Marlene Detritus

Happy 4 Elimination Games Day to all the fellow sickos

Ely is gone to Ireland for two weeks so it's just me and Ziggy and Dito and they are already treating me like an unwanted babysitter so we are in for a good time.

Emotionally hung over!

YouTube video by Tupac Hologram Unknown Eskimo DJs - Eskimo Radio: She Be She Strike

Yes, I'm into ASMR*

*The "She Be She" radio hijack (1980) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ybk...

I'm glad that you're still a Ziggy fan on instagram. I've told him about you.

I'm reveling in the chaos but I need a breathing space.

I don't know if I can hack it over here, to be honest. I'll give it another shot.

Woke up to a notification at 4am that an assignment was available at a middle school near me. First of all, rude, and second, I have been dodging middle schools all years, so it was nice to open it and find out that it had been snatched up. It's fine, I can have a little day off once in a while.

oh wow you went through a whole desert and your horse doesn't even have a name.. hey quick question, where do you think horse names come from

Gimme Magritte, boys, and free my soul / Ceci n’est pas une rock ‘n’ roll / Green apple face

Oh word your love language is Acts Of Service? That’s wild, I’m an INFP. These are my dogs. Dito’s an empath and Ziggy is a sapiosexual.

The app is messing up; I keep appearing under “Popular With Friends”.

This is very true in that one way to resolve the problem of evil is to allow that it is possible that God is Good, but not especially concerned with the happiness of people.

Episcopal in-jokes are either the funniest or most inscrutable stuff you have ever heard and there is no in-between.

[too loudly at party] yeah episcopal memes are some of the dankest protestant shit, probably anything could be for real

Every time Ely takes more than three minutes after a shower I’m like, it’s Facemask O’Clock. But I will never be mean.

SCROOGE: [calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him] “What’s to-day, my fine fellow?”
LOITERED-IN LOOKIN’-ASS BOY: “Why, it’s Go Fuck Yourself Scrooge Day!”
SCROOGE: “I haven’t missed it.”

This one is also not great.

I do not remember this display name.

It’s perfectly fine to say that something’s not art or that someone is not an artist. If anything one should interrogate why you feel it’s like an incursion on your person or worth.

I keep suggesting that we go to the awesome Ethiopian cafe on the corner and Ely has to remind me that it burned down years ago. It’s not a bit; I genuinely cannot hold in my mind that it isn’t there anymore. It is simultaneously a ghost story and a running joke.

I have been extended an invitation to interview with the school district, which is nice in as much as I am no longer stressing about hearing back and instead get to stress about weird things they might say to me while I feel for that one misshaven patch on my neck.

In every relationship, one of you is going to be slow-sneaky and the other is going to be sneaky-fast. One of you is going to painstakingly plot out your goings-on in stealth, and the other is going to appear suddenly in the doorway when you know you just heard them bustling about in the kitchen.

"Emotion and colonialism: building affective ties in contested landscapes. Settlers and their furnished burials and cremations in the Viking Age North Channel." On a Monday morning??

Penny, our warden's dog, is coming to stay with us for a while. She and Ziggy are great together because they each so badly want to be chased, so their play is baiting each other and then running until they need to reestablish the plot.

Ziggy perched in a hollow crook of a large old tree, high off the ground.

Ziggy perched in a hollow crook of a large old tree, high off the ground.

Ziggy levelling up his stump game.

They’re funny at church. Dito is a menace and Ziggy chases and corners him trying to get him to act right.

Ziggy and Dito on a grassy slope, Sutro Tower and a sunset in the background.

Dito and Ziggy on a stump, the Painted Ladies behind them.

Dito up on hind legs and Ziggy standing behind, cast in the light of a stained glass window.

Dito and Ziggy tussling on a grey comforter, the latter trying to engulf the former’s face.

Two chihuahua mixes, both so different and alike….

Dito and Ziggy in ugly sweaters on an ugly couch. Dito is perplexed and Ziggy is seething.

Ely got the boys matching sweaters to bring you this 1983 Olan Mills lookin’-ass holiday photo.