Donald Ryan

Some things made today besides dinner:
Art with the 4yo
Butter crackers (for store bought dip)
Few page headway in book club book
Coffee (black)
A few edited paragraphs
Grape jelly
The 1yo cry (wouldn’t let him walk in street)
The 1yo’s nap bottle
My wife laugh
My wife blush

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okay i’m not saying i’ve learned everything at my middle age but i do think that maybe the key to happiness is having food, water, shelter, some degree of financial stability, good friends, and the wherewithal to slow down and feel time

extreme busyness is a plague

A werewolf and cloud-streaked full moon done in a washable marker and watercolor on a paper scribbled with red crayon

4yo is on pre-k fall break so playing hooky and doing collabs

Always wild to me that in the year 2000, Robert Zemeckis made a Brian De Palma film while Brian De Palma made a Robert Zemeckis movie.

it is @emilylauracosta.bsky.social's bday today, and so now you should extra def order Girl on Girl for yourself to celebrate

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Small watercolor painting depicting a gloomy seascape at night. A small sailboat lies on the water in the light of the full moon. The sea is calm. But in the deep, dark black-green water beneath the boat, a black kraken tentacle with white suction cups writhes.

#hARToween25
Day 6: Dark Water

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

if you say mint chocolate tastes like toothpaste I’m gonna assume you don’t brush your teeth

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

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Really feels like a great time for a new Verhoeven banger if he's got one left film to give.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Sun rises behind construction rubble.

Damn I wish I could lick my screen like a Willy Wonka wall

When I say from scratch know I mean literally and know I go hard. While the ciabatta bakes I’m making a Greek inspired soup with homemade stock and leftover chicken from 3 different meals.

2 red and 1 large American bird grasshoppers and a caterpillar on romaine lettuce I let go to seed

We got tummy aches, it looks like it might storm, and now the boys are back in town.

Feathery apparition

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I don’t know about the PNW but here in the deep red south at Build a Bear you type any ol shit into a computer, it’s printed out, and no one cares but grasp those straws to send the troops that way I guess

I know it’s short notice but if anyone wants to come do a reading tonight I’ll be on my front porch in this so-called “city” in the deep, middle of nowhere south, shouting at the neighbors. 8pm est, 5pm pst.

My wife and I watch a 1995 movie, Now and Then, with Christina Ricci and Devon Sawa that’s not Casper.

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

Squish ice vending machine

Antifa vending machine

You will want to read this for sure.
RIP Dad.
All of this is true. The events took place last January.
And thank you to Bull for publishing this.

I’m no expert, but which came first?

Hope the chicken’s doing well, tho!

Don Bronco’s (Working Title) Shell smells like eggs. Or does it?

Printing a copy od Backmask that smells like cigarettes, whiskey and 1960s anti-anxiety meds

No spoilers but I few of these guys get touched