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weather: 🌤️ cooling down a little critters: assorted finches nibbling figs lately i've been trying not to chew the skin off my lips. i also chew the insides of my cheeks, but let's address one thing at a time. i hadn't thought of this as self harm until recently. like, it's not normal for them to look like the fucked up red paint on a no parking curb, no matter how hydrated and exfoliated i am.…
weather: ⛅ "balmy" critters: house finches maybe "hate" is a strong word, but diel's post enlightened me about my own shift in opinion. i used to think of fictional AIs as characters. the narrative structures around sapient AIs usually allow and encourage this. for example, SHODAN , GLaDOS , and durandal . these are all computers who go rogue from their programming, which is generally framed by…
weather: 🌥️ subtropical critters: CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW (and a western tanager) my dad's coworker bought apples and peanut butter the other day. he mentioned this to my dad with an explanation: years ago, he saw my dad having apples and peanut butter on his break. coworker bought some apples and peanut butter that week to try it out. he thought it was good, so he made it for his small daughter.…
weather: ☀️ hot pavement, hot hot hot critters: ants back to school shopping season and i noticed folks seem to have strong opinions on what color corresponds to what school subject. here are mine from my solid color notebook days 1 english/literature: 🟡 yellow, to perk up the drear of the readings we were so often assigned. but i guess happy people and happy events are pretty boring to read…
weather: ☀️ h o t critters: seagulls martin can't finish the winds of winter, he's... washing his hair facedown, getting a hot stone massage studying for the bar at the comic store picking up the witchblade compendium watching the game. shh! in a giant hamster ball conducting the new york philharmonic orchestra's performance of the firebird smoking weed behind the bleachers navigating a nuclear…
weather: ☀️ slimy but hospitable critters: little blue damselfly, several swallowtails, many sulphurs and cabbages my birthday was over a month ago but, uh, better late than never. here's my presidential platform (besides universal healthcare debt forgiveness affordable housing public transit public education parks funding monopoly busting &c. &c., which every sane candidate will promote anyway).…
weather: ☀️ have mercy critters: cats this is the last part of a series ( part 1 , part 2 ) of words the british think i don't know. it's brief because i have now run out of words spliff. intelligible, but i've never heard anyone under 50 say it. our englishes seem to be on different timelines in different directions suss out. fully didn't know this was british bespoke. am i the only one who…
i have seen four cats alive (black, white calico, ginger longhair, tabby with white socks), one cat dead (tabby with white socks, no relation). you can tell a half-feral barn cat from a normal housecat by how close it lets you get. of the living population, none of them let me get closer than three watchful yards. there's definitely a phenotype here. i guess that happens in all remote towns. my…
weather: 🌤️ hot but at least the beach was nice critters: pelicans in V formation somebody stole all the flush valves and piping from the urinals in S's workplace bathroom. it's a lot cleaner now that they've closed it to the public, but nobody can figure out why those particular parts were stolen. seems like methhead behavior, but there's no copper in any of those parts. what gives? email me if…
weather: ☀️🌫️ smoky critters: swallowtails, dragonflies, bluebirds in honor of the friends twisting my arm to get mad at england for soccer reasons, here's the sequel to my first post about britishisms the british think i don't know chips. i know the british know that our chips are their crisps and their chips are our fries--but i'm starting to think the british don't know that we know this. we…