Laura Keating

Thumbnail of a YouTube video: Haunted Ghost Ship Ambience

The algorithm really knows I need those summer vibes 🏖️

Lake swimming on a cloudy day (bonus for early morning) is superior to swimming on a sunny day.

You don't need more than two good sweaters. They only get cozier, more familiar.

Pigeons are beautiful, scrappy, trusting little survivors. They deserve none of the hate they get (and if you're thinking "yes they do!" look inwards & ask why you think that).

They're doing the best they can.

Everyone should work in the service industry at least once, the world would be a more empathetic place.

Okay, I'd like to play.
One like, one opinion.

Cover of "Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour" by Kate Beaton. A stylized drawing of a man and four children standing on the back of a horae-drawn cart loaded with fresh cut hay.

Back cover

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love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes

Mine is a cat noise! and it wasn't until a similar uncertain silence that I realized how other people ... don't do that, haha.

Been feeling very Blauthor all summer, so that's my vote.

Working on a new novel (domestic suspense) at the snail's pace of about 500 words/week, as it is summer vacation for a very energetic 4 year old. But have gotten a lot of good notes/talking to myself through scenes done.

Me: I dunno, sometimes I feel I'm not Irish enough

*receives exciting news*

Me [extremely happy]: I shall take this to my grave

From: Night on Bald Mountain (1933), dir. Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker

Stsy out of the woods written over top the silhouettes of trees

Three people have now sent the Nova Scotia fire ban warning poster to me, expresses that it reminded them of me/something I'd write.
I'm so seen 🖤

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

I will be printing this quote on the side of a mug to remind myself in about 10 years when I do not get this reaction to anything, haha.

Oh, no!

My 4 yr old: "Mom, you look cool! As cool as a teenager - with a guitar!"

Not topping that. Peak cool mom.

Thank you!!

Drop the recipe? 👀 (or a quick break-down of the general concept so I can wing it, haha 😅)

Perfect representation of a First Draft

✅ Chaos
✅ Gaps
✅ Just having fun
✅ Full concept laid out
✅ Tea got made

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

A window that is common in Europe; the handle rotates to unlock different mechanisms to that the window can tilt open at the top or swing wide open.

I think about these once a day in the summer. Please, bring them here, let us have the tilt & swing windows like they have in Germany*. They're so useful! 😭

*I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched full patio doors tilt AND swing

Got one whiff of cool, almost-autumnal air and immediately harvested oregano, weeded the garden, cleared the woodpile, braided garlic, made a really good breakfast (savoury sausages, eggs, coffee), & started a pie crust.

I was a squirrel in another life, I know it.

I absolutely love when you're watching a claymation movie and you can see the thumbprints of the artists on a coat or animal or shoe, etc.
That little piece of the artist stamped in the final world.

Congrats, Hailey!

Only the opening line of "Rebecca" can rival the pure longing and nostalgia of the request.

But still, can you? Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?

Oh by the way, don’t forget you can ask your library to order nearly any book you want to read but don’t want to buy. And as authors we love libraries buying our books & readers being able to access them through libraries.

I have my moments, haha.