Jason Dewees
@jasondewees
Plants, especially
Maybe what bothers me so much about Louisiana Senator John Foghorn Vanderbilt UVA Oxford Kennedy (JD! BCL!) is that this faux hayseed looks a bit like my dear late grandmother (gentle, honest, pious, and poor) while lying to the public and abetting cruelty on the masses.
We planted two Norfolk Island palms today in San Francisco. #rhopalostylisbaueri
Perfect album please from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains: My frequent playing of "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" at the bookstore where I worked likely drove colleagues and customers batty.
Until @wesleymorris.bsky.social explicated it on his podcast Cannonball, I'd always thought Lady Gaga here in "Applause" sang "kunst"—a cleverer cringe than "Koons."
Not enough to make me a morning person, but it's recompense for waking up too early.
A woodhen hoping for crumbs from our group of hikers on the summit of Mount Gower, Lord Howe Island, Australia, in September, 2024
Nicest Washingtonia robusta on 24th Street in San Francisco's Mission District
For Palm Day, April 17, take a gander at the tallest palm in the world—a Ceroxylon quindiuense at Tochecito, near Salento, Quindío, Colombia. It's 60 meters / 196 feet!