I'm so excited by the idea of being able to walk on sidewalks again. Most are still covered in snow and ice from the snowstorm over a couple weeks later, but it's gonna be low 60s today and low 50s tomorrow so I anticipate a solid melt.

My age verification is "AOL Keyword: Freddy vs. Jason"

This morning remembering how some mornings in like 4th-5th grade my stepdad would stop at a gas station for coffee and buy me one too loaded with sugar and cream, thus starting my lifelong love of coffee probably a bit too early.

Easy. nbrehmer.medium.com/jason-goes-t...

Hawk it Tuah me?!

Rinus looked damn good in that Juncos Hollinger car, I swear he can make any car go a lot faster than it should by any rights. Somebody really needs to put him in a Ganassi, Penske, McLaren ride ASAP.

Danzig.

One of my all time favorite TV series is the one season wonder that baffled so many people John from Cincinnati, so color me surprised when I went to watch a Lifetime movie and John himself is the villainous husband, Austin Nichols

Digging on this cheap retrogames console I picked up. Have tested out a couple Gameboy Color games including Pokemon Crystal, a Dreamcast game, and an N64 racing game and it worked pretty solidly for all of them.

Enchanted with the fact that Bill Callahan named a contemplative God-themed song "Faith/Void", a reference to the famous split album between DC hardcore bands The Faith and Void that was a huge influence on the transition to more melodic emocore and post-hardcore.

My phone autosuggested "Bunnymen" when post about Bad Bunny if you want to know how often I talk about 80s goth music.

Whenever I really hate something while listening to showtunes, it is inevitably either Lin Manuel Miranda or from Dear Evan Hanson.

Still remember the first time I saw the video for The Funeral by Band of Horses on an indie rock-centric late night show on FUSE and being absolutely blown away. It remains one of the best singles of the 2000s in my book.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

The only time Zach Braff has ever been correct is thinking Oh, Inverted World by The Shins is a great album. It really is, no matter how much people will always associate it with the pretentious piece of shit that is Garden State.

All about that power pop shit as I ignore the commercials and commentary listening to 20/20 followed by The Smithereens during The Big Game

Listening to music instead of watching any of the commercials cause I'm not being tricked into capitalism like that.

I don't follow modern mainstream music, it isn't meant for me, so this will be the first time I've ever heard Bad Bunny in any capacity.

I lied, I don't have Netflix, we're going to watch the entire original Planet of the Apes series and discuss the the leftist and revolutionary underpinnings of their various messages.

Gambling ads are a fucking plague

Refusing to call it nothing but "The Big Game" that a company that refuses to pay for the rights to call it the Super Bowl in cheap commercials.

I automatically lose respect for anybody who does like a DraftKings or BetMGM commercial. Just really predatory companies profiting off addiction and desperation.

My friend who hasn't watched the last couple years of football was like "what the fuck is Sam Darnold doing in the Super Bowl?" which is a valid question to ask if you last watched two years ago.

Watched the 2001 Busch Grand National race at Miami today, weird that I'm kind of nostalgic for the flat-track era of Homestead that I found so boring as a fan watching at the time. I love 2001 races cause that was the year I first became a full blast diehard fan of auto racing.

The Last Podcast episode on Bob Lazar is another case of the boys having a big UFOlogy blindspot with being part of that community through Contact in the Desert and such. They didn't question his story near as much as they should have and really let him have more credibility than he's earned.

Very cool! Olivia Colman came out as nonbinary, "I’ve always felt sort of nonbinary, and never felt massively feminine in my being female. I've always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes, 'Yeah, I get that.' And so I do feel at home and at ease [among the LGBTQ community.]”

Love how in Earth: Final Conflict all of the cars are late 90s sedans, as if no cars in the early 21st century were worth buying so everybody just stuck with their late models.

Me to the groupchat without prompting: "Nobody wants to hear it, but children would probably be the tastiest humans"

Watching a Champ Car race at Brands Hatch in 2004 and making myself sad imagining what the career of Bruno Junqueira would have been had he stayed with Ganassi and gone to the IRL rather than stay loyal to CART/Champ Car until its end.

I'm guessing kids today probably made less jokes about shooting up their school than 13 year old Ben did on a regular basis.

Buddy Arrington is one of my all time favorites, a longtime privateer owner-driver who remained as loyal as he could to Dodge until he couldn't run their stuff anymore. He was Rocky Mount just down the road from Roanoke, and based his shop in Martinsville. Son became a big time engine builder.

The Muppets Show host I really want is to somebody resurrect the corpse of GG Allin.

In my preteen years I spent so much of my time watching the VH1 music videos only channel on digital cable, and they loved playing Three Doors Down which fostered a deep hatred for the band for me, that then seemed justified by their frequent playing at Republican events later on.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

I know it is all done with computers these days anyway, but I still have a strong preference for 2D animation over Pixar-esque 3D so the only modern animated movies I check out anymore are the 2Ders, rare as they are.

My morning coffee is soundtracked today by the debut solo album by Jarvis Cocker which is really good. More mellow than Pulp, but still full of snark and venom like his best work.

Mamdani getting accused of being a communist is really funny for those of us actually towards the far-left who barely even consider him a real socialist. Not that I'm criticizing him, just stating he's closer to being a progressive than he is a Marxist.

Shoutout to the "neighbor" (he's not actually supposed to live here) who revealed shortly after I let him into my apartment that he's actively wanted by the cops for another parole violation. Glad I was his first stop...

Alternating YouTube videos about the history of Indycar with listening to albums I find listed on "best albums of post-punk" listicles.

I enjoy a lot of neopsychedelic bands from the 80s more than I actually enjoy 60s psychedelic music. Especially from the Paisley Underground scene, aka "acid jangle pop"

I would pay so much money to see an Olympic ice dancing team pick Prince’s BATDANCE as their song.

Have Mark Mothersbaugh do all the music for my funeral

I can assure you HBO Max, at no point will you ever convince me to watch Real Time with Bill Maher. I'd rather do almost anything else on Earth no matter how unpleasant than hear his voice for 20 seconds.

I don't really like most of the bands that came out of the britpop scene, but I really enjoy Jarvis Cocker and Pulp, their stuff is usually pretty solid. Revisiting Different Class today and it holds up mostly.

I'm super not into gerrymandering, but I will definitely vote for our new proposed Constitutional amendments here in VA regarding the right to an abortion, the right to marry no matter the gender, and the restoration of felon voting rights automatically. Big fan of all those.

I can't watch any sports criticism and analysis TV show because none of them can compare to the one I grew up with and miss every day: Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain on Speed Channel. Dave was opinionated and uncensored, but always nuanced and considered in his hot takes.

In full hype mode for the start of the #NASCAR season so I got on a beautiful copy (NASCAR Classics YouTube account) of the 1988 Daytona 500 watching Bobby and Davey Allison racing against one another towards the front of the field. Man these Buicks were hideous cars.

I woke up sore in every place on my body that can get sore pretty much, but at least my morning coffee was soundtracked by a lovely little album by Heavenly.

forget it jake, it's busytown

Whenever I barely eat in the day and eat a big dinner I get so impossibly sleep afterwards that I struggle to keep my eyes open within 30 minutes, which is bullshit when it is only 6 PM