woolgathering

earlier this evening my outdoor cat, godfather, whom my dad so affectionately named after vito corleone because his fur pattern gave him a mustache and a sort-of suit, passed away after being confined at the vet's. we first brought him in on wednesday aft…

a small collection of some things i've been thinking about lately. some of these might be worth individual blog posts, but i think i'm just trying to tidy up and put everything in one place first. i haven't written much the last two months, so i kind of f…

for the month of june, i tried my best to engage with as many pieces of queer media (either characters depicted are queer or the author/director are) as i could to celebrate pride month. i unfortunately didn't get to finish the goal i sort of set for myse…

i. on a remote island this island is a three hour drive from the nearest major city, and an additional twenty minutes by boat (thirty when the waves are being disagreeable). it's a wildlife sanctuary and marine reserve that i visited primarily to see the…

the thing about split diopters is people either love 'em or hate 'em, and i'm on the side of loving them. the enemy seems to find them hokey and visually jarring (why don't they just use deep focus1 or a focus pull2 blablabla) and i won't disagree in cert…

i visited my extended family on my mom's side last sunday to celebrate mother's day. most of my mom's siblings still live in the same house they grew up in, and i actually lived there for a few years too, although my family moved out in the early 2010s. we

a few years ago, i used to struggle a lot with talking about things i liked. i feared that my words wouldn't ever be able to properly articulate why i loved the things i did. it kind of felt like i was selling my feelings short and in a way, doing that th…

last month, pre-orders were going around for this t-shirt made by rob cham. i am vehemently opposed to generative ai (i don't think i've ever explicitly mentioned that on my blog before) so i thought i'd let the world know by buying a cute t-shirt and sup…

my now page is probably my favorite thing about my blog. it is the page i've spent the most time on, mainly because i was fiddling with a lot of the css to make each category uniform in appearance. i don't think i get enough traffic on my blog for people…

as a birdwatcher i almost feel obligated to share a freaky ass bird as my answer to this month's bear carnival, but in a way it feels a like a bit of a cop out to Me personally, so i'm going to go with my other answer... the devils hole pupfish!

i love the idea of double features and constantly wish they were not a thing of the past. more than just a two-for-one deal to save a couple of bucks, the appeal of the double feature to me is seeing two different movies and — in scorsese's words — putting