Mild Plaid
@mildplaid.bsky.social
Rather Midwestern, but living in Atlanta. Mostly good at talking about food.
Think I’ll make red beans and rice (but not Red Beans and Rice) for dinner this week.
November 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Think I’ll make red beans and rice (but not Red Beans and Rice) for dinner this week.
Sometimes we don’t eat all the fruit we had planned for lunches; I am trying to get better about not just throwing it away. Last week we ended up with significantly too many nectarines.
September 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Sometimes we don’t eat all the fruit we had planned for lunches; I am trying to get better about not just throwing it away. Last week we ended up with significantly too many nectarines.
There was an insect, probably some flavor of cricket, making a noise like a beeping microwave outside my bedroom window all night.
I’m going to breed a type of frog that just eats those insects.
I’m going to breed a type of frog that just eats those insects.
August 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
There was an insect, probably some flavor of cricket, making a noise like a beeping microwave outside my bedroom window all night.
I’m going to breed a type of frog that just eats those insects.
I’m going to breed a type of frog that just eats those insects.
C.S. Friedman’s Coldfire trilogy. With our current attachment to dark fantasy and attractive antiheroes, it frankly surprises me no one has done this already.
If you could adapt any work of literature into a TV series (and you can only pick one), which would you pick and why?
We'll go first. Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber. Seeing that world come to life with walls of Caribbean culture would be real fascinating to see on TV. So good.
Your turn!
We'll go first. Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber. Seeing that world come to life with walls of Caribbean culture would be real fascinating to see on TV. So good.
Your turn!
July 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
C.S. Friedman’s Coldfire trilogy. With our current attachment to dark fantasy and attractive antiheroes, it frankly surprises me no one has done this already.
In the spirit of fathers' day, here are two extremely niche household tasks that I accomplished today that, as a child, I never would have expected to be something an adult would have to do:
- Weeded the driveway
- Removed an ants nest from the engine bay of my car
- Weeded the driveway
- Removed an ants nest from the engine bay of my car
June 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
In the spirit of fathers' day, here are two extremely niche household tasks that I accomplished today that, as a child, I never would have expected to be something an adult would have to do:
- Weeded the driveway
- Removed an ants nest from the engine bay of my car
- Weeded the driveway
- Removed an ants nest from the engine bay of my car
There are not a lot of articles that, if they disappear, I will find where else they are hiding. This, originally published in Esquire and long available for free, is one, and I read it every year at this time.
(This version does require closing some commentary to read smoothly. Sorry. Ish.)
(This version does require closing some commentary to read smoothly. Sorry. Ish.)
Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and “The Things That Carried Him” - Nieman Storyboard
This story was published in May 2008, five years into Chris Jones’s career at Esquire. Jones was 35 at the time, and he says it was probably the best time to take on a story as tough as Sergeant Joe M...
niemanstoryboard.org
May 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There are not a lot of articles that, if they disappear, I will find where else they are hiding. This, originally published in Esquire and long available for free, is one, and I read it every year at this time.
(This version does require closing some commentary to read smoothly. Sorry. Ish.)
(This version does require closing some commentary to read smoothly. Sorry. Ish.)
I am beginning to think that the trash service app was lying about garbage pickup happening today.
May 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I am beginning to think that the trash service app was lying about garbage pickup happening today.
Today’s commute to the office is brought to you by “drivers just hanging out in MP’s blind spot.”
May 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today’s commute to the office is brought to you by “drivers just hanging out in MP’s blind spot.”
Thanks to this community’s ability to teach sports culture beyond my physical location, I was able to successfully “go birds” my Philly-born IT tech at my new job today.
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thanks to this community’s ability to teach sports culture beyond my physical location, I was able to successfully “go birds” my Philly-born IT tech at my new job today.
And now, the conclusion to the Tuesday project:
April 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
And now, the conclusion to the Tuesday project:
Today’s Tuesday project that is hopefully one of the last Tuesday projects for a while:
April 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today’s Tuesday project that is hopefully one of the last Tuesday projects for a while:
This is a tough time for me for the #CharitibundiBowl this year, but I still need a bit of support for @newap-georgia.bsky.social on behalf of WashU.
I know our biggest rival on the leaderboard is W&L, but the only rival I recognize in football is Chicago, even if they're dodging us these days.
I know our biggest rival on the leaderboard is W&L, but the only rival I recognize in football is Chicago, even if they're dodging us these days.
April 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is a tough time for me for the #CharitibundiBowl this year, but I still need a bit of support for @newap-georgia.bsky.social on behalf of WashU.
I know our biggest rival on the leaderboard is W&L, but the only rival I recognize in football is Chicago, even if they're dodging us these days.
I know our biggest rival on the leaderboard is W&L, but the only rival I recognize in football is Chicago, even if they're dodging us these days.
What’s a moment in a piece of media that took you from “ok this is pretty good” to “oh shit this is GREAT”?
