“She was a high school student and there were witnesses.”

Thank you to the Gods of Comfort-Watch shows for the gift of Pamela Adlon on this week’s #Elsbeth 🙏💜

There’s been a lot of discussion about how young men are becoming isolated and radicalized. Let me offer some perspective, as someone who was once a troubled young man.

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I wrote about how I take notes when I'm reading, and also why: not to be more "efficient" or "productive," but to dwell with a text more deeply--& also just as a way of relishing existence. With many photos of my notebooks. Link in profile.

The readers have spoken: #TheWeddingPeople by Alison Espach is this year's 2024 Fiction category #GoodreadsChoiceAwards WINNER! 🎉🎉🎉 If you haven't had a chance to snag a copy or started reading it yet, why wait start reading the most loved fiction book of the year!

Big fan of the rainbow book shelf, this one! I choose one book at a time for the “cover reveal” and she goes wild. 🥰

Husband (reading aloud): Tempus fugit? Me: time flies Husband: thank god you studied Latin so you help with this one rare moment Me: well I’m really fun in graveyards too, and government buildings.

The locker room chatter after today’s yoga class in LA was a debate about whether the procedural is truly “back” or current in popularity with network executives is just a blip… Anyway…namaste? 🙄

Sounds Like a Plan by Pamela Samuels Young, Dwayne Alexander Smith. Grab a copy here: a.co/d/9LhmtFl. We will be going on a virtual book tour in July for Sounds Like Trouble!

This regime is so evil.

Elons son picking his nose and putting a booger on the Oval Office desk while Elon addresses the nation from the Oval Office as if he were president perfectly encapsulates where America is at right now.

AI companions can offer users unconditional validation without the messy demands of human relationships, writes Silvia Park time.com/7266050/toxic-…

This op-ed from ⁦Silvia Park⁩ is a MUST read! As is their debut novel, LUMINOUS, on shelves today! The Dangerous Reason We Fall in Love With AI via ⁦TIME⁩ time.com/7266050/toxic-…

I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.

I’ve got some good news! My new book, IT WAS THE WAY SHE SAID IT, comes out Sept 9th! This book is EXTRA special to me-it’s a collection of work– old and new, fiction and non-fiction-I hope folks find something that lights them up, entertains them, and maybe even inspires them.

Daria Lavelle Debut Novel ‘Aftertaste’ Acquired Preemptively By Sony Pictures deadline.com/2025/05/daria-…

ICE raids tried to split LA apart, but might have made it stronger. From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say LA County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ice-ra…