Cindy Fright

Time to update my pinned post! The Fall 2026 issue of Zoo View just came out, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the L.A. Zoo! You can read it here: lazoo.org/join-our-community/members/zoo-view

Supreme Court rejects Trump's order to end hormone treatments for transgender prisoners

If all the 9/11 anniversary coverage is getting you into a bad headspace, watch this and let it inspire you to feel hope for humanity instead.

Kind of sad that no one in my real life understands how much I can’t wait for this kdrama to take over my life and wreck me this September. ✅ Joseon era adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons ✅ With Son Ye-jin ✅ And Ji Chang-wook IYKYK

Happy birthday to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, P. L. Travers, Whitney Houston, Gillian Anderson, Dan Levy, Anna Kendrick, and me. 🎉

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You had me at Ji Chang-wook (who isn’t mentioned in this review)

In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove a car rigged with a motorized camera to capture Los Angeles’s most iconic street: Sunset Boulevard. He created a time capsule of its famed facades, beginning a 60-year-long commitment to documenting the changing urban landscape of postwar Los Angeles.

Recency bias (because I just watched the reunion series) compels me to say that it’s Gong Yoo in Goblin.

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

Yay España! 🇪🇸

Excited to share the latest issue of Zoo View for summer 2026! Look how pretty it is! In this issue we covered educational programs, treating California condors for lead poisoning, animal acupuncture, and more! You can read it here: lazoo.org/join-our-com...

I’ve been finding it difficult to enjoy Western media recently, so I signed up for Viki and now I can watch all the Kdramas and other Asian content I want ad-free for $7.99/month. For less than the price of a movie ticket I basically have an unlimited sarotonin factory at my disposal.

sound the new monkey alarm!!!! defector.com/new-monkey-n...

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

So lovely just looking at this thread.

Hey you. Yeah, you reading this. I hope your July is better than your June. I hope that thing you're worried about works itself out for the best. I hope they text back. I hope you find that $20 you forgot about in a pocket right when you need it most. I just really hope things for you get better.

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

It is true that this is a beautiful pluralistic country with everything good you could ever possibly want in the world and also a corrupt stinking hell hole presided over by demons who want us all dead.

Our fall trip is officially booked. This time, we’re going to Seoul! Let’s see how many K-dramas I can fit in between now and November…

Germany's Berlin Zoo has a baby pygmy hippo and her name is Brötchen which means bread roll! www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

I did not post during the show, but other than how much I love theatre, and that Pink was a great host, my main take on the Tonys is that Leslie Odom Jr. was wearing a full suit jacket WITH A FULL LEATHER JACKET OVER IT and I want an article about it

This show *wrecked me* in the best possible way 😭

Me, internally: Do not anthropomorphize. Do not anthropomorphize. Do not— Bernie, the bighorn sheep: Do you have any games on your phone? (Look at that face. She left me no choice.)

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

HEY HEY I may not be on social media much anymore but I wrote a thing for @biographic.bsky.social about gulls nesting in unexpected places that maybe aren't so unexpected after all. www.biographic.com/spains-cliff...

The dream always starts the same way

A guerrilla artist has made Griffith Park his canvas. His medium: Strange signs. L.A. Material contributor Anna Holmes reveals the story behind the Hiding Man of Griffith Park. lamaterial.com/p/hiding-man...

No Gnus is Good Gnus with Gary Gnu

I loved working in entertainment journalism and I miss it so much, but on days like today I’m reminded to be grateful that I can still make a living writing about things that interest me (animals and conservation). That used to be a thing more people could do.

Yes, I am married to a video game developer from Torrance. No, not THAT video game developer from Torrance.

Something I've always found fascinating about Crichton's Jurassic Park is the small but persistant undercurrent that — while having to figure out how to care for dinosaurs from square one is certainly tricky and dangerous — the real problem is that Hammond wants to somehow run a zoo with no staff

The spring issue of Zoo View is here! That’s my new okapi friend Gates on the cover. I got to watch a training session with her and feed her lettuce and now we’re friends. Check out the digital version here: lazoo.org/join-our-com...

“Update to continue using this app” Fine, I won’t continue using it then.

Spent the day at the LA Times Festival of Books and judging by the crowds at the many, many indie bookstore booths, this tracks.

Finally made it to the Jaws exhibit at the Academy Museum. Very well-organized, with lots of original props and fun interactive displays. My favorite thing (not pictured) was the dolly rig set up so you could use your phone camera to replicate the famous dolly shot of Brody on the beach.

Fun but exhausting day at the Ren Faire. I should have taken more pictures, but I got this one as we were going in.

Can confirm

A new member joining the committee! (Yes, that’s the collective noun for a group of vultures.)

Beautiful day at the Cherry Blossom Festival 🌸

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

Pleased to report that while schools are still trying to make AI happen, the kids hate it and are playing around with youraislopbores.me instead.

From a thread about great Douglas Adams quotes. I think about this one *a lot* these days.