Should go for a walk but this behemoth has me pinned down

Happy Sunday! Here's a lovely track by a ride-or-die band. All albums - including a substantial amount of live ones - on bandcamp at riseupandfight.bandcamp.com/music and crippledblackphoenixsom.bandcamp.com/music. Fuck AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cEM...

Once again picking away at the sci fi novel that occupies my time in the "too cold to be outside" months. May never finish or publish it, but the time spent being creative and work shopping ideas with my son makes it worthwhile. We create because we have to, to keep from falling into the void.

Hey look! Great fiction at a great price

Hey, it snowed! Snow's pretty and I'll take it over ICE, which can go get fucked now & forever, along with the craven, amoral dipshits in charge, so here are some pics from yesterday & today. Probably more to come. First more shoveling. www.oddpegswoodworking.com/ramblings/sn...

Finally saw "One Battle After Another" last night. Loved it, but would've loved it more if we're not currently living in the real world darkest timeline equivalent. Goes without saying, fuck ICE and fuck those cruel shitheels who've weaponized their moral cowardice and are terrorizing this country.

Another murder in Minneapolis by an agency swarming with people who think laws are for other people. Abolish ICE, burn it to the ground, and salt that ground.

A year later, Trump's wallowing in Project 2025 like a pig in shit. A year later, it's barely news that DOGE guys stole our info just like we said they would. When it comes out that the Trump assassination attempt was a wrestling promo after all, it's gonna barely nudge one news cycle.

Credibility is a finite resource. DHS has none. ICE has none. The Trump regime has none. They know it, and they're not even trying anymore.

Listening, as one does, to a 45 min YouTube compilation of Paul Stanley stage banter and I realized he could say all the ridiculous Ben Chang lines from Community and we'd be none the wiser. "Fire can't go through door, stupid. It's not a ghost!"

Spent the long weekend grinding through Star Wars Outlaws, or as I call it, Assassin's Creed Coruscant. Fun distraction but not quite the satisfying deep itch scratch of Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, or Baldur's Gate 3 (on par with AC Valhalla or Mad Max). Also reading this, which is a fun lark.

Dear @theguardian.com, congrats on locking down "Headline of the Year" so early into 2026. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"One chicken one broccoli" is the new "Let them eat cake" I guess. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

No kidding. Buy your music from artists, avoid AI slop, be a decent human.

"I use chat gpt every day" is still not the flex senior management thinks it is.

Fell hard for this band and if you dig heavy, expansive psychedelic stoner rock, you will too. And that's the Odd Pegs* Guarantee© khanofficial.bandcamp.com/album/that-f... *Formerly Arzgarth but to paraphrase Ben Kenobi said, that's a name I've not used in a long time

The best part about reading a book about early Van Halen? Hearing early Van Halen in your head the entire time. Book 2 of 2026 wrapped up in an astonishing 24 hours. Now back to Mick Herron (latest Slow Horse novel was first; "Down Cemetery Road" is next). #books #booksky

2025 Year in Review is up at www.oddpegswoodworking.com/ramblings/20.... The TL;DR version is I built a lot of stuff this year and challenged myself in multiple ways. It was exhausting at times but I scratched the creative itch. Trump remains a shit goblin but we'll muddle through. Stay weird.

Today in "Fuck Yeah!" - my proposal to fix/rebuild the Dragon of Ell Pond has been approved & I officially have funding for 2026. Looking forward to making a bigger, better dragon, albeit with a smaller budget than expected (which, to be fair, I totally get). #dragons #woodwork #oddpegswoodworking

Sigh

Christmas Demon Bear!

Happy Holidays, folks. In the interest of shameless self promotion, here's the gift box I made for the Boss Lady, along with the rad-as-hell chainmail choker I picked up for her in Eugene, Oregon.

So far one drive and Google photos both have sent me "on this day" alerts and both are of the dog so in the spirit of the season, here he is again.

Just throwing it out there - Jimmy Stewart playing Wilfred Brimley's role in "The Thing"

Got recognized as the "Weird Sculpture Guy" at the corporate holiday party last night, which is both strange and cool. I'm entry level famous, yo.

