Who you gonna trust, salt from the sea, or what that little girl with the umbrella is doling out?

Heads up. You can never get so high that you touch the sky. But you can get so high that you stand on a rickety chair to fish something off the top of a bookshelf you haven’t dusted in months, maybe years, and halfway through you don’t know why you’re up there, or what anything means any more.

Winning the War on Drugs one 10-foot boat at a time.

Scott Walker is the soundtrack to my apocalypse.

Welcome to the revolution, Costco shopping cart.

Salem, Ohio 1935-1943. Going to try to get to know my grandfather a little better.

Hula bula

I just yelled at a spoon. So that’s where I’m at.

Dreamed I was at a movie theater that served meals and Matthew McConaughey was sitting next to me going on about, “I’m gonna get me a plate of spaghetti with meatballs up to the ceiling.” Thank you.

Park bench, 2025

My voicemail transcriber holds me in contempt.

Grateful they decided to honor tradition.

Grateful they decided to honor tradition.

My voicemail transcriber holds me in contempt.

At Costco today, I overheard one sample distributor say to another, “People are animals,” and I could only wonder at the depths of human behavior they witness.

At Costco today, I overheard one sample distributor say to another, “People are animals,” and I could only wonder at the depths of human behavior they witness.

Every year we gather to sing And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda as veterans of The Battle of Cracker Barrel march by.

Every year we gather to sing And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda as veterans of The Battle of Cracker Barrel march by.

I suppose if we’re going to be living in a dystopian hellscape it might as well be the Godzilla variety.

may lightnings strike me!

Same.

Team Duke.

Little bitty grasshoppers with their little bitty legs.

Are you talkin’ to me?

A really nice read.

Park table art.

He died as he lived. Ruddy.

Costco has these boss dog poop bags that sell out faster than almost anything else. Heads up.

Every odd-numbered chapter should begin like this.

Every word.

I like firm fish and I cannot lie.

4k restoration of Kurosawa’s RAN. Lady Kaede still brings the goods.

No tellin

Quote of the night goes to the local reporter covering a wingnut candidate’s dismal election party. “We’re on the opposite end of the sound spectrum.”

Thank you for ruining the thumbs up gesture for everyone, mister president.

Thank you for ruining the thumbs up gesture for everyone, mister president.