"oh wow i love the cobwebs on your windows. very spooky" haha yeah those are on purpose

Poem reading: Laundromat Blues It made my thighs ache, your knees hooked over mine, mug resting on your sternum, free hand on phone. No pain is welcomed in the moment, in the making of sofa commercials, of imprints and intimacies, on cushions and cuttings clipped from our unremarkable unremarked upon touchings that pile up, laundry in the corner of shared lives.

Thrilled for my poem, "Laundromat Blues" to be featured in LCC's beautiful Summer 2025 issue. #booksky #poetry

A hand holds a bottle of Wild Cherry flavoured Clearly Canadian.

Hot take: these should be in every store in the country. All the other drinks of the 90s did not last, but these, these are the shit.

Inverse cowgirl, so I can find the cotangent

It’s Friday Baby so you know what that means that’s right time to make sure we’re Hunkin it Dumb Boy style in that DooDad Dumb way only the Real heads can

You should sever any relationship, including a close friendship, with someone who is rude to waitstaff.

One of the best parts of teaching is saying to a student, "I've never thought of it that way. That's a really good idea for a project." We are giving them skills to push past what we know into new areas of research.

(donkey walks by)
Ah the noble donkey!

(donkey out of earshot)
Foolish beast.

David foster Wallace and a lobster meme

remember when

There is such poignancy in that single end-stopped line that opens the poem

'Just Once' by Anne Sexton

#poetry
#poemoftheday

I'm happy to be alive but it's the worst thing that's ever happened to me

hi it's me mr beast and today we're slouching towards bethlehem

kpop bargain hunters

no! NO!!

you can take a bath in any liquid. they can't stop you

Name A 28-Year-Old | Defector Here is the challenge before you: Name a famous person who is 28 years old. Go ahead. No cheating, no looking it up. Off the dome. Pure, uncut 28-year-old naming. I bet you can’t do it.  Zendaya? 29. ...

probably the most fun i've had reading something online in weeks

defector.com/name-a-28-ye...

We’re getting rid of leaf blowers by eating 50 leaves a day each. Get out there

Don’t get mad at the muppets for playing the Riyadh Comedy Festival, it’s the only way they can save the theater

gentle reminder for anyone who is anticipating the need for caramelized onions later this week: you should probably start now

you should be able to take off work because your book is getting to the good part

rip sisyphus you would have loved escalators

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

just saw a cottage cheese commercial that shows two teens eating cottage cheese while gaming. it’s possible that i’m out of touch with today’s youth but i don’t know about that one

64 yard field goal and nobody on earth thought he wasn’t gonna nail it

Cyclops version of that girl from Mean Girls saying "I don't think my father, the inventor of the ocean, would be too pleased to hear about this."

Polyphemus after Odysseus doxxed himself

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

the correct plate for a sandwich is paper towel

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.