…tomatoes, olives, peppers, zucchini…
…all that and you don’t even mention that he’s been an open russian asset for eight years?..
…the blunt truth is that he’s in too deep, as are most of the remaining republican party, and the only way to keep their heads at this point is to double-down on seizing the apparatus of state to dismiss their criminal culpability…
…i don’t know that i shouldn’t’ve seen it, but the 1978 invasion of the body snatchers was my introduction to existential horror at the ripe age of seven years…
…what shouldn’t i have seen?..about a year earlier, a family friend handed-down a big brown grocery bag stacked to the rim with pre-code EC horror comics: that was some teeth-gnashingly gruesome stuff…
…i read this in the tone of an exasperated husband responding to his wife waiting impatiently to drag him along to some saturday-afternoon garden tea party…
…i, too, had to text-message my coworker…
…we have a couple of industrial fans but the sound’s not quite right by comparison to cross-flow impellers…
…at some level i secretly suspect that sleeping under omnipresent white noise has only made my tinnitus worse over time, but that could also be a natural consequence of my ears aging-out…
(could also come from driving a convertible at speed while blasting music on a three-hour commute every day, if i’m honest)
…dark mode text while lying in repose on my side usually does the trick for me, but then i wake up later with a drained ipad propped against the wall…
…white noise drowns out the ringing in my ears and calms the voices in my head…
…my fan broke earlier this year; i’m shopping for a mechanical white-noise generator…
…when our central air conditioner failed during this summer’s hundred-degree spell, i installed a temporary window-box unit and sleeping was BLISS: tinnitus gang needs fans…
…looks like the retailer-exclusive cover for fizban’s treasury of dragons, too…
…you have a birthmark in the shape of legible english characters, not just one, but a full sequence which spell a word?..
…finesteride works, not a placebo…
…it’s already a thing and readily available in southeast asia…
…not entirely sure; possibly a proxy for snapping in real life?..
…i’ve been carrying a lot of pent-up rage…