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Carolyn Kellogg
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Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer. email my name dot writes at gmail.
This, about the mysterious misattribution of a phrase, is interesting, and Zizek's annoyed non-reply is pretty funny.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
usually I know what random fireworks are about but right now I'm perplexed.
February 14, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Ice skating is so hard! The best skaters in the world falling during their programs. Yet it's riveting.
February 13, 2026 at 9:57 PM
It will be pink! My not-yet-finished chair redo stalled halfway because I let the spray paint get clogged.
February 12, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I'm going to keep postponing my iphone system update until Apple realizes everyone hates it and rolls it back. That could happen, right?
February 12, 2026 at 12:50 AM
This is not my cat. This is my kitten's mother who lives outside but outside is just too cruel in winter.
February 12, 2026 at 12:11 AM
This guy is such a putz.
February 11, 2026 at 11:31 PM
A wee bit of backyard progress.
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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to wit
February 11, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Updated. Now not closed. (WTF?)
February 11, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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here is our el paso airspace closure coverage and yes, we are as confused as you are (free link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FAA Closes Airspace at El Paso for ‘Special Security Reasons’
The US Federal Aviation Administration closed the airspace around the border city of El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, in an unusual move that authorities put down to unspecified “special security reasons....
www.bloomberg.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM
[Watching 2024's Alone] Some men would rather camp by themselves in the arctic circle with only 10 survival items than go to therapy.
February 11, 2026 at 2:09 AM
More icky awful news about powerful men using women. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show
Elon Musk’s younger brother and the woman were involved for about six months between 2012 and 2013
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Oh I hope you're right!

Expand the damn court.
Oh god, Mollie Hemmingway is dropping a fellacious bio of Alito in April.

Folks, this man is *so* going to retire at the end of the term. Senate Democrats, PLEASE staff up. This is *going to happen.*

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/molli...
Alito
From an award-winning journalist, the authoritative—and explosive—inside story of Justice Samuel Alito and his powerful role in shaping the Supreme Court...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:57 PM
My phone thinks this is Winter Jasmine. (It might be a false spring, but I'll take it)
February 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The lady roadrunner in my neighborhood, who's been alone for months, had two suitors showing off for her today. I have no idea what a baby roadrunner looks like, but I hope I get to see.
February 9, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Today I went to an estate sale and bought 7 books for $7: Ali a Life Warhol's diaries; 2 outdated books about the American west; a Tony Hillerman paperback; an Edward Abbey collection and Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, 1949 edition.
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 PM
When I did crew the bus that took us from USC down to our boathouse in the LA harbor made a left at Shipwreck Joey's, which was about where the freeway ended. The strip bar is long gone, but survives in To Live and Die in LA.
February 8, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Chester Himes!
The great Chester Himes and Griot, his beloved blue point Siamese, named "after the magicians in the courts of West African kings." Himes also said that if he stayed away too long, Griot would wreck his studio and chew up his books. #Caturday
February 8, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..."

kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...
New Mexico governor signs Immigrant Safety Act among other bills into law
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed four bipartisan bills into law, focusing on improving health care access, investing in statewide infrastructur
kfoxtv.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:05 PM