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I had the same thought. It's a lot, ilia

Selections from interstellar beats selections from gladiator imo

Finished my book during Olympics commercials. Caffeine headache is resolved. Now I'd love to do some dishes and plan dinner but figure skating is STILL ON

"this Olympic program will return shortly". Really? Why did I have to leave and come back to the skating event I've been watching all afternoon, peacock?

They were so cute in their box too!

Astra just stopped editing her. I'm so mad.

I figured it out. In 2020 Jolene came out, the last good one I remember. Astra acquired DAW in 2022. Then Annie Oakley was published (zero conflict, a huge snooze), then Amelia's list (pacing problems, no action despite one character being a jaguar shape shifter), then the cyprian this year.

Caught up on the Elemental Masters series--which I enjoy! But Mercedes is spending 3/4 of the book describing every lace shawl this girl makes and then two pages on the action climax and a paragraph on the epilogue. Babe, you have been writing books for 40 years what happened?

Having worked the local Council I can bet they made "reforms" for financial reasons. Scouting is failing esp after the sexual assault settlement. And there's actual families have been asking to let girls in for years. Who's supposed to watch the scouts' sisters when Mom's running the pack meeting?

Mitch is guilty he lied about having a brother to get a job (which has hugely backfired) and Ray forgives him IMMEDIATELY. It's in the same scene! What a beautiful character beat and a real surprise. He just wants to help his kid brother!

A thing I like about the Firm is that Strathairn's character isn't mad at Mitch. I feel like a movie nowadays (or let's face it a miniseries) would manufacture drama by making their relationship more fraught and messy.

Samesies

And I just learned about a great party cocktail that requires it!!!

No one wants to wear a coat for some reason! We saw multiple instacart types at the whole foods in wexford completely sans-outerwear. It was still like 5 degrees out!!

Yes pls

3 hours later: "Fuck! I WAS SUPPOSED TO CUT IT ON THE FOLD!...oh no wait. It's ok."

Do you have this on a disk or is it streaming somewhere?? I need to watch it again

I didn't even know this was Julian fellowes until the credits rolled.

Guys. Belgravia is off mgm+ and on britbox (which I do pay for) and I am seated. Two episodes in and the drama is 1000x better than the gilded age

Ned will delicately do this with @sunshot.bsky.social 's PINS in sewing projects. If he gets spotted and yelled at, he will run with the PIN in his MOUTH.

wow same

Photo of the appropriately named Winter Mausoleum in Allegheny Cemetery: a large blocky stone mausoleum with large ornamental columns in the Egyptian Revival style, fronted by a wide set of seven stairs flanked by buxom sphinx statues. The mausoleum is surrounded by trees and everything is under a layer of about eight inches of snow. Several feet in front of the mausoleum, someone has sculpted a likeness of one large-breasted statue out of snow, replicating its engimatic smole with twigs plucked from a dead branch that lays nearby.

Pittsburgh, I need you to know that someone made a snow-tittysphinx.

Its almost like they're trying to make calder more unlikable

This dumb puffy lipped informant on this season of shetland is dooooomed

Look, I'm not allergic to him, but I feel like others definitely might be!!

Why is there a small dog, off leash in my ALLERGIST'S OFFICE??

Ohmygod. I got her.
@sunshot.bsky.social 30 seconds earlier: she's impossible to photograph. She's like a cryptid.

Risa is on it. She's feeding 5 year olds. She's hooking up the antenna to call her husband and heading out to save the seniors!!

In 2026 we should all try to be more like Sosuke's mom in Ponyo. Now you have a magic 5 year old fish girl on your hands. Give her a job holding the emergency light!

Tender bar. Lawrenceville. Pittsburgh. It was a converted bank with historic checks as wallpaper on one side and a whole wall of bottles with a for real fucking rolly library ladder. Had my first "perfect" manhattan there. And a whole menu of prohibition cocktails is never heard of before. In 2013.