David Rheinstrom

A photo of a baseball diamond at sunset, depicting the flattened (espaliered) shrubby little dead tree in my lil micropoem

There's a dead espalier behind the baseball diamond,
reaching for a fastball
it can never catch

My friends Dave and Cati do something similar: if you say a phrase that sounds like a name, they do a bit, e.g.,

[huge handshake] Big Gulp? How the HELL are ya

or

Wow! From the Connecticut Gulps?

two floating shelves: below, four of Jillian's plants, each a different shape and funky color. Above, a photo of a sassy-looking magellanic penguin named Raul, and a tiny air plant

the collier's magazine, hung and framed beside the bathroom vanity

The bathroom is swiftly becoming our favorite place in this house

Between this and the Mamdani win, I think we're starting to see what a *national* democratic party with some spine could look like. Hooray (for once) for the laboratories of democracy!

Wisconsin dems fled to Illinois to deny a quorum in 2011 under similar circumstances—though obviously Pritzker wasn't governor then.

But yeah, that's an encouraging sign!

A copy of Collier's magazine from August 11th, 1934, framed in a gilt-edged frame sitting against a wall. The cover illustration depicts a woman in an early 20th-century bathing costume diving into the middle of a conversation between grumpy old King Triton and his bored-looking mermaid daughter.

oo then you'll love the collier's magazine we framed to put in the bathroom. one sec

Framed prints on a carpeted floor. A man and a woman, each dressed in the same bright shade of blue, wearing traditional European costumes. I think they're supposed to be from auvergne

We went frame shopping today and got these nifty floating frames. I'm so excited for these prints to find places to live!

Maybe they don't want to say Proud Girl or whatever. Do they let women in the Proud Boys? I would have assumed not.

Proud Boy Women's Auxiliary

An anglo-belgian friend has CONFIRMED THIS FOR ME

Why does that happen with spicy sometimes? Why does it trigger diaphragm spasms?

I guess I'm less asking you and more summoning @kitsparks.bsky.social, who feels like they'd know

but the hell of it is this software was obviously made for early readers! You can click on each word and have the program read it out for you

Imagine me in 1994, 1995 (so I'm like 6 or 7 years old) trying to figure out what the hell a counterfeit or a collaborator was

YouTube video by Весёлый Пёсель. Видео и компьютерные игры. Playtoons 2: The Case of the Counterfeit Collaborator (1994) [PC] longplay

Holy crap i found it

youtu.be/ZiFioxi3Ixo?...

I had no idea who these characters were

No, wait it was a MOVIE-MAKING GAME

god this is going to be so hard to google, josh

I am just now realizing that marsupilami was a spirou and fantasio thing

and I didn't really know who S and F were; I had this one comics-maker game from the 1990s that featured them but I didn't know who they were

These are the questions that bedevil me!!

And at any rate they said we oughta be posting about politics less so this is sorta what's left

I suppose this could be discovered by reading the smurf wikipedia page in french but I'd rather hear it from a person

Je ne schtroumpferai jamais ce truc, quoi! Ah la la ça a l'air du schtroumpf a moi

Or auf deutsch maybe das schmeckt mir schtroumpf

Vitally important question for francophone friends: so in english, the smurfs use "smurf" as an all-purpose word, e.g., "That smurfs pretty good to me" or "I'll never smurf this puzzle."

Is this a feature of smurfdom in French? Do they use schtroumpf as an all-purpose word?

Sorry that was a bit of a gutterjump.

Yes, you could start a heck of a fight that way, shining eye sockets and crumplin noses down by the old shebeen

The notre dame leprechaun. Like... Fellas what are we doing here?

I will never understand how the notre dame Fighting Irish logo isn't considered a hate crime

Ah yes

Knucky charms

M is a tory. Sure, boring, obvious.
Moneypenny is UKIP/reform party. I can sense it. She froths!
Q is a corbynite but refuses to tell anyone

"For England, James?"

I'm writing a mystery set in the present day US, and struggling to figure out how to depict the police without being too much of an ideologue/anvilicious, as i think Samantha said in y'all's Liberal Currents interview

Literally the only situation i can imagine where I'd say "Welp I expect you're walking the tightrope properly, then"

Oh duh of course David

Where else do continental breakfasts come from

Do you think the continental hotel has a good brunch

Maybe it's the Arconia