Average Jane

It’s rough this year.

All of this.

Enormous fluffy black cat in a floofy cat bed right next to a much smaller brown and tan chihuahua on a grey blanket.

You might think, “Well, of course most cats are bigger than a chihuahua.” But you need to know that *this* is an extra-large chihuahua weighing ~12 lbs, so the cat is truly massive. An absolute unit.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

(The album was already old by then, but I was very into prog rock in my late teens and early twenties.)

Ugh. I’m having that same struggle. I need to go to Costco and the grocery store but I don’t wanna.

My dog doesn't realize that I'm extra messy when I chop cabbage for coleslaw because I know how much she loves it.

Exactly. I'm also a little meh about the peanut butter one, but candy is candy.

Today is the 22nd anniversary of my blog, so I wrote a little something about it: averagejane.com/2026/02/15/a...

Shiny black cat with gold eyes, giving you the stink eye with her ears in the airplane position.

Mazikeen always looks like she wants to fight me when I take her picture.

Congratulations!

Ooh, covet!

I am begging you to remember that the cringe youth slang you are using ironically to make fun of today WILL BECOME A PART OF YOUR EVERYDAY LANGUAGE TOMORROW. That's how it works! All usage etches it into the cement of our culture!

It is!

An icy mocktail in a tall glass that’s pink at the top and yellow further down. It involves pineapple and coconut, I think.

Yesss!

Squee! I’m so excited to see this!!!

@scribblymoth.bsky.social Thanks for the lovely Galentine’s Day card! It arrived just on time. We need to plan some kind of get-together soon!

Mine says the battery can be replaced, so that’s my next step. I have a 13 mini and I don’t want a honking huge phone.

This is a great example of using one's platform! Finally, a "we need to talk about" that we actually need to talk about

Yes, it’s damaged my battery for sure.

I’m gonna need to stock up on the hiking pants I like.

We used to have a Xena, but she wasn’t as noisy as this cat.

The resemblance only goes so far. 😂

No, but I’ve had cats who do that.

I can smell this sentiment.

Considering that her current physique can best be described as “spherical,” any shortage of kibble is an emergency for her.

I think her food bowl was empty! She’s a little yard cat that I scooped up, brought in, and had fixed.

The spouse has nicknamed one of the cats “La Llorona” because of the way she drifts around the house wailing for no apparent reason. Anyway, that’s why I’m awake at 5am.

A poster hanging in a bookstore. The design is a modern reinterpretation of a tarot card, with a person pierced by ten swords doomscrolling their phone. The text reads “everything is fine”

Same! I just bought some stick-on patches to fix a couple of rips because I’m not ready to let it go.

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.