Chris Banks

julie the pitbull standing next to a torn up baseball

she's so mad I wont let her take this annihilated ball home.

Got turned down for a role I thought I had a good shot at. Tough afternoon. Gonna do a dogwalk about it.

YouTube video by KEXP Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

god dang this rules

YouTube video by FreetheT1 Little T and One Track Mike - Shaniqua (Don't Live Here No More) Legit Official

Hilariously, I still know all the words to this.

Today's soundtrack. Some good stuff.

Turns out hiring the Hess Truck's marketing team brought some predictable results.

Anything mechanical never really worked well and fell apart for me. Tiny scissors work best.

Can clean with just some alcohol wipes, too.

If I'm Flacco I'd retire instead of move.

For some reason Pedro the Lion struck me as the funniest example of this.

i love when hardcore bands shout their name in the middle of the song.

wish every other genre would take note.

YouTube video by SPEED HARDCORE SPEED - PEACE (OFFICIAL MOVIE)

Imagine my dissapointment when I learned there's a streamer called speed and everyone's not hyping the band.

my neighbor told me they think of me as "the white guy who listens to reggae on his porch" and that's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me.

I'd settle for getting blown out by 50 for all of 4 finals games. The bar is on the floor.

West Philly, our beloved indoor cat “London” is MIA, and might have gotten out on the 4700 block of Baltimore—please let me know if you see a fluffy gray cat who looks way too soft for the street life.

I spent most of the summer devoid of new releases that grabbed me, and then the Skinhead and Wednesday records both absolutely walloped me in short order.

the bar was on the ground towards the end of the warped tour third wave, so "some solid songs" feels revolutionary lol.

going back over old Big D / Kids Table records, idk, cause i lost perspective or something, and some of these songs are still really solid.

YouTube video by Hayden Pedigo Hayden Pedigo - Live in Reggio Emilia (Full Concert)

Watching Hayden's ascent these last few years has been the coolest.

a park near my house has become wildly popular for parents teaching their kids how to parallel park. It's adorable.

My morning call is 50% Phillies fans / 50% Yankees fans (aside from me) and everyone is miserable today.

Sucks for swift that her record got immediately overshadowed by Tori Amos announcing a new record.

Mostly meh on the Eagles game yesterday. Thought we looked better at some things, worse at others. Refs suck but not among the top-whatever reasons we lost.

Early season loss to a random AFC team could be good, though. Don't want to think they're something they're not after these nail-biters.

Oh man, this rules lol. One of my fav stupid games to play with my wife is "would you have taken my last name if it was [x]"

This gives me ammo for that for the foreseeable future.

Ah yeah this Wednesday record has the juice.

I always thought the lyric in The Specials' Little Bitch was "She's got the leg hair and her flared jeans."

Assumed british ladies were growing out the hair on their legs and it had some cultural connotation I'm too far removed to get.

Nope. Much simpler answer. He says layered hair.

"current stereotypes are pretty much correct" got me.

idk why I give myself these arbitrary social media tasks, but here’s a “We Are The World” of “Just Like Heaven” for the Cure single’s 38th anniversary

dont particularly feel a way about the phillies, but rooting for joy for
people in my life.

standing in a backyard drinking white claws with your friends is the point of all this, it seems.

people at work really don't like framing time by how many presidents there's been, but as I'm somehow the most tenured of the rank and file i think it's really funny.

Until of course, someone who works for me points out that they were in high school during trump 1.