Ross Catrow

  • Has someone already started a LLM MLM?

  • Finished reading: Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristen Green 📚

    I keep talking about this book to everyone that will listen (why did I wait until now to read it??), and it’s a strong recommend for everyone—but especially for Richmonders and Virginians. So much of the language used by 1950s racists is in use now by 2020s racists!!

  • Who’s excited to figure out “winter interest” in the yard this year??

  • <kills enormous disgusting fly>

    <Terminator 2 theme plays in the background>

  • “And those He kills He makes alive; He hears the sigh or groan. Poor bankrupt souls, who feel and know The hell of sin within”

    #ChurchOrMetal

  • The Lost City, 2022 — ★★★½.  Romancing the Stone but the stone is Channing Tatum’s butt.

  • Finished reading: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny 📚

    Maybe a little overwritten, but listening to someone describe plants is deeply my thing.

  • We’re living in a golden age of Star Trek, people!! s02e09 of Strange New Worlds was soooooo freaking fun!

  • Huge thanks to whoever cut back all the brush on the gabagey (but excellent) part of the Pine Camp loop!

  • Look at how stupid my life has become: Using an entire pastebin tool so I can type en and em dashes on my work computer: paste.lol/ross/dash

  • OK, “Shiver Me Tingles” is a pretty good ASMR name.

  • Finished reading: Parable of the Talents: A Nebula Award-winning novel of a terrifying dystopian future by Octavia E. Butler 📚

    Brutal and prophetic and, occasionally, weirdly optomistic.

  • Do we have any local, friendly, online gardening communities in Richmond?

  • I lost/won padrón lottery tonight. 🌶️

  • I’m running out of people to shout at about the bamboo lifecycle.

  • Finished reading: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚

    Written in 1993! Immediately bought water purification tablets after I finished it!

  • I’m always amazed that zinnias are real! #bloomscrolling

    A coral-colored zinnia with about a billion little petals.

  • Some of the better pictures I took during this year’s vacation to Hilton Head Island.

    A small flock of six pelicans flies over some trees in front of a sunset sky.

    A yellow sign reading “Be Aware of Poisonous Snakes and Uneven Surfaces” is seen behind the fronds of a palm tree. The sign features an illustration of a cobra (?!) inside of a triangle.

    The hands of a 14-year-old boy explaining a diagram of volleyball rotations.

    A forest on the edge of marshland. In the foreground, one of the trees is bone white.

    A black and white image of a dead tree limb in front of a cloudless sky. THe moon is visible as a small, gray circle.

    A man sits fishing on a pile of rocks that stretches into the ocean.

    A heron-type bird looks on from very shallow waters of a low-tide beach.

    A dead tree stands tall on a beach, looking sort of like a branchy Y. More dead tree remains in the foreground.

    View of the underside of a tall, column-supported bridge at low tide.

  • 65, 2023 — ★★★.  Adam Driver running is the new Tom Cruise running, and that’s OK with me.

  • My biggest regrest in life is not ordering one of these “STOKED” Becky Cloonan shirts.

    roguescreenprint.bigcartel.com/product/s…

  • Pearl, 2022 — ★★★½.  😬

  • Shin Godzilla, 2016 — ★★★★.  Hits different after working for the government during the COVID-19 emergency response 😬.

  • Well this is incredibly dystopian:

    “On Friday, McElroy said, she got a call from [Texas] A&M’s interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, José Luis Bermúdez, warning her that there were people who could force leadership to fire her and he could not protect her.”

    www.texastribune.org/2023/07/1…

  • One of my favorite things about Mastodon is the extra flavor people add to their image alt text. More like sALT text, amiright?

    An image of a statement followed by the original poster’s alt text. The original text reads: “We immediately withdraw from the ALA and discontinue any further payments except for existing contracts to it or its subsidiaries. The body of the letter to the ALA is as follows: Dear Executive Board and Officers, The purpose of this letter is to announce the MSL immediate separation from the ALA. Our oath of office and resulting duty to the Constitution forbids association with an organization led by a Marxist. Sincerely, MSL Commission” The original poster’s alt text reads, in part: “Their shitty note, which reads ‘We immediately withdraw from the ALA...’”

  • “When public health works, it’s invisible. But there are a ton of people working their butts off.”

    yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/lessons…

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