Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Good night from Kitty

*youth pastor voice* you could say that the holy trinity is a kind of three body problem

fun fact: the original lyric was "cut my life into pieces / the body keeps the score" but bessel van der kolk is extremely litigious and didn't appreciate papa roach's musical tribute

is the moon really a "harsh mistress" or did you just lie to the moon about being married and the moon is reasonably upset

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-67/ this week in sentences: clownfish, kissing a man, over-sanity, in disguise as a mime, not lobstering, dead kangaroos, avalanche survivor, dramatic palm fronds, my imaginary dachshund

As far as adapting the source material goes I don't hate all the changes? So many of the characters in the books were kind of on dimensional anyway so compositing them into a group of friends makes some sense. But I miss the comic relief of the book's Da Shi, Benedict Wong isn't given a lot to work with

The actor playing young Ye Wenjie is great, the 1960s parts are really strong

I got three body problems but a planet ain't one

Let the bodies three the probs
Let the bodies three the probs
Let the bodies three the probs

Let's get physical, physical
Let me three your body problem

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Humiliated that I was in a yoga class, IN PLANK, during the earthquake

Deeply humbling moment last night when I had to explain the Air Bud movies and the "ain't no rules a dog can't play basketball" concept to my students

I was looking for an article summarizing the Facebook emotional contagion story from 2014 and in an absolute parody of 2010s millennial house style the NPR writeup from that time opens with "So, that happened."

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-66/ this week in sentences: supremely terrified, 2.4 million Pop-Tarts, up against the wall, from that time on, several saw waves

Finally confirmed it, Ramy Youssef DOES own a place in my neighborhood I was sure I saw him a couple of times

Today I happened to be at the bakery when the little kid who loves my book and her mom came by!! I finally met them!! My heart is so overwhelmed

baby's first DOI (currently a preprint) https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2024.3378121

This morning I was listening to the Chani app week in astrology podcast and she was like "lunar eclipse in Libra again, last one was in October, might see some major events unfold again" and seeing a push notification just now that the US finally let a cease fire resolution pass feels a bit on the nose

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-65/ this week in sentences: splaying out, spread on toast, a provocateur, being fully aware, a development in online derangement, a forest, another person's rock, letting texts