Rex Harrison as Abraham Lincoln

I’m a fan of the basic back-of-the-bag Tollhouse. How does this compare? Yours is gorgeous.

We had commissaries in the US embassies so we could get American food overseas. What’s the reasoning behind having them in the US?

Salt Lake City knows what it did.

Yeah, I mashed all the buttons as fast as I could to stop it from playing.

screenshot of justwatch.com showing "Over the Garden Wall" at the top of the screen, and a movie called "I'm a pedophile" in the video window.

I tried to watch the trailer for "Over the Garden Wall" on justwatch.com just now, and instead was offered this. This does not seem ideal?

@jimbrunner.bsky.social I'd read your headline today to @olivermoffat.bsky.social in admiration, not realizing it was your piece. Well, I'd shouted it. "DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT AT THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES!!!!"

Ha! OK, that makes more sense. I was thinking it was some term for a complicated non-alcoholic evening drink…

What’s a “warm never drink,” in the context of your alt text?

I had a good meeting for my quilt guild’s satellite group.

Same. Honestly, just wanting to follow me is a red flag. I’m basically read-only here and hardly ever post.

A mushroom bursting through a layer of moss and pine needles

Ta dah!

#fungifriends

The TV didn’t start broadcasting until late afternoon where I was, so I was stuck at home TVless.

One of the best author events I've been to. Scalzi let us vote on if we wanted his reading to be from the novel we had all just bought, or from a new, unpublished, not-even-his-editor-had-read-it-yet book. The man knows how to work a crowd. (I am in this photo but am well hidden.)

Why do you store your capers in your shower head?

A large plastic tote labeled “region 6 orca skull replicas”

One of those kinds of weekends.

Same. I was at my quilting guild meeting all morning, pretty much the opposite of… this.

I’ve only seen “Little Mary” (or whatever) for the girl, never Chip or… uh… Chippa.

Someone left peanut butter cookies in the break room 😊 They are homemade 😀 They have banana flavoring WTF what why noooo wrong bad no

Happy Labor Day to all my fellow nonunionized workers at work today, let’s all just (metaphorically) phone it in

My Spanish teacher and Antonio Banderas, but this was last year

I watched The Panama Deception last night, the 1992 documentary. Music by Sting and Jackson Browne. I remember when everything was either Sting or Jackson Browne, with a touch of Ry Cooder if you need some ‧₊˚♪ 𝄞₊˚⊹ Americana ‧₊˚♪ 𝄞₊˚⊹

I turned on “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” last night expecting to watch maybe half an hour, but I got sucked in and watched it all. Tense! Funny! Great 1970s clothes! Ancient subway technology! Not actually racist! Recommended.

The other day at work a coworker walked up and handed me two unexpected spam musubis, homemade, still warm, minutes before my lunch break

I would read the shit out of Tom Clancy’s Pride and Prejudice, it sounds perfect

I went to an actual real live New England prep school and even I do not believe that name.

Sweaters aren’t smaller quilts.

I’ll be peacefully reading Bluesky when it suddenly jumps to the top of my feed. As far as I can tell I’m not accidentally touching the screen. Is this a setting I’ve missed?

Scrambled eggs, slightly overcooked mac and cheese.

At the gym today a white woman complained to me that Asian women were using paper towels from the dispenser after their showers instead of bringing their own towels, and said it was “weird and sad” that maybe they didn’t know about towels. I think I saw a new racism being born? A weird and sad one.

A bean named Suzuki

Going to try out Focus Friend later today when I have some boring work to do and see if if helps or if it’s a distraction of its own. I have, of course, named the bean Suzuki.