Carolyn Kellogg

California motel closes after two women found dead in same room days apart Eureka police took two calls for unconscious individuals, and officials reported ‘elevated’ carbon monoxide in room

Beware the Hotel California. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An unopened dreamcatcher in a package with blue backing for $1 at a thrift store

Thrift Store Dreamcatcher, $1, never hung

I remember biking to ballet past the long gas lines. (If that sounds pastoral, the ride included a long stretch on the side of a highway. The 70s!)

No worries, I'm sure the economy will be fixed by next Monday.

I have officially heard Sweet Caroline too many times.

(around photos of Jeff Bezos and an Amazon employee) Jeff Bezos made $90 billion in profit... because of their hard work. Amazon's profits went UP 45%, but its taxes went DOWN 87%. Thanks to Trump's "Big Ugly Bill," Amazon paid just $1.2 billion in taxes (down from $9 billion last year). Hardworking Americans are struggling, while Republicans hand massive tax breaks to the Epstein class.

A long row of refridgerated grocery shelves with a tall two tone wall above. It seens to have a quote up there by... Virginia Woolf?

Shelves and shelves of bologna.

The quote painted high above the bologna reads: "One can not think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well' - Virginia Woolf"

A secretly literary grocery store.

regime same

I feel like it’s Not Enough? Not satirical enough, primarily, and maybe also not serious enough? It’s so deeply invested in its historic imagery and authentic reproduction, which is great, but I can’t stick with the story. In the doc I watched, they were trying to write the script daily. Mm hmm.

Turns out I still hate Barry Lyndon! I can’t even get through it.

Watched Blue Moon last night and I can see Ethan Hawke getting the best actor Oscar for that performance, the virtuostic verbosity in the first hour or so, particularly. So much more than I’d expected.

I’m an old media dork; this is why I still have a DVD player.

I just borrowed 2 DVDs from the library: Barry Lyndon, which I’ve never liked but want to try again, and All that Jazz - I’d failed to find it streaming (might be there now).

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

One nice thing about the Gilded Age was how many of those dudes believed they were going to hell. And were scared.

A tiny crocus in my yard

crocus!

A gas station near me still has the signs you have to change manually and they've just have taken them down. Feels like the 70s.

If only theirs existed.

I tried to read the newly released documents and it was so much I had to stop. So, content warning.

I wish I was angry but instead I’m just so sad. So many lives shattered by these predatory monsters.

The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial It felt like the world as I experience it: no clear path, but enough moments of beauty to convince me to put one foot in front of the other.

I think this is great criticism. I don't know much about art, but I understand Aruna D'Souza's descriptions, ideas, context and conclusions. And it's a lovely read. hyperallergic.com/the-polycris...

A new audiobook of Patrick Stewart reading Shakespeare’s sonnets is coming next month. How delightful!

But hell if I’ll link to the Audible page, so just consider this a heads-up and it’s coming soon.

I loved his last book, I can’t wait to read this one.

iI's so great that you're doing this. Long live the new Rumpus.

The Grog of War.

It could be gone in a Quibi.

I bet a hotel pharmacist had some good stories.

Stats nerd who went to work for the government, lawyer who quit to become a farmer/small town grocery store owner.

We actually did this in LA ages ago. I think we called it NAWP (Not AWP).

Buster Kitten, gray with white on his belly, asleep, upside-down, all akimbo.

Cats are elegant creatures.

2 bags of Protein Cinnamon Roll Popcorn on a shelf.

You know, Protein Cinnamon Roll Popcorn. For the kids!

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on 3 March. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Good morning and for fuck's sake stop this madness. The Guardian: US embassy in Riyadh hit by Iranian drones as Israeli troops enter southern Lebanon

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...