2000 year old epic poem, still cries when the dog dies.

On this day in 1972, Lester B. Pearson died. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient, he was Prime Minister from 1963 to 1968. A star hockey player, he was nearly the first Secretary General of the United Nations and once drank Nikita Khrushchev under the table. This is his story 🧵 1/12

one last belated Xmas comic for all you good little boys/girls/other tinyview.com/the-other-en...

If not for the fog until 2, it probably would have hit 70.

It’s wild to be part of a generation that are having their first kids while at the same time some are becoming grandparents.

Happy Tibb's Eve! Also known as Tipp's Eve and Tipsy Eve, it is a holiday to honour a fictional saint. The holiday found its way to Newfoundland from Britain and has slowly spread around Canada. This is the story! 🧵 1/7

The calendar I usually get isn’t being made this year, so I got something equally inexplicable to my wife, Gritty.

Hopefully it comes with some non-racist rebranding.

We meet next Tuesday, 12/30 at 8pm at the Taproom to discuss Audition. See you then.

Alas, Babylon counts as a Christmas book, right?

On my old show Represent we had a guest who talked about their issues with RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER — how its message is screwy because Rudolph isn’t accepted until he’s proven “useful,” and how this is the same narrative we fall into with migrants and I’ve never looked at RUDOLPH the same tbh

I worked with textbooks for years. When I first started in the early aughts, by boss at the time had been in the business since the early 70s. He was told then that textbooks wouldn’t be around for much longer because of microfiche.

Local radio playing a Christmas special of their jazz show and when I turned it on the piano was doing the riff from Take Five with soloists doing their Christmas-y things. It made me teary.

Born March 27, 1975, Stacy Ann Ferguson is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats, Fergie -- you've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line. It's time to be a big girl now.

Look things are really weird right now But are they 'dress-wearing squirrel selling war bonds' weird? www.popsci.com/environment/...

I'm currently reading The Odyssey for the first time and I haven't gotten to the "wear a helmet with gold plated vertebra" part yet.

It's the most wonderful time of the year. The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog - defector.com/the-2025-hat...

Picked this up because it’s one of the best book titles I’ve seen and the book itself is great!

Interesting that it’s half women, more than half BIPOC, and highly sci-fi.

My first year of college I went to stay the weekend with my day and he did my laundry. He saw the state of my underwear and every year after that, gave my a big pack of underwear.

Got the Nuzzi book and listened for about 7 minutes. Between the writing, which I already knew wasn't going to be good, and her voice, which I found annoying (the breathy sexy thing), I couldn't do it.

Spot the difference: Candidate befuddled by Kansas Reflector or tipsy raccoon? You make the call! kansasreflector.com/2025/12/11/s...

I feel bad for the people living in the Burroughs/Cobain house.

I love trying to figure out who the substitute local anchor is for All Things Considered. Haven’t heard this guy host before and the dog was attacking a ball the first thing he said his name. Got it the second time.

I spent the last year or so of my grandmas life playing Yahtzee with her for money, both of us chain smoking, and she drink pints of brandy and I beer. It’s a good memory, but no way do I want to do that again with the racism and homophobia.

What the actual fuck.

This is becoming one of my favorite accounts.

Squppets

In high school, the German club would take a trip to The Plaza in December to eat at a German restaurant and then walk around and shop on our own for a couple of hours.

@ccsleddograce.bsky.social T-shirt and hoodie arrived today and they’re cooler looking in person!

That winning piece is stunning.

Listened to “I Want to Burn This Place Down” by @maris.bsky.social and it made me mad at Amy Coney Barrett’s book all over again $2 million for that piece of shit?

Pulled Beauty by Bill Wallace out of the discard pile because it’s one of my most traumatic books.

I was idly thinking about going to World Cup games because nothing cool ever comes to Kansas City. FIFA announced this "prize" months ago and at that point I decided I wasn't going to even try to get tickets for any FIFA event.

I saw a black widow this morning at work that I assumed was dead (it was 15f) and almost took a picture of it. The sun warmed it up enough it was scuttling around an hour later.

Pandora trying to break my heart while I’m running by playing Somewhere Over the Rainbow followed by The Rainbow Connection.

Shoveled the sidewalk in a timely manner because the kids down the street were complaining about their cold feet from their walk home from school.

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: A Kansas town chose cruelty. Now it mourns as the mayor faces voter fraud charge and deportation. #ksleg

Victoria's Secret was hemophilia

I keep thinking about this and how boomer men love this movie.

I mildly agree with this due to tramautic apple cinnamon and key lime flavor experiences. Pecan pie is usually meh.

His grandmother is an absolute 'nutcase.'

This is one of my favorite year end lists. Covers a ton of different styles and actually includes books from the entire year.

I wonder if this is the kind of story that ends up being the hardest to write. You have to do a new piece every year about a supposedly suprise occurrence that’s gone on for decades.

From the Dumb Runner Comics Vault:

#uglydogs much to my suprise, a second Bravermountain mushing shirt came today. XL, short sleeve. If you’re interested, send me a DM. US only, but I’ll pay for shipping.

You guys can all rest now. I found the worst possible combination of pizza toppings thanks to a random Reddit user...and then I tried it. (I wish I didn't. And yes, it includes anchovies.)