Clicked on a YouTube video to see "What Dying Feels Like" (to compare notes). As soon as I did, Reba-fuckin'-McIntyre jumped into frame, demanding to know if I was browsing realtor.com without her. I didn't know she scouted properties in Hell.

“Abrams’ Lightsaber”: the antithesis of Chekov’s Gun where an idea is introduced but never utilized in a story OR introduced to distract from a lack of anything more significant.

After a quarter millennium, I hope my fellow Gen-Xers and our Boomer parents remember that this is how we used to think about tyrants in America. youtu.be/Ex-ibI2MWIg?...

Bold choice in this dangerous age to include the words "Boys" and "Dungeon" together in an album title.

Construction signs missing, Lanes merged in heavy rain. Car became a speedboat. All is well. Pants are in the wash.

Hell's Hecklers! You know, this scared the shit out of me when it showed up in my email with their dead, soulless eyes. But I think if I put them over my desk, they would motivate me to produce better work.

trumps own personal army

CBS isn't just castrating itself by ending 'Colbert' - you can FEEL the picando los huevos in the "Yellowstone" spin-offs.

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

When the end comes, they won't tell you. But there will be signs. Your invitations stop coming to big events and you become a chair-filler at others. The swag bags that used to be generous become requests to share and contribute. Replies take longer and you have to ask more than you are asked.

My new guilty pleasure is the stream of bullshit AI videos where package thieves get blowed up real good with smoke and glitter. SO fake, but the explosions are just SO satisfying. And in this era when dumbasses don't know they are being recorded, maybe they won't notice how fake the videos are.

I just watched ChatGPT argue with itself in chat about the copyright status of something. Weird.

Just laughed. Was working in ChatGPT to sort a spreadsheet. I asked it to do something; the response kissed my ass for being brilliant. When executed, it displayed an internal text conversation with its own generator; it complained about how vague and illogical my request was and called me an idiot.

The Omnibus print edition collects all 12 episodes. Available May 2027

The first chapbook is available NOW for only $2.99 Book 2 of 12 is coming up on June 1st for only $3.99 Learn about the story here: tepidbadinage.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/i...

Hot take on a show off the air for 64 yrs, but the THEME to "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" is the only thing I absolutely cannot stand about a show that holds up impressively well since it started 77 yrs ago.

www.youtube.com/live/uRC9-vl... So worth the listen.

Parents Worried Children Old Enough To Remember Family Vacation https://theonion.com/parents-worried-children-old-enough-to-remember-family-1819577846/

Dinner with the boy by the river.

Chapter 2 drops June 4th! Jack and Echo arrive at DrakkenFest, the world's largest pop culture convention. To learn why he was summoned, Jack has to meet the legendary media mogul Mitchell Anchorr and decide if he can help a dying man protect his family's legacy. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ4DRPT8

You think they would have learned from the first time we showed up to sort shit out.

It's only going to get worse toward the end of this term. The phrase "Lame Duck" used to only be a mild worry of opposition politics. The end of THIS administration will be like the Soviets in strategic retreat from the Nazis in Russia. Except ironic.

Oh. Shit. I woke up with secret knowledge. Now I am burdened with it. But it is undeniable. MAGA's plan is simple: turn an 80s slobs-vs-snobs movie plot into a political platform. Loud, obnoxious underdog frat broz have infiltrated the federal gov. They modeled all this shit after Caddyshack!!

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Note how businesses must be able to function like dictatorships to keep America great. They must run the lives of the people living in the Land of the Free" to survive. America is the empty promise glazed over the cold and cruel corporate state.

I never expected Disney and the MCU to go full 'Death Wish' on us. Wow. That was a violent hour of television. If you got hot to Thomas Jane's "Laundry Day" Punisher short, "One Last Kill" will give you full release.

I deleted TwiX long ago - don't miss it. Same w/Threads - forgot I ever had it. I deactivated Instagram - no sleep lost. I deactivated my Facebook - no one noticed. This is a nice, quiet place where I can post and be ignored for fun. I keep Msngr for the fam and WordPress for my longer bullshit.

Hello word brick! Now in glorious 6x9 with print you can actually read! Available soon.

Not loving these new websites that promise to tell you how much trauma you endured as a child, while not even knowing it. The ads play somber, haunting music with sample questions like "What do you hear? (screaming) STOP IT! or HELP ME!" It sets the dark mood and then SELLS YOU SOMETHING.

Comedy Roasts. Remember when the GoH would sit there silently, take it and then unload on everybody for a big, hilarious finale? That's how roasts work. Kevin Hart needed a microphone because he couldn't STFU. He hosted his own, awful roast. And 3 hrs? There's a reason CC edited those things.

Or, and hear me out, blow it all the fuck up and let the insects try next time.

Celebrating a week of sobriety with something that cost the same as a case of beer.

Everyone can relax! I found our new cult compound! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

The Devil Wears Prada 2. If you're looking forward to it, cool. If you've seen it and love it and even live it, great for you. I have not seen the entire original and probably won't jump at the sequel when it shows up on a platform I can access. I am neutral to the fandom.

Episode 1 is LIVE! You can preorder the series at www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV7PXHMD

I mourn the loss of public figures privately now. I'm sick of people who feel the need to remind me how they disliked something or everything about that person.

Yes. Because building a secure ballroom will protect the President everywhere he goes, around the world. Is he building a ballroom or Ultron?

Amusing. The WHCD attack prompted outcry to spend hundreds of millions on that stupid East Wing ballroom. HOWEVER, the Republican challenger to PA's Governor just challenged the cost of protecting his private home despite someone torching the PA Gov Mansion. Can't wait for that justification.

I love the MCU when it hits hard and doesn't pander to the least sophisticated audience. But this episode of Daredevil: Born Again reunites us with a great character and slides her toward "Fridge" status almost immediately. I know the fine folks under Feige have read their Gail Simone. Shame on 'em.

Overheard: "No visit to a McDonald's drive-thru should take longer than listening to 'American Pie'."

I never understood why someone’s murder or legal scandal ends up in the Entertainment section just because someone involved is in media. A 14 year old girl’s murder in LA is stuck next to Real Housewife and Kardashian drama just because her suspected killer is a musician.

I heard it so you have to. “You know how you lay in bed, sweating and breathless after sex, praising the cosmic experience. It’s like that when you’re older. Except one a month, when you take a ten minute shit.”