Next week I've got a tryout with a local cover band that's looking for a bassist. I have never played with a full band. Advice appreciated from anyone who's navigated this particular maze before.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has absolutely no right being as good as it is.

My least favorite type of Youtube video is when someone "reacts" to the most popular songs in existence like anyone has ever made it to their 30s not having heard Welcome to the Jungle.

Selling my house for $2.50. *Legally, I have to disclose my wife just steamed a lot of broccoli so there's an aroma.

We had to put our dog, Arya, down today which I apologize for bumming out your timeline with but dang she was a pretty girl.

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever woken up in a panic that your alarm didn't go off and you're late for work but then realized it's the weekend?

Earth pro tip: if someone catches you staring at them for literally no reason you can just say "What was that sound?" and it instantly defuses the situation

I'm participating in NaNoWriMi this year and just giving myself an extra 8 months to work with.

I know this isn't a healthy writing process but I came up with what I thought was an amazing title for a book and then noodled it into a fun little idea over the course of this morning. Then I looked it up and sure enough it was used for a book popular enough to make into a Michael J Fox movie. 😭

At work my team does a silly little monthly newsletter so I volunteered to write horoscopes. If you respond with your sign I'll let you know yours.

I went and got older today. It wasn't terrible compared to the available alternatives!

Speaking as a teacher of 15 years, the children *are* pretty wrong sometimes.

Rob Reiner made three of my all-time favorite movies in Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, and Stand By Me. What an intense and senseless loss.

What a beautiful day for a basketball game. #ILLINI

If you'd have told me 15 years ago when New Vegas came out that I'd be here in 2025 drinking a Sunset Sarsaparilla I bought at Costco I would've had a few follow-up questions.

My package of Motts fruit snacks had exactly TWO (2) fruit snacks in it today. Motts and I are now mortal enemies.

I played through Dispatch this week and it was wonderful. My one complaint is the romance options. Invisigal is mean, antagonistic, self-sabotaging, and an HR nightmare. Blonde Blazer is stuffy, uncaring, technically your boss, and actively in a relationship when she starts trying to get with you.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

So listen up everybody because we only have like a day to get this right if we're going to grift the rapture. We all go to work tomorrow and tell the believers about all the people we know that got raptured. Ironically they had all donated or volunteered for pro-LGBTQ and pro-immigration causes.

My family, flummoxed because the internet is going so slowly: 🤷🏼🤷🏼‍♀️ Me, secretly halfway through the 60gb Borderlands 4 download:

Sometimes I just want to watch Bo Burnham videos without all the YouTube ads subtly shading my mental health.

I mean beyond the nonsensical nature of what's going on here, how does Grandpa have the angle to see Heathcliff's painting and this the needed context for what that kid is even saying?

It's so important to me that you know I never played Arma, it was necessary for DayZ before it got a standalone release.

It should be a felony to put mints in the same bowl as other candies. They infect everything with their coldspice nature.

Finally got to play Blood on the Clocktower at GenCon and I was killed night one. Then I out-thought myself to the point I was CERTAIN everyone good was bad, everyone bad was good, and I marched the town to our inevitable demise. So obviously we're playing again tomorrow.

I'm hearing so many horror stories of Indianapolis Airbnb owners cancelling on people last minute to take big $$$ under the table and I'm thrilled not to be in that boat. GenCon savages.

Surely someone!?!

Superman was pretty good! It dips a toe into some very complicated geopolitical ethics questions and then expects you to accept the answer of "It's ok because you see Superman is good" which may bother you if you let yourself think about it but the secret is to not do that.

2 out of the 3 flavors in the Hi-Chew fantasy mix are my favorites. And then there's Blue Hawaii: the chore.

I thought things were about as bad as they could get but then I found out about sliced mayonnaise. There's always a new rock bottom.

Last night a group of feral children occupied Wrigley Field and the police were helpless against them.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a good person but then I remember I've NEVER reclined my seat on a plane.

I'm sure it's going to get old in like 3 days, but Content Warning has been good family fun today.

I saw a Church's Chicken ad on insta and it was like "We moved to your town, find out where" and I clicked it and it gave me directions to a Quality Inn an hour away. Is Church's tryna fuck?

It's wild that I just found out the original Nova's full name and it's pride month.

I'm not saying Arby's is fantastic or anything, but I really think if it was a regional exclusive chain then it would be some people's entire personality.

Heathcliff has been in full beef mode this week.

Ice Cube loses me in the first verse of "It Was A Good Day" when he's happy his mom cooked a breakfast "with no hog." The man hates bacon and I'm the only one out here screaming that the emperor's not wearing clothes.

The problem with everything tracking my every move online is that sometimes I want to hear the DC Talk version of Lean on Me but I sure as heck don't want a computer to REMEMBER that fact.

I'm not just showing you this because it makes no sense... that's every Heathcliff comic. I'm showing you this because the man's beer belly (or arm?) is somehow clipping through the window he's standing behind. What are we doing, Heathcliff????

I was able to sustain it, so my dragonborn storm monk was in full Baby Billy mode.

If I was killed, my sister would likely tell you I was an understanding and magnanimous person and that I would forgive the person responsible. It's important to me that you all know that's not true and I will harbor a grudge from beyond the veil of death if you even step on my shoe.

Playing D&D tonight which means I'm spending all day finding the edges of my character's voice. I'm trying so hard not to go full Uncle Baby Billy if only because I don't think I could sustain it.

Guys I made funniest joke off the cuff a week ago and it's too nasty to repeat but TRUST

The theme of THUNDERBOLTS is crushing loneliness, existentialism, whether we need people and whether anything we do really matters. It’s a powerful, compelling theme. There is no supervillain or laser in the sky. The stakes are personal and meaningful and that’s why this one works so well. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ok but here's the thing...

You ever go into the bathroom at work and instead of turning the lights on you just close and lock the door and sit in black silence for a spell because it's the only time you'll have all day when someone isn't asking you for something? Anyway everything's great!

Sinners is one of the better light horror movies I've seen in recent years. Reminded me of From Dusk Til Dawn but with a better story, characters you care about, foot-fetishism swapped out for cunnilingus, one less Danny Trejo, and one more Delroy Lindo.

I bought the Oblivion remake last night, installed it, played for an hour, then decided to refund it. I mean it's great if you want to play Oblivion again, which I thought I did. Apparently I didn't?

Oh dang y'all, Power Word: Kill though?