Shannon Heaton

A brownish and black tabby cat with a white chin heads into the green curtained door of our front closet. She is standing on bricks near a colorful rug.

Taking leave of our tiresome company…

#CatsOfBluesky

Thanks honey! #Valentines #Magic™️

and who's remaking all the rooms in the WH in marble again...I forget.

This is what Amy Klobuchar kept asking for. Instead of saying "Abolish ICE" she just kept saying "ICE needs to leave Minnesota," which just means they're going to go terrorize some other population.

This was a really good read (read the audiobook so my internal voice has a bit of a Irish accent right now), I really appreciated the style of this book.

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
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16 - I didn't like it at first.

...and it's all running out like it's the end of the world, you said...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic
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16 - About boys/"men".

...but I heard the rest in your head and almost immediately I felt sorry...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
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16 - For a rainy day.

...Frightened of this thing that I've become...

#BilliesMusicMonth
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16 - Love of art/media.

...He told me he liked Turner; never have I turned since then...

Yep. Corker of a read, twas.

#WrongDisneySong
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16 - Mulan, and the importance of breaking stereotype.

(Possible CW!)

...I can't understand why she walks like a woman and talks like a man...

#FebruaryMusicChallenge
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16 - Thoughtful song.

...Have you each and all gone blind...

#52WeeksOfFavourites
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Week 7 - 1985 (the joys of industrial BITD) - 4

...this head, bent in submission, these scars...

#BlueZicos
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Monday, 16 February. The Games - Card.

...I met all the cards, the wild cards, the One-Eye Jill, the Red Queen...

Book 34 📚 for 2026. This book has the receipts for claiming today's CBP/ICE gangs have far too much in common with 19th-C slave catchers. Thurgood Marshall had it right back in 1973, and we've been paying the price ever since. Great, taut read. Available everywhere, including your local library.

Loaf of bread on a cooling rack on top of a composite fake marble counter. It’s made with a whole wheat protein dough that one kind with yogurt.

New bread attempt.

A brownish and black tabby cat with a white chin, Obi-Wan Katnobi, is on a colorful rug in profile showing off her impressive ears

She can hear you, you know…

#CatsOfBluesky

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
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15 - Always makes me cry.

...It's a lie we don't believe anymore...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic
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15 - About girls.

...With new wave hairdos, I want...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
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15 - It's driving.

...Alright, hold tight...

#BilliesMusicMonth
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15 - Flirting.

...My chance is lookin' a bit gray...

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14 - Nature.

...All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep...
(this is Loreena McKennitt's Bonny Portmore)

Hot damn. It really does get better, 31-year-old me.

Even at UMinn?

#WrongDisneySong
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15 - Hercules, and the importance of finding identity.

...black hole opened in the kitchen, every clock's a different time...

#FebruaryMusicChallenge
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15 - Unused as an alarm tone.

...take away my worries of today...

#52WeeksOfFavourites
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Week 7 - 1985 (the joys of industrial BITD) - 3

...cold in the head but warm in the heart... (Editor's note: vinyl release for this album was in 85)

#BlueZicos
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Sunday, 15 February. Appearance - 7.

...You live with apes, man, it's hard to be clean...

Book 33 📚 for 2026. Title grabs you, for sure, and the 14 or 32 times it's repeated in the text, you get theme. But we know AI is terrible slop, right? We wouldn't be so stupid, right? We all remember Skynet, right? Let's not do that. Decent read. Available everywhere, including your local library.

Photo of jd Vance leaning against a couch. Text says happy Valentine’s Day to this amazing couple

A day late but Happy Valentines Day everybody.