Elliott Vanskike

top quality dog head and paws, I actually reached toward my phone for a scritch

don't know about that, I'm currently advising no one on postmodern American detective fiction

with beets?! c’mon—the recipe was from WaPo but there’s no way that’s happening in Italy

she was wearing a t-shirt from my local low-power public radio station so I knew she was a righteous soul

a highlight of my early reading that I read again after I had kids—generous, thoughtful prose from a perennial Nobel front runner who died too soon

a man in a yellow jacket is talking to another man who is wearing sunglasses and a red hat and the words respect are on the screen ALT: a man in a yellow jacket is talking to another man who is wearing sunglasses and a red hat and the words respect are on the screen

dude

not about Boston or crosswalks at all but overheard a woman asking for “Sloppy” at the public library in Chevy Chase, MD (where I do not live but had ridden my bike in search of Howards End) yesterday

yeah, I've made lots of unsanctioned risotto--including beet risotto with beet greens--but scratching my head at the salad on top

oh yeah, he demands very mannered speech patterns from his actors--I think he's, at base, an asshole--he tells a story about fining students for being late, when they handed over $10 (or whatever) he would burn the money in front of the class

yeah, Cush Jumbo jumped out at me

Rowling's aggressive campaign against trans people

I saw original productions of GGR and Oleanna, but had left NYC by the time Cryptogram was staged--I read it and I think I taught it at some point (?), but it now seems disturbingly homophobic

you don't have to, no, but there are MUCH better books for kids; there are much better *wizard school* books for kids--read them LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea; LeGuin is an actual writer, not a flimsy plot machine

yeah, Oleanna does seem like a turning point; Cryptogram, his followup, doesn't fare too well either looking back--too bad, though, because I think Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo do a good job of skewering capitalism and the fragility of male egos

oh, that brings back memories

If a DOGE staffer got his ass kicked in DC there’s less than zero percent chance it was because he was trying to defend a young woman from “about a dozen young men” lmao but this is some incredible fan fic

If Joe Biden had told a cable show that non-whites were made for farm labor and insisted his approval rating was in the 70s and then climbed onto the roof of the fucking White House …

and those grapefruit-sized calves! "those people" are just cut out for farm work!

this would also explain why in a tight space, oncoming cars will actually head toward a cyclist, leaving more space for the parked cars on the opposite side--I'm always like, Crowd the other metal boxes, not me, dude! but the other cars can hurt their car, I can't

totally agree, but lately I'm trying to not start a ride angry at cars, it sucks the fun out of something I love! on a parkway road with frequent lights (where I could keep passing cars, jumping lights, getting in front), I've been trying to make cars only pass me once, just to build some good will

endorsing with all the power in my cyclist's lungs

uh-oh, you might be a wolf

OK but Vientos at first 🫤

roses are red
existence is strife

load-bearing “however misguidedly”

NICE PULL

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

dude was on The Real World, let him cook

NICE PULL

Out, vile jelly