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Another present early on a Saturday! (Before 9a; delayed post)

Lumiere #DrinkCheck 

Too many stinkers lately, which means reverting to classics. Tonight’s #horror is Vincent Price’s House Of Wax, which I’ve never seen before.

He makes a solid point.

Tired: “fireworks or gunshots?“ Wired: “did it happen or are people just assholes?”

This was an inspired purchase today. Now to select tonight's #horror movie! Last night was The Possession (2012); it was OK. Maybe I'll go vampire tonight with Let The Right One In.

Woke up too early, with a headache, and feeling very unsettled after a night of multiple, consecutive bad dreams, all centered around being abandoned. Here’s hoping that’s the worst for today.

Getting annual boob smash in 2 weeks! Hoping for no scary results like last year (turned out to be nothing, but still). #SaveTheTatas

god in heaven MAKE A NEW THING. anything! i don’t even care if it’s bad as long as it’s new!

Just bodied a 13-year-old boy. He and his buddy walking spaced out side-by-side, taking up the whole sidewalk, faces buried in their phones. I’m walking as far to the right as I can without trudging through the dirt. Shoulder checked him because fuck that. #SorryNotSorry

Noped out of Backrooms in under 20 mins last night and put on Talk To Me. I was expecting a lighter movie for some reason, but that was bleak and dark and a fun ride. Really digging on Australian horror this year! #HorrorSky Now debating tonight's new-to-me watch! Insidious?

I opted for Mama Bear spaghetti, and it certainly felt like mid-sized spaghetti? I dunno man, spaghetti is spaghetti! Other sizes and shapes have different names; doesn’t spaghetti?? Recipe wasn’t a keeper (Marsala spag w. chicken meatballs) but the garlic bread was! (Don’t tell my cardiologist.)

Feeling like Goldilocks trying to just buy regular spaghetti!

22+ years no contact, and while I intrinsically know my NM will have been crying victim the whole time, it's only w/ this morning's rehashed boring old discourse that I ponder... She must see all this discussion come up (repeatedly, *yawn*), and feel validated and redoubled that she's the victim 😂

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Seems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.

Going extra classic tonight, and matching a hot weather drink with some hot weather horror. A pineapple gin and tonic paired with Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). #DrinkCheck #HorrorSky 

We didn’t even get the chance to compare how long she’d last against head of lettuce!

Let’s try Pontypool. Gets great reviews and recs!

Already quitting. This too dark, over-stylized, feels-like-AI cinematography and art direction remind me why I don’t lean towards fantasy. Next!

Going in with low expectations, but a fun cast! Tonight’s movie attempt: Dust Bunny Here’s hoping I get more than 20 minutes in (I’ve been DNFing a lot of movies in 20 mins lately)

Dinner and #DrinkCheck! I always need to make a Martini when I go retro with steak tartare for dinner. Couldn’t decide on a flavor profile, so I did a split base with juniper-heavy and citrus-forward gins.

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Once again, my low-stakes superpower: I am good at omelette.

Freezer Manhattan #DrinkCheck in my “new“ thrifted Stuart Crystal goblets that are really Nick and Noras in disguise 

It dropped below 80° today and we got four teensy weensy raindrops, so I’m pretending like it’s Real Fall. Cinnamon apple tea and everything! 

Was rewarded for going to the grocery store early on a Saturday!

Just watched Hereditary for the first time, and have just one question: what the fuck did I just watch?!

It’s like pumpkin pie, but better!

Apparently I’m “cruel” and “not a good person” because I called someone out on our one-sided “friendship,” and wouldn’t accept them gaslighting me about it. Neat. What is it about October that that’s when my friendships implode? Happened w/ a few people last Oct, too. Maybe I am just a bad person.

@bruceshark.bsky.social Bruce, you’re a DUCKY!

Check on your SoCal friends. It’s been 96-100° at the coast, and we do not have a/c. We are NOT ok!

I don’t care if we’re on the same side, if you’re a candidate I support, or a proposition I will champion. If you are sending me unwanted texts about this shit, I am deleting and reporting as spam. Fuck. Offffffffff!

Nothing like a dinner with absolutely green food on hand after a little travel.

I opted for the Big Turtle in a Trench Coat. Also made my friend who’d never tried it, try Malört. She made the face. 😂

Hotel #DrinkCheck

Love Static! This place is terrific.

Why BEC when you can PEC?? Pastrami egg and cheese. With a pickle. Fully embracing tourist status — and loving it.

Sunrise in Detroit! #ObligatoryClichéPic

Music by which to be productive! 

My time there is going to be disjointed and unpredictable, but I still wanna hear your recs of places to go, see, drink, eat, whatevs in Philadelphia (even if I can't get to them, lol) I know at least @mikelovesbeer.com will have a pointer or two.

Even Fox News agreed to boycott the President and removed themselves from the pool. At what point exactly will he be removed as unfit? (This is rhetorical; if it were to ever happen, it would have already, but here we still fucking are, despite the obvious dementia and narcissistic collapse.)

Ended the night with Daytona Sand, which is a great song, but also further feeds my theory that people just love spelling shit in songs (explain the popularity of Hollaback Girl otherwise. I dare you.)

So happpppppyyyyyyy

"Unfavorable," huh. You mean, like... truthful? And very, very watered down truth at that.