- The introduction of the Matahuxee Mime Combine in The Gone Away World
- The atomic theory of bicycles in The Third Policeman
- The introduction of the Matahuxee Mime Combine in The Gone Away World
- The atomic theory of bicycles in The Third Policeman
what’s a moment in a piece of media that took you from “ok this is pretty good” to “oh shit this is GREAT”?
- "It's Michael Vick" from the Money Bag Shawty episode of ATLANTA
- The first piano drops of 'Layla' in GOODFELLAS
- Isaac Hayes' final scene in I'M GONNA GIT YA SUCKA
- "It's Michael Vick" from the Money Bag Shawty episode of ATLANTA
- The first piano drops of 'Layla' in GOODFELLAS
- Isaac Hayes' final scene in I'M GONNA GIT YA SUCKA
what’s a moment in a piece of media that took you from “ok this is pretty good” to “oh shit this is GREAT”?
- The red light/green light dancers in Smile 2
- the planetarium scene in I Saw the TV Glow
- That dance number in Sonic 3. I’m sorry, it was great.
- The red light/green light dancers in Smile 2
- the planetarium scene in I Saw the TV Glow
- That dance number in Sonic 3. I’m sorry, it was great.
March 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
What’s a moment in a piece of media that took you from “ok this is pretty good” to “oh shit this is GREAT”?
- The introduction of the Matahuxee Mime Combine in The Gone Away World
- The atomic theory of bicycles in The Third Policeman
- The introduction of the Matahuxee Mime Combine in The Gone Away World
- The atomic theory of bicycles in The Third Policeman
Ike the corgi has decided that his job is supervising me while I erg…which is mostly cute but he insists on poking me with his nose every 100 meters or so. I would appreciate this more if he used it to correct my form instead of just being disruptive.
February 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Ike the corgi has decided that his job is supervising me while I erg…which is mostly cute but he insists on poking me with his nose every 100 meters or so. I would appreciate this more if he used it to correct my form instead of just being disruptive.
I was supposed to be doing things this morning, but Ike has other ideas.
January 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I was supposed to be doing things this morning, but Ike has other ideas.
Today’s snow day Dutch oven project: Bolognese. (Just out of frame the entirety unphotogenic beef stock slowly simmering.)
January 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Today’s snow day Dutch oven project: Bolognese. (Just out of frame the entirety unphotogenic beef stock slowly simmering.)
It was a gross, ugly day (at the end of a disappointing month at the end of a frustrating year) for a bike ride, but I went on one and finished my backup distance goal for the year.
(The quality of the ride was likely not helped by the heavy bike with rim breaks in cold and misty conditions.)
(The quality of the ride was likely not helped by the heavy bike with rim breaks in cold and misty conditions.)
December 28, 2024 at 8:50 PM
It was a gross, ugly day (at the end of a disappointing month at the end of a frustrating year) for a bike ride, but I went on one and finished my backup distance goal for the year.
(The quality of the ride was likely not helped by the heavy bike with rim breaks in cold and misty conditions.)
(The quality of the ride was likely not helped by the heavy bike with rim breaks in cold and misty conditions.)
There are a lot of unfun things about looking for a job, but a low-key awful one is that you have to answer all the calls from unknown numbers in case one of them is someone wanting to talk to you about a position.
December 12, 2024 at 7:55 PM
There are a lot of unfun things about looking for a job, but a low-key awful one is that you have to answer all the calls from unknown numbers in case one of them is someone wanting to talk to you about a position.
The rest of today has been pretty rotten, but the Gophers did win AXEGAME, so that’s something.
November 29, 2024 at 8:31 PM
The rest of today has been pretty rotten, but the Gophers did win AXEGAME, so that’s something.
There should be a special hell for people who watch videos with the sound on and no headphones in medical waiting areas.
(This would, of course, be a sub-level of the general hell for people who watch noisy videos in public, and next door to the special one for people who do this in airports.)
(This would, of course, be a sub-level of the general hell for people who watch noisy videos in public, and next door to the special one for people who do this in airports.)
November 22, 2024 at 12:42 PM
There should be a special hell for people who watch videos with the sound on and no headphones in medical waiting areas.
(This would, of course, be a sub-level of the general hell for people who watch noisy videos in public, and next door to the special one for people who do this in airports.)
(This would, of course, be a sub-level of the general hell for people who watch noisy videos in public, and next door to the special one for people who do this in airports.)
Well, shit.
Anyone need a project manager?
Anyone need a project manager?
November 12, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Well, shit.
Anyone need a project manager?
Anyone need a project manager?
Let's talk about project management! Also: food, wine, cocktails, or Nick Harkaway novels.
okay, time for a prompt post to distract us all from the horrors. quote this post with your areas of expertise, interest, hyperfixation and/or obsession and invite your audience to ask you questions about them.
November 4, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Let's talk about project management! Also: food, wine, cocktails, or Nick Harkaway novels.
Let’s learn about food.
(I look forward to the SFA Fall Symposium every year.)
(I look forward to the SFA Fall Symposium every year.)
October 27, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Let’s learn about food.
(I look forward to the SFA Fall Symposium every year.)
(I look forward to the SFA Fall Symposium every year.)