Do you think the fall of Rome was this dumb?

Anything that at any point you loved but then became too cool for, know that someday you will turn back to that thing and say, “Oh, no. You were fine; you were more than fine. It is I who was cringe.”

I’ll save you time, New York Times. The answer is yes. It is also ethical to use a library, and to give a book you have read to a friend.

Search your birth month and day plus the word “incident” for a random history lesson.

Echolalia is a speech disorder characterized by the involuntary repetition of words, phrases, or sentences spoken by others. It is an automatic imitative action that occurs without conscious awareness.

Current watch –

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_(2024_TV_series)

If you have coffee with soy milk and vanilla, is it three-bean soup?

Doodling some Kirbytech for a program I’m writing, needs some crackle and life, but makes for a fun tablet wallpaper.

Current read –

The review that made me seek it out –

I just met a seemingly normal, music-aware person who had no idea who David Bowie is.  The guy was maybe 30–35 years old.

I can only hope he was messing with me. If so, he nailed the bit.

If not, how does that happen?

#doodle #art #illustration #cryptid

Yesterday, Mrs. Bear and I made “memory bottles”—basically, swirly glitter in a colored liquid that allows it to swirl around and look pretty.

Mine was a blue liquid with purple, to represent our first in-person meeting in front of the blue crab stained-glass sculpture at Baltimore Airport.

Hers was black liquid filled with orange glitter to represent our boys, Pyewacket and Newton.

Today was spent puttering and shopping. We visited a jewelry pop-up at Sycamore, got some lovely squash and zucchini at the farm, sweets, and bread at the bakery, then picked up a few treats for MIL at the vintage store in preparation for her Mother’s Day visit tomorrow.

Ratatouille for late dinner tonight!