Brian

I believe he was technically a year or two ahead of my high school opening, but Gary "Dream Weaver" Wright is from my hometown. One of the Mets' assistant GMs (John Ricco) is an alum, though.

Oh, you think you walk the path of Christ? Name one sex worker who would weep over your death

A pussy magnet from middle school I see.

Hell yeah!!

youtu.be/dCpX26RA-Yw?...

Paternal side: "Better life" horseshit
Maternal side: Fleeing from a suspected manslaughter charge

We also don't give people any real sense of what careers look like. We don't do practical internships or give real examples to young folks. You go into the career that you decide on a whim, many times. And our generation in particular was told to chase our dreams, not matter how ill defined or silly

Don't beat yourself up, we have a terrible system for that. Amelia is going into HS next year, and she's expected to have enough of a sense of her future career to pick a 'university program' to go into next year. It's absurd that we ask kids to make these choices at 18, let alone 14.

Me, watching TRAIN DREAMS: I could be a logger. I’m sure I’m physically fit enough for it.

Ten minutes later, walking up a flight of stairs: Fuck, why didn’t we buy a ranch?

Did you ever finish Sopranos?

YouTube video by Live From Austin TX R.E.M. - "Fall On Me" [Live from Austin, TX]

It is @michaelstipe.bsky.social’s birthday. He is someone whose work speaks to me more and more as I age. I can’t wait for some new music, but I will never tire of finding new layers in his lyrics and melodies.

Maybe my favorite R.E.M. song?

youtu.be/-0wsEzK-yJA?...

Just had my yearly, lovely, 'catch up with my across the street neighbors while shoveling snow' discussion. We apparently have no desire to speak, just wave, every other day of the year. I think we are both cool with this arrangement.

At Ben’s holiday concert a few weeks ago, the music teacher announced the clarinet quartet was going to play GKW and a dad next to me under his breath said “Hell yeah.”

I had a dream that I was hired to produce and write on a network variety show starring Stephen Malkmus, and I was leaning really hard into calling it “Steve!” I slowly became the darling of the production team and I let it go to my head. I can’t even have absurd dreams where I’m not an asshole.

I'm sorry to say, Bruce might be cancelled.

Too many to name, but one I come back to often is the midnight release of FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING where there were cosplayers and lifelong Tolkien fans just losing their minds before the film started. Maybe the most positive theater vibe I've ever been in.

Yeah, that's half the point.

Note To Self: a Bush cover band called “Merkin”

This is unbearably funny

He needs to know how to make the perfect omelette too, Walter.

Nards

romance is at once this incredibly singular and incredibly banal experience. i imagine having a child is somewhat similar

I Am Legally Obligated to Play Billy Joel’s “River of Dreams” at Least Once During Your Dental Appointment You probably don’t hear “River of Dreams” much anymore. It’s never on the radio, and no one is streaming that song of their own free will. But here...

"I bet you’re one of those people who thought that once the millennium started, you’d never have to hear 'River of Dreams' again. I used to feel that way until I became a dentist. Now, I live every day like it’s 1993."

When Twitter was young, you’d see a post by @TheFatBoys and not realize it was actually 80s rap group the Fat Boys. In same time-frame of Threads, you see a post by @CharleneMom77 and will never not believe it is a bot. On BlueSky, the username is a pun so slight you nearly missed it, @Teal_Leoni

You can take the boy out of Chicago, etc

King is a wonderful journey to undertake. There’s a lot of good, a lot of not so good, and a fair amount of transcendent, great stuff. His first twenty or so years have far more hits than misses