Thee Matt Lydon Writes

Before we met, I worked at Walnut Street Theatre, selling tickets over the phone. First big musical of the season? RAGS, which was a musical based on that very thing. The musical was SLIGHTLY less tragic than the actual event. This was around October of 2000.

As a kid growing up in suburban Philadelphia in the 1980s, it was all rec room, all the time. Not that I had one in MY house, mind you. It was the kid down the street, Jason Staples, that had a rec room downstairs in his grandparents' house.

I will never surrender as part of the CiCi's Partisans Resistance League! And if we are defeated... well... I guess I'll just latch on to my part time job at Defiance Pierogi of Krakow.

YouTube video by L7 - Topic Shirley

If you've forgotten about one of the most kickass rock and roll outfits from the 1990s, here's your reminder: L7 RULES

How many times must you be told
There's nowhere that we don't go

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I tried Ass-o-metric exercises to tighten up this Blobbod to Granddad bod status. it left me rounder than before, but now I get complimented for being "thicc." On the whole, a positive, I think.

I like this notion of Divorced™ being an energy. A kid I knew in 3rd grade had what I'm now realizing is Divorced™ energy, all the way back in 1986.

I particularly like the "wire mother" bit. Harry Harlow would be proud.

Also, can I get in on this Divorced™ branding, or is that off-limits since I'm remarried?

#booksky

This dude needs to get into his dad's airship and fly off into a round the world adventure that would make Jules Verne blush.

SCUM! Scatological Conservatives Uber.. Mall-es?

I'll bet that your 8 old can write a more strongly worded letter that ACTUALLY gets a rise out of Republicans/MAGAts. Then again, I'm sure your children contain far more compassion, integrity, and honesty when it comes right down to it.

If all else fails, though, poop jokes can take the day!

Thanks, Alexis. To be clear, I wasn't approached/groomed, but looking back on how that priest behaved around me and some others, it may have only been a matter of time. I was too naive at the time to realize what would have been happening until it was too late.

... all this to say that my abandonment of that institution was a welcome process, hard as it was internally. No joke, no bits, and no way will I ever latch on to an institution like that ever again. There is only one religion=control.

The parish I belonged to in the 80s and (nominally) in the 90s was kind of ground zero for a round of CSA, led by a priest who "assisted" with the altar boys at the parish. He never saw justice, but was constantly shuffled around the archdiocese and was "drying out" in church-owned rubber rooms.

This reminds me of the kind lunch lady who worked at my high school. Sometimes, she even gave me free stuff, when I was short on money from my after school job. I wonder whatever happened to Agnes Spreeshooter-Kidpoisoner?

Man, I take the apps off my phone to avoid social media, and CHARLIE KIRK happens?

Yeah, still keeping them off the phone. Geezus...

I think Alf (Gordon Shumay, to his friends) has such tacky taste in clothes, E.T. would be grossed out on a sartorial level, even BEFORE learning Gordon was an avid eater of cats.

It all begins with attraction, and Alf would be REPELLENT to E.T. (EdTricia Villalobos, for those keep score at home.)

Social media, I bite my finger at you, sir.

His main rival, Dr. F. N. Wan-Kerr, had an identical product, "Skeet Skeet Skeet GOTDAYUM", that never caught on in fabric, uh, public. Public!

Only if she teams up with Ro Khannachu and Schiffrizard.

So THAT'S what I keep cutting off with garden shears? I gotta learn some patience.

That "carbonation" is just midichlorians that will ultimately lead to joining the Dumb Side. Big Yoda doesn't want us to know. I said what I said. *pushes StarWars themed glasses up nose*

Absolutely! This cyst I've had agrees. It's only been with me since I was 21, after my 2nd tattoo. It'll go away any day now.

In other news, is it too early to invite you to my 48th birthday next year, assuming I make it?

A recent painting.

It's a sin NOT TO, especially with the New International Version. There are instructions to set it up like the 3rd temple before play! The only real difference? Yelling "Name of the Creator!" when everything topples.

Time for bed. What WON'T I screw up tomorrow?

But... I was hoping for the Cleveland Ralphies, and their rallying cry would be a "SHADDUP Ralphie!" while an AI-generated Darren McGavin scolds from the Jumbotron.

Oh man, I caught myself fretting over coming up with a reply-guy joke for @amutepiggy.bsky.social and realized that maybe I need to take more of my medication.

Unemployment SUCKS, folks. Structure, where art thou?

I feel like it's the Dems' version of "fight fire with fire" and I'm concerned that if Newsom starts winning battles against Trump, he'll just become a left-flavored Trump, if that makes any sense. Ugh, we're in the stupidest timeline.

I'm a paltry, part-time reply guy at best BUT... I'm unemployed, so there's that!