A Far Land

Proud music nerd mom moment. My child’s Lego house includes a record player. I am raising the future.

It’s only Candyland, but I shuffle the cards with the intensity of Vegas blackjack.

@dailybreeze.bsky.social are you looking into this?

His timing was such that he was a little later than the others and able to translate some of his best songs into cinematic and memorable music videos.
Not that the Beatles didn’t try to bring our nightmares to life, yellow sub.

I was told there would be cake.

I started this habit last year, and it was a very grounding ritual. Sadly it has fallen by the wayside,and this is a good reminder to pick it up again.

I was once having a panic attack and I went outside and saw a seagull swallowing a starfish and it fixed everything.

I’m discovering more and more that our house, built during the “prosperity of the Reagan years,” is held together almost entirely with various types of putty.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
#ides

This film felt like theatre of the avatars/ theatre of the absurd cranked to 11. And contained so much humanity.

The King’s Hawaiian Bakery

There was a British TV movie in the 80s called “Threads” about the immediate and subsequent impacts following a nuclear attack.

Waking the Dead by Scott Spencer.

Tonight my kid “hates” me…and she hates towels, so I feel like I’m in good company.

Gene, this is Jessi from the Titan. I’m sorry to see you hurting. If you need support we are here for you. @mattsedlar.bsky.social is near DC. And if you want to get offline for a few days you are invited up to Vermont to hang out with me and a bunch of farm animals.

Finding light in the cracks of the earth where sheep can nibble graham crackers from blissful little fingers on such a deeply dark day.

I once watched a seagull ingest a starfish half its size and then fly away like it was no big deal while I was left awestruck. We are capable of things that seem insurmountable when we are hungry enough.

Is there an Angeleno who doesn’t have a David Lynch story? Even if it’s just hearing about the weather, he was connected to us all.

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.

How you can help the incarcerated firefighters battling L.A. wildfires The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons.

I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week:

www.latimes.com/california/s...

These have to be the cutest steam buns I’ve ever seen.

My hope is that we can be sanctuary. Sad and frustrated by the destruction our friends and family are facing at this moment and that greed of the few isn’t folding before the devastation of the masses.

I was just looking for an edit button!

Putting together a thread of MUTUAL AID resources for anyone affected by the LA fires…drop em in the comments, pinning this post👇👇

You can see the fires here in the weather cams from Mount Wilson observatory in the mountains above Pasadena

www.mtwilson.edu/hpwren-tower...

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys.

This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

I’m wondering if anyone out on the webs has this print, as well? The artist is Robert J Lee. I haven’t been able to find it in google image searches.

Saw four teenage boys walking down the street, 1 dressed as Santa, another in a top hat and white sweats - maybe Christmas Carol but giving heavy Alex from A Clockwork Orange vibes.

Long night.

I've been out in the woods and fields a lot this week, and as far as I can tell the drones are not bothering with Vermont.