Jess House

"Visiting... with Huell Howser" remains the best and most accurate audio-visual ethnography of Southern California.

The humanities have been haunted and we have seanced successfully ...we are tired.

I miss 90s country. We have been cheated by post 9-11 country.

Not a single state has a minimum wage that meets the cost of living for a single person in a one-bedroom apartment.

Not. A. Single. State.

And we have people who legally earn less than minimum wage because of their jobs (waiters) or disabilities.

Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

The country is a mess. I can't even talk about the physical reaction I had to the White House bulldozer pictures...so I've decided I'm getting really into beans. I can't control much, but I can control what I eat & boy howdy am I about to get into the recession & health friendly world of beans.

Tiffany coming in clutch as usual.

No big deal, just us and the Imagination Movers.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Related, I'm planning to get the whole 1950s TV series on DVD for said teen for Christmas so if anyone randomly sees it on sale anywhere, lemme know. 😂

I'm researching Zorro costumes for my obsessed teen's Halloween costume & the Guy Williams TV show costume with the sleeved cape/jacket is truly a work of art.

Shout out to Winchell's Donuts where there's always 14 in a dozen.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

According to the New Rules, I think this means the Trump administration has to fire Miller?

Hopefully everyone in CA already knows this, but just in case someone doesn’t - there’s a special election happening right now. It’s REALLY important that you vote, and it’s REALLY important that you vote YES on Prop 50.

It's actually a clever and pretty sweet song with Jackson 5 dance vibes. Would make a good roller skating song.

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

My 16 year old prides himself on being a D1 hater. There's hope for the youth. They will save us.

Well, it was a hell of a week...but at least there was goat cheese.

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”

Bowing down to a bully never works.

And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

Why do things keep insisting on needing to be done when I'd prefer to just waste away on the couch?

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Having a teenager talented enough (and brave enough) to cut my hair has vastly improved my life.

Current status: death by comp exams.

I really like the intro chapter to Adaptation in Young Adult Novels: Critically Engaging Past and Present by Lawrence & Montz (the chapter has a banger title...and a more caffeinated me would remember it).

My heart breaks for these students and their families.

Folks, as someone who watched an enormous amount of graphic footage in my time as a journalist and developed PTSD because of it, please do not watch the Charlie Kirk footage.

Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.