Random baseball fact: Only 4 presidents have presided over their hometown team winning the World Series: Teddy for the 1st Giants win, FDR for '33 and all the Yanks titles, Reagan & the Dodgers, and Obama & the Cubs. Only Nixon & Truman could count home states, but not home teams.

Random movie thought of the day: In You Only Live Twice, why is it that they use the secret code "I Love You"...while working with Japanese agents? Don't they know?!

"What do you do?" "Oh, I'm Hell's quartermaster. All those special places? Yeah, I set them up."

Watching Jaws for the umpteenth time, and every time I do I wonder how it is that, in less than a minute, Brody goes from telling his kids to stay off the swingset to Ellen and Sean playing on it together. I know it's boomers parenting Gen X and all, but jeeeez!

Happy Father's Day, Dad....

There's been a lot of surreality in David Byrne's life, but this... this is a thing.

Today would be Bonzo's birthday....

The next big movie series, according to today's store....#BigDrinkCity4Ever

Now that this four day weekend of mine is up, so are my legs, because I've put almost 17 hours and 10+ miles on them since I got home from work on Friday. Probably still won't lose a gorramned ounce. :(

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BuB... Never seen this one before. Happy birthday Al Bouchard!

Not even the weirdest image on my Pinterest right now...but I do like it.

Happy May Day!

Random fact: Since the death of Big Ol' Frank Thomas in 2023, the oldest living Brave has been...this magician.

My reaction to Elon's 1776 George Washington Cabinet comment is more painful than this.

Happy 70th to the world's oldest schoolboy, Angus Young!

All I'm saying is, maybe "You Better Shop Around" *shouldn't* be on a store playlist....

I know I do a lot of genealogy & all, and I've run into it with people I'm related to. It still amazes me when you realize there is one alumnus of the Boston Beaneaters (aka the Braves) not accounted for. No one knows what happened to him after he left the team... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_S...

This is fine, work edition.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lih... This band is barely recognizable as the one we know, yet this is what came out 45 years ago today....

My dinner site tonight....

I was today years old when I found out who wrote this song. #TheMaestro www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2N...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAU... Happy birthday to the amazing Terry Kath. Here he is losing his damned mind on the solo from "25 or 6 to 4" at Tanglewood, 55 years ago this summer.

The lesson I'm learning from today's #TikTokPocalypse is that the second a form of social media goes mainstream, exploiters will use it to mess with you somehow. I don't know that there's a solution for this, but I do know that it should be a warning to use better methods of dissemination.

I want to be holed up in a blanket fort for the foreseeable future, and when I come out I want to not be sore and tired (in all ways possible) anymore....

::waves::

Why am I pretty sure Das Buch der Faces is where all the trolls that were pissed we left Twitter* went? Oh, could it be how many stupid AI "why don't pics like this ever trend?" are suddenly popping up? If I didn't get family pics from it I'd never go on....

How I'm ending 2024...because why not? :P

Happy birthday to two of the cornerstones of a proper young man's education - Mike Nesmith and Davy Jones!

I miss my old Christmases....

Well, it's the first day of winter, and Frank's birthday, so....

@optimstie.bsky.social So I mentioned TV's Frank tonight in conversation and someone replied by talking about...Frank Reynolds. I've failed you, my friend...I've failed you.

Me: Okay, feet, follow Frank's drums on LaGrange by #ZZTop Feet: Okay...hey wait, what's Billy doing on guitar? Me: NO, FEET, FOLLOW FRANK! Feet: B-but-BILLY! And that's when I stopped trying and just walked.

They say it's Keith Richards' birthday today. For all we know, he chose it from the day he imprisoned the Kurgan to pretend he got the Quickening...and then just kept living.

Today there are two birthdays for two men who are hugely important to rock without being musicians themselves: Alan Freed, the man who named Rock and Roll, and Max Yasgur, whose farm is now a shrine to rock as the site of Woodstock. Happy birthday to both!

This is all Weinstein's fault. If people were allowed to watch Dogma they'd know what happens next...

Post someone you've been told you look like who you definitely don't look like. Um...okay? (Got this one last month.)

It is December 4th, one of the more well known days in Zappa's history. Not only did he die on this day in 1993, but it's also the day, in 1971, that some stupid with a flare gun burned this place to the ground during Frank's show there.

I just saw an ad for a wreath with Kermit and Robin as Cratchet and Tiny Tim sitting on it and now all I can think of is...

Dear white pickup on 24N this morning: you may be full of the Holy Spirit, but using a crucifix for the T in your True Story Bro decals probably breaks a few Biblical laws.

Anyone else ever have that dream where a buffalo, a riderless horse dragging a saddle, and a dog are running around your back yard, and when you woof to scare the dog Freddy Kreuger shows up with a high pitched voice? No? ...oh.

Happy Birthday #78 for Mr. Martin Lancelot Barre today, guitarist for Jethro Tull!

Today in music history - 45 years ago (1979) Aerosmith released their last "classic era" album, Night in the Ruts. "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" is pretty much the only song most casual fans have heard off of it (as it was featured on the Greateat Hits album that everyone has)....

Repost with one of the greatest villains in cinema history #filmsky

Been thinking about what I want to do with this profile, since the Sky's suddenly becoming more active. So I decided I'm gonna start doing doing something similar to what I do elsewhere, and celebrate music. So starting with it today, which is James Young's birthday!

Why don't the gods want me to see the night sky anymore? :'(

It's boat day. Even sitting by the doors and everything!

Alright, I know it's not everyone's thing but seriously, Austin Richard Post, where the everloving hell have you been hiding this album??

No matter how many times it happens, I still don't think any of us were ever thinking 35 years ago of what it'd be like when our music was considered suitable for restaurants and store muzak....