attic with deborah (songs included: "feather" by sabrina carpenter; "all american bitch", "get him back", and "making the...
"let Gaza be part of it"
January 1, 2024
arriving at the portland airport at night, which always tries to kick up some residual PTSD as i walk down the anonymous darkened hallway because meeting in...
fucking love to muse
December 27, 2023
mein gott
December 25, 2023
honeysuckle in the breeze
December 24, 2023
prescription sunglasses
December 22, 2023
the first time i threw up on the flight to hawaii
December 20, 2023
is your heart constipated
December 14, 2023
i'm thankful that a plumber is coming to fix our broken toilet this afternoon. i'm thankful that we have a backup toilet in our basement, that our toilet...
renaissauce
December 10, 2023
i'm thankful for how the opening monologue of the renaissance tour movie is literally beyoncé saying a litany of sentences that start with "i'm thankful...
my favorite tinyletter
December 7, 2023
icymi, mailchimp announced that they're finally shutting down tinyletter next spring. as someone who works at a tech company and has had to support aging...
i'm a fucking caveman
December 6, 2023
this video "how i got out of zionism" sarah shared of shlomo yitzchak who tells a very powerful story about a day of epiphanies he experienced while studying...
people are often cats
December 4, 2023
comics from ellen o'grady about palestine (her most recent series: adaptations of letters she sent to her parents when she lived there: 1, 2, 3). the content...
long text theory
December 3, 2023
i have an axiom called the long text theory which posits that, generally, there is no such thing as a good long text message (using "text message" as a...
i tease her from a place of eternal love
December 2, 2023
something i've teased deborah for in the past is her "phone voice," like how when she is talking on the phone to a stranger she sounds like a different...
forced perspective
November 24, 2023
"a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is"
crystallize my values in the form of some DMs
November 10, 2023
i'm thankful, even though it pissed me off, that yesterday morning [redacted] shared this post to her instagram story   and that after reading it several...
this post by megan marz
October 26, 2023
i was honored to be placed in the company of some writers who mean a lot to me in this history/survey/testimony/manifesto/essay post by megan marz.
the elections in poland
October 16, 2023
i'm thankful that when i was talking to a about the elections in poland this sunday earlier this week, she said, telling me that the polls at the time...
smiling into the camera
October 12, 2023
the book "a day in the life of abed salama" which is very good so far woke up to a DM where n sent me a picture of the two of us together some random night...
let me pet her
October 12, 2023
the "pizza" flavored rice crackers i am allowing myself as potato chip methadone miso let me pet her for a while which she never does in the evening manager...
ferris wheel
October 11, 2023
in slack [redacted] shared pictures looking out over a forest at the edge of a city and told a story about visiting a soviet-era ferris wheel in kyiv over...
ok english major!
October 9, 2023
great late period wayne verse on "brand new": the cadence sometimes reminds me of one of my all time faves "dr. carter" (the beat is also good friday era...
oppressed people liberating themselves
October 8, 2023
oppressed people liberating themselves the last rosebush to survive the landscaping is still blooming kissing on molly
to reset my mind
October 7, 2023
finishing work on friday afternoon and doing a quick string of bong hits to reset my mind and heading south in the sunshine on our way to meet our friends...
as a kind of psychedelic experience
October 6, 2023
trying to treat my withdrawal from constantly eating massive amounts of sugar as a kind of psychedelic experience
on and on forever
October 4, 2023
"all the way down," the finale of the current season of futurama (hulu), which does these wonderful formally playful riffs on simulation theory and also ends...
huge amounts of sugar and fat
October 2, 2023
i have to go to the doctor this morning, after missing a message they sent me in the client portal about an important follow-up for oh you know just an...
a recap of the push notification
October 1, 2023
after a wonderful long night of sleep waking up a half hour after your usual alarm and breaking into a brief moment of "ughhhh gotta get up the weekend was...
friend of the pod
September 29, 2023
got a friend of the pod namedrop on my favorite podcast, a huge achievement even if the reason is for (my old tumblr friend <3) joe to completely destroy my...
trompe l'oeil tiktoks
September 28, 2023
these trompe l'oeil tiktoks, which get me every time even though i know what to expect going in (a true and delightful accomplishment) weird story about some...
the justin show
September 27, 2023
i had to make a document explaining the complicated relationship between two feature flags (bits of code configuration used to hide features that are works...
things i appreciate about the onset of fall
September 26, 2023
1) really hot showers feel fucking incredible (the ASMR-esque feeling of being covered in goose bumps as you step inside and then all of them receding healed...
queenmaker
September 25, 2023
i stayed awake for all of howl's moving castle (deborah had previously estimated that i tended to fall asleep about thirty minutes in and i think that's...
a string of three :tada: emojis
September 24, 2023
i had the foresight to mow the backyard just before it started raining yesterday. it's going to rain here every day through next saturday, which i am not...
tgif guest post: a new comic from deborah
September 22, 2023
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improvising these immaculate electric piano parts
September 21, 2023
before our disney+ subscription (which we weren't really using) elapsed on september 19, though i didn't finish a complete cycle of once again rewatching get...
a worse version of myself
September 20, 2023
i'm thankful we got our new covid boosters (the vaccine card is out of lines) and flu shots yesterday (same arm for me (left) because i sleep on my right)....
i'm a liar i'm not totally crazy
September 19, 2023
1) i'm thankful that deborah and i are both very much on the same page about not wanting children (and have been for a long time), especially since we love...
don't read if you just ate or are at work (butt stuff)
September 18, 2023
1. the spotify playlist feelin' myself, because one of my favorite flavors of music is joyously aggressive female rap groups (formal ones (often duos) like...
8/17/17
September 8, 2023
i'm thankful that yesterday i had the cardiac stress test that the doctor scheduled for me after i went to the ER a few weeks ago for a panic attack that i,...
new olivia rodrigo album
September 8, 2023
1. that today is the first friday i've had to work in two months (because work had summer fridays again this year). i'm not thankful to go back to more work...
the best new chip i've had in a while
September 5, 2023
1. spicy pineapple jalapeno doritos, which like any foods with "spicy" in the name are not actually spicy, but which have a pretty great pineapple flavor...
i smoked a joint for the first time
September 1, 2023
i smoked a joint for the first time since last week
inner hater
September 1, 2023
1. glanced at deborah's computer screen walking by and saw a webinar freeze-framed to a powerpoint slide with the heading "the four 'inner hater' mindsets"2....
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