I just finished Maeve Fly and I am NOT OKAY

When a mountain
doesn’t listen,
say a prayer to the sea.

Cy Twombly.

Ivan Albright, one of most interesting artists you probably never heard of, was born today in 1897. Albright developed a detailed, almost hallucinatory realist style evident in arguably his best-known work, a portrait of the title character featured in 1945 Hollywood film The Picture of Dorian Gray

Never judge a band on the songs that get overplayed on a top 40 station.

My sister said she was glad she was craving chips right now because “The Chip Christmas” is coming up

She meant the Super Bowl. She’s not wrong.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Finally deleting my Facebook account outright has been a struggle in a dopamine-withdrawal sense but so much more enlightening in an I'm-starting-to-recognize-details-again-and-I-didn't-know-that-was-why sense.

Is it news or is it gossip? Can you use the information it gives you to change course or realocate resources or does it just make you feel gross and sad.

Watch what you consume.

Found out my boss keeps a cassette Walkman at her desk and we had a 2.5-second-long geek sesh.

We really need to stop being surprised when Republicans do awful things if we're going to survive.

Pizza and practicing clay sculpture tonight.

"OOOOOH! BIG STRETCH!" -- me, when my cat makes a straw man argument