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Novelist. Sports fan. Foodie. Into books, movies, and music.
Pinned
Indefinitely.
It's hard to watch Season 2 of #WolfHall in our current climate, knowing what's coming for Thomas Cromwell, servant of a king who is cunning, capricious, and ready to lop off a head over the smallest slight, even if he learns later that the information given him was malicious. Oops, too late now.
April 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Indefinitely.
January 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#MyBrilliantFriend may be my all-time favorite tv series, with each season based on its own fully fleshed novel. (Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet.) I expected to resist the recasting of Season 4 but adjusted to the new faces almost immediately. Lila and Nino especially. Bellissimo.
January 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Gonna give the #Chargers the benefit of the doubt because Los Angeles.
January 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Sadly, I've reached my interceptions-per-game limit.
January 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
How about if Congress makes it a crime for a local, state or federal official or staff to lie to the American people or misrepresent the facts by any means.
January 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Twenty years ago the Santa Ana winds came up each September and we called it "fire season." It was very rare that a single structure was lost to wildfires then, but climate change has turned fire season into a year-round phenomenon and the sheer force of the winds into a raging inferno.

#LAFires
January 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The floods, the fires, the lies, Trump. What an exhausting time to be alive.
January 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A perfect eulogy to the late president.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_QZ...
Vice President Kamala Harris Tribute to President Jimmy Carter
YouTube video by C-SPAN
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I guess you all heard what happened over at #Threads today. I actually had a lot of fun there, and the downside seemed nonexistent until today.

What will we call this miserable epoch? The Bro Age?
January 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I love this story because for me the organ makes that song.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGN...
The Story of How "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan was Recorded - Al Kooper
YouTube video by Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum
www.youtube.com
January 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We need a peacetime national anthem that people can actually sing. It shouldn't be this painful.
January 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Really hoping the #CFP experience isn't just a series of blowouts like we're seeing so far. It's demoralizing.
December 21, 2024 at 6:24 PM
A woman in Cork City, Ireland clocks an intruder over the head with a religious statuette and accidentally kills him. Instead of reporting this to the police, who would probably have understood that she was only defending herself, she goes a different way, and from this one decision all the
December 11, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I personally nominate Josh O'Connor for Best Supporting Actor in Challengers. And The Crown. And The Durrells in Corfu. He's brilliant in everything he does.

#GoldenGlobes2024
December 9, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Georgia v Texas will test my theory that the team that wears white loses.

#CFB
December 7, 2024 at 9:18 PM
These #SunDevils play with so much heart. Love watching them.

#Big12Championship
December 7, 2024 at 7:25 PM
December 6, 2024 at 5:10 AM
I think it's obscene that so many Americans have to resort to Go-Fund-Me's to cover their health care costs. And even then it's not enough.
QUESTION: What are your thoughts on the US healthcare system?
December 6, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Am currently listening to Brideshead Revisited, narrated by Jeremy Irons. Last night I searched for it on Britbox and there it was, all 11 episodes, beautifully and faithfully rendered. Subscribing to Britbox was one of the “coping strategies” I instigated post-election, and so far it’s paying off.
December 3, 2024 at 6:55 PM
This #ArizonaState football team is really fun to watch. Love the play calling!

#Big12 #FBS #KennyDillingham #CamSkattebo
November 30, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Seriously.
Cummings was a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration when Musk attacked her for her criticisms of Tesla. Maybe its not a great idea to put him in charge government agencies.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
November 30, 2024 at 4:11 PM
I said this last week, and I'll say it again: If you don't have time for #NFLfootball, just watch the last two minutes of any #Chiefs game, and you'll be good.
November 29, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Seems like #NFL kickers should RARELY miss. Same with free throws in basketball. They're pros. Should be automatic.
November 29, 2024 at 11:06 PM