twonnet.bsky.social
liberal/progressive, union forever, writing (poetry, essays), reading, music, sports (Nottingham Forest, cycling, biathlon, and, um, Mets)
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it's karmic boomerang, she used to mock all the "wheat belly" people or whatever and then she got an everywhere rash that lasted for months and only subsided when she cut out gluten (docs finally figured out it was an autoimmune thing)--but, yeah, the options are better (and I don't eat that stuff!)
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so it's like Nuun but worse (in several respects)?
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my wife has had to go gluten free for medical reasons which means we cook gf food--the pasta is SO BAD, like maybe I'll just make linguini out of cardboard tonight
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your process seems to be more Cronenbergian than mine!
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I don't even know what that is and I'm sensing I don't want to know
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there's water IN the coffee
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steady, gurl
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someone in our house says, "I suggest you let that one marinate" on average once an hour
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this is the same mistake I make when I feel tired at 9:30 and drink an entire pint of Thai iced coffee
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just today hit the episode in s7 when Dr. Spaceman was named Surgeon General and was like
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soundtrack by Parquet Courts youtu.be/2FTvnbTuIKU?...
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oh wow, what did I miss Tom Reagan’s Hat?!
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redefining “runs like a catcher”
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oh yeeeaaaahhh--that's the good stuff
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his LLM will keep us safe, just you wait and see
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only thing that could save this parade is if one of the mules is named Gus, and he can kick field goals, and he kicks one at the end of the parade www.dailymotion.com/video/x9chjck
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if they roll in they can roll out--any tanks that are already in DC should roll back to their bases, not sit around downtown looking menacing--ideally, of course, there'd be no stupid military parade
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recently found an old map from when we moved to DC 25 years ago--it is in tatters, from either overuse or from being ripped in the heat of anger
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some of us around DC are worried that the tanks rolling into town in 10 days for Trump's birthday/flag hugging parade won't be leaving
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ha! I will be dozing off with Keith and Pat in my ear
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for real, EBTG released arguably their worst record, Ben Watt almost died, they came back 4 years later with a good (but tepid) folk-rock record from which Todd Terry crafted a floor-flooding hit—he single-handedly reinvented EBTG!
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we wouldn’t have “kiss me while the world decays, kiss me while the music plays” without that person
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definitely
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right?! that piece was brilliant—the closing scenes of flop-sweat and faux pas at the maybe-Albert-Camus’s-descendant’s castle were amazing
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live updates?! our democracy is dying in darkness RIGHT NOW and this is what you're covering?
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bon voyage
scratch that, meilleur voyage!