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taylor swift is the joyce carol oates of music
August 3, 2021
i'm thankful for that d, during a period this evening while i was preparing dinner in which i was trying to see if i could name her top musicians in order...
i just cannot get it up for a hummingbird
August 1, 2021
i'm thankful that we had a nice visit with my parents and i'm thankful that they have gone back to colorado and it is just us again. i'm thankful to...
salted caramel brownie oreos
July 31, 2021
i'm thankful for the green knight which was so fun!!! i'm thankful that though i was skeptical of it, as a person who doesn't really get excited about...
our air conditioner, which is reliable and strong
July 30, 2021
i'm thankful that though i got (i think) a bee sting on the instep of my right foot yesterday and it swelled up not insignificantly, i was still able to go...
the best rock song i've heard since "good 4 u"
July 29, 2021
i'm thankful i have today and tomorrow off work.i'm thankful i deep cleaned our bong because my parents are visitingi'm thankful that while they played with...
beautiful genius writers sarah hagi and claire carusillo
July 28, 2021
i'm thankful new gawker is here starring friends of this newsletter/beautiful genius writers sarah hagi and claire carusillo, among various other luminaries...
my favorite person in the world
July 26, 2021
i'm thankful that d was born on this day and i'm thankful, every day, that i get to share a life with my favorite person in the world.
water fountains when you really need a water fountain
July 25, 2021
everyone in this room will someday be dead, which i read in one sitting today and which i recommend especially to fans of milk fed and the new me and an...
the number one song in heaven
July 25, 2021
i'm thankful that i'm sitting in the shade in the backyard and f is at the foot of my lounge chair in between my legs and miso is to my left. i'm thankful...
you're the best dot com
July 24, 2021
we're watching k and t's corgi f for the weekend and f is the best dog and is lying at my feet like a dog is supposed toplaying catch and i get bored before...
a new toy
July 22, 2021
the way that tying an old shoelace into a knot ball makes it a new toy again to miso each time.
new blade for my shaving razor
July 21, 2021
new blade for my shaving razorgood meeting with my bossearly meeting day, but quality run in the middle of the day to make up for it (it was still only...
taylor swift should be banned from using the word "town" in songs
July 20, 2021
ugh i feel like shit! i'm thankful for the opportunity to record that i feel like shit and felt like shit all day, at various wavelengths. i was in a mood...
the stretches aren't a 100% miracle cure
July 18, 2021
learning that c adopted a very cute dog named claudette and showed me the hilarious dog resume she made for her for an apartment application eating cold...
world's greatest mashup
July 17, 2021
coworkers i'd never met in person were in town and we got to have a lovely al fresco dinner at magic hour at the beginning of a three day weekendsmoking a...
toasted over a gas burner
July 15, 2021
d brought me home two miniature cupcakes from her work happy hour and rather than being a diet absolutist i ate the and was glad i didbeing able to do...
the evergreen hope that it will be The Thing That Will Fix Me
July 13, 2021
i have felt such an intense block to opening a computer outside of work lately, like to pathological levels, and yet have been feeling shitty and knowing...
the sensafion of
June 8, 2021
getting under the covers and into bed
a little something
June 6, 2021
i'm thankful to write a little something this afternoon after probably the longest period during which i have not sent thank you notes since this started in...
four things
April 23, 2021
at the end of a long day after i had put my computer to sleep so i wouldn't open it again, thought of a new variation on the slack game i built earlier in...
a perfect spring pop song
April 13, 2021
thinking of a good last minute birthday present for a friendmy first real PR was merged into the production codebasethe song "kiss me more" by doja cat and...
a logo emerges from static
April 11, 2021
is how the audio description track, which for most of the second season of watching curb your enthusiasm has been inexplicably turned on at the beginning of...
late to the party
April 5, 2021
i'm thankful for the kacey musgraves song "late to the party," which like miguel's "do you..." is a song i think of as one of "our songs" and i'm thankful...
drinking exactly three cocktails
April 4, 2021
i'm thankful that we got our first vaccine shots last week at a walmart across the border and, though i would have still been thankful if they hurt, it was...
i have drawn a lot of bad hearts in my life
March 28, 2021
today's word of the day email: asterism, "(1)a prominent pattern or group of stars, typically having a popular name but smaller than a constellation. (2) A...
sign of the times
March 25, 2021
taking a mental health day from workhealthmental healthtaking a daytaking from workworktaking a daythis outtake of d and i playing "sign of the times" during...
