freeze-dried sour skittles
hanging out at k and t's on friday night, smoking a bloint outside their house (and it not being dark yet because the days are getting longer), margaritas...
finishing the curse
finishing the curse after leaving the last two episodes unwatched for weeks because it was so deeply (intentionally) cringe that as the season went on, i...
miso says free palestine
e told me she's coming back to visit portland in the fall, the best local news of 2024 so far. on saturday we went to din tai fung for lunch with k, t, ec,...
à la American Pie
for valentine's day charcuterie board, deborah made focaccia for the first time (from this recipe, minus the garlic butter, which (somehow i am saying this...
haim's valentine
haim's "valentine", their best work which i will never get tired of watching my favorite valentine's day candy to get as a child which were the little pink...
a correction
this is embarrassing and normally i like to think of myself as a thoughtful person who carefully sources and checks my facts and who does the reading before...
two recipes deborah made for dinner
we were talking about the phrases used to describe sunshine while it's raining in different languages (i heard "the devil is beating his wife" so much...
my favorite recent book
my favorite recent book is love in a time of hate: art and passion in the shadow of war by florian illies, an anecdotal fragmentary gossipy cultural history...
teslas are the subaru of LA
i'm thankful we could afford to take a brief vacation to LA last weekend to get out of endless rainy portland winter, even though as it turned out it rained,...
bulldozing for content
here's an erasure i did of the New York Times article "What Israeli Soldiers’ Videos Reveal: Cheering Destruction and Mocking Gazans" (you can hear me...
no more dying
years ago i recorded a musical setting of frank o'hara reading his poem "ode to joy" and last night i cut a video from "third avenue el", a short film that...
on fridays we don't have meetings
i'm thankful that last night we were watching a particularly beautiful episode of terrace house where yusuke, a sweet shy sad boy who is very good at playing...
it is possible, it really can happen
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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"
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...