Lazy Susan

I couldn’t get to Chicago but I did make it to Brighton! Live!

Ocean Vuong born on this day October 14, 1988

"I'm on tour" 🔗 www.instagram.com/reel/DedJyDN... #Taehyung

@llama-llama33.bsky.social I love it when my birthday seeps into the next month. This lovely bracelet and necklace just arrived. The colors! This picture doesn’t do it justice. I adore it. Thank you so much!

Effective immediately

Ah. One of the greats Annie Dillard

I thought he was handcuffed for a hot second.

@llama-llama33.bsky.social Just look at all this special goodness. Makes another trip around the sun worth it! Thank you!

Wendell Erdman Berry August 5, 1934 – August 31, 2026

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#botd Johann Wolfgang von Goethe August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832

"Scaling back the exercise is, of course, an insane decision, which does nothing but hurt an ally, and tempt an adversary to think—correctly—that American leadership is feckless." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Sara Teasdale August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933)

The war in Iran has shown that Trump’s inability to perceive reality has become truly dangerous. Iran is a disaster, but Trump’s irrationality could create other, even more perilous situations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump has lost control of this war and his flailing in Ankara shows just how completely adrift he really is. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

WOTD

Now That I’m In Madrid I Can Think By Frank O’Hara

Hahaha hahaha hahaha

Ignore my car in the background. I got this solar lantern at the Dollar Tree and decorated it with pics of Taehyung. So cute for $2.00.

@llama-llama33.bsky.social I’m almost done with my BTS Monopoly game. It’s very Taehyung and JK centric. I can’t help myself.

How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/h...

Literary Birthday John Waters

Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

We goin!

Prepping for protest march tomorrow.

What a day ahead.

Trump’s Plan A was to hit Iran hard, watch the theocrats flee, and then hand power to a government of his own choosing. Should such things not come to pass, Plan B was … well, apparently, there was no Plan B. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

@shinyroo.bsky.social So 82 concerts in the next 357 days…I can’t wait.

I wish my mom were alive. She had a thing for sailors and boy bands right up until age 93. She would have loved this!

Who wore it better? Red Cowboy Hat Edition Me or Taehyung? Just kidding, it’s Taehyung always.

First impression: This is regime change, lots of ways for it to go wrong, a few it could go right, but at huge risk: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Oh

Finally.

I’m having one of those days. I’ll let Taehyung speak for me. lol

Taehyung x Goethe #BTSxPhilosophy