Maggie Lehrman

It should've been K-1 (k minus one), k-2 (k minus 2), etc.

Should we take the kids to The Fall???

*4 sentences!

These three sentences

I got so mad at the opening quote title card in 500 Days of Summer that in retrospect I really should’ve left right then. Was still mad walking out at the end, as you can’t really recover from that level of anger

Agreed!!

I was talking to friends yesterday who had never heard of Gold Zone so let me say as a public service: Gold Zone RULES, check it out on peacock

Watch this, it's astonishing.

Heck yeah, Fort Worth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLTl...

Not ME dealing with emotions from 2020 I never had time to process while overhearing my kid doing school over zoom.

Yes!!!

My brother is there too!

Books don't tell readers who they personally are or who they are supposed to be. They do show readers a variety of characters. Implicit in that is this: "Here are some ways of being." Kids books aren't altering your kid to be someone new. They are simply showing them parts of humanity.

Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

I have been perceived

<raises hand> proud third place, lost to a 19 day champ!

Drawing of the artist in a sweater at a desk, scowling at an empty sketchbook page. TEXT: “Maybe the REAL problem is I don’t have the right system of little notebooks…”

2-minute comic

Impeach, convict and remove. I don't know what Congress is there for otherwise.

mikefossey: Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do] DinkMagic: Ever seen this before [I throw my hat like a frisbee 10 feet away and jump over near it] mikefossey: [I run down a flight of stairs, stop at the second to last step, I pause, and then I jump the last two steps. I do not land it] DinkMagic: [i throw a grape up in the air and open my mouth but i get scared that i breathed in some fluff and start choking violently] mikefossey: [I'm doing a mime act where I pretend to pull on a rope but I somehow accidentally grab a real rope and I pull myself off stage] DinkMagic: [im cooking an omelette and i flip the pan and snatch the omelette out of the air with my hand burning myself] tadaa

mikefossey: [I kick some dust at a guy after losing an argument but the dust flies up into my mouth and I cough so hard I barf] DinkMagic: [my friend says im going to the store toss me your keys but i see a strange bird and instead throw my wallet in the ditch] mikefossey: [guy passes me on the highway and flips me off, I throw a full cup of coffee at my own windshield and it spills all over the car] DinkMagic: [i toss an apple into my elbow-pit to bounce it back out but i miss and try to bite it out of the air but bite my tongue] mikefossey: [I try to throw a beer can into the recycle but it hits the trash can instead and it's still mostly full so it knocks it over] DinkMagic: [2 girls are arguing i say here let me solve this and i flip a gold coin i bought on ebay so hard it breaks a fluorescent tube

mikefossey: [I ask the guy at the store to recommend me a beer and he talks to me for 23 minutes before he realizes i think beer is wine] DinkMagic: [i ask to be excused from dinner to do homework & then phone my mom because i broke my wrist playing street fighter at 7-11] mikefossey: [I bite a gold coin to see if it's real, but it's chocolate. I try to play it cool and eat the whole thing without unwrapping it] DinkMagic: [a teams softball rolls near me] i got this my friends a cuban pitcher [i throw the ball into the back of my own head & faint] mikefossey: Here, let me park for you, Im really good at parallel parking [i walk over to the driver side and slam my dick in the car door] DinkMagic: [i testify under oath that i thought a mortgage was a special kind of measuring tape] mikefossey: [I'm cracking my knuckles and limbering up to fight but then a guy who's on his way to another fight accidentally knocks me over]

DinkMagic: [i ask the butcher for two pounds of boneless chicken Brent] mikefossey: [at a dinner party I lean on the grand piano while telling a story, but the lid is open and I fall into it, hitting every string] DinkMagic: [i get anxious at a fancy bar and order a martini and then say "could you imagine if this was soup" to no one really loud] mikefossey: I try to open a beer with a lighter but I shatter the bottle and cut my hand, and also light my shirt on fire with the lighter] DinkMagic: [i ride up on my new dirtbike revving it, and set the kickstand down on my own foot and start crying] mikefossey: [I get water up my nose while I'm doing the dishes and knock my glasses into the garbage disposal when I go to rub my nose] DinkMagic: [i get angry that I got confused & told an Italian that pizza came from Russia I drive to little Caesars & throw a stone at it

"its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do" is one of my all time favorite tweets, but as a public service I share this tumblr collection of the entire 26-tweet reply chain it was part of (courtesy of haywire4) www.tumblr.com/haywire4/173...

I’m psyched to see it!

I felt like an a-hole but I thought her portrayal of someone who had never been to the theater before loudly asking what was happening very funny

Yay!!! I get to vote for Brad Lander for Congress!

My mom said “I’ve been watching this new show, and it’s great because it’s just one episode. It’s called Train Dreams?”

Check out this auction - so many great donations!

Pan!

Shannon Hale’s Books of Bayern! Sabriel by Garth Nix!

These guys are not good at television, but they're so much more fun to watch than the professionals.

Me and my son with our Halloween I Voted stickers

Pigeon holding trick or treat bag. The pigeon is a Halloween voter 2025.

Halloween voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Hooray!!

One thing that all 3 of these shows have in common (besides being v good) is that I sobbed through each of them. I wonder why 🙃