Ann Pai

My own favorite overheard: A female flight attendant attempts to flirt with a male flight attendant as they wait at the back of the cabin. "Don't you love takeoff? I love takeoff. It makes my fallopian tubes pop!"

I'm looking forward to it! I just filled out my library's request for purchase form.

Olathe KS: I took the public survey on council candidate Kevin Denault's web site. Not sure yet if other candidates have the same. I used the free-form field to ask for more citizen committees, more code sweeps, and more info about how the city resolves Olathe Connect reports.

Thanks for the rec - just made my interlibrary loan request for this and for Gala - I'm not familiar with the music yet but I am a sucker for a good music autobiography or bio. Kim Gordon, Viv Albertine, and Carrie Brownstein all wrote great ones.

Painting looking down on a UK cityscape with brown houses, gardens and trees

UK painter Melissa Scott-Miller, known for her London streetscapes #WomensArt

Don't worry about whether you can re-cap the tube. You won't need to.

Buy Kavli Cheese Products Online from Sweden - Made in Scandinavian e-commerce store that deal with all types of Scandinavian food & Candy

Here's a mug shot, in case you see them in the wilds of OP. I don't see lobster listed but I didn't dream it. www.made-in-scandinavian.com/store/c187/K...

Do they have the Swedish cheese that comes in what look like giant toothpaste tubes, I wonder. If you haven't tried it, and you don't want to be stealing for pawn money to buy tubes of cheese, just never start. It comes in bacon, salami, and lobster flavors among many, many others.

No but I once hallucinated Buck O'Neill saying mm, fine cookie, yes. And that's got to be close.

If you're an art lover in KC, I can't recommend enough the Nettie Zan show at Vulpes Bastille. You've never seen anything like it. They've made a visual vocabulary, like petroglyphs, to weave together large images that evoke the body before emotions, categories, words. Affordable work too.

4/We live so briefly, friends. Credibility, connections, validation, and praise are marvelous things--but how pale and poor the time spent chasing them. Here's to more projects and to methods with more heart. Cheers!

3/I've realized that I've let go the visions of myself and my path I once associated with this project. I can't think of a better way to mark that growth than by cutting my links with what I now think of as a ravening, anti-book beast.

2/The book sold a little more than a thousand copies; it won some awards and picked up random kudos from surprising names. Most of all, it opened doors for cool opportunities and led me to teachers, co-conspirators, and friends. I learned a ton about making and marketing a book.

I feel good about this: unpublishing my book (My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life, and Death, 2006) from KDP/Amazon and closing my account there. Anyone who wants a copy now needs to snag it from my single remaining box of copies. This was a good ride and I'm glad I did this project...

2/The book sold well enough -- 1000 copies hand sold in 2 years is not bad at all; it won some awards and picked up some random kudos from credible names. Most of all, it opened doors for cool opportunities and led me to teachers, co-conspirators, and friends.

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This cat makes me want to adopt a cat.

If you hold in mind "They are talking about the color of shit" as you read, then the Pantone Color of the Year marketing orgasmia becomes extremely funny. www.pantone.com/color-of-the...

Re-reading my novel first draft was like being in an aircraft that comes in for a flawless textbook landing, after every single passenger violently pukes throughout the cabin in relentless turbulence, stalls, engine failures, & snack food poisonings. Its badness oddly cheers me. Low bar to clear.

The cover of Excellent Women, a novel by Barbara Pym, in the Penguin Classics paperback edition.

This book made me say Oh no and Oh dear out loud. Like hilarious gossip about cherished acquaintances. Recommended as a brush for the sandy grit of the daily news in one's teeth. (If I could I'd smack John Updike in the head with my paperback for his "praise" quote on the cover.)

I don't know you but you just made my "imaginary dream dinner party" table list. Teabong forever. Thank you.

Watercolor painting focusing on the torso, arm, and legs of a pregnant woman. The woman is sitting on an upholstered cushion and holding her place in a very large book with her thumb.

People With Books #2, "Alice."

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What's up zone 6? Iris & garlic popping... fruit trees bout to break bud... pepper & eggplant seeds are in their lil pods... the dying 16yo pear looks like it's giving us one more year of leaf, maybe blossom. & the red-winged blackbirds sound like volleyball referees in a tournament facility. #kcagg

My first & most recent jumping spider--on my steering wheel, noticed @60mph, no highway shoulder. I wondered what this freaked-out spider made of its escape onto a stick & its new digs by the city lake. But thank you, now it will forever hunker into a little wiggle, "and that's just one side of me."

I made buttons.

I started making pronouns buttons for the Her Art/ Their Art show next Friday at ArtHouse … but I was tired, in grief and feeling about how there is so much more to each of us than gender.

So I started reimagining rainbows and flags and creating beautiful patterns in bright colors.

Ditto the props for moving this to bsky. Hope that more join here. I've noticed that when I pin the feed, I only see one or two posts; I can see more when I search by hashtag. Is this a feed thing, or a me thing, do ya think? p.s. agreed, Cerave is a miracle of science.

Ordered seeds; budget has been aggressively pruned. Dopamine hits to start arriving in a week or so. In other news, learned that parsley in a raised bed will handily survive a big long snow event. #kcagg