Today’s youth face so many decisions. In my day, there was only one decision to make: skate…or DIE

Anise in baked goods rules I don’t care if that makes me 100 years old

Scaring the visiting kiddies tonight with…the finest avant garde jazz! youtu.be/u1lWpLFGhjE?...

This reminded me of the three times that Jesus fell while carrying the cross.

Every love song from the ‘70s has a verse about how the singer admits to having affairs but sticks around anyway and that if his woman ever decided to leave he’s not going to stop her.

A solemn vow: if I ever have serious money to burn I will waste it all to continue the legacy of writing and producing music like this. Profit is not the goal, only self satisfaction. #jazzsky youtu.be/2NUfE5PKhzw?...

The Sahara album was my introduction to McCoy Tyner as a kid. This is kind of a wild dedication to one’s wife (“Hey babe, me and the boys are gonna go apeshit for 9 minutes JUST FOR YOU.”) but it’s made a lifelong impression on me. Alphonse Mouzon on drums! #jazzsky youtu.be/MIrPWCQrg-8?...

I picked up this vinyl in a discount bin because it showed evidence of being a spiritual sister to Jerome Richardson’s Groove Merchant album. The lead off track is fun NYC jazz a la 1968. My favorite part is the brass breakdown that leads into Jerome’s flute solo. #jazzsky youtu.be/BqPCu6VnUt8?...

Blue Jays…listen carefully to my voice…you are getting sleepy…very sleepy. When I snap my fingers, you will wake up. Then you will get ready to play the YANKEES this Friday in the World Series. *snap*

Brewers please score some runs. Give it a shot. What could it hurt?

I am constantly getting spam emails about stun guns. My daily reception of them is how I know I’m still alive.

I fell asleep watching the Phillies game last night then woke up to pee in the 8th and finished watching it. Thanks, weak bladder!! Glad I didn’t miss out completely.

I picked this season to seriously get back into following baseball again after decades of tuning it out. Don’t know why…feeling nostalgic I guess. Good thing the Phillies are my team…they’ve made a lot of fun getting back into it.

sincerity is underrated

C’mon Phillies bring it back in the 9th! The ghost of JT’s nuts implores you!!!

I’m turning off the game for self care reasons #phillies

c’mon Phillies please I’m dying

Gonna start a thread of Watermelon Man ripoffs. First up, Hank Mobley. #jazzsky youtu.be/8_OTOL4hWBg?...

I can’t listen to the Phillies game because of some Eagles preseason crap?!

“We’re going to perpetually interview you for months until you eventually irk us for some unspoken reason then cut you loose.”

Just finished watching this movie . The story (or lack thereof) is weak but the ‘70s aesthetics are A+ youtu.be/0w8VOxDrSHU?...

@every80spopsong.bsky.social help me, CaseySkeetsEm! Lately I’ve been digging this song that Esther Satterfield performed on the original David Letterman show from 1980 (@41:56) but I can’t ID its source. Is it one of her songs? Is it a cover? The internet is failing me! youtu.be/6vCWhFGPMQY?...

I told my kids the story of how my 8th grade girlfriend dumped me and a few days later I was in a bad car accident. And how neither of those things were as bad as returning to school and enduring the hot gossip about the loser wearing a neck brace who got dumped.

One of my all-time favorite big band charts. The written flugelhorn solo in the middle was supposed be played by Woody on alto. I’ve always wondered why on this recording it is played by Bill Stapleton (who was subbing for road manager Bill Byrne). Throwing a bone perhaps? youtu.be/bR86oXCsrP0?...

Noooo!

Bumblebees going in and out of the hostas all day. Fun to watch them crawl in, disappear, then stumble out.

RIP Lalo. Out of all the incredible music he leaves behind, this song (and it’s arrangement) has influenced me the most. I especially love the repeated use of the “four over three” pattern and of course the bass trombone. youtu.be/d1o8_nh5OgE?...

Lotsa Christmas coffee mugs in the regular rotation. I’d say around 35%.

When I was a kid I thought these movies were related to each other somehow. Maybe one was a sequel to the other. Maybe they were both the same movie.

My introduction to Sly Stone’s music was this musical interlude from Pee Wee Herman’s stage show. Later as a teen, when I bought a Sly Stone greatest hits album and heard the originals, I was impressed by how well Pee Wee & company pulled off their medley. youtu.be/Hlieo6mM7rk?...

I sure as hell hope people are buying those Phillies branded playsets otherwise we’ve suffered through those endless radio ads for nothing.

MLB fun fact: all Tanners are pitchers but not all pitchers are Tanners #Phillies

Felt like the woman who cut my hair was ripping my neck apart with her clippers. Like someone using a box cutter to open a package. STAB….DRAG BLADE. Got home to take a look and damn she really carved me up. Big red slashes everywhere.

MLB fun fact: all Tanners are pitchers but not all pitchers are Tanners #Phillies

*donna fargo voice* FLESHY FACE

Zombified Phillies offense showing signs of life!

The house is firmly divided on these chips. No middle ground whatsoever. I like them enough but they are admittedly strange and not falsely advertised. They are literally a sweet and lemony flavored potato chip.

The Cubs’ organist playing Trans Europe Express might be the most interesting thing that’s happened during this Phillies game.

Either the songwriting team of Hayes/Porter wrote two completely different songs titled Soul Man, or Blue Note mislabeled this track 57 years ago. I have pretty open ears but just can’t hear the Sam & Dave song in this version. Help me to hear it!!! #jazzsky youtu.be/EBdl4cyyA2E?...

@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social ever do a post about Burger King’s Big Plain? It was off the menu by the time I worked at BK but people would occasionally still order it by name. The cashier would usually give the order over the mic as “Whopper, dry”. 🤢

When I worked at BK, the table service section was in the same half of the restaurant as the smoking section. So the few people that did partake in the table service were mostly loitering chain smokers chowing down on popcorn.

uhhh what??

My paternal and maternal grandparents had nothing in common (cold, stoic Eastern Europeans vs. angry Italian shysters) but both sides liked Hee Haw.

An album whose cover has perhaps eclipsed the music therein (I’ve seen the layout repurposed many times), it’s nonetheless another solid Patton-Green pairing that I’m always a sucker for. The vibraphone is the odd man out at times but Green’s comping is as aggressive as I’ve ever heard him. #jazzsky

Multiple people were raving about this stuff on here so I bought some. It sucks! I thought it would be spicy or taste good in some way but it’s like eating the oil and burnt sediment you get from cleaning out a deep fryer.

I love crows so much

Let’s hope the Phillies do better tomorrow night but it’d be hard to do worse than they did the last half of tonight’s game. Yeesh.