If you don’t believe what @jack mallers is saying, just look for yourself at opensecrets.org. View quoted note →

Happy birthday @ODELL 🎂🍻 View quoted note →

I spent a few hours outside with the dog yesterday. She’s a 10-year Staffordshire Bull Terrier, sweetest dog ever. Starting to slow down a bit, but once it snows, her energy level 10Xes!

I’ve been a subscriber to “The New Criterion” for some 20 years now. Almost without exception each monthly edition has at least one word that forces me to consult a dictionary - and more frequently now, my phone. This month’s word was used to describe a writer’s work as “ensorcelling.” I suppose if I really sat and thought about it I might have more or less figured it out. “Bewitching or enchanting.” “Ensorceler” in French. Just missed it. There might be just an age limit for learning new SAT words.

I've been throwing a bunch sats around through different LN and eCash wallets. I still have a soft spot for cashu.me. Use it once or twice and it becomes very intuitive.

From Poetic Outlaws this AM: All My Life I've Been Waiting - Harold Norse All my life I've been waiting for something unusual to happen. I may yet come into a windfall, National Endowment of the Hearts. All my life I've been expecting a grand finale, an awakening, love erupting in the streets, in the bars, in classrooms, everyone dropping their guard, their pants, their skirts, cops weeping tenderly as they snap off your cuffs, bankers giving away their money, politicians telling the truth, literary critics confessing that they know nothing about writing or life. All my life I've been waiting for something unusual to happen.

The snow seems to have stopped. Time to get shoveling!

Costco in Pentagon City, on a Sunday, day before a major snow storm….. Really bad call🥺

Just turned the last page of the first volume of Iain McGilchrist’s “The Matter With Things.” 750-something pages is a lot to take in, but I have to say, I’m itching to start volume two. As much time as it takes, it repays you infinitely more.

I’m increasingly feeling like it’s time to move back to America. The DC area is grinding on me. When you live and work in DC, it almost doesn’t matter who is in the White House, or who controls Congress. There’s a rhythm to it that invariably funnels you toward a certain way of living. Not to mention it’s too crowded, too expensive, and everyone is really important - just ask them! Where to go, #AskNostr? I grew up in NY, not going back there. I like the idea of the west, a place like Boise? Or there’s always the Nashville area. I dig the vibe there.