Kathleen Towers, still haunted

I mean, with how common gray cars have become, “Bludicrous” seems appropriate.

I am continuing to spitefully write my own emails.

So far at my office, people have mostly asked it questions & proved it was wrong and used it to reformat text documents (ie make a list of addresses easier to copy/paste).

We saw this exactly a week after my friend’s sister, so as we’re walking out, she called her sister and was all, “Seven days!” in a growly voice.

Direct link worked for me—it was a fun episode, too.

Ike, I grew up in Porkopolis. Flying pigs are sort of a thing in Cincy.

The pigs are cute.

This is why my niece Mika had 2 identical Tiggers, one of whom lived quietly up in a laundry room cabinet.

Important convos are always phone calls, anyway.

My sister Em’s a lawyer now (but she’d probably agree w you).

This sounds similar to me being pretty much constantly jealous of the fantastic dinosaur prints only available in preschool sizes.

Sarah’s cooler than I am. And I think Em is too.

Not the cool aunt.

What 50%?

What did you want to be when you grew up (in chronological order)?

1. Astronaut
2. Writer
3. Radio Astronomer
4. Bioinformatics Engineer
5. Employed/Self-Sustaining & Less Depressed
6. The Cool Aunt

Name 5 authors you’ve read 3 short stories by (stories have to be published within the last 10 years).

Amber Sparks
Ananda Lima
Premee Mohamed
Cassandra Khaw
Sam J Miller

It was never about fairness in high school sports, it was always about destroying trans people’s lives

But we could be reincarnated as giant tortoises or capybaras or something cool.

So dinosaur origami + weekly book club proved sufficient distraction from SOTU.

Ike, thank-you for volunteering for Dinosaur Origami Night. Next time, we’ll start w/ the beginner models.

Intimidating younger sisters, cool friends, a lot of books.

Love living in a state where vaccine rates have fallen sufficiently that the disease that almost killed my mother as a kid is still a problem.

Have told James Thomson, my drama major friend, that he needs to write the script for a film adaptation of this. B/c I need one to exist.

“It’s the journey, not the destination.”

Also, my Night Worms subscription is excellent.

The heads seem tiny.

Kathleen’s purple brachiosaur & @spherewolf.bsky.social’s pink brachiosaur.

I think @spherewolf.bsky.social tried harder than I did?

A less-than-perfect brachiosaur.

I gave up? Tipsy origami is difficult.

Cover for John Dickson Carr’s novel Castle Skull: A Rhineland Mystery. It has a tower bridge on the cover, which seems incorrect b/c they always had to row or take the launch across?

Henri Bencolin, head of French police—lets his friend’s son Jeff follow him around and occasionally condescendingly asks him for input? Like fantastic deduction followed by, “Jeff, what do you think?”

This is the book I was talking about & also one of the images that comes up when you search ‘Henri Bencolin’ the brilliant detective who is referred to as ‘Devilface’ throughout.

Step 23!

Now it has backlegs! And we’re also discussing British Crime Classics author John Dickson Carr and his fantastically fun novel, Castle Skull.