Toby Click

I can hear this picture

A bit long for a Pixar title. Something monosyllabic, like “MOONS”

I was once told that I could not believe in evolution and be a Christian. This ultimatum had somewhat the opposite of the intended effect.

I have mixed feelings about Gavin Newsom. I don’t like the idea that you can only defeat an asshole by being a bigger asshole.

Peeve: when the word “decimate” is used to describe a level of destruction greater than 10 percent

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I have a ten-year-old+ Casio keyboard that I’ve been using as a clothesrack. Today I hooked it up to my MacBook.

Whoever said “it’s always darkest before dawn” clearly knows nothing about astronomy or existence.

From now on, if I show myself to be ignorant of some piece of critical news or pop culture or anything regarded as common knowledge, I will use the excuse that it happened while I was offworld. 🚀🪐

Good on you for being able to confront it in yourself, admit wrongness, and aim higher. Be like the Beastie Boys.

Is it bad luck to play Coldplay at a wedding now?

No, I don’t think I will.

Me when asked if l'll be celebrating the Fourth of July this year

2025 sunflowers are officially taller than me (6’1”)📏🌻

Truly a face for the aphotic zone 💋

I casted that to my 85” TV. Imagining myself there. Thanks for sharing 🛰️

Crowd at a “No Kings” demonstration on an I-70 overpass at Genessee, Colorado

Crowd at a “No Kings” demonstration on an I-70 overpass at Genessee, Colorado

Crowd at a “No Kings” demonstration on an I-70 overpass at Genessee, Colorado

Had not started out today planning to go to a #NoKings demonstration, but one found me anyway. Genessee, Colorado (pop. 3,610)

Bags of “Spaceballs” cheese snacks by Lesser Evil, for sale at Costco

SPACEBALLS: The Snack

If you are active duty military or National Guard and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens, call the GI Rights Hotline for support 1-877-447-4487.

If directed to execute illegal orders, declaring, "I was just following orders" is not a valid excuse.

Maybe THE LAST OF US is the gritty prequel to FLOW. 🐈‍⬛

Seeing predawn Mercury over the Adriatic Sea while flying from JFK to Athens, Greece

Fact-checking myself: so this was NOT my first time photographing Mercury. Here it is as I saw in 2022 on an overnight flight.

Watching AMERICAN GRAFITTI (1973) in the backyard

“Am… Am I that sad and pathetic?” An episode of the Netflix animated comedy BIG MOUTH. Rewatching last season finale before seeing the new season, which just dropped

Played AMERICAN GRAFITTI on our backyard movie night, preceded by an episode of BIG MOUTH 📽️

Beyond my own household, I don’t think I’ve physically met a single person who knows WTF “Andor” is 😞

In today’s puzzle, themed “A Little Respect”, the letters forming ARETHA can be played, although they are not part of the puzzle’s actual solution.

In today’s puzzle, themed “A Little Respect”, the letters forming ERASURE can be played, although they are not part of the puzzle’s actual solution.

Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is themed “A Little Respect”. Even though ARETHA and ERASURE are both playable moves, neither is in the actual puzzle solution.

Waxing gibbous moon rising through trees. The full moon will occur on Monday.

Before the feature presentation, we watched Looney Tunes cartoons

Hobbes sits in my lap as we watch O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?

Last night, with a near-full moon rising in the east, we set up our movie screen in the backyard to watch O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)

Auroras seen after midnight, May 11, 2024, at Nelson Farms Park in Johnstown, Colorado

Auroras seen after midnight, May 11, 2024, at Nelson Farms Park in Johnstown, Colorado. This is the image on my cell phone’s wallpaper.

Toby standing against a backdrop of auroras, May 11, 2024, at Nelson Farms Park in Johnstown, Colorado

Auroras seen after midnight, May 11, 2024, a near Buc-ee’s in Johnstown, Colorado

One year ago: after reports of Northern Lights from friends and family, I drove north of the city to see for myself, and witnessed the biggest aurora storm of my life 💚🤍🩷💜 More of this, please. #Aurora #Auroras #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #Colorado

YouTube video by Auralnauts Andor 1975 TV Intro (Spoilers)

What would ANDOR look like if it were released two years before the original STAR WARS? As a connoisseur of 1970s science fiction, I heartily approve. (h/t @stevedk1138.bsky.social) youtu.be/t9Pccq0DZVc

I read the whole thing (intermittently but willingly) because of my name.

Fun fact: Ishmael and Queequeg were gay-married! 👬

MAY THE 4TH BE WTH YOU! $15 BOTTOMLESS CUP PRIZES FOR BEST STAR WARS COSTUME CHARITY BEER BUST SUNDAY MAY 4TH 4PM-8PM

Come to Denver Sweet this Sunday for a very special beer bust benefitting Front Range Bears! 🍺🐻🏳️‍🌈 See me debut my new Star Wars-themed tank top! #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou #GayDenver #GayColorado

A digital sign for a matinée showing of the movie SINNERS, at the local Alamo Drafthouse

A chart from TimeAndDate.com showing moon phases for the year 1932, to compare with the phase as shown in the movie SINNERS. The film begins in medias res at a church on Sunday (10/16), and depicts a full moon the previous Saturday night. In reality, there would have been a waning gibbous moon, having just passed full that Friday morning (still ~97% visible). Close enough.

The moon is always full in Hollywood, and because SINNERS mentioned a specific date (October 16, 1932), naturally I went to TimeAndDate.com to fact-check. Looks like Mr. Coogler did his homework. See alt text for further details.

“Medically, she’s completely healthy. For reasons we can’t explain, we are losing her. She has lost the will to live.”

Monday Mood

The first time I heard about a substance called “Molly”, I thought they were talking about molybdenum 🤓