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@tripofmice I agree completely. I went in wondering if I would make it to the end, but halfway through you couldn’t have pulled me from my seat

I feel like watch a surreal double feature, the events of yesterday and Jeanne Dielman

Just saw Jeanne Dielman on a big screen for the first time and I have to say it hits different

@ingrid this was a good one.

@tripofmice I’m beginning to think my dilapidated apartment is held up entirely by successive layers of paint applied over decades and decades. This is how it should be.

Apparently there’s now Octopolis and Oclantis.

#gravy, but that's how it goes.
millions of people living as foes
#gravy, it's not too late
to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

@ingrid you have waymo important things to be doing

Moving always sucks, especially when you are self isolating and have hoarding tendencies, but then friends come out of the woodwork and are supportive and kind and you get to spend real quality time with them and it’s kind of magical.

I think the president should abandon Air Force one and travel like Kublai Khan did: in a palanquin atop four caparisoned elephants.

New term I learned today: Brakpan car guard.

@tripofmice it’s similar in NYC, except the wait list runs into the thousands (tens of thousands?) and the apartments are similarly priced at slightly below market rate. I lucked out and got a rent stabilized apt outside the housing lottery through a friend of a friend.

Annual local tulip house appreciation post.

And in this apartment I’ve experienced two very painful breakups, a pandemic, and well, politics.

Because I tend to adapt myself to problematic situations rather than working to change them.