now that I live safely in california, I can tell the truth I never could in DC: a half-smoke, it's just a brat
someone asked me if my stanley cup was a limited-edition she hadn't seen yet and I told her, no, it's just very, very old
my buying hack is to keep stuff for so long enough that people start assuming it's some kind of collectible
never not thinking of these 2 little space probes, out there just doing their best for 45+ years
Welcome back, Voyager 2.
@NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. We shouted 12.5 billion miles (19.9 billion km) into interstellar space, instructing it to turn its antenna back to Earth – and after 37 hours, we found out it worked! go.nasa.gov/3Y9qP7D
me, crushing up a bag of sour cream and onion ruffles into a salt shaker, whispering 'yes, chef' to myself
the part of the ocean the titanic is located in is called 'the midnight zone', and everything living there is either a transparent, eyeless monster or a glow-in-the dark thing with entirely *too many* eyes altogether
we're not wanted there
not quite sure how to explain this but there's nothing less trustworthy than someone insisting that they make the best chocolate chip cookies
peak equinox, honestly
an incredibly Manhattan photo atop the @nytimes wildfire smoke coverage... nytimes.com/live/2023/06/07/…
60+ feet of snow melt in the sierras is doing some wild things
this waterfall wasn’t even here last summer
someone stole my credit card and used it at a rare book shop with a website that just says 'on vacation, don't expect to hear from us until we're back,' and, really, I'm not that mad about it
crazy the way this week's succession opened with a 20-minute cut of zombified logan roy cracking open his children's brains one-by-one and pronouncing them each inedible







