At this point, Congress is just an arms dealer. No education. No access to healthcare. No housing. No clean drinking water. But we’ll finance your war.

Frightened Rabbit’s “Floating in the Forth”. Every time.

My friend just asked me what emotional text I was reading but it was this map that shows where the Titanic sunk and I thought it was so so much farther from Boston??

In 20 years of dating I have learned but one thing - if a man makes me think of a Taylor Swift song I have to block his number immediately.

Ijzh jza butthole jza *sniffles* fart chakra? Kathleen Tarrant

YES

I love that Charlie Brown acknowledges what children truly yearn for - riffing about Joan Didion

Biblically accurate angel cookie

I really relate to Michael Cain’s Scrooge because his friends show up and not only confirm the existence of hell but that he’s headed there and has one chance to change his fate and he’s still like, 1) can you be nicer to me about all this, and 2) this could have been an email

Forget genres I want music filed under fiction or non-fiction

I named my puppy Carol so I can tell people that she’s named after bass legend and Everett native Carol Kaye, blow their minds when they learn every record she played on, and materially improve their lives when they look at her impeccably designed website.

Covered this extensively in my 2015 Stranger piece about how Mars Hill weaseled their way into Seattle music and so stoked that Zwickel is diving even deeper into this weird part of Seattle arts history, the impacts of which are still being felt.

OH MY GODDDDDD

Take a hike! (encouraging)

Taking up a triple word score square for a 2 letter word that blocks expansive gameplay is terribly unchic

Who at the hospital in Grey’s Anatomy is just putting that headline on their locker

Trump just said that Seattle was taken over by criminals and anarchists and I, totally ignoring the hilarious lie, got so excited that my town was mentioned I yelled “I KNOW HER” #Debate2024

It takes so much work to have empathy, to find context, to hold multiple things at once. To be a person, to allow yourself the full confusion and brevity inherent in personhood, and to extend that cursed luxury to everyone else. Essential humanity is devastating to certainty.