This, like a billion times. Fling CNN, Fox, and MSNBC into the sun asap.

This says a lot about the callousness of monopolies, the lack of critical thinking at the senior level, and a general disdain of all levels of creativity from both of the above. www.thewrap.com/amazon-pulls...

Throwing it out there that if you have a sizable digital music collection and a home computer, you should download the Plex server (setup is stupid easy) and the plexamp app and then you have your music wherever you go. All free and no Spotify ick factor. www.plex.tv/media-server...

I was expecting this to be pretty good but hot damn this is excellent.

The wife's website got a makeover courtesy of yours truly. Go check out her work - she may have shit taste in husbands but she's a great artist! www.kerrypegorarofineart.com

Happy Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for my family, my friends, stoner rock, and my ability to make "now playing" stands for the aforementioned stoner rock. Be well, stay weird.

"Prepare the standard rich and famous contract for Kermit and his friends" is an all time great line, especially with Orson Welles' gravitas

At 52, a late night that does not involve drinking still leaves you feeling like you've been scraped off the bottom of someone's shoe the next day. So the order of business has been reading, napping, languid stoner rock, and, as of now, a weather appropriate porter

Bumbled around departments trying to find something that wasn't soul crushingly dull. Took a shot on IT, figuring it was better to make the problems than find them, and here I am 20 years later, making problems like it's a full time job.

There's something about a Jerry Cantrell ballad that gives me all the feels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkbx...

This morning I wrote a dirt simple PowerShell script to add the release year to the folder name of any album in the digital library that was missing it and it was by far the best use of my Saturday, which also included talking with other local artists and making fresh pasta. OCD itch: scratched!

Pegoraro, 52, lives in a small house in a charming city 10 miles north of Boston. Amidst the unopened mail and records from obscure bands littering the coffee table is "An American Tragedy" and "The Stinky Cheese Man" - two books he was reading while daydreaming about being fiscally responsible.

The country is being told to get a job and get off food stamps by a parasite class of no-talent grifters who suckle at the syphilitic man-teat of a conman none of them can believe is still paying off. Not one of them has a marketable skill besides amplifying bullshit and duping small-town dickweeds.

As we stumble and stagger towards Halloween, let's take a moment to appreciate the crapulence of Australia's Dr. Colossus, the preeminent Simpsons-themed stoner doom band. This one is inspired by the classic Treehouse of Horror episode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYoo...

"Done and done"

While I may not be as appreciative of the vegan lifestyle as my wife, one value add is you have to look long and hard to find a fascist enabling shitbag maga choad in that crowd.

Hit 25 years of marriage this past week & so I made a mix of a single song by a single artist for each year. Some were easy (Brought Low, Elephant Tree, Whores.) & some choices I still doubt (maybe Dr Colossus, Australia's premier Simpson's themed stoner-doom band) but it is what it is. Thread! 1/27

Guessing the Epstein files will be "accidentally" left in the East Wing

TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF MARRIAGE! Golly, it sure doesn't seem that long. But I'm old and gray and creak all the time so I guess it's true. Happy anniversary, @klpeg.bsky.social! youtu.be/fu_fjQXAra4?...

There is a traitor in our midst!

Since the best man got his & the other three recipients are not on BlueSky, you get to see the latest from #OddPegsWoodworking before the rest of social media. 25 yrs of marriage this month, so I made gift boxes for the groomsmen. Full story & more pics at www.oddpegswoodworking.com/other-woodwo...

Sage (extended) mic drop from @theoatmeal.bsky.social! theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Stop canceling shows because you're worried that seeing a different type of person is somehow indoctrinating your children. You were exposed to the teachings of Christ your whole life and not one bit of THAT managed to stick.

Got to casually drop the phrase "it could just be preanimate matter caught in the matrix" in a meeting today so anyone thinking they can take my nerd crown better think twice.

I applied for a commission to build a giant wooden dragon in my city and realized I needed a social media presence which turned out to be a business name. Which, weird.