Anna

I hope my fellow #chapelhill and #carrboro people are doing ok with round 2 ⛈️! This is my backyard right now. Recommended that you turn up the volume to max.

having baked a mediocre loaf of bread is particularly galling because you know good bread, you have made good bread. You know what it is meant to be! And your sub-par failure loaf is seasoned with the absence of all those prior successes

Bookclub woes?

A Renaissance pope would already have been poisoned by now.

Great that @fantagraphics.bsky.social will publish Akvilė Magicdusté's Bitės in 2025! Akvilė rocks! www.fantagraphics.com/collections/...

Bluesky ir pavisam jautrāks kopš visi latvieši parādījās.

My Bluesky feed has completely changed since all the Latvians showed up last month. Love this data visualization of tangerine quality in Rīga supermarkets: I feel like I'm there. Welcome, guys. 🇱🇻

This is whatever the opposite of clickbait is. (Clickeczema?)

Nest

I was with you until this one. Peyote?

I took this question on with way too much angsty energy: do I get more credits for my adolescent behavior?

My score is... Middle aged but under my actual middle age so I'm feeling semi solid

Two events in a concert calendar: Monday, Oct 10: The Cure, Avicii Arena, Stockholm Tuesday, Oct 11: Placebo, Cirkus, Stockholm

We accidentally ended up with a clinical trial in the music scene here.

Lūdzu, iekļaujiet arī mani. Līdz šim rakstu angliski, bet esmu lielā sajūsmā par jauno 🇱🇻 Bluesky enerģiju!

Also want to say the Lithuanian options sound fucking amazing. I don't know anything about the movie scene in Lithuania but I'm super looking forward to those in particular 🇱🇹

2024 Virtual Line-Up — New York Baltic Film Festival

🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪 Baltic film festival with a nice virtual selection. I saw Marijas klusums last spring when I was in Latvia and definitely will be rewatching
www.balticfilmfestival.com/2024-virtual...

ChatGPT told me that Thomas Mann wrote the preface to the first German edition of Henry James's "Turn of the Screw." Shortly thereafter, it admitted that was a total lie. But oh what sweet deluded thoughts I enjoyed before the harsh truth was confessed. 📚

I had a weird vit c situation this year and have wondered if something changed about industrial level ingredient supply. For years used $$$kinceuticals. Happily switched to Timeless. 3rd bottle Timeless=hot dog puke. Went back to $$$. Same situation!

What to do with a collapsing Kierkegaard and key financial documents? (Attempted bookshelf purge)

i want this

Film criticism graffiti fight (waiting for the bus in Ravenna, Italy)

Hanging out in Nashville. Pictured marker practically in the middle of honky tonk central. I wonder if the party buses stop to commemorate the contribution to ornithological science.

Making a Jāņu siers, a cheese traditionally made for the Latvian midsummer celebration Jāņi. Cheese is what Latvians do instead of human sacrifice. Otherwise that movie Midsommar offers a pretty solid ethnographic description of it all.

Ooh well timed: I've been unpacking my Mitsouko issues w some angst in recent days. I confess I want to just waltz in like one of the starched linen collar killjoys in a gothic novel and bury it at the crossroads with some garlic toast across its pillowy bosom or whatever will have done with it fast

Gah: agree completely! I love foresty but it's not even a forest I really want to hang out in too much.

Yeah perfume is an indulgent and wasteful way to spend money: check out the NYT lifestyle section for a fuckton more ways to do so.

When Did Teen Boys Get a Nose for $300 Cologne? Some Gen Z kids can’t seem to get enough of the luxury fragrances.

NYT scare story about young ppl buying perfume: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/s...
Exciting to see fragrance fandom become a new way for the olds to hate on the youngs (after hula hoops, droopy pants, DnD, decades of video game hate).
As an old myself: have fun, youngsters, and smell however you want

Just try harder and don't use a zoom background!

My courtyard generates a slight echo and the cicada action here is fucking metal. Brood XIX!!🤘🏼

Some reporter on the BBC just pronounced Wichita to rhyme with akita. It was pretty cute. I hope he doesn't get in trouble.

Prob not crack though

Heading to Ravenna in a couple of months myself for mad history geekout. Really hoping for Theoderic bobbleheads, must confess.