“it’s weird for queer minors to be friends with queer adults” oh my god. ohhh my god.

Pika-xpressions (from Dec. 2021)

“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”

- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré

watched this for the first time when i was 14 i think? it saved me

rendering my beloathed. but hey, look at the pretty colors!

Whoof. Well THAT'S giving me food for thought, because OF COURSE but I have to reexamine everything I ever learned. You know?

Matts is completely fucked.

Well and truly fucked.

It’s rare that he miscalculates something, but this is a whole different kind of math and he’s made a critical error.

Watching Sydney perform on a grainy YouTube video is completely incomparable to seeing her live.

From the moment she stalks onto the stage, mic in hand, shouting How’s it going Los Angeles? to raucous applause, he’s…

‘Lost’ isn’t really the right word; neither is ‘overwhelmed,’ or ‘confounded,’ but he’s not sure what the right word is.

He knew the band was good. He’s listened to every song they’ve created and every cover they’ve posted online and while he may be biased—he’ll admit he probably is—they’re opening for one of the biggest rock bands of all time. As young as they are, the fact that they’ve already reached syndicated radio, minor online notoriety, and a tour presence, speaks to their talent.

Objectively, they’re good.

Seeing them live, though, feeling the throb of Rex’s base and the wail of Sydney’s guitar and the deep, shuddering beat of the Sky’s drums, hearing Sydney move seamlessly from soft head voice to a rich, rough, chest voice, to screaming the lyrics of a chorus while the audience shouts along with her—it’s something else. She prowls across the stage like she’s never been comfortable anywhere else, propping one boot on Sky’s drum kit to play a riff and running back to the mic stand just in time for the last verse, tossing hair out of her face, eyes closed and swaying forward, teeth bared around the lyrics.

And Matts is there. He’s there, getting to experience it in real time. Getting to exist in the same moment as her. 

It’s beautiful.

It’s devastating. 

It’s—

Matts wonders if there’s a word that means the opposite of catharsis. A word that means being so filled with emotion that you hemorrhage with it; that it consumes you. 

Maybe that’s what this is.

me too, archie. me too

I often miss the beautiful look of the watercolor art from back in Gen1 and Gen2.

Today, one of my second graders was working on shape name recognition, and we got to this picture of a pyramid shape with a wide-ish base. When he saw it, his eyes lit up and he turned to me with a huge grin on his face, pointed at it, and said "When the teacher forgets to assign homework" before bursting out into hysterics, covering his mouth and giggling.

I don't understand what happened except this kid CLEARLY knows about the strong comedic and memeable value of mathematical shapes and emotions that I, an old millennial, cannot comprehend

I did, however, try to recreate this moment as the meme this child must have seen in his head

Top left clockwise: Keith groover, Jordan Simons, Bret Crow, Harry Hansen