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Felt sad, baked cake. Am now sad, but with cake.

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Okay, which of my nearby folks is going to come visit for Double Decker, with the free Wilco and Margo Price shows? cc: @noelmu.bsky.social @donnadb.bsky.social @alyxvesey.bsky.social @p00rrichard.bsky.social

One thing I deeply appreciate about AMADEUS is it's one of the few films that accurately depicts the creative process (being clammy, pale, and sitting in your bed).

Back in the house!

Water! Power! Heat!

11 days.

More repairs coming, but we are in a livable house again.

I’d go with Dark Star. Next to 2001, the contrasts will be clearer.

People are famously very chill about their coffee orders being wrong.

I can't say the slow leak of the Epstein Files has taught me anything, but it's perhaps reinforced for me that it's not enough to avoid becoming filthy rich, one should also avoid associating with the filthy rich--you get very little from the riches and a lot from the filth.

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To all the line workers, tree removers, trash collectors, street cleaners, and thousands of volunteers slowly making my small town livable again… Thank you.

Hotel life continues.

At the house we have water again, but no power. Line workers are in our neighborhood, which is promising.

Insurance claims slowly being filed. (Bless you, State Farm. It's been an actual pleasure*.)

*subject to change at a moment's notice

I can't say the slow leak of the Epstein Files has taught me anything, but it's perhaps reinforced for me that it's not enough to avoid becoming filthy rich, one should also avoid associating with the filthy rich--you get very little from the riches and a lot from the filth.

I needed something to match the cold weather vibes and put on Tarkovsky (Solaris, which I haven't seen since my early 20s).

Independent of team, there are few players in the NWSL whom I root for as much as Bella Bixby. This sucks.

After a tow out of our neighborhood, we were able to hit the most clear roads to the next big town over (about an hour away). We had to book a room a full day in advance because every room is sold out within 100 miles.

Life is bizarrely normal here. Just people doing the normal stuff an hour away.

Crystal Dunn is one of the all-time great USWNT players.

Her tenacity, intelligence, speed, and tackling masked the program’s developmental issues.

Her positional flexibility is the new model.

Her leadership and presence spurred the activism that was mostly attributed to her white teammates.

Front box of Trix “6 fruity shapes”

Trix has shapes now?!?

Really impressed with Riley Jackson’s vision and distribution. That’s what I’ll remember most from this game.

Suddenly the #uswnt is stacked with 6s and 10s. Good problems to have.

#philsky

I don’t know him very well, but I’m sure John would Zoom in, too.

A lineman just told us one month.

John Rash

especially Negro Terror

Modern Times Cafe becomes 'free restaurant' in response to ICE surge The daytime eatery isn't charging for food or drinks "until the occupation of Minneapolis is over."

Local punk/vegan-friendly Minneapolis restaurant has temporarily changed its name to Post Modern Times and switched to pay-what-you-can meal service until the ICE occupation is over. ❤️ (So that's what's meant by postmodern, I finally get it!!!)

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happy Over It Day to all who celebrate

Both Super Bowl coaches are named Mike.

This is the third time the Super Bowl has featured two coaches with the same name, and it was ALSO Mike both times.

The crisis continues unabated.

A crew of randos with UTVs and chainsaws reached our neighborhood from the outside. So we might have a pathway out to the plowed roads if the many downed power lines are avoidable.

There’s some hope that roads will be clear by Thursday. Maybe power, too, but that’s mostly up to where we fall on the priority list and how many crews from elsewhere show up. We aren’t expecting either until next week, which is why we’ve started clearing what we can.

We are based at the one house with a working fireplace. (Our house is 43 and dropping.)

My kids are out with the neighbors clearing the streets of ice-crusted downed trees (the ones not attached to power lines).

I’m cooking for 13 using propane burners. (It’s so cold that all the food keeps.)

TCM Becomes “Ongoing Home” of the Looney Tunes Library (Exclusive) A new six-year licensing deal brings the classic cartoons to the channel. It starts in February with 45 shorts featuring Star of the Month Bugs Bunny.

TCM will become the “ongoing home” of the LOONEY TUNES library.

A six-year licensing deal for more than 750 shorts starts in Feb.

"We’re able to present these cartoons with the care they deserve alongside the classic films they helped influence."

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They just cancelled school **for the week.**

Three trees have reached the house but no significant damage that I can see right now. But it’s too dangerous to be outside. Trees bending and snapping all around. I saw one fallen over down to the roots, but most are snapping halfway up.