tunesday: june 2025

a square image of several teenage boys in a journalism computer lab, three of them are seated and ostensibly working at computers, one is standing with his head turned back to look at something to his right, another is standing and taking a picture with a digital camera, june 2025 is handwritten in blue on the top right, the image was taken sometime in 2001 or 2002

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I have been deeply preoccupied this month so let’s do a rapidfire recap of stuff I have been into recently:

– Mother’s Original Circus Animal Cookies (Not the mythical creatures ones! Only the regular ones!)
– Roasted chicken and veg loosely following this recipe with added parsnips (Fast, cheap-ish, delicious!)
– Who Gives a Crap bamboo toilet paper (Cheap, feels less environmentally evil, nice branding/packaging)
– Little Caesar’s Pepperoni Crazy Puffs
– Lipton Fusions (Both flavors are bangers!)
– Phlur Strawberry Letter (Because I woke up one morning and was like, “Why the hell don’t I have any strawberry perfumes?” and this one is great.)
– Uni-ball Signo 0.5 (With the cap, not the click!)
– Ooly Color Layers markers
The Accountant (Genuinely!)
– DoorDash Arnold and his rainbow finger

This month we made donations to help feed people in Gaza and Sudan and I hope you’ll join me if you’re able! If you have any particular charity you’d like to recommend, shoot me an email: ashrocketship[at]gmail, please!

Okay, that’s it! We had several days in the 80s-90s and then dropped back down to endless rain and below freezing temps at night, which I prefer because summer is the devil, but wow, what a mercurial-ass May. Is this what this part of the midwest is like without weather modification? Or is it the new extremes of climate change? Who knows! I hope you’re well wherever you are and getting to do something you enjoy in the face of it all.

tunesday: may 2025

a square image of a man in profile standing in a convenience store with a case of beer in his hand waiting for the cashier, he and the cashier have black bars over their barely visible eyes, may 2025 is handwritten in green on the bottom left, the image was taken in may 2011

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a blurry and poorly lit photo of a group of strangers walking on a sidewalk in los angeles at night taken by ash in july 2010

The last month has… certainly been about thirty days and though I have been chugging along through it all, I have very little to say about anything, which sucks because I love saying stuff. I, in fact, live for saying stuff. And yet!

Books I’ve read lately: Joe Posnanski’s Why We Love Baseball (Fine to good), Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts (Bad to embarrasingly bad), Natalie Sue’s I Hope This Finds You Well (Great). Yaffa As’ Blood Orange (Desperately wanted this to not be Good but it was Bad), Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! (Almost Very Good, but disappointing instead), Lexi LaFleur Brown’s Shoot Your Shot (So Bad I DNFed at 25%).

I watched What’s Up, Doc? and reviewd it glowingly but truly, my god what a movie! Movies used to be fun! We used to believe in laughs! Shirtless men used to have chest hair and not look like they were dying of dehydration! We used to get to fall in love with Barbra Streisand!

This month’s donation went to the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance which is a North Dakota based charity working to close the news gap for Indigenous communities in the Great Plains.

Okay, spring is here! We’ve had snow and rain and sunshine and (already) too warm weather all in a couple weeks but the world is still turning and there are buds on the trees and though things may be no less fraught, I have felt a cool breeze on my face and the sun will rise again, etc etc. We must keep on truckin’.

tunesday: april 2025

a square image of three teenage girls with their eyes crossed out with black bars and april 2025 handwritten above them, two are sitting in chairs, one showing her teeth in a smile, the other looking upset with a camera in her hands, a third in profile at the right edge of the image is holding a disposable camera, there are other unidentifiable people in the back of the image, it was taken in a hotel ballroom in june of 1999

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