Meg Wood

@megwood.bsky.social

just a shape to fill a lack #medLibs

It’s nice when 9-week-old Vinnie Barbarino gets in for a lap snuggle, but we’ve all learned to make sure there’s a toy ready too because otherwise woe to the hand that feeds him (litrilly).

Baby Siamese sitting in a lap holding a mouse toy and looking deceptively tame

Whenever someone describes me as "elegant," which happens weirdly a lot, I like to tell them about the time I walked full-steam into a 40 foot, fully-decorated Christmas tree, bounced off it like a pinball, collided with a security guard, and took us both to the floor. A ballerina, that's me.

The only two speeds on this model are apparently “hurricane” and “unconscious.” Here’s what the latter looks like. (The former cannot be photographed without special gear that can withstand high-speed mayhem.)

Vinnie Barbarino, a baby Siamese kitten, asleep in my lap with my hand wrapped around him Vinnie Barbarino, a baby Siamese kitten, asleep in a little blue basket on some soft white tee-shirts and towels.

Nell’s small grave, opening at the garden’s edge to receive her out of this world’s sight forever, reopens many graves. Digging, the old man grieves for his old dog with all the grief he knows, which seems again to be approaching enough, though he knows there is more. (WB) apnews.com/article/wend...

Wendell Berry, Kentucky-born author who advocated a simpler life, has died at 92

Author-agrarian Wendell Berry, a Kentucky native who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, has died.

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HELLO I’D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER BECAUSE THESE ARE ALL THE WRONG 80-SOMETHINGS YOU ARE TAKING FROM US RIGHT NOW THESE WERE NOT THE ONES THAT WERE ON THE LIST WE SENT YOU WTF ARE YOU DOING STOP IT RIGHT NOW AND SEND THEM BOTH BACK IT’S TOO MUCH TO ASK www.cnn.com/tim-curry-de...

Tim Curry, star of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and ‘Clue,’ dead at 80 | CNN

Tim Curry, the English actor who became a massively popular cult figure thanks to his performances in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Clue” and the TV miniseries “It,” has died. He was 80.

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If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.