Maureen

I was watching The Pitt and Santos sings the opening theme to @hinaypod.bsky.social in episode 2.7! I was very excited

The NYPD are just parked in the middle of the street completely blocking through traffic. No lights, not sure where the officers went. The street isn’t even blocked off, they’ve just elected to let a line of cars stuck behind them with no way out. I’m so glad we’re paying them so much

“Is a ball gag a prop or a costume?”
-questions you find yourself asking when you work in theater

Slurry method is definitely the way to go. I use cornstarch but potato should work. Let me know if you want any recipe recommendations!

You are my go-to for the
criminal/asshole content I crave

Free cat name that came to me in a dream:
Machine Gun Smelly

I had friends over and taught them how to make a full meal, including this pecan frangipane and cranberry tart!

I am in a restaurant and there is a toddler on a scooter in here. Why.

I was really taken out of a steamy scene one time when an early 1920s man *unzipped* another man’s pants. Another book claimed a wool overcoat was “ruined” by rain when wool is very durable! That’s why they make coats out of it!

He brings on young designers, has them design his shows for him hoping for credit and cuts them loose without recognition. He is a parasite and I’m furious that the industry continues to allow this.

Emilio Sosa is a blight on the costume design community. My friend did initial designs for Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl uncredited and unacknowledged along with several other projects for him and is now lying in a hospital bed barely able to scrape together insurance.

His name is Ira, he is 15 years old

Crucially he did not work there he was just visiting

I bought a bottle and tried to get holy water from the fountain at St. Mary if the Angels in Assisi but the aperture was too small and the water wouldn’t go in. A priest saw me at it and just put tap water in and blessed it, which he insisted counted.

I was a big weirdo, so it was anime soundtracks (Gravitation, Cowboy Bebop, Utena) mixed with the Corrs, the Darkness and opera

I sing this to my birds every morning when I uncover them so it is perpetually stuck in my head

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com looks like there’s a market after all!

Both my parents and their respective spouses are *super* proud of how light they travel and it’s starting to annoy me. Sometimes I check a bag! I don’t care that you didn’t for two weeks in Italy! No force on earth can compel me to go about in an entirely microfiber outfit I washed in a hotel sink!

An incomplete list of places I have prevented Ira (pictured) from building a home for his family:
-behind a stove
-inside a paper bag (various)
-inside my sofa
-behind a box of packing paper
-in a shoe
-on top of the fridge
-inside a fitted sheet used as a couch cover

“You can tell us if it’s really accurate!” -24 year old friend

I’m in a book (fanfic) club with some younger friends and this month we’re reading a fic described as a ‘period piece’ with ‘period typical homophobia’ that is set in…2003. My soul left my body

I did, I expected it to be more homoerotic but Andrew Scott’s take on Ripley is really different. He seems colder, almost a sociopath. It’s beautifully shot and designed, I enjoyed the black and white.

I did a job that included bright orange spray paint and now my crafts apron looks like I went to town on a party size bag of Cheetos

I’m listening to the PenumBook Club episode on this right now! My question is: what do you think of the recent adaptation with Andrew Scott?

The first Fremen to ride a worm definitely did it on a drunken dare

Gilbert can fly again and my apartment is back in balance at last. Bernie has been trying to play with Ira, which just causes screaming and fighting.

I’m trying dating apps again and was just liked by a trans man with a profile pic of him holding a fish and that is just waaay too straight for me.

Today in “things not made for people who live alone”: bustiers. What’s with all the hooks in the back?? How am I supposed to put this on?!

Since “Mom Friend” is so gendered I would like to propose “Quartermaster Friend”: has medicine, snacks, bandaids, but is not going to let you drink more than your share of the juice boxes

I can’t afford to board them for 6 weeks, fiscally or mentally