what was that? is that all there is? who is this? this is it.

Roz Chast from the New Yorker

the 9/22/25 issue is a great one featuring TC Boyle, Rachel Kushner and much much more including this cartoon which actually made me laugh out loud. That LOL thing is a very rare thing for me in 2025. 

If you've ever heard me string together the words HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND in the form of a question, you know it's sarcastic. It's a joke. It's horseshit. Because I don't care about your weekend. If I did, I'd ask. But I do not. I don't. I will not. I won't. 

I never learned to play the idle chit-chat game, to pretend to care about things I don't care at all about. Inane conversation about nothing. Perhaps if I could pretend to hold that ability I'd have a high-paying office job and I could stand around in the break room and babble on about my big plans for the weekend. 

h o r s e shit

however, if you actually had a nephew and he got into Tufts, I would stop what I was doing and look you in the eye and encourage you to finish your story. 

There are Tufts Jumbos all around us but most of us are unaware. While I was still lauging at Chast's cartoon I sent it to Catarina because she's a Jumbo. 

Now I'm sending it to you too. 

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I'm the dog sniffing every dog ass at the dog park - just trying to figure out how the real ones live. This can't be it, can it? Am I doing it right? This is my Tuesday.

is that all there is?

how was your weekend?

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