i’ve long been fascinated by the karaoke bar school of interior design. i lived near one in atlanta that was similarly styled, except one room was inexplicably ferrari-themed & cost extra to rent

i think about this one weekly

bouquets on the side of the road outside of Mos Espa where a palawan on a speeder got obliterated by an imperial freighter merging left

you guys mean pretentious……say pretentious please….

macos saves screenshots to desktop by default (& without any real prompting) so you can keep 10 gb worth of every thing you have ever screenshotted conveniently timestamped in one very pretty place

i was instructed to refer to even my good bit older cousins as aunts/uncles as a child, i guess as a matter of respect. maybe the polish-american experience is more colorful than i had ever imagined …

a tidbit i took away from abuse counseling—as cliche as the comparison between domestic abuse & political domination might be—was that fear is useful for abusers, because it’s usually incompatible with anger. you aren’t really able to be mad at the lion charging at you

one i love [hate] is when you send an email about something to a group of people, and then one of Them one-offs you and asks you to explain it all again to them personally

top brass reportedly having green tea for lunch

there’s some strange arrested development going on in these videos & i think in the weird good-ole-days conservatism writ large, literally embodying an oh-shucks-ma style child as a reflective adult. way more of a peek into their self-image than i’d ever like

i am moving away from here for the first time next week and i could not be more thrilled

did you think a soul would come out instead? or that nothing would happen at all?