David Royko

Innocent bystanders? Joking? WE are the innocent bystanders to the mass of stupid people just like you who voted for Trump and created this nightmare for us. Fuck off. May you suffer all the ills Trumpfuck has brought down upon us, times ten.

Juggling Autism: The Chronicles of Ben Royko Severe Autism in Real Time

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Pic Of The Day Related Only To Other Wonderful Things In The World is our big Benny boy yesterday. Shhhhh. He's busy with the serious business of parsing jelly beans.

Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Crustaceans Everywhere gives a big shout out to all the vegetables in the world, because [movie trailer voice here] IN A WORLD filled with Chocolate Eclairs, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and Pastel de Nata, those poor, feeble vegetables need all the help like they can get.

Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything In The Entire Universe Except For Booze is from Cleveland and a Saturday night post-Ben visit in pre-covid days to our now-defunct favorite bar (B Spot) and my three-beer standing order served in glasses that have never been seen on the Billy Goat Tavern bar.

Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything YOU Drive To Work proves that the Amish don't need no stinkin' internal combustion engines to pass a slowpoke. Or heat. But, whew, about that methane...

YouTube video by Jose Carlos Bernardes 1990 - Bunky Green - The thrill is gone

Bunky Green, alto saxophonist born in 1933, has died. Creative, productive, a virtuoso, director of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of North Florida. Give him a listen. A nice thing about being a great and appreciated artist -- you never really disappear.
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Today's Pic Of The Day Unrelated to God Only Knows Whatever's Next is Benny on the beach. We all gotta get to our beach.

Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Your Least Favorite Platypus is what Sriracha does to very lucky eggs. Boner apa-tittee. What, didn't know I spoke frenchy?

Remembering a great musician who died a couple of months ago, Zakir Hussain, Indian tabla and percussion giant.

And of course, being one of the great musicians of the world, banjoist Bela Fleck has collaborated with him.

Bassist Edgar Meyer (front), Bela, Zakir and bamboo flutist Rakesh Chaurasia.

The pro basketball Gods love me, a Chicagoan through the '90s, a Clevelander now. (Up by 39 in the 4th quarter at the moment.)

Sunset and moonrise over Cleveland, to remind us that the sun'll come out tomorrow! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there'll be sun! er, wait, the sun? Horribly overrated. The sun sorta sucks, makes me sweat, gets in my eyes, tries to give me cancer -- no, go ahead and set. I won't miss you.

Ice Fishermen on Lake Erie at Presque Isle in Erie, PA."

Eastbound on I-90 in Ohio at dusk.

Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Sleeping Late reminds me, if I ever need reminding, especially at 6:00am, that retirement rules!

Pic Of The Day Unrelated To The Winter Monochrome Sky Of Cleveland is the winter technicolor sky of Tucson, at sunset from my Mother-in-Law's patio. Cue howling coyote soundtrack.

Today's Pic of The Day Unrelated to Anything Grey is red, blue and silver. And juicy.

Today's Pic of The Day Unrelated to Prolate Spheroids Everywhere commemorates our joyful season, assuming your favorite activity in life is making snow angels in sub zero weather. Otherwise, brrrr.

Today's Pic of the Day Unrelated to Less and Less is sunrise from the Metra train. A perfect roll-over-and-sleep-late-instead sunrise. But beware because, obviously, Voldemort is nearby.

Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Order, and you know how it is. Where the heck is that book? The only book that will do? Ben's diligent when it comes to books. (And cookies.)

Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything Else In the Free or Shackled World is mushrooms + Sriracha. Breakfast Of Champions. Or weirdos.

Cleveland Pic Of The Day Unrelated to Surfing. Ice anyone? (No, not that one. The frozen-water one.)

Biden Administration: Cancer moonshot

Fuck Face Administration: People with cancer can fuck off and die.

Today's Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Patience Everywhere celebrates big companies that have entire departments dedicated to designing packaging that will easily open and close.

And those (spouse) who defy them.

Today's Pic Of the Day Unrelated To Pompeii hearkens back to an earlier super-dee-duper freeze, as seen at 6:15am from the train window -- tracks ablaze! Urban thrills.

How to Foil ICE (at least once), by David Royko, 1/22/2025

A quick dip back into the world of scum before heading back to my highly avoidant Pic of The Day Unrelated to All This Crap...

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Pick of the Day Unrelated To Anything Else in the World Except for the View From My Former Office Window on a Frigid But Sunny Afternoon is, uh, well, that's it. Stay warm!

Today's Pic of the Day Hopefully Unrelated To Your Own Own Job -- all hail snow plowers. The Picasso statue on Chicago's Daley Plaza does. You can tell by the obvious appreciative expression on her/his/lgbtq face, because Picasso created it with no winter coat. Dickwad.

Today's Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything In The Sahara celebrates the joy of Cleveland in the winter as we are about to have a few below-zero days -- PARTY! Incidentally, that is a color pic.

Today's Pic of The Day, from a highway rest-stop in the days before eight out of 10 trucks on the road said "Prime."