Aarik Danielsen

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oh shit. what if Florence Welch is our Julian of Norwich? (he types, listening to “perfume and milk”)

so good

lol

i just kept smirking. so smart. so savage.

jfc

congrats, natalie!

a woman with red hair is sitting in a chair laughing while wearing a ring on her finger . Alt: a woman with red hair is sitting in a chair laughing while wearing a ring on her finger .

Finally catching up with the new Florence and the Machine.

“One of the Greats” is just a lyrical evisceration of the ageless myth of the misunderstood male genius.

My gf just left me a voice memo in which she used the phrase “a faster back road to the Cheesecake Factory” which is the most quintessentially her thing she’s ever said

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, The Josef Albers Foundation, Inc., 1991 © 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Study for “Homage to the Square: Consent” by Josef Albers, 1971
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137253

my son just sang “It’s November babygirl” in a falsetto and I think he might be Bon Iver

think I’m in a place with my music consumption where I’m easily pleased but not easily wowed. not sure if that’s good, bad or other.

lentils?

it’s the final boss of our brainy operation

Dance Yrself Clean by LCD sound system

Millennials haven’t had easy lives but at least we’ll always have this beat drop at 3:07

(it's v true)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift of the artist, 1982 Art © Estate of Jack Tworkov/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Red Lode by Jack Tworkov, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137460

considering this today as i encourage one of my funny friends to follow another of my funny friends on here, and also my sides regularly ache from how hilarious my partner is

maybe that's why i never bought into the "female comics aren't funny" bullshit. i've literally seen the opposite my entire life.

feel so fortunate to have been surrounded by hilarious, clever women for so much of my life (especially now)

you know i'm decidedly not ok if @hollypelesky.bsky.social ever says this to me

also a good name for a deftones song/dad injury

November 7, 2025 — Aarik Danielsen The first sign of Snocaps and a poet’s ‘Resting Bitch Face.’

This week's Friday Five is live!

Music from Snocaps, Claire Rousay, @chatpileband.bsky.social
+ Hayden Pedigo

Words by @taylorbyas.bsky.social and Annie Proulx

aarikdanielsen.com/blog/novembe...

been there but in reverse

once again I’m a walking testimony that, fashion-wise, the line between Midwest dad and member of Deftones is filament-thin

“If I’m being honest, you sound like a corpse. I think you need to drink some water.”

- my loving gf

what if we felt so safe that it let us be really free (positive)

Holly on the ladder at a St. Louis bookstore with a bookshop cat in the foreground

What’s it like to be with her? They ask