May 24, 2026
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How to Date a Honeypot Without Compromise
A facetious, jaded TooBits session on dating-while-targeted in Houston — the Jams and Jellies aisle as honeypot habitat, the Halliburton dating pool (sung by Hallie Parton), country dance halls as field operations manuals with a mechanical bull, the "tired and just wants to go home" tribe as a calibrated 35-to-45-year-old in the bookstore mythology section, and the predator-dilation eyes that mean someone is targeting, not flirting. The substance under the snark is real — the impossibility of normal dating when half the city has read your file and the other half is structurally built to add you to it.
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The Fiat
A silver Fiat parked outside my house earlier today. When I went out, it left. I drove a few blocks and found it again — and when the driver saw my vehicle, they pulled into a residential driveway that wasn't theirs. Photographed the result (plate redacted), drove off. Entry includes the broader pattern this fits, the plausible non-targeting explanations, and the editorial reason for the redaction.
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Beat It (versions)
First entry in the music-that-helps series — Michael Jackson's "Beat It" in different registers, source first, then covers. The original is one of the most direct hold-your-ground songs in popular music: *no one wants to be defeated*. The transpositions gathered below it carry the same lyric in arrangements that do work on the inside of this experience the polished original doesn't always reach.
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Effulgence
A soft pastel from February 2025. The piece lives in the Handworks catalog on spiritb.com; posted here because the making of it belonged to this side of the story.
