Jen Van Meter is very anxious these days

Those bagel-dogs that come in 24-packs from Costco. Had a tiny craving after my eldest was born and then lived on them for like a month.
I haven’t had one in years and also dream about them on the regular.
Eldest is now 25

I block catfishers, follow bots and reply guys on sight, so my experience is delightful for the most part.
But I feel like most people here were looking for friends, real info & freedom from doxxing and harassment (aka that bird place) so when A-holes get CEO follows and sweeties get banned:
🫩

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson, Harper's, August 1941. Give it a read, play the game, see if you recognize anyone you know today. Sadly, it's going to matter. Brilliant, uncanny, timeless. Oh, and btw, RESIST like your life depends on it, bc it might. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Fuck me running.

So you’re having a good time and singing on key for a minute

Hey

So I’m gonna tell you that seeing live in London I loved it like crazy. After the fact, the soundtrack and touring performances have felt pretty meh.
I think a UK cast and venue makes a massive difference

I’m so sorry for your loss. She put so much good in the world.

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I read Carrie way too young because Cool Big Kids were reading it. Put me off horror fiction for 20+ year. He’s too good at ordinary human cruelty.

Also: we can’t be banning books!!

Not that I would support banning any book but King’s definitely have the highest occurrence of someone reading his books waaaaay too young

“Book about scary clown” —> “child orgy”

Reading King in middle school and getting something far above your age group is practically a rite of passage

A bunny helps two raccoons drag a trashbag away. The bunny has a black mask, like an old-timey burglar in a film. It is the dead of night on a grimy city street. A light shines on the three of them, from a flashlight or spotlight, surprising them all. The bunny and raccoon put their hands up: They've been caught!

Daily bunny no.3094 has been caught red-handed

Because he's one of the few comic writers who can do real palpable Drama, Greg Rucka doesn't get too many chances to do a story that's just purely Fun. CHEETAH AND CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE might be his most fun book.

Klarion the Witch Boy, with his familiar Teekl on his shoulder, screws up his courage to talk to a (gasp!) girl!

Out tomorrow, Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #3.

Klarion has a crush.

Art by @nicolascottart.bsky.social with colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Peteri!

View of Elliot Bay from a terrace near Pije Place Market

In that note, Seattle folks: from now through spring when the cruise ships come back, Pike Place Market is heavily reliant on locals. Swing through to pick up some fish or some fruit or a book from one of the bookstores if you can. As an added bonus, you get this view all to yourself:

Lois Lane’s tenacity, integrity & skepticism have been core to the char. from the jump and make her (in the text) a model American & best partner to Clark’s optimism, trust and faith.
My theory: the journalist in a Democracy is meant to be the everyday rep of the people: our voice to power.

Bought two copies for two young women in my life whose childhoods would have been easier if this had been had been available 20 yrs earlier.
Both were like, “OMG a cookbook I can USE!”

I feel like there’s Better Than bit here to use but ?

Absolutely. The ‘deserved’ rights the Puritans brought to the culture lurk right underneath the inalienable rights the Founders thought about. But those two have never stopped haunting each other.

They’re not breaking the rules. They’re breaking the fourth wall. They’re making us watch them break the ‘rules’ to make the rules seem flimsier, the breaking seem inevitable and ordinary.

Irving Park family event 2008, Mine are small. I’m watching the teens, for when magic 8 ball? Boy (14?) is wearing a puffy vest, burgundy, soft and fuzzy. Girl peers gather round to pet it (and him) “it’s so gay,” one girl says, admiringly.
Later I hear him say “Thanks, mom.”
Word changed for me.

A drawing of Supergirl flying toward the viewer with her arms outstretched.

SUPERGIRL!

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth:

Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

Don’t forget that LAZARUS: FALLEN 4 is out today, with a back cover that’s hilariously funny if you are me and therefore get all of the references. Good stuff inside from @gregrucka.com @airy.bsky.social @michaellark.bsky.social @mercuryeric.bsky.social @alejandrobot.com and Santi Arcas.

working with Jay as a writing coach has been immensely beneficial to my process as well as to my mindset going into pitching season.

i highly recommend Jay’s services to any of my friends who’re looking for a way to reach the next level of their comics career.

L’shana Tova!
Got my flu and Covid shots today!
My nurse was super sweet, shots nearly painless, and we did a little dance to celebrate her very full waiting room and both of us having a great hair day.

I’m in PDX too and haven’t seen anything yet, but maybe that’s a regional thing. :Anarchist Jurisdiction:

My Dude, we don’t know which time zone Counts.

Cheating History: Season One A narrative podcast

Cheating History kickstarter is live!

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No fucking extremely well-mannered shit, my friend