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November 16, 2020

this youtube compilation of clips of marc bolan's TV show in the seventiesevery week at the grocery store i look for pomelo, hoping that it will finally be...

it rained heavily all night

November 13, 2020

i'm thankful that though i yelled very loudly at miso yesterday evening because i was very tired from strenuous troubleshooting and just wanted to focus for...

watching d spin around jumping up and down with glee

November 12, 2020

watching d spin around jumping up and down with glee after realizing she had beaten level 11 of beat saber, which we both had been stuck on for a week or...

fortune cookies and drop biscuits

November 10, 2020

nation's avoidance of the absolute worst possible outcomeeven though all that shit dampened the feeling myself vibes of scorpio season that i was feeling...

November 1, 2020

i'm thankful that though we live on an anonymous numbered street that, from the nearest cross street of our neighborhood's grid, looks like the anonymous...

the plot is stupid

October 27, 2020

the new show how to with john wilson on HBO, which is such a delightful surprise (my elevator pitch is nathan for you crossed with billy on the street, but...

eating cake for breakfast

October 23, 2020

i ate two portions of leftover cake for breakfast this morning.after falling off the wagon for a season or two, watching the current season of the great...

the rare moment when you are actually happy to have received a push notification

October 18, 2020

this new yorker article about eels from a few months ago, which, if you missed it like i did you should definitely readthe season premiere of the...

October 15, 2020

yesterday evening d made some off-hand reference to me disliking imogen heap, which in one sense is understandable because i dislike many people/musicians...

every movie is between one and a half and two and half hours

October 14, 2020

realizing that the only way to start doing something again is to start doing it againyesterday i crossed the road at the beginning of a run and got stopped...

i unlocked venice

September 16, 2020

the air quality went from "hazardous" to "very unhealthy"feeling comfortable asking my boss for help with something i don't know how to do (and the feeling...

September 6, 2020

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a really important thought i had (sorry)

August 25, 2020

a really important thought i had (sorry) which is what if the disney channel show "dog with a blog" had as its soundtrack a parody of kid rock's "bawitdaba"...

still, at the base level, pizza

August 23, 2020

i'm thankful for running outside on a summer morning, which is just the very best that running gets; warm enough that you're not having to psych yourself up...

it's going to be a hundred degrees

August 15, 2020

and i am sitting in the backyard in the shade listening to sam donsky's my morning jacket playlist...

surprise blackberries

one day earlier in the summer when we had people over in the backyard, someone noticed that there are blackberries growing on sharp vines twisted around the...

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the possibility that one day, i will successfully peel off the "easy peel" lid on top of a brick of tofu easily and in one piece, though today is not that...

croissant emoji a second day back at a habit that you've picked up and put down many times before that there is always the opportunity for a second day back...

minimizing the liquid

d is a year older and i got her one of those instagram astrology candles a partial list of the substances of d's birthday weekend: candles, dahlias, dabs,...

new grammar of flight

i'm thankful for the piece of writing by hilton als in this week's new yorker, which it feels inadequate to call an essay in the traditional sense because...

that last night thousands of us filled the bridge and stopped the traffic and knelt in the street with our hands in the air to protest the murder of george...

three puns that came to me recently, 1. GuestStar (an airbnb extension where you choose where you can filter listings based on the owner's astrological sign...

if you run down the highway just north of our house for a few miles, on the horizon to the north you can see a snow-capped mountainthe weather has been...

slightly overripe strawberries

i had to have my google password reset by an administrator this morning but they responded quickly and other people had also had to get their passwords reset...

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this post about robert pattinson's "fast food pasta" piccolini cuscino, pure joy; (also, the idea of robert pattinson responding to a text with ha ha ha"...

the best weekend of the year so fartalking about strategies for approaching a box of chocolates with friendstrying a new drug for the first time, drug...

rolling stones playlist

looking through my glasses right after they are cleaned the moment figuring out why a customer's API call wasn't working the neurochemical rush when you are...

the bottle of conditioner in the shower, which has been overturned and seemingly about to run out for weeks or maybe even a month at this point and every day...

fat chocobo materia

deborah wrote a new letter to be using the weird terrible tinyletter text editor because the email address i usually send these notes to stopped working and...

i'm thankful that yesterday evening d and i were lying on the couch watching reruns of the office and miso was in the frisky mood she sometimes gets into in...

mowed the front yard and then mowed the back yard, raking debris in a t-shirt to neaten the sceneon my run today i didn't unexpectedly walk any parts because...

the sun came out unexpectedly and we went for a walk realized that my keys had been lost for probably weeks and i hadn't realized because i didn't need them...

i'm thankful to have eaten three and a half old fashioned donuts in one sitting.

i'm thankful for the concept of time travel in animal crossing, which is so interesting to me, the idea that something essential to this game is a...

a bee flew in from the backyard, but i coaxed him back outside through the sliding glass doorportrait of a lady on fire, holy FUCK is there a more satisfying...

i'm thankful that because of the lack of sun in the winter, the grass in our yard stays at a reasonable length and is also green, which has been a lovely...

i'm thankful that i got to do a task at work to help a customer that was also really fun for me and then everybody made a big deal about how great it was...

i'm thankful that how i have felt day to day at work lately puts into relief how stressed i felt for a long time before this job and don't feel now. i'm...

i'm thankful, during these trying times, for tom scocca's perfect gawker post "on smarm," which i remembered this morning and am now using to self soothe as...

i'm thankful that though my dad texted me yesterday evening to tell me he and my mom were sick and though i was slightly worried, when i facetimed them...

i'm thankful for a conversation i had with sm about great live recordings and thinking about how, though i love studio trickery and perfect sound forever,...

finishing a novel and then sex right after

i'm thankful that though i go through periods where i feel like i don't have the cognitive overhead to listen to music while working, i also have ones where...

i'm thankful that though yesterday the hot water heater was, once again, not producing hot water, not even after putting clean clothes on my sweaty smelly...

i'm thankful that on sunday they were out of lentils at fred meyer, even though that was annoying because we had already gotten all the other ingredients for...

i'm thankful that the rest of the week felt better than monday and tuesday. i'm thankful to express my feelings, which always seems to help me, what a novel...

i'm thankful to accept myself for the imperfect human that i am but also to know that the near perpetual state of bitchy misanthropy i have been finding...

remote work retreat day one was kind of depressing, socially, but also i answered some hard questions and accomplished something satisfyingwatching jersey...

i complimented s and she said it made her day and then when we were deciding what to eat for dinner i mentioned her post about some ridiculous restaurant...

had another really good day at workheard good career news for another (different) friendit's been sunny and relatively warmd gets to work from home more than...