#NoKinksDay #Chicago

Jay Zeus how I love NBA/NHL Finals. Especially when both series is competitive.

To mark the end of the school year I made lemon thyme shortbread cookies for my students. One of those students decided to one up me with an earl grey tiramisu for everyone. And somehow that wasn't the sweetest thing to the day.

Seeing the lyrics to "My Humps" at karaoke is gazing into the abyss. I understand how we reached the darkest timeline.

The Clash's self titled debut (UK version, obvs) is all bangers

What a hideous end to a hideous game. God I hate being a Bears fan.

For Christmas my GF took me to Powell's Books. I said we'd only get a half dozen books or less, we ended up buying a baker's dozen. Most were shipped home, one is wrapped as a present to open with the family, and I read this one in the interim.

"Talk Talk" has the bones of a great Carly Rae Jepsen song, would love to hear her cover it.

Liam Gallagher & John Squire > Second Coming & Be Here Now

Watching MTV in Vienna while packing up. Me: You know what's great about European TV My GF: What? Me: No online gambling ads. GF: You're right! And then an online gambling ad pops up. At least they play music videos.

A tradition dating back to when Ole Ginny McCaskey went to see her first silent movie has been broken

ffs bears

Beach House's Depression Cherry is the perfect album to listen to on a fall day.

Sure I could watch the Chicago Bears play some very frustrating football, OR I can catch a matinee. One is about being the despair of being unjustly imprisoned and not having hope, the other is Beethoven's only opera.

At a friend's suggestion, my dad and I downloaded The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr off Audible. My biggest takeaway was that art history is a massive parasocial relationship.

Mod playlist for the day: Queen's Pleasure - Words to Live By, Suits to Die In The Jam - Setting Sons Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society Blur - 13

Someone just got a new pinapple toy. Start your stopwatch on how long it takes from him to chew through the leaves

Scott Hanson's Witching Hour catch phrase is his single greatest/only good contribution to society.

I think I may have perfected my Texas street legal chilli.

The next adventure in my HU:CS campaign is going to be a riff on From Dusk to Dawn except replace the strip club with Guy Fieri's Flavortown and Sella Hayek with Sammy Hagar. I call it "One Night in Flavorville".

Kinzinger sounds like that pre-frosh drinking beer at his first frat party, a little punchy and really happy to be let in.

Therapist: what do we say to people to let them know we’re welcoming them I to our lives? Me: Do you like playing the board game Risk? Therapist: No.

Making a player apologize for fouling an opponent instead of giving him a yellow card is kinda awesome. #eurocup

I haven't been this excited about the Peruvian national team since the 2018 World Cup! #copaamerica

Arriba Perú! #copaamerica

While there is a lot to genuinely enjoy about The Marvels (really, great acting, good pace, not too long), I just can't get past the fact that the big plot is a straight faced rip off of Spaceballs.

I'm surprised that security allowed Jarrett Payton into the same stadium as Taylor Swift again.

I'm ok with Snoop Dogg covering the Olympics, he needs a better partner than Kevin Hart, like Martha Stewart. I'd watch the shit out of Martha and Snoop on the Olympics.

Best part of Christmas is alternating between Hallmark and Lifetime holiday movies with my girlfriend and her parents and judging the couples in the movie. Case in point, the lead guy in A Christmas Proposal does not deserve Tatyana Ali, and his sweater game straight up sucks.

I just gave my youngest nephews the greatest gift of all, I taught them the ability to truly hate and expect the worst from your team. They're Cowboys fans, so they'll thank me in 2-3 seasons.

Is it me, or does O'Hare give off the vibe of a post-Great Recession mall where the food court is the only thing left and propped up by the Costco?

I'm shocked to find out that there are vocal King Charles apologists out there and that they wrote season 6 of The Crown for other vocal King Charles apologists.

The only thing less plausible than Trump not reading Mien Kamf is Trump reading an entire book from start to finish.

The reason I'm not watching football right now isn't that I don't have the NFL network because I'm a piker (tho that's true), it's because pro football on a Saturday feels like a violation of the social contract.

My girlfriend bought our dog Zilong a plush Christmas tree toy. At 11:00 am he got his teeth on it. This is 11:08