this love is a haunting

So a kiss is out of the question?

Dress, late 1850s-early 1860s.

State Historical Museum

Pushups are the equivalent of benching like 75% of your bodyweight and most people who aren't focused on strength training would have trouble randomly lifting half their bodyweight with no training.

If I was going based on these trainers and was six months into training, lifting 120lbs would be a solid goal for a 3-rep set. Doing a full push-up would have me lifting about 180lbs from the starting position, and doing that ten times with good form is genuinely difficult if you don't regularly train for it.

It's also going to be more difficult for people who are fat, or who are top-heavy, or who are tall.

So "I am not focused on any kind of intensive lifting" is a perfectly valid response and please don't feel bad if you can't do ten push-ups, that shit is hard.

(If you want to train to do push-ups, the higher your hands are in the starting position the less weight you are lifting - start with wall push-ups then move to counter height push-ups then move to bench-height, then bent knee, then full push-ups. If you want to add weight, move your feet up higher and higher until you're doing hand stand push-ups. It's all leverage!)

Interior and rays of sun  - Raffaele Minotto, 2023.

Italian, b. 1969  -

Oil on panel , 150 x 200 cm.

My latest Guardian Books cartoon.

KRISTEN STEWART offers two words for the haters on her Rolling Stone cover — The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (March 11, 2024)

we've been living in this apartment for two months now, and while we've observed most of our new neighbours (my slavic Windowsill Watcher Grandmother gene already activated), I don't think they had the chance to see us often enough to recognise us yet.

I do know, however, from my observations, that the tiny funny dog upstairs is called Gucio. I've passed him once or twice during his walk and heard his owners use the name - and, while both the dog and his owners are oblivious to our existence, Gucio became an apt topic of discussion in our house. you know, we hear barking, ha, that's Gucio, he must be home alone again! or there's a stick left by the building door, that must have been brought by Gucio and he was forced to abandon it before entering! a household name, really.

yesterday as I was leaving to go to the store, walking down the narrow staircase, there he is! tiny funny looking dog, slightly startled by me suddenly appearing on the floor he just reached on his tiny funny looking legs.

"good morning Gucio!" I say joyfully, the most natural thing in the world.

well. remember that Gucio doesn't really know me. so he looks at me in the most flabbergasted way a dog can look at a person. he is positively aghast. agog! not sure how aware dogs are of their own names but he seemed genuinely puzzled at the apparent stretch of social convention.

and as I try to contain my laughter, I see his owner standing on the stairs below. the woman is sort of awkwardly frozen, speechless, and she looks at me.

"you... know each other?" she asks.

is that not the funniest way to phrase it. is this not the funniest question she could have asked. ma'am do you know my dog? you went to school together perhaps? you've met? do tell, are you old friends? maybe you worked together? you know each other, my dog and you? this dog? you know him? he knows you? he never mentioned you I'm afraid

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Seeing a steady rise of people using the library as we carry through summer break, so here's a quick thread from a staff member on little things you can do (for free!) to make life easier on staff. Let's go!

Jeff Latosik, from “On the General Being of Lostness"

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