I threw out my back... stepping into pajamas

Wisco vacay, let’s go

A different take on nuclear proliferation from the pov of the physicists who built the things in the 50s. Very Frankenstein's Monster

When I first got on bluesky, I made a crack about how nice it'll be for zombies to discover a plastic spoons-worth of microplastics already in our brains... and a guy dm'd me to explain it's not a literal spoon. I still think about that guy. (And his brain.)

Turned in a big outline, and I can't stop thinking about how I spelled whoa "woah" -- and now I'm convinced the whole project teeters on this one typo #scriptsky

The guy who invented the Pringles can had his ashes interred... in a Pringles can. But lame Orville Redenbacher was buried in a regular coffin rather than a microwave popcorn bag #facts

Is there a word for going room to room, looking for the black reflective surface of your missing cell phone? Because that's a daily activity for me

Me reading the news; annnd me noping the news

Am I doing movies wrong? Should I be losing my mind over the reveal of the Annabelle popcorn bucket?

Weird domestic chore, vacuuming the trampoline

Nothing is more edge-of-your-seat than cracking a barely opened pistachio with your nubby fingernails. #dontsplit

Ishiguro is at his very best when he's writing science fiction. Artificial insight, disposability and the certainty of revelation. If Taika Waititi is still adapting, I trust the guy to make this into something truly special.

The shmutz on my laptop screen adds interesting texture to photographs

Best thing about being in Mexico for a week, no ads for freakin Royal Match

I saw lucha libre in Mexico City! A mask was ripped off mid-fight and the crowd went bonnnnnkers. I swear people were gonna rush the ring. Then the offender stuffed the guy's mask down his pants, an insult beyond insults. I mean. I guess I'm a massive fan of luchadors now.

Me: Want this? Daughter: Everything is Goonies with you. Me: Andy, you Goonie! Daughter: Is that from the movie? Would you be quiet?!

My first (probably only) Jonathan Kellerman novel, 18 of 41 in the series. Probably an unfair way to sample psychologist/detective Alex Delaware. Weirdly timid. More narrative flair around the characters' pie choices than the murders. LA noir has never been so, well, flavorless. #booksky

Playing the piano is just typing. (where my head is at, day one of learning the piano; I mean, I know it's not true, but)

Important: caramel swirl face revealed in my carton of ice cream

The game physics of mustache drag in Mario... you could improve pipe mobility speeds by .5% by shaving that thing

Interesting how Napoleon granted France "freedom of pleasure" -- because he figured happy people won't overthrow popular monarchies. This gave rise to the modern restaurant. Too bad champagne and sauce reductions weren't enough to stop N's permanent exile and death.

You ever succumb to that lowest form of liquid (water) and suddenly remember, Ohmygod, water is GOOD #morecoffee

Man, the clarity of John Irving’s language, the tight circle of his setting, filled to the brim with tiny events and big characters -- I’m sad it’s taken me so long to open this novel. “A novelist is a kind of impostor doctor, but a good doctor nonetheless.” #booksky

The hole left by a pried-out nail... what goes on in there?

A tree branch "mysteriously" fell to the ground during Elvis's funeral and later sold at auction for $748 in 1977. WHERE IS IT? Proof of the supernatural. I want this heist movie!

Is this true? Since 1958, there are 52 unrecovered nuclear warheads somewhere on the ocean floor. Those aliens from The Abyss weren't warning Ed Harris about nuclear war... they were announcing their first strike.

Looking up weird valuable things (like there are 15,000 barrels of whale oil believed frozen somewhere in the Arctic); turns out there are rare Sacagawea $1 coins minted for a Cheerios promotion. $5500 per coin, if you have one. Most are missing. Checking!

I wish we could copy/paste Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty along an entire coast

Someone please write a 12 Angry Men-style dramatization of a wrongful termination suit brought by George Jetson against Cosmo G. Spacely #scriptsky #tvsky

Me as a chicken salesman, "Let's talk turkey." It'd be my thing, to the point where they're, "Oh no, this guy."

Real writing question, do other people drop words and not notice? Even after rounds of proofing, I still sometimes find a sentence with a missing word (almost always in dialogue). This seems to be called a "misperception error." But I can't find anything about how common it is. #writing

the relief from a sneeze that doesn’t happen > the relief from a sneeze that does

Sherwood Schwartz had a different vision for The Brady Bunch. After seeing The French Connection, he wanted Gene Hackman to be Mike Brady. ABC execs said NO. Can you imagine Popeye Doyle exploding on Bobby for lying that he knew Joe Namath? #tvsky

Found in my jpegs folder as "Canned Whole Chicken"... hm

Dads wearing those new shirts with mall-folds un-ironed

Ever see something and want it for no clear reason whatsoever? I just need this thing. #sighwalkaway

The Caesar salad was invented in Tijuana -- 101 years ago. Where were the celebrations last year? #centennialfail

There's something about the great haunted house novels of the 60s and 70s. Amityville Horror, Hell House, The Shining, all titans of this subgenre -- but Burnt Offerings deserves amplification. The horror muted and quiet, yet proto-Ari Aster. Big recommend! #booksky

We're raised to be storytakers, not storytellers

The shame of my life is that I own nachoquest.com and have never done anything with it

Super important find buried since 2017 under piles of papers. No exp day, my fam is legally obligated to comply.

Letterman's very first Top 10 List was, "The Top Ten Things that Almost Rhyme with Peas" -- Heats, Rice, Moss, Ties, Needs, Lens , Ice, Nurse, Leeks, and Meats

There's a paper on arXiv that found fleas from a dog jump farther than fleas from a cat. Can't express why, but this is my kind of quantitative science.

Soooooo in DnD tonight, we failed to realize that a mechanical dog in a Chuck E Cheese-style anamatronic band had a "sniper flute" -- a noble was killed, war has broken out, chaos prevails, total meltdown. I freakin love this game

There are more than 900 members of the International Association of Exorcists. Man, to be at that Vegas convention

I don’t think I’ve ever read hardboiled from multiple character povs. Helluva novel. Off topic, Levin wrote a disastrous sequel to his Rosemary’s Baby called Son of Rosemary. Somebody read it for me — I just can’t. #booksky

I maintain that i could botch and blow up just as many space rockets given the resources

The original Trek theme had lyrics?? Written by Roddenberry, which means he got half the royalties, though they were never recorded. The opening lines, "Beyond the rim of the starlight / My love is wand'ring in starflight" #StarTrek

In Ancient Egypt, cinnamon was cultivated as deodorant, not as a spice. Ergo, Speed Stick Ocean Surf may one day flavor our food.

Another mini-spree at this den of seduction #booksky