....and I'm back!
1 yr ago, I deleted my account. Though I have THOROUGHLY enjoyed my break from this app, I cannot continue to live above the clouds now that I am a host and senior producer at The Boston Globe.
So I'm back inside, feet in shoes and not in grass.
Say hi!
Just signed my lease for my new place in Cambridge where I will be living right around the corner from
@SenWarren
👀
This is about to be me at the local coffee spot we’ll share.
Happy International Romani day!
If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about Roma or Romani culture take a listen to Foretold (and read the op-eds in the LA Times written by Romani scholars and activists).
I’ve moved a lot, by this point I should be a pro. But I still feel anxious I won’t make friends. Sylvia Plath said it best:
“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
I use my dog as my personal timer- every 2-3 hours he stares me down until I give in with belly rubs.
He’s my shift lead reminding me to take my breaks.
I’ve finally arrived to my second stop on my road trip move to Boston: Laramie WY
And a few observations:
1) everyone is super friendly??? (NYT made me think this place was rough and mean.)
2) Lovejoy’s bar and grille . The food does not disappoint
This podcast was a labor of passion and anguish from the team and did not get the attention it deserved after waves and waves of layoffs.
Listen to it! I’m very proud of it and
@faithepinho
@asalehsanipour
@alexahmt
Heba, Lauren, Mike, and Ethel (who don’t have twitter)
Happy International Romani day!
If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about Roma or Romani culture take a listen to Foretold (and read the op-eds in the LA Times written by Romani scholars and activists).
I already knew I will never be able to afford a house in the town I grew up in, but man every new thing making the life I knew from childhood unattainable just breaks my heart.
Residents in the beautiful, but extreme, Santa Cruz Mountains have lived through historic fires, climate-change charged storms & weeks-long power outages.
Now, insurers are dropping out of the area & pushing people to the edge.
My latest:
@sfchronicle
What I hope media execs/financiers take away from the Kendrick W is that the people want intelligent multi layered media. Copy paste that lesson to the podcasting industry puh-leeze. The 👏🏽people 👏🏽want 👏🏽to 👏🏽think!👏🏽
Feliz Día de las Madres to my mami. The badass woman who was the one of the 1st women to graduate in engineering at her uni, move countries, learn a new language, oh and birth me!
It’s absolutely WILD that there’s a stop on the commuter train called Ruggles. RUGGLES.
I can’t take this seriously.
“Now arriving at Ruggles.” Stop. Sir. This is not Nickelodeon.
RUGGLES?!
9 years ago, long before I became an animator, I installed the Sims 4 and made “My Sweatshop Family.”
With my starting money, I was able to build a bedroom and a separate factory for the workers.
We ran out of contact solution. I walked to 3 different “24hr” convenience stores. They were all closed.
I’d understand if these were Covid casualties and Google maps just hasn’t updated. But this is downtown Boston. There were bars/clubs every few feet! Lots of people around.
The scene outside Dedham courthouse at the beginning of the Karen Read trial. Folks are wearing pink in support of Karen Read because they say they are not allowed to have signs.
Does anyone have a mechanical keyboard they recommend? One that is very tactile and clickety clackity. I hate this trend of barely noticeable clicks on mac keyboards.
I wanna feel like this:
@aparkusfarce
Ironically I felt the review itself was a bit guilty of the very thing it criticized in TTPD. It too could’ve used just a tad more editing. Some repetitive points, but they were made very well.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could fall asleep with the same control we have to blink? Natural but also with a manual override.
Yes I can’t sleep, what’s your point?
I wonder how often people mishear Bill Burr for Bill Barr.
Bill Barr Baggins.
B-b-b-b-b-b-bill is the word.
(It was a mistake for me to get back on Twitter)
The perpetual question
What is more palatable to potential sources: Introducing yourself as a reporter or a podcast producer?
There's cringe either way. And I'm torn.
Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.
We must continue to change our nation’s approach to marijuana while reforming the justice system so it finally lives up to its name.
I’ve never felt more insecure about my skill in ANYTHING than I do when I watch
@DeadbyDaylight
meme clips. I’ve sunk so many full grown adult hours into this game and I am not even CLOSE to some kids on twitch.
Hey what's this obsession millennials have with "Frasier" about? Is it that you were a kid and your parents were watching it so there's nostalgia about being in the room while a show you weren't really into was on and also Kelsey Grammer is kind of a dork? Help me out here.
Highly recommend the art gallery escape room at boxaroo in downtown Boston. We got out in 45 min 💪🏽. We would have gotten out earlier if we had more people.
When I was 6 my babysitter (our neighbor, a Black woman) had Waiting To Exhale and the colorful cover enchanted me. Cut to age 12 when I found it again at the library and picked up every Terry McMillan title and read them all back to back. I was a lil soulful child that summer.
Continuing my visit through the 90s Blk new wave I revisited 95's Waiting to Exhale which I hadn't seen in awhile and it didn't lose any of its power as a tear jerker, but the prevailing thought I'm this revisit was Angela Bassett, Angela Bassett Angela Bassett... 🧵
I was quite nervous after looking up New England culture. “New Englanders are cold and not friendly”. But I haven’t found that to be true at all so far.
Everyone I’ve met in and out of the office have been very welcoming and friendly. Easy going even.
It was a big reminder that the value of trust and community even at risk of being burned is so much better than living in fear and suspicion.
Obviously only take reasonable risks. Don’t gamble with serious things.
But in this case we bet on the good of others. And it paid off.
After spending $$$$ on a tiny cup of tea and paying “destination” fees at the hotel I’m staying at, what a time to come across the revolutionary communist of America protests.
Did Karl Marx get pissed after getting nickel and dimed at ye olde coffee shop too?
@alyssajperry
As a native Santa Cruzan this juxtaposition offends me. ATHERTON?! I didn't even know Atherton existed until someone pointed it out to me on the 280