so THAT'S what happens when you don't baby your fountain pen on a plane

birthday fountain pen!!! it writes like a DREAM, the pilot kakuno is great but this is llllovely

elsewhere, my nephew (three) is helping

using only a restaurant tell us where you went to college

(rip)

it also reminds me (as most "hey look at this huge thing" art does) of the gelitin giant pink bunny, made of straw & wool that could degrade safely or be used/lived in by local wildlife. no attempts at preserving the thing, so it became part of the landscape over ~10 years or so

hey look at this guy (prickly dogfish)

he looks very baby here but this cat weighed 25 pounds & used to wrecking-ball my bedroom door open so he could sing opera at 3am

former roommate

alex ovechkin's career-first second sequential game with zero shots on goal

this is basically all of sports twitter & also a not insignificant portion of political discussion on social media

lotro as a hobbit
not only am i just terrible at games but also half of the underbrush is taller than me. embarrassing