I can also confirm that many white people care more about harm to dogs than harm to Black/brown people, so this is not a bad way to draw them in to the evils being done by this regime.

Distance, both of us dropping the activity that brought us together in the first place, and — oh yeah, and a worldwide pandemic — means I haven't had a conversation with CDB in years. So it was nice to hear @hooverstreetrag.org spiel about minutiae I know next to nothing about. As is his way.

Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand 1. Raisins. Curiously OK with most other dried fruits 2. Goonies. If I wanted to listen to kids scream at each other I mighta' had kids 3. Two Princes, but anything Spin Doctors, really

I honestly believe Christians have a spiritual responsibility to shun ICE agents and make them unwelcome in society This is different from the moral responsibility we all have to oppose the evil they do, and the patriotic responsibility to oppose their crimes

Me: I'm glad you weren't driving around with me today; I was listening to a Judge John Hodgman that you would find *in-FYOO-riating.* Spouse: tell me all about it! Me: So it was this guy-- Spouse: I hate him already

🥌 Well, we have an ICE member at my curling club. I won't curl with (or against) him; I won't broomstack with him. Old-fashioned Amish shunning.

Happy Cubs Elimination Day to those who celebrate. F the Rickettses, and fascism.

Fozzie & Kermit's dad. Only ever seen this once, and easily my favorite sight gag in all of cinema.

This weekend involved paying too much to go through a room with chintzy animatronic dinosaurs, but it was worth it in the middle when I got to wear a beautiful snake named Tiki

Tonight! Join me for a stream to get you in the Halloween mood with a night devoted to horror hosts! 2 features! Clips! Trailers! Commercials! Tv shows! Cool ghouls! Zacherleys! Monsters! Starting at 7 pm central at kosmi.to/@dekkoparsnip

Actually this particular sign is one you probably should obey in advance.

MLB postseason rooting interest, abbreviated: 1. TOR (No US team in anything deserves to win anything right now. Find a way to award the Lombardi to the Hamilton Ti-Cats). 2-3. MIL or DET would make some good friends very happy. 4-10. the field, except <NO WAY, FASCISTS> Cubs and/or Yankees

was with @opossumcurls.bsky.social today mourning the Brewers' Restaurant To Be Named Later. We floated other silly stadium eatery names: LOOGY's MAR (Meals Above Replacement) xMAR (Expected Meals Above Replacement)

🚨BREAKING🚨: Trump deploys Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam to Portland with Full Force

A hip-hop outfit of Turner Classic Movies fans called Ward is Bond; is this anything

As a kid we had this thrifted Judy Blume box set. I read 'em all despite boy/girl book coding, because what the hell else was I gonna do in 1981 or whatever. But this is actually a film review: the recent Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret movie is excellent and you should hop to it.

"Elbows down, actually" --Stewart Johnston and the CFL www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/...

I'm at the Lene Lovich show and of course there's a guy here in a Nina Hagen shirt. Nearly 50 years of "no, no, the OTHER one."

An acquaintance in the funerary business was looking for a trombonist the other day. Now, the ONLY thing I want in my own service is one person performing a Sad Trombone riff. Thats it. Gather, "Womp womp wommmmp;" Repast.

If I were a modern teenager, I would encourage my folks to get an EV. Specifically the kind I now hear often in our alley. That "prolonged Mac startup" safety-engine sound would alert me to wrap up whatever shenanigans I was up to.

Saturday! Join me for an evening of comic book and strip-related shorts and oddities, featuring forgotten TV shows and specials, short films, music, commercials, and more! No DC and Marvel allowed, we're far too cool for the mainstream! Starting at 7pm CST on 9/13 at app.kosmi.io/room/@dekkop...!

presser today:

Working through a podcast backlog last week and heard John Hodgman and Jesse Thorn talking about how cool and interesting their pal Elizabeth Gilbert is. Learned the more recent Gilbert news today and thought "holy hell, Maximum Fun sure cut ties with Bean Dad in a hot second for way less."

Voice of Harold Radio Free Europe Can't Get There from Here

when president garfield was dying, they shoved a bunch of stuff up his butt in the hopes it would save him. it didn't work, in fact it definitely killed him quicker. but if any white house guys are reading this: you're the chosen one, you can make it work

Watched Sunday Best, about Ed Sullivan's role in breaking Black acts on nat'l TV despite network and advertiser unease. Mostly it reminded me of CBS/Paramount's abject bootlicking in 2024-25, culminating in Colbert's cancellation —The Late Show of course broadcasting from THE ED SULLIVAN THEATER.

No thanks, I'd rather eat at Luigi Walks

Earlier this week I glanced up and saw MAXEN SNOOZY WANTS TO MEET GARRET CROCHET on the teevee and thought I was in that '80s Twilight Zone ep where language completely breaks down

My favorite MSF celebrity blurt was years ago when former WCCO sports anchor Mark Rosen was carted down Machinery Hill, and some guy shouted, "It's DUDE! ROSEN!" in the vowely-est Minnesota-est accent

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck/ sayin' "we used all the lentils for artwork"

Pugnacious Drunk Octopus always makes me smile when I see one in the wild

📽️ Happy August 18 to those who celebrate. 📽️ BBQ for all!

Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee spent four years and hundreds of thousands of lives trying to occupy Washington, DC. MAGA accomplished it without firing a shot. South Carolina was the first state to secede. If South Carolina troops are the first in DC, let that symbolism not be lost on anyone.

USA Curling announced today that they are caving to the administration's demands and banning trans women from all sanctioned women's competition. Here is my open letter to the curling community. thecurlingnews.com/news/communi... #Curling #USACurling #trans

Wasn't expecting this statement at an IL State Fair swine auction

I looked up the Tosa Curling Club in light of this weekend's flooding. What I found here is by far The Best Goddamn Profile Name for a curling club, and they should take great pains to keep it if at all possible.

AMERICAN MATTRESS! Stay away from meee-heee. AMERICAN MATTRESS! I am in bankruptcy-heee.

The Congress Hotel was the site of a Czech Jewish refugee's suicide in 1939. She fled from the Nazis on a 6-mo. visa, and jumped *with her 2 kids in her arms because she feared deportation when it expired*. Yeah, fuck ICE.

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The Goonies is Terrible, Actually, and my GenX cohort is wack for not letting that shit go

On this, the 21st (!) anniversary of the Dave Matthews Band Kinzie Bridge Poop Incident, let it be known that the Chicago Architecture Center river tours are THE best touristy thing to do here. www.architecture.org/city-tours/r...

Did my first stereotypical retiree thing tonight and was taught mahjongg.

ambient music musings (not the genre; literally stuff I heard walking around) at the Wisconsin State Fair: 

(1/x) Some cover band slowed everything down to an same arena-rock chug. Unfortunate, especially for "Hard to Handle" and “Let's Go Crazy. “

@allibally.bsky.social and @opossumcurls.bsky.social are having nice pastries in Europe, certainly. But behold...

I'm waiting for my car to be serviced and the music has included 1000 Miles, and something about loving you for 1000 years. Basically I think this is to numb us into forgetting that big numbers mean anything.

Ho-leeee shit

Fantastic 4: Ehh, fine. I can't get super excited about a Galactus story ever since The Tick skewered the whole idea: youtu.be/tK_dSnNuUMg?...

I'm 20 minutes into it, and I'm convinced that 80% of Dear Leader's anti-penny crusade is because he watched Final Destination: Bloodline.

Thoughts at this difficult time to that girl in jr. high that insisted her dad was Ozzy

The minor leagues are not without their charms. Behold, the new food/drinks list for the Wisconsin State Fair. wistatefair.com/fair/sporkies/