Doug

…to get me to stop quoting that song, as our son had no idea what I was doing.

Which only contributes to why he thinks I’m crazy, admittedly.

Someday maybe I can play that song for him.

(All I wanted was a Pepsi…)

#GenX #parenting #IYKYK

My tween child quipped that I was being crazy (which is usual for when I’m silly), and without hesitation I said “How can you say I’m crazy? When I went to your schools, I went to your churches, I went to your institutional learning facilities…” and from the other room my wife called out my name…

It was… challenging… to root for them at times this year, yes.

Baseball confession: I’m a Dodger fan and of course hope they win, but if the Blue Jays take it and the Dodgers do not have to go to whatever is left of the White House next year I could live with that quite easily. #WorldSeries

I do appreciate how many artists you bring to my attention.

It’s been old since before we were.

Be advised: The only kings we acknowledge in Los Angeles are the one who play hockey.

All hail Liquid Glass.

That is when they are their best.

Would it kill us to spell it “A.I.” so it doesn’t look like what comes between “Weird” and “Yankovic”?

What is abbreviated there probably is going to kill us eventually but in the meantime we can use our human intellect to distinguish it in writing with some punctuation.

I’m never more optimistic than when, after waking up with less than an hour before the alarm, I lay there and pretend there’s a chance I could fall back to sleep.
Did I say “optimistic”? I meant delusional.

“With age comes wisdom” is very often not true.
#MiddleAgeLife

Few recall when the dark lord of the Sith rocked a sleeveless long shawl rather than a standard cape.

May the Fourth Be With You.

(Yes, this is a vintage Darth Vader action figure that somehow didn’t get donated or thrown out or misplaced since my childhood.)

#StarWarsDay #MaytheFourthBeWithYou

Here are some songs I listened to today, all from my library, some from random shuffle and some intentionally added to the queue. #music

Or just, you know, *read*.

@alexfalcone.bsky.social is a gem.

22-year-olds don’t grasp at the time that they have only 13 more years of mental growth and then decades of being 35 in the mind.

Didn’t.

This was my pinned tweet at the old place. It’s very depressing in light of how the world went, but I still think it was funny at the time.

Happy Possibly Something to Do with One or More Presidents Day It's the third Monday in February. The banks are closed, and my wife and I have the day off from work. Beyond that, little can be said with ...

Although there’s nothing to celebrate about the current presidency, for #PresidentsDay in general I will share this post from my old blog from 15 years ago (yeah, used to be something I did) that still is vaguely applicable, at least semantically.
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Pick a habit. We got plenty to go around.

That’s one way to keep Trump from getting to see Taylor Swift’s boyfriend at the White House. #FlyEaglesFly #SuperBowl

Precisely. We want to hate the next one. We want the novelty of that.

Everybody loves a winner… but only for a little while.

At least the Bills won’t have to endure a Trump invitation to the White House after a Super Bowl victory.

Just do it in the foyer; she ain’t staying.

I won’t.

You don’t want to know.

I’d say we had a good run but I’m not sure that was really ever true.

Well, that was one way the Lions could ensure they wouldn’t have to attend a ceremony at the Trump White House.

Whatever.

Fair.