Collin Treviño Bost

A screenshot of an interview of Chamillionaire from MTV.com’s old Mixtape Mondays blog: "He's actually rapping pretty good on it, it's crazy," Cham said last week. "I guess [Al's camp] reached out to my management and asked if they could do it. He's Grammy-nominated, man. He goes platinum. It's really an honor when he does that. I remember when he redid Michael Jackson's 'Bad' ['Fat']. Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big. You gotta be a big dog. He shot the video, and people will see it pretty soon. It's crazy. "He's spittin' just like Krayzie Bone on the second verse," Cham added. "It's actually very funny if you listen to what he's saying. The way Krayzie is harmonizing, he does the same thing. It surprised me. I didn't know he could rap like that. Just when you think 'Ridin' was gonna stop, something happens to make it bigger. I hear sportscasters on EPSN referencing it. Go to Jamaica, they're playing it. It won't stop." ...

At drop off this morning, my 5-year-old wouldn’t get out of the car because he wanted to keep listening to “Remember (Walking in the Sand)” by The Shangri-Las

I teach at a D3 school. It’s located in a town that has a giant pecan statue in front of the county courthouse.

A headline from a Smithsonian Magazine article: “Drivers Keep Crashing Into Feral Pigs on the Fastest Highway in the Country.” Sub-headline: “Colliding into a 400-pound feral pig at 85 miles an hour can do some damage”

Meanwhile, Texas…

My 4-(nearly 5)-year-old keeps saying that our Christmas tree is “beautiful” and that Santa will love it—it’s almost too much for my heart

Screenshot of my Spotify wrapped results showing that my top song was “Chattermax”—Bluey, Joff Bush, Steve Peach

lol okay

Image from a 2021 labor action, featuring a sign that uses the house style umlaut: “COÖPERATE WITH THE NEW YORKER UNION”

This reminds me of this great sign from a labor action in 2021: “Coöperate with the New Yorker Union”

what was this guy’s fucking problem

Listen: I teach a class at 8am tomorrow AND I have a one-hour commute.

I’m going to bed

I don’t know these characters, so I’m just gonna assume this is an A Better Man cybertruck

Twist: Pat Boone is still alive. He had a song on the Adult Contemporary chart THIS YEAR.

Yeah—it’s weirdly ambiguous whether the hand is offering it to her or taking it from her

He’s offering her the right end of an unfiltered cigarette.

YouTube video by MarshalGrover Sesame Street - "Don't Eat the Pictures" song

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A page from David Shannon’s picture book, Roy Digs Dirt. The illustration shows Roy the dog barking at a smiling opossum. There are two red star-shaped flowers in the dirt next to Roy

My 4-year-old pointed to the two red flowers and said, “Those look like little demogorgons.”

And I was like,”What???”

(And then I remembered there’s a Stranger Things pinball machine at the neighborhood pizza place.)

Huh…just learned that Al Hartley is the son of Congressman Fred A. Hartley—the Hartley in Taft-Hartley.

Just in time for Thanksgiving

Stairlift to heaven, RIP

Unless you know Austin public access TV in the ‘90s, you might be surprised at how much cultural space Bill Hicks shared with Alex Jones.

And I was scheduled to get a booster this week! So far, no one else in the household has come down with it

Oh…I currently have COVID!

Not fun. Would not recommend.

Random memory inspired by recent news:

My parents took me to see the magician Harry Blackstone Jr when he performed in Corpus. His act was full of topical jokes, including one where he showed an empty box or cage and said, “It’s as empty as Fawn Hall’s filing cabinet.”

I saw Matt Bonner at Tame Impala’s ACL set in 2015 lol

I once bought Murgunstrumm and Others (with the signed insert) as a gift—and then kept it for myself because I’m a terrible friend.

I grew up Catholic in south Texas—and there was always someone hiding Chick tracts all over the Catholic bookstore in the mall.

The Book of Lists, The Book of Lists II, and The People’s Almanac were so important to me as a kid. I learned so much about random 20th century culture

Screenshot of the Bluesky treading banner that shows “MechaHitler” and (partially) “Supreme Court”

I leave to take my four-year-old to a swimming lesson at a lovely municipal pool—and then come back to this fresh hell

Oh. I had no idea there was a Criterion release. Thank you for this very important info

Depending on the wall decor, I used to act this strip out at parties for my friends who liked (or were at least aware of) Red Meat

An excerpt from my kid’s preschool Father’s Day card: “I love Dad more than My grocery store toy”

Aww…I love you too, son.