whatever gets you through the night

(apparently elton john sings backup and plays piano on this?!)

winter solstice

“winter solstice” by Alex Dimitrov

best of list for 2020

in addition to friends and family, highlights of my year:

• Waxahatchee’s album saint cloud
• stumptown’s holler mountain coffee — a gentle delight
• strawberry kombucha
• that miraculous mug i won from east fork pottery
• suzy’s cookie donation fundraisers
• suzy’s pavlova
• getting a library job, i mean, what the actual hell
• lovers rock
• iMovie????? yes, iMovie
• those excel spreadsheet by ny times writers, can’t find the link but perfect
• ken leung on LOST, ok, and maybe other parts of LOST
• binging i’m not okay with this with john and nancy
• the production design on the queen’s gambit
• the NBA (period)
• frankie getting good reviews at the vet
• all dogs
• this craft, my crowning glory, will never top (see my ratty video of it here)
• the book hog by greg pizzoli — get this one for any kid you know (under age five, maybe?)
• you must remember this about polly platt, honestly, it should be on everyone’s best podcast list, sorry. i loved its hollywood secrets and glamour and cruelty and the endless struggle to stay relevant. also polly platt crashing with orson welles in his mansion in arizona (?!?!) is bonkers.
• the mandalorian — against the odds! strangely relaxing and moving? it’s like the original star wars: kinda campy, bad acting, but also compelling in a deep way. wasn’t sold, then was sold.

TO BE CONTINUED

Studies on Twilight Phenomena, after Krakatoa (1888)

(via public domain review)

this morning’s view from yoga mat

this couch, yes

my love for printed couches knows no end. via gloria gonzalez.

there is no chance that we will fall apart

should i be alarmed that my mom sent this to me