Today's word

phoebe /FEE-bee/ - any of a genus (Sayornis) of the tyrant flycatcher family; especially : a flycatcher (S. phoebe) of the eastern U.S. that has a slight crest and is plain grayish brown above and yellowish white below

From today's Dictionary Devil. It took me a minute, too, to realize that a flycatcher is a bird. 

i don't know . . .

. . . why i bother with this blog. i'm just screaming into the fucking void.

i don't think you know how. 
but thank you for trying. 
you have been such a bright spot in my life.

not like i do.

let the reader beware . . .

. . . that I don't lend pieces of my heart.

I should probably warn people about that sooner.

Today's word

peripeteia /'pair-uh-puh-TEE-uh/ - a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work

A word from my distant past, from either a classics or theater class in my first college (i.e., partying) career. Then there's this new addition to a fun post I've seen lately:

I before E, except (in an entertaining peripeteia) when your foreign neighbor Keith receives eight beige counterfeit sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. Weird. 

i am a zombie 😫💤