it’s my mom’s birthday today she rules so much!!!!!!!!!! and I love her 🥲

This article is so much worse than I thought it would be ahahahha oh my god. Ok let me guess. You think recommendations should be algorithmic, you want to use Amazon style pick up logistics & now you’re just talking about ads. That’s what an ad is, guy

done deal

I mean the scale here is impossible to understand. Human mind cannot comprehend

for instance

we are once again Out Here @oaklandreviewofbooks.org

Just found my haircut inspiration and it’s Grant Hart

I think this is the only photo of me, my dad and his dad where we’re all smiling (well, my grandpa was kind of smiling but he’s Slavic so that’s just how it goes.)

It’s fried shrimps in there

And this is really just a situation where I feel the only response to this line of reasoning is “ok so what?” Like oh people online say it’s this but polls show “ok, so what?”

to the amount of herbs on this flatbread I say: hell yeah

well he did a pretty good job as president, so

got them a drink

Places like this are no less Californian than the redwoods groves or the Pacific Ocean. (And to be clear, I absolutely love this shit)

well this sounds good as hell

(Padres won)

essays in the Cut CANNOT hurt me

The collections & art contests make me cry every damn year

wowwww I can’t wait for the county fair this year. All my favorites. Tractor pull, carnival rides, the weirdest signage and fake flower arrangements… AI images of the Los Angeles lakers as babies….

obligatory “I’ve been a bookseller for 16 yrs” post. This is from the 1st CA bookstore day ever, in 2014. Have sold six hundred trillion books since then tbh

youth theatre: please come prepared with a 2-3 minute song and be ready to show us what you will bring to the role of Cinderella Me:

well we bought every 33 1/3 in print, so come and get ‘em I guess!!!!!

the Soup thickens (it’s mostly just Naming Some Guys) (the Guys are all christian crossover / evangelical / adjacent hardcore bands)

champion relaxer, good at hollering, loved to wear a ribbon

just thinking about Ms. Minerva today. So many years gone but we still miss her a lot.

an all timer from an account that aggregated them

The really good news is that the trinity broadcast network building off 405 is getting its shit rocked for good

bout to eat this whole jar (jkjk)

here’s some pictures of them.

records I brought home: aliens, psychos & wild things (VA garage from the 60s,) Music from the Outer Limits (60s Texas punk) and Ayalew Mesfin (Ethiopian groove, an album called My Countrymen, love a record where the guy’s got a gun on the cover)