Melissa

Two halves of a tray of millionaire's shortbread on a white cutting board. The cookie, caramel, and chocolate layers are visible.

A piece of millionaire's shortbread on a dark blue ceramic plate.

Finally gave millionaire's shortbread a try to see if I could pull it off. It's messy but tastes quite good. This holiday season, I'll be making a gingerbread version. 🍽️

Nirvana – Man Who Sold the World
Big Black – The Model
Wreckage – Pornography
Siouxsie – The Passenger
Bauhaus – Third Uncle
Morrissey (ugh) – Back on the Chain Gang

Black mint chocolate chip cookies studded with white chocolate chips on two trays lined with aluminum foil.

A closeup of mint chocolate chip cookies studded with white chocolate chips on two trays lined with aluminum foil.

Baked with black cocoa for the first time.

40 years ago today
Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye backstage after Black Flag concert, DC Space, Washington DC, October 4, 1985.

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #henryrollins #IanMacKaye #history #punkhistory

Digital portrait of David Tennant as Crowley. He is immersed in darkness, and only his profile and his right hands are visible. His hand slightly cover his mouth, and he has a pensive hair. Some splashes of red add brightness to the portrait.

After a somewhat long time, I was in the mood for #Crowley! I forgot how much I loved painting him <:

I hope you like it! 💙

#AnthonyJCrowley #DavidTennant #GoodOmens #IneffableHusbands #Wisesnail

It’s one social media, Michael. How much could it take to monitor it, 30 people?

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

a witch holding a candle saying if you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.

annual PSA

Surprise! Turns out the five people you meet in heaven are all Edward Ka-Spel, and he just wants to smoke a bowl and talk about Fairport Convention.

That tropical storm gonna need about…tree-fiddy

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint.

I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

gentle reminder for anyone who is anticipating the need for caramelized onions later this week: you should probably start now

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

100% -- I'll take an oatmeal raisin cookie over chocolate chip any day (though I still love chocolate chip).

Oof. Rolling Stone dot com about to find out how many people were mostly subscribing for Alan Sepinwall.

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

gotta say, the thirst-mourning over Robert Redford has been an entertaining distraction from, well, *gestures wildly*

Quote with your fan art.

#Hannibal and the periodic table, from around 2016.

rusted wendy's sign is horrifying

"Sir, this is a [HOWLING OF MILLIONS OF DEMONS OF HELL]."

Shoresy

The Falling Man Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i...

I re-read this every year. May his memory, & those of all we lost on that day, be a blessing.

This is my yearly read, as well. An incredible piece of writing.

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

What did you have to do to get it? I haven't found any concrete info yet and would like to get one within the month.

Slightly diminish a book.

100 Years of Occasional Company

This looks awesome. What kind of cake is it?

Care to do something—literally anything—about it?