Me visiting the reflecting pool

deer acres, pinconning, michigan, 1988

I’m reminded of that bit in Hitchhikers where the Philosophers’ Guild threatens to go on strike

You’ve frightened your last rabbit You’ve built your last butcher

Name a film with a title that is a full sentence.

The Pepsi deck is dead, long live the goose

I’ve been keeping a commonplace book on paper of all the Buster Keaton books I’ve been reading and drawing little illustrations of the portraits on the covers This is Buster a la Ed Emberley, who my sweetheart thought was Jon Hamm

I feel like whatever credibility I have as a tech focused nerd is completely shot by my almost total lack of interest in computers, networks, or pretty much any of the physical products that make the rest of what I do possible.

i don't speak ska fluently but i'm sure i could pick it up

Will their big budget blockbuster be a bat-bomb? Will bat-fans care that Batman is also Mr. Mom?

Meep-o baby.

I forgot how good the album of Hedwig covers is.

Send that kid to Hahvid!

God, I remember playing this game.

talk about a green new deal, amirite?

garden pics, animal pics, “I made this thing,” book/TV recs, and the wild shit little kids say are the five pillars of Good Social Media in my personal opinion

Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.

Dear Bean, I am sorry. I lied to you and said I was focusing, and then immediately started procrastinating on my tablet

This dives into the thing that a). I’ve always thought was the most interesting part of the HP series and b). guessed was entirely unintentional but had never picked apart. The books age thematically as the characters age, which is a neat trick and I wish I could see done well

Poached

I have been an unwitting conduit for the discourse today and I do not recommend it.

Siri insists that I should ask my partner if she wants a 32oz Pounder from Swig.

Today is the day to have one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer and mourn the passing of a legend

I thought it would be a nice little treat to get myself some coffee and a sticker for today, but then I remembered that I hate everything about the performance of masculinity in America

Just while I’m waiting for the margarita to arrive

I’m so confused. I didn’t think there was anything remotely confrontational about my thoughts about interpretation. It was barely anything more than Reader Response theory, and it’s not like I have the power to bring a lot of shitheels into the replies.

I think we must write as we must live: like morally sane people, for other morally sane people.

Fuck, they’re totally closed today. I must have misread the google results

I think the failure point comes from the same impulse that has people squabbling about canon in their sci-fi shows, and language isn’t as deterministic as that. Everything is more on a scale of “if you interpret it this way, what interesting insights rattle out?”

It’s always good to honor the classics

Oh right, yesterday’s Wordle sentence was PEACH MITER OUTRÉ (sort of)

EXCLUSIVE: The real no-bid contractors working overtime in Washington DC

The short version is that it’s all part of the word puzzle that reveals my government name. The slightly longer version is that I bought but haven’t set up a new custom domain because I’m just technically apt and self indulgent enough to do it

Trying to work still isn’t working, so here’s another Ed Emberley sicko.

I just want permission (not sure who’s) that whatever horrible thing is happening in my sinuses today means that I don’t even have to try to work. But I’m probably going to try to work anyway

I needed to go to the post office today and forgot it was Juneteenth. I mean, there were a half dozen people still there when I figured it out and left, still thinking they would open soon, so I guess I’m not the dumbest rock in the box

He looks like he’s about to ask me if I’m giving him the high hat

Almost forgot, messed up the lettering

My concentration was a wreck today and then around 3:45 I remembered antihistamines

Incidentally, my Wordle sentence yesterday was SHITE RATED TWEEN.

Goddammit, this just in, the screen on my Playdate is smashed too, adding to the overall collateral damage of going on this trip. I never even used it, just threw it in my carry on in case I got bored. This is the second time I’ve been out an ereader and a Playdate in one go. Fuck.

It’s already free on tubi. Along with the complete series of Danger Man.

Just in case anyone was on the verge of thinking I was cool or anything, I just want to say that I really enjoy making intranets. It’s like the last remaining thing on the web where you’re trying to make something easier for someone, rather than track and trap them

AITA: The Movie

Had to drive to the office today, less time for drawing sickos.

Ready for the action now, Danger Boy?

WHY MUST WE OBIES ALWAYS CATCH STRAYS?

turntable dot fm in the days when you could upload your own shit.