either as a fault of style or for emphasis
March 22, 2021
realizing i was in the midst of feeling like my own parody of "all the single ladies" by ariana reines, taking a bong hit and climbing into a dark hot shower...
of light or lightning
March 13, 2021
i'm thankful that d and i had a long argument yesterday, not because of the argument, since i don't like having arguments and especially not long arguments...
friends
March 11, 2021
after not seeing any friends for months and months, hanging out yesterday evening in kh's backyard with kh and f and talking and laughing and talking and...
how thankful i was to be rained on while out running yesterday afternoon,
March 8, 2021
how thankful i was to be rained on while out running yesterday afternoon, having left the house to sunshine thinking there would be no rain and at a...
a really good fucking thing so something derivative of it is also pretty good
March 5, 2021
"rager teenager" by troye sivan, which feels so derivative of blonde-era frank, but also blonde-era frank is a really good fucking thing so something...
green apple flavored big league chew
March 4, 2021
taking a walk with d and miso after work, the sun still outthe dawn "powerwash" dish spray d bought, which smells uncannily like green apple flavored big...
stath lets flats
March 3, 2021
it's hard for me to find new comedies to watch because while i can still enjoy watching dramas that are leaden or melodramatic or absurd, when comedy doesn't...
late stage advanced earworms
February 27, 2021
i had been putting off updating carrier settings in my phone for weeks, the modal popping up and needing to be told "not now" several times a day every day,...
everything lana condor eats in a day
February 25, 2021
i'm thankful for lana condor's "everything i eat in a day" video because i already liked her because of her performances and then to find that she likes many...
interrogate the to-do list
February 24, 2021
i'm thankful that the waste disposal services do pickup every week on wednesday, but only take trash every other week, and i'm thankful that this week was a...
close as a bee's dick
February 20, 2021
that though i woke up at 4 AM this saturday morning and could not go back to sleep, which is not preferable, especially on a weekend, rather than strain...
hackathon
February 13, 2021
we had a little hackathon yesterday at work and while i had enjoyed pitching some ideas a few weeks ago (i love brainstorming ideas and generating pitches),...
the most delightful thing to read on a saturday morning
February 13, 2021
the most delightful thing to read on a saturday morning: sarah hagi on watching lost https://link.medium.com/3OMiwZOKPdb
i never have to think about the temperature of my butt
February 11, 2021
this letter about marketing, blackness, pepsi, and coming out by ira madison III dana has been writing thank you notes again (feb 9, feb 10) this delightful...
slack DMing someone a joke in a boring meeting
February 10, 2021
the concluding image of the free britney documentary (SPOILER) which is this instagram video of her in the bath holding a rose which she then reveals, by...
let's break out of this, we've been constipated too long
February 9, 2021
this episode of the chris hayes podcast about the history of the filibusternew prozd food review video in which he eats 30 kinds of pocky and pretz (which...
the dark night rises
February 8, 2021
i felt some weird craving to watch the dark knight rises the other evening, which is a weird grimdark bloated movie craving that recurs periodically for me...
a truly great novel i read in one sitting (sorry)
February 7, 2021
this profile of steven yeun by jay caspian kangthe tv show the head, about mysterious deaths at an antarctic research station, which we finished watching...
a brief window of sunshine
February 4, 2021
during a brief window of sunshine yesterday afternoon, chasing miso around the back yard. the excitement she exudes every time she realizes i'm not just...
ibuprofen
February 3, 2021
ibuprofenyesterday kind of sucked but today is going better so fardeborah asking me at the end of my day how my day was and me telling her about that and...
the meeting i normally have at 8am on tuesdays is moving to 9am next week
February 2, 2021
it was my one year anniversary at work yesterday and my coworkers wrote very sweet messages to/about me.the meeting i normally have at 8am on tuesdays is...
which i improved by adding a selection of leftover charcuterie plate cheese bits
February 1, 2021
d wrote a letter with her gratitude notes from october; that many of them are also things i'm grateful ford's excitement at learning guitar and bass, even as...
birdwatchers swear they can spot a bird from its jizz
January 29, 2021
this paragraph, which someone shared at work and really made me lol:"Birdwatchers swear they can spot a bird from its jizz. The word's origins are unknown,...
god give me the serenity to accept that i just don't like mochi
January 28, 2021
this very real letter from emily about a particular weirdness of remote jobs, especially now (he says as he hits the year anniversary of a job where he has...
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