Xenochrony

Bruce Cockburn should re-release "If I Had a Rocket Launcher", it would probably really resonate with a lot of folks these days.

When I see a reference to something that happened in 2023 they might as well be talking about the 1980s for how distant it feels. This year has been an absolutely torturous fucking decade.

If God is all-powerful, can He compose a guitar solo so gnarly that He Himself cannot shred it?

Merry Bandcamp Friday Eve

If you come in late maybe people won't notice, but starting a full beat ahead of everyone else? Someone is determined that it won't happen again.

He wondered if he should send the remaining five English muffins to his vegan friend in Sedona.

Last season they seemed determined (or obligated) to say “Royale Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play” _every_ time they said “power play”, but they seem to have let up a bit this year. I hope.

Incognito browsing history wrapped 2025

That sinking feeling during the first spin when track one (the big hit) ends and track two starts with like some long piano intro, and you realize it’s a ballad called “Album Filler”.

This is how I wound up in the gutter.

I never thought I'd start a sentence like this, but: According to my phone, the artists I listened to most this year are Ethel Cain, Fucked Up, Car Seat Headrest, Headstones, and Frightened Rabbit. Sounds right. So why does it think my most listened-to song was Crazy On You by Heart? What? When?

ALTMAN: And so you can use Sora to generate interesting videos of you and your friends, all with AI.
FALLON: (giggling) So, heh, so that's a video of me in space, wow!
ALTMAN: Exactly.
FALLON: Could you generate a video of me where I'm not just a useful clown for fascism? Where my work has meaning?

Is he going to ask if he can touch Altman's hair?

I’m happy to report that my house had not been encased in a snow globe, there was simply some frost on the camera lens.

Image from a video doorbell with the text “Cameras - Grid View - Front Door - 27s - Alerts Off”. The actual image is a blurry bubbly mess, and could be a scene from under the ocean, or from outer space, or from a jacuzzi colliding with a welding shop. Guess I’ll find out when I get home…if it’s still there.

Not quite sure what to expect when I get home.

wanted ourself
brain drunk

This, of course, in satirical response to a Quebec law declaring that French words on signs needed to be larger than English words. These were the crucial issues of the time.

The new culture minister drawing criticism for saying the French language “is precarious throughout North America, rather than saying it is declining in Quebec specifically” is making me nostalgic for the days when Mordecai Richler would declare that French had to be spoken twice as loud as English.

"Gather 'round while Grampa tells you about stuff he read in the 'news paper' in the late 1900s, kids!"

I just read about how stock and bond prices used to contain fractions, and there's an Excel function to convert this "historical" "vintage" data to decimal. I thought I could remember seeing fractional stock prices (never noticed when it stopped); turns out decimalization was implemented in 2001.

I seem to recall Gleason talking about how at first Audrey Meadows would flinch or cower when Ralph would start yelling at Alice, and he instructed the actress not to do that, explaining that Alice isn't intimidated by Ralph and knows it's all bluster. Definitely funnier that way.

Plus the Pale Man/Fauno from Pan’s Labyrinth AND Mac Tonight from that old McDonald’s commercial. He truly contains multitudes.

This brought back a memory of a German acquaintance saying to his misbehaving toddler, “Daisy, you are out of Daddy’s favour.”

[being murdered]

murderer: (murdering) what are you doing on your phone

me: (putting away phone) my bad what's up what's going on

Thanksgiving w/my nephew & his wife & family. They're farmers. Eatin'chickens. Eatin' ducks. Milkin' goats. BUT THE TURKEYS ARE PETS
no idea why the line is where the line is BUT THE TURKEYS ARE PETS
Wednesday a guard Pyrenees mauled a pet turkey so it got cooked & everyone in the kitchen was crying

Do we know the name of the Pyrenees? I’m not sure I’m ready for this story to end yet.

A nice photo of a delivery person trying to hand over a couple bags of food, and my hand gripping the handles and almost taking his fingers with them as I pull them away.

The food delivery guy was taking a photo while handing me the bags, and I didn’t realize his hand was caught in the handles, so I was sent a nice picture of me trying to tear his fingers off.

Okay thanks

Okay, I'll play "5 concerts you've seen" (old man edition)

The Clash
Stevie Ray Vaughan (opening for Robert Plant)
James Brown
Oscar Peterson
Max Roach

happy birthday to all turkeys