progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

I got to meet up again with my old collaborator Georg Büchner on assignment for the Oakland Review of Books, and couldn’t have enjoyed it more.

https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/a-bright-streak-over-the-grass-where-the-toadstools-grow/

There were a number of works, she said, executed when Bourgeois was the mother of small children, in which she portrays herself as a spider. https://atem.metameat.net/2025/01/19/2240

How it's going

Made it to Morro Bay with my daughter. The fortune of it. #tdor

AWARENESS.

(@nicole says it looks like a dinosaur feather)

This top was not so midriffy on its original owner but it seems I have some sort of distinct spatial extension going on

You could tell me that "klaatu barada nikto" was Estonian and I'd have no grounds to disagree.

New plan: every time I run across a Thin Blue Line flag I will take the color scheme to be affirming US-Estonian solidarity.

I never thought leopards would eat MY face

My sister just got this tattoo (cute!) and named it Jinchou, which I didn’t know was Japanese for penguin (also cute!) but when I looked it up I found it’s written人鳥, that is, person-bird. The bird just out there doing its business like a person. That’s the jinchou, that’s the penguin. Now you know.

In other news, Zooey Zephyr knows how to spell "principles," the Washington Post doesn't

@nicole For our listeners, the lower right is Matt and me demonstrating the 💪 that you do after you've successfully cracked open a Negra Modelo in the wheel well of a rented Kia along the Kern River.