Marc Ludena

Open to BCBS of SC: You can't call a phone number a Coordination of Benefits Hotline when it's the same phone number for every other thing and forces a person to listen to every option while they navigate your byzantine automated system.

SotU pregame is on the TV. Unsure how long I'll last. There may not be enough liquor in the house.

a little less conversation hearts and a little more action hearts

My phone and computer have been repeatedly informing me that it's Groundhog Day.

Almost as if it's Groundhog Day.

you know what's a really fun TV show?

Marvel's Wonder Man.

painting of the New Years Baby with the poster's head super-imposed on it, and the year states 2026

happy one, if you celebrate an arbitrary date change

Vintage movie poster for Frankenstein, showing Frankenstein basically skanking. Poster has a bright green background. The title “Frankenstein” arches across the top in large white letters. To the right, text reads “The Monster That Terrorized the World!” At the bottom, cast names appear above a dark silhouette of a castle and rocky ground. What music is he listening to? Bosstones? Reel Big Fish? Or is he old school and he's listening to the Specials? Madness?

I like this poster that looks like Frankenstein is skanking.

tapping the sign

I just heard an ad for Unisom, and the pitch was that a good night's sleep will help you keep you sharp for your Fantasy Football league play and... is that really a thing? Is your Fantasy Football keeping you up at night?

Don’t tell anyone, but I put Dr Scholl’s inserts into my Doc Martens today, and I feel like I’ve crossed some sort of Rubicon. Anyway, I’m expecting brochures to places with names like “shady pines” any day now

I'm sorry... I don't have time for that.

Figma is down... so that's pretty cool, I guess.

Generally don’t love painted pumpkins, but I’ll allow it

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

I dunno man…I’ve been called a “demoncrat” for the last 8 years, even though I have no party affiliation. Not just dehumanizing, but specifically something evil.

Johnson is a fascist who hates democracy.

One Battle After Another is fucking great. That is all.

I've had to explain both "Groypers" and "Gooners" to people this week, and I'm not sure which I feel worse about.

Anyway, don't google either one. You're better off.

GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.

Just released another reference pack with 400 photos from chemparks, fabrication and chemical processing, cooling and industrial towers, fluid storage, chimeys and gantries, processing and treating facilities. Find it in my bio and on Artstation.

#photography #photooftheday #industrial #industry

The craziest thing about this Cracker Barrel story is that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for decades and publicly admitted to trafficking young women to him out of Maralago.

I'm old enough to remember when Evangelicals™ were certain that KISS meant "Knights in Satan's Service." Are those same Evengelicals™ on board with KISS being hand-picked by their Second Cumming to be 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees?

these are the thoughts that wander into my mind.

great pull!

My parents raised me following the wisdom of Dr. Spock (not to be confused with the logical Vulcan from Star Trek) and Dr. James Dobson. Both of them kinda sucked. Anyway, James Dobson just died, and that doesn't make up for the damage he did.

I would like it if things would not suck for just a little while. Can that be arranged? I'll pay extra.

I know enough about the Labubu phenomenon to understand what it’s all about (remember Beanie Babies?…not that different) but I have managed to never see one either in person or online, so I can only imagine what this fetish looks like

Good news! I finally killed that fly that's been vexing me all day. Bad news! I took a sip of wine and thought I got a piece of cork in my mouth. I took the piece of cork out and discovered that it was a fly.

and now can barely walk and am in more pain than I’ve felt in a long time. I had a lot of things planned to do today, and none of it will get done. Hopefully I’ll be closer to normal tomorrow. Anyway, I hope you weren’t expecting anything from me today. It’s not happening.