For the love of Frederick Wiseman, we all have the power in our pocket to create our own Law and Order monthly. Nick Shirley's version of Welfare is just a hollow, sociopathic/rac*st child's selfie. Fight fire w/ Wiseman fire - these dorks expose themselves w/ glee.

Tim Mooney is far & above my favorite drummer, ever. (Apologies to Tiki Fulwood.) The algorithms nearly never favor a dork like me ("Like Roky? You'll love NOFX."), but once a decade they deliver. Three shots of what looks like Rozz Rezabek w/ 3x original Sleepers. Just kill me.

Is it advisable... Er, possible? Jeeze, I don't know. How bad of idea is it to introduce an indoor/outdoor cat into a home w/ two indoor-only cats? I'm sensing a bit of jealousy from the two indoor cats. #Cats #SammyIsOrangeAndInsane #InsideCatsLookingOUt

Meta Smart Glasses? Broken? News? Anybody remember that doof Sarah Slocum's 2014 Lower Haight, SF/Molotov's/Google Glass episode? "Slocum announced that she wanted to 'get this white trash on tape.' A man then ripped the device from her face." Know your enemy. www.sfgate.com/news/article...

R.I.P. Steven Lee Cropper October 21, 1941–December 3, 2025 The man co-wrote, played on and/or produced some of the best that's ever been. Trying to Dum-Dum-De-De-De-Dum-Dum, but it's all coming up Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa. Nothing lasts. Fight the good fight while you can.

R.I.P. Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley April 27, 1951 – October 16, 2025 (Lower right corner of the AM radio face.) n/p: That crazy Love Gun solo that made my son laugh like hell as a kid/helped him understand why I love Robert Quine so much.

#SantaCruz #punk

3. Too many cats / #SunCaturdays / #Cats=Death / #cats "Blackie Preciosa" clearly has no understanding of nerve endings extending to human ankles, despite growing up in a Fruitvale BART parking lot.

2. Too many cats / #SunCaturdays / #Cats=Death / #cats "Blackie Preciosa" clearly has no issues w/ possums, despite growing up in a Fruitvale BART parking lot.

1. Too many cats / #SunCaturdays / #Cats=Death / #cats Dopey, yet strangely lovable, "Blackie Preciosa," doesn't get the whole litter/burying concept. Nature/nurture, some things might be lost growing up in a Fruitvale BART parking lot.

#ThursCatUrDay This here Sammy-cat is fucking nuts.

R.I.P. John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne December 3, 1948 – July 22, 2025 Thanks for a bunch of stuff, but mainly for allowing me to see my future old-lady share a joint w/ a skinny long haired guy wearing knee-high suede moccasins in San Jose. Also, she cried during Sweet Leaf.

Damned, Weirdos & Rhythm Pigs - March 28th 1986 @ the Fillmore S.F. I love keeping dopey stuff like this, a menu for a Damned show. (The flyer isn't mine, nor have I seen it before today.) Sirloin of Beef w/ Mushroom Gravy $5.50!

As always, #Caturday is lame. (Or, more to the point, five cats is too many cats. Blah, blah.) New orange Sammy (name NOT Fang related) is people friendly, but regarded as an annoyance by his own kind. Time will tell.

New Thor arrived.

R.I.P. John Whitson (J.W. Bellbottoms/Holy Mountain, @holymountain.bsky.social , etc.) God bless you, and you may now flip.

R.I.P. John Whitson (J.W. Bellbottoms/Holy Mountain, @holymountain.bsky.social , etc.) n/p Demian-Rock Star Farm LP (Starburst–ARC 3301 1974) Generously traded to me for 7 or 8 Gong Show Movie stills, & he even let me keep the Rip Taylor one! (I'd have eventually let him have 'em for free.)

HBD Warren Mercer Oates July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982

So far my favorite "cat hiding from fireworks" photo so far. Would totally appreciate folks supplying better examples of the genre.

Believe what you want, but Martin Rev had a huge, oversized influence on the dopey-ass music you & I & everybody we know takes for granted. The Cramps alone should suffice, but don't have to. www.martinrev.com

Not a good #Cat day. Three recent images of five cats sleeping soundly below. Give it five hours & every one of these felines will be cowering in a hamper/corner/stairwell in horror. Not to be a downer, but I've never enjoyed the 4th. Scared cats, crummy hotdogs, smelly Porto-Sans & men w/ 'staches.

Jamie Farr (Jameel Joseph Farah) Born: July 1, 1934 91 GD Years! Nicest guy ever, even if I never met him. Sent the guy an SCTV questionnaire in '94/'95, received a wonderfully self deprecating reply in less than two days. Still kicking, still hating on Joey Bishop - as it should be.

The "R" section is brutal: Reagan Youth, Really Red, Redd Kross, Otis Redding, Jerry Reed, Lou (Metal Machine...), r.e.m., Rema-Rema!!!! Martin Rev, RF7... and on and on. Marco Pirroni surely managed a decent career out of this nonsense.

1985 - 40 years ago. Battalion of Saints & Part Time Christians were both terrific. Social Distortion? Not so much. Drunk, for sure.

#Caturday annoyances. Felines are just SO helpful when it comes to painting.

July 4th is coming. As much as we LOVE fireworks/playing w/ fire, this ain't no picnic for the cats. #Caturday #DumbFelineHidingInAPinkHamper #Cats , but scared instead of cute.

