Living out in the country as I did, I never got any trick-or-treaters.

Living in an apartment, I wonder if that will be different?

[walking through the door with shopping bags]

VO David Attenborough: In the absence of hallucinogens and dance music, the millennial gay male of the species can always turn to shoe shopping when in need of a thrill.

My only child origin story is kind of a modern take on Cain and Abel with restraining orders, disinheritance, and a succubus.

What do we hate more, Adobe or vibe-coding?

Don't mind me, just fangirling for Zotero over here.

Mistakes were made, and I accidentally timed my trip to the Nepalese restaurant with the end of the football game.
Harrowing, but worth it. I'll never do that again.

I packed full of spinach, paneer, and naan. AMA.

There's only one office on the ballot with an unopposed candidate who is a republican. I wonder if it spoils the entire ballot if I simply withhold my vote for this person?

#Voting

I've checked my voter registration and it looks like all that's left to do is make my Hobson's choice.

Well, that's just weird.
Some of the brine in my evening snacking Castelvetranos had frozen, too.

I had that thing happen today when a car stopped to let me cross a fairly large road. I've seen folks talk about how annoying and unsettling that is, and I didn't really get how this was a bad thing until I was standing there in the street with this woman blocking one of two lanes with people piling up behind and flying around her.

She was so busy insisting that I cross the road that she was wholly unaware of the incredibly dangerous situation she created, and she made sure to let me know how stupid she thought I was as she moved on.

These feckless hayseeds are so goddamned lucky I don't have any real power.

I have an opportunity to see Sheryl Crow in May, which is something I would probably really enjoy. But, in the process, I have to subject myself to Kenny Chesney and something called Greylan James. I can't make out if that last thing is some sort of performer, or a battleship class.

I am in a fowl mood.

All literary monsters are allegories of the perils of not holding powerful men to account for their actions.

Mary Shelley told me so during that really, really long salon we had back in 1816.

And of course salad spinners are $40. 😒

The tacti-vape gives way to the Smok Nord, which... sounds a bit like a boutique wood-fired steam train you could board in France bound for Switzerland.
I'm not completely dissatisfied.

Devastation and emergency today, though I guess it couldn't have been timed better. My vape fell apart in my hand. Just disintegrated into three distinct pieces and a few bits of plastic, draining vape juice all over my hands. Harrowing. Luckily I was standing in the vapery chatting with the well-equipped proprietor at the time.

Well, The Damn Cat has discovered the spring style door stops in the pied-a-terre and it's a very exciting time to be alive.

UNHINGED GLITTER RAINBOW MESH

If our over-funded police departments haven't been able to eliminate abusive cops, what on earth makes anyone think that a pack of creepy, incel dweebs masturbating to surveillance capitalism will do?