like a sexy, fat model

from rick ross’s very good strategist favorite things:

also what he has to say about chargers is TRUTH.

black is king

will be watching beyoncé’s black is king this week but in the meantime this image from the video “already” struck me as quite beautiful.

But life will go on because there is nothing else to do but keep living.

kara brown is a wonderful genius. from her pasta blog, “i am tortellini over this”:

And pasta is for sharing with friends. Which will happen again one day, in some form or another.

Please remember that. Things are bad. Very bad. But life will go on because there is nothing else to do but keep living. And I don’t even mean that in an uplifting way. Just that, like, we HAVE to live. There’s nothing else to do here on Earth. Until we die, we must live. And if the world ends, then we’ll all be gone, so I wouldn’t worry about it too much???

thank g for the NBA

started watching the NBA on friday and guys, it actually, legitimately is a balm for the soul. first: seeing “black lives matter” on the court, and all the players’ “black lives matter” shirts, is incredible. it feels like…real awareness? hope? second: sports announcers are so relaxing. third: basketball is awesome. fourth: i plan on having the NBA on in the background or not in the background as much as possible.

birds 4 biden

find your state’s bird here

an email from my health insurance

hmmm

good reminder

from aminatou sow:

“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” — Toni Morrison

monday musings

• after all these years, it turns out that i don’t like the singer lee hazelwood’s voice AT ALL
• watched spiderman: far from home and rate tom holland v. charming
• also watched jaws for the first time — in my mind, it’s the prototypical summer blockbuster, but it’s more like moby dick, amirite?
• my blues persist
• speaking of, the st. louis blues play on wednesday and we’re stoked, though guessing it won’t last long (sports, playing, no sickness, etc. etc.)

this really is extra good

wow

also, unrelated, but related: “letter in autumn” by donald hall