@actualnames.bsky.social Today I keyed in an old (1922) Circuit Court record for a guy they named "Isaac Hunt." Parents, don't do this.

#FumettiFriday where low-hanging fruit is our raison d'être.

Tomorrow, I'm gonna ask the band if we should add the occasional oldie to our repertoire, like "RICO Laws They Are Breakin' Up That Old Gang of Mine."

My coffee shop was out of ice so they gave me 16 ounces of undiluted cold brew and now my skin can feel sounds

Happy Walpurgisnacht to all who celebrate. Only 184 shopping days 'til Hallowe'en.

Pastor of Muppets

@garybutler.bsky.social [My mom in a music store, ca. 1973] Clerk: Need something for the musician in the family? Mom: Not exactly. My son just needs a set of guitar strings. Clerk: Well, a guitar *is* a musical instrument ... Mom: Not the way *he* plays it.

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

#WhatsNotMusicToMyEars gas-powered leaf blowers

Trump Discusses his Diet on “60 Seconds”

Random thought: I bet 'Do not touch' is a scary thing to read in Braille.

There has to be a long compound word in German for the delicate art of splitting the "lean" of one's album collection for a tastefully curated display.

If we don’t see it on a $250 commemorative coin in a few days it never happened

That reminds me: the thing they don't tell you about retirement is you have to buy your own office supplies.

Trump’s war on Iran is proof that nobody can cheat reality forever. He launched a reckless, poorly planned war with no exit strategy, and now the world is paying the price in chaos. It is a massive failure of leadership that cannot be spun or ignored

#FumettiFriday A thinly-veiled plug for The Substack Diet™

That's right, kids, it seems the devil's greatest trick was convincing white musicians it was totally ok to co-opt Black R&B artists & peddle the watered-down result on Top 40 radio. (Thank goodness for the so-called British Invasion.)

Since we’re betting on everything nowadays, 10 bucks on Patel getting fired entirely because Trump finally hears that he’s being mocked as “J Edgar Boozer.”

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Classic works of literature, wrong answers only. Spanky & Our Gang's take on "Heart of Darkness" (1935, dir. Hal Roach)

*Tsk* It's not even 9 a.m. and he's hitting the bottle.

My Record Store Day find:

#FumettiFriday "I've had a lot of time to think, what with my social media platform doing its own rolling blackouts."

This is all happening because Republicans refused to hold Trump accountable for Jan 6. And now the “Sec of War” is comparing Trump to Jesus. Well done, GOP.

These days its called the internet.

#FumettiFriday Lift (almost) every voice.

I can finally appreciate Roger Waters's deft use of the double-negative here, as the children's chorus inarticulately cries out for justice.

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

What if instead of spending your energy screaming “NOT ALL MEN” at women on the internet, you spent it screaming at the men who make the rest of y’all look bad?

About to go on. My gig rig, seen from the back.

#FumettiFriday no deposit, no return. Just like on Wall Street.

Just hear me out: a retelling of the whole Holy Week business, but done as an intrigue-filled, action-packed thriller. "From Here to Gethsemane!" Maybe I can flog it to Mel Gibson.

@actualnames.bsky.social from Columbia County Circuit Court records, ca. 1922: C. Bremo Carlson, Plaintiff vs Torsten Fornander, Defendant "Bremo"?

#FumettiFriday "Scenes from the Class Struggle in East Finchley."

Grant thought that running away with the circus would be a nice break. Until they showed him the hammock he'd be sleeping in.

You'd be sad too if you had to pole dance to foxtrot records on the Victrola for a living. There was always some grubby dude trying to tuck old, bogus Confederate $5 bills into your collar, for Bob Lee's sake. Sarah Dippity

REMINDER: THE USPS IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A BUSINESS THAT IS MAKING MONEY. IT IS A CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED ENTITY FOR THE PEOPLE.

Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure we could have fully employed 5% of the US workforce building out mass transit and green energy plants for a fraction of the cost of yet another war for oil, and with far fewer casualties

If history has taught us nothing else, naming your kid "Ivan the Terrible" sets him up for a pretty rough childhood, which is bound to have to have repercussions later in life.

We'd be a lot better off leaving Iran alone & sending 1/2 the Iran war money to Ukraine & use the other 1/2 billion doing good things in the US.

#FumettiFriday a day when we leave no tome unspurned.

The difference between Iran and covid is that Trump didn't choose to have a pandemic.

Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Just a reminder that Republicans aren't afraid of voter fraud, they're afraid of people voting.

tl;dr: the journey would be a lot more fun with a buddy that's true of most, almost all, things in life