Saturday’s beer: Chile Line Brewery’s Salty Dog Stout ⭐️⭐️__ solid, but a little smokier than I like
Saturday’s beer: Chile Line Brewery’s Salty Dog Stout ⭐️⭐️__ solid, but a little smokier than I like
a beautiful summer day, albeit on the warm side, waiting for the salmon on the grill
mind. blown. The secret history of the anti-abortion movement:
debates around abortion have been entangled with race panic from the start. The fight to criminalise abortion may have successfully passed itself off as a moral crusade, but its origins are rooted in a political one
finished Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear 📚 thought it might be pretty woo-woo, and I wasn’t wrong, actually. but it’s also pragmatic and canny, and the writing is so pleasant to spend time with. really liked it; it’s a keeper
Saturday’s beer: Chile Line Brewery’s Stoked ⭐️⭐️__ A souvenir from New Mexico: appreciative of the thought but not a fan of smoky
You can take away a right through legal means, but you cannot take away the belief in that right so easily
Rebecca Solnit, Women’s rights have suffered a grim setback. But history is still on our side
Saturday’s beer: Lorelei Brewing’s The Mer-Dude ⭐️⭐️⭐️ brought this Russian imperial coffee milk stout back from our recent trip to Corpus Christi. good stuff
Warpaint, Champion 🎵
Elif Batuman, in Either/Or:
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past”: I didn't like when people used “sweet” about non-sensory experiences. Why were we in my mouth all of a sudden?
Lazy Beach Brewing’s Molinillo “Mexican Hot Chocolate Milk Stout” -> yes… “Ancho chilis, cayenne” -> mmm, a bit much ⭐️ __ __
Mustang Island, TX
sunset, Mustang Island, TX
Saturday’s late-night music video: Lorde, Supercut 🎵
in my head I do everything right
Saturday’s beer: (512) Brewing’s (512) Tripel ⭐️⭐️⭐️ love a good tripel, and this is a good tripel 🍺
finished reading The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O’Connor 📚 it was interesting to read a book backed by science that supports & explains much of what we’ve learned elsewhere about grief. thinking of grieving as a special kind of learning is a key point
Saturday #2’s beer: Dogfish Head Brewery’s Utopias Barrel-Aged World Wide Stout ⭐️⭐️⭐️ this is the stuff 🍺
“Saturday”’s beer: (512) Brewing’s Gin Barrel Wit 🍺 ⭐️⭐️__
Jenny Lewis, The Next Messiah (live) 🎵
if we ever have to justify to aliens that they shouldn’t wipe out Earth, I say we just show them Jenny Lewis. case closed
Saturday’s beer: New Holland Brewing’s Dragon’s Milk White 🍺 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
really enjoyed the writing in Intimacies by Katie Kitamura. 📚 narrated by a war-crimes trial interpreter, the muted style of this story is a perfect match to her quietly simmering interior life
Bans Off Our Bodies protest at the Texas Capitol
two weeks counts as a streak, right? at Genuine Joe (while it’s here)
Austin FC v LA Galaxy - hot day for a 6:30 kickoff, but nicer once the sun was below the stands
Bikini Kill at The Far Out
for years, I spent most every Thursday morning before work writing at a coffee shop. then, for years I couldn’t do that. back again today
