Sammy J

Look. I care about climate change a lot. I'm close to a single-issue voter on the subject!

But we have GOT to stop worrying about what are, in the scheme of things, rounding errors. I hate, hate, hate this kind of personal-responsibility climate stuff, it's deeply counterproductive.

This is a Bluesky tollgate. You must submit a cute selfie to scroll the feed.

Beach babes 🐾

I just subscribed to Marvel Unlimited after enjoying X-Men ‘97 because I wanted more! So yes!

View from a plane window that shows a plane’s jet engine and in the background the sun setting over Puget Sound

Will never, ever get over this view as my plane lands in Seattle. Despite being a Californian these days, it’ll always look like home.

Two figures at Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge, a Stormtrooper and a man in a grey sweatshirt leaning in towards and gazing adoringly at the Stormtrooper

I spent my day at Disneyland chasing around Stormtroopers 😍

I’m pretty sure this girl on the flight next to me is having phone sex while we’re waiting for the boarding doors to close. AIRPLANE MODE CANNOT COME FAST ENOUGH!

I would be so much better at my job if siestas were part of my workday

About to win Easter Brunch with a spinach and Gruyère casserole and a chocolate hazelnut torte 🤌

I could never. And it’s only partly because I still have to think reaaaal hard about my right versus left. I’m a pretend adult.

My new yoga studio has me appreciating how difficult it must be to be an effective yoga teacher. Your experience of your body is so personal. How does one communicate things like “pull your inner groin up” and have it make sense?!

Song of the Sea is such a beautiful movie

This is too much

Our culture has real trouble grasping that we can't bring back what it felt like to see The Prisoner/Ghostbusters/Star Wars the first time by doing them again, because the thing that made them compelling is that they were different. We can only feel that feeling again by making more new things.

From Toni Morrison:

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do.”

Black dog with white patches sitting on a sandy beach with waves crashing in the background

My dog and I had a morning stroll on the beach this morning in Lincoln City, OR

Usher for Super Bowl MVP

Why didn’t anyone remind me that the grocery store is a literal hellscape on Super Bowl Sunday!?

Photo of a pebble beach with a wooded outcropping of land in the background

The PNW is the most beautiful region of the country. If you think otherwise, I’m sorry to inform you that you’re wrong.

I am both totally enchanted and entirely confused by Boy and the Heron. But I do know I want to meet a warawara.