Brigid Keely

I don't think the Roman church ever got fully on board with that, but old Eastern Orthodox icons tend to portray him as still having a dog's head; cynocephalic (i.e. dog-headed people) were really big as a legend/trope in the Middle Ages for some reason

OH MAN SO: Saint Christopher, according to some versions of the story, was from a people who all had dog's heads (I thiiiiink because some Byzantine or someone misread Canaanite as a word related to canine?); then when he converted, he gained a fully human appearancehttps://twitter.com/Chelsea_dots/status/1225201698370727936 …

PS: At such an art exhibit you could sell the many retelling books POC have written in recent years. So you'd still make buck, you know?

B&N suspended the diverse covers initiative. This is an example of something that would work as an art installation -- imagine famous books with characters from a different background, with informational displays, etc -- and that doesn't work well by itself.

On the one hand, I get the joke. On the other hand, Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder is a real thing that has fuck-all to do with self-control.https://twitter.com/bIondiewasabi/status/1224854118566711301 …

We used to climb out onto the roof to watch fireworks. One year, my cat came out with us - he scattered when they started, but turned back, yowled and ran again, repeatedly, obviously trying to show us the way to safety

People say "I love dogs b/c my cat would never pull me from a burning building," but my cat tries and fails every day to save me from the shower. What is he going to do? He weighs 8 pounds.

Dante: [reads this tweet] oh fuck should’ve add a 10th circle

the office i used to work at, there was this lady who would come to our floor to microwave fish and then dip back to her floor with it, leaving behind a thick fish fog. there is no hell hot enough

Baby Nut has risked nothing; it is empty ZOMG Epic Bacon garbage, and the public can smell it.

a lot of this links to kawaii theory - that the truly cute must be a little ugly - but i think it goes to some of the stuff I was trying to say in that Babadook is Gay piece a few years ago: it only works if it exceeds the capacity for marketing to contain/control its meaning

thinking a lot abt success of Baby Yoda & Gritty versus the manufactured unpleasantness of things like Baby Nut and the lesson is, I think, that of the lead casket: you cannot fake chaos; you must risk ugliness; give and hazard all

Yuuup. At my grandmother’s funeral, holding up my 3 yr old bc he wanted to see her. He says, “She’s not in there anymore.” LEANS OVER THE CASKET AND KNOCKS ON HER STERNUM. “Just bones now.” Well there’s EVERY HUMAN EMOTION right there in a moment, thanks kid.

the 3yo just asked if our cat would come back to life in the springtime. like the trees. definitely have kids if you want to experience every human emotion magnified by magical thinking, sentiment unburdened by mortality or time or physics, simultaneously devastating & innocent.

If you see the system failing and your community going hungry and the people who are supposed to fix it doing sweet fuck all and you do not feel that as coercion to step the fuck in and help I'm kinda worried about the state of your soul tbh.

The number of people who think that coercion is only putting a gun to someone's head is really alarming. The number who think that all families unable to pack a lunch for a kid automatically qualify for free lunches is also fucking alarming.

Asking again: Where are my #Indigenous book reviewers? And who wants me to put their name forward for an opportunity. Pays $75 for reviews of 700-800 words and $100 for author profiles of around 1200 words. DM me or reply here.

Uber app says car has arrived I can’t hear it. Me: hi I’m blind can you pull up next to me so I can find you? Them: can you see the red car I’m there. Me: .... I’m blind no I can’t see the red car. Them: I’m next to the red car. Me: Pull up next to me. Eventually they did

The CHA basically sitting on millions of millions of dollars earmarked for relocation while slow rolling applications for new units as public housing was destroyed to make areas attractive for capital investment probably a big part of that