I'll take Frank Gorshin any way I can get him. At the $0.99 toy clearance aisle, or as Dr. Fletcher in 12 Monkeys? All in. But it's kinda sad that Frank Gorshin is the only decent thing about the 12 Monkey thing. (I was on a plane.)

Seeing a bunch of Mark E. Smith stuff on here for some reason. Here's mosaic artist Mark Kennedy's tribute from the outside wall of the Affleck’s building in Manchester. Kinda sucky that it's way off in the corner of an alley by the garbage, but I always make a pilgrimage to it, just the same.

A week in the UK, London/Newcastle/the Lakes/Manchester = not a lot of record shopping time. But Oxfam & Vinyl Resting Place in Afflecks/Manchester made for a decent haul. Not a lot of Ruts/Tom Jones/Girlschool in the East Bay.

R.I.P. Robert Cabot "Bobby" Sherman Jr. July 22, 1943 – June 24, 2025

#Caturday is lame. Or, more to the point, five cats is too many cats. The good news is that Sammy, pic#1 - our "found 40 miles away after 8 months of lord knows what" feline, has settled in pretty well. He's got some pretty serious ptsd, but fingers crossed.

Where's Tesco Vee when we need him?

R.I.P. Sylvester Stewart March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025

This double 7" compilation from 1979 is still surprisingly affordable. So, *SO* important to my dumb-ass way back when. The Middle Class & Noh Mercy tracks are now widely available thanks to Frontier & Superior Viaduct, respectively, and are so, *SO* good.

Sammy's home. Eight or nine months & two balls later, let's see if this punk will settle down a bit. I'd gladly drive 10x the 80 miles we just drove to save him from the chamber. But jeeze, maybe just settle down. #Cats #CaturFriday #PainInMyAss #WeGot5xOtherFelinesToDealWithToo

H.B.D. Bruce Dern 06/04/36 Not a single bad movie, & he married BIG! Also, I'd already fell for my wife-to-be, but fell harder when I saw she had a Tattoo VHS. CInemax played it to death & none of my friends used a payphone again. His GGACP Ep. is AMAZING, too: www.gilbertpodcast.com/bruce-dern-e...

H.B.D. Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz [as GGACP folks are aware]) June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010 Bored? Watch one of many Tony Curtis masterpieces, The Manitou (1978). He's good, it's good. Plus, Michael Ansara!

This motherfucker... Fuckin' Sammy. Shows up on our porch, eats our food for a month, hangs w/ the other cats, seems happy. Post-chip & shots/pre-neutering (looong wait lists...), Sammy skips. 8 months later, Sammy's in the clink - in Martinez? That's 40 miles away! Guess we'll try it again. #cats

HBD Dez Cadena - June 2, 1961 Only saw him (on guitar) twice, but both were 2 of the best shows of my life. 1st show, 07/82, featured the 2x guitar lineup w/ Chuck Biscuits drumming in Sacramento. 2nd show in Stockton, 04/83, w/ 2xguitars, Bill drumming - but (Austin) Dicks & Nigheist also opened!

In June, 43 years ago, the doors to live band performances miraculously opened & never closed. What's crazy, too, is I didn't get a license/car for a good year & a half, and somehow managed to find rides to Sacramento & S.F. (from Stockton) multiple times & week. Didn't sleep a lot.

Maybe Roku needs to put a little more thought into which photos they use for their search thumbnails. At some point I couldn't remember who I was searching for, Tony Curtis or "Mean" Gene Okerlund.

The Eiger Sanction (1975) is a piece of shit movie. That said, it's one I watch every decade or so, if not just to watch Vonetta McGee. Sure, George Kennedy & Jack Cassidy are great, too. But Vonetta McGee.

R.I.P. Loretta Swit November 4, 1937 to May 30, 2025 We all have our favorites. (And "god" bless my parents for not giving a shit about dopey things like MPAA ratings when choosing which movies their 8 year old kids MIGHT still be awake for at the drive-in on any random weekend night.)

We saw the Damned for the 20-somethingth time yesterday. Entering the venue: TV Smith & Gaye Advert greeting folks like it's a wedding? Adverts set=GREAT. But all I could think was, My poor kid. From age 16 to 18, all he heard on the drive to school was Adverts. I bought every CD...

Checking up on my current insurance coverage regarding therapy/mental health services. Is it a waste of resources to pursue a therapist simply to get a mental health professional to explain that there's no difference between David Lynch's DM-2 and the two or three we own and rarely use?

Weird that the duBEAT-e-o soundtrack is basically the best, most definitive LP in the Mystic Records catalog. (Despite Social Distortion.) We Got Power (Party Or Go Home), be damned. Ray Sharkey, Derf Scratch & El Duce w/ Gary Panter crayon lettering are just icing. It's a mess.

#Caturday Four times sorely missed felines. Two brutes, defenders of Susie's domain, one lug, totally uncomfortable in his massive skin & a goddamned angel: Barbie - brute, family 1st, our Luca Canali! Lenny - fat/food based Wiley - annoying brute, adopted us & it worked! & LaWanda Page - angel/nut

This EP represents a low point in my life: I stole a copy from a guy in Stockton because he almost got us beat up by painting XTC over the Zig-Zag mural in Swenson Park. When I tried to sell it @ the Epicenter, they refused because, "We have enough comedy records as it is." bsky.app/profile/gera...

Trying to shed a ton of records - maybe 500 if I could. Not an easy task. For instance, thought this was an easy toss. Sorry, Al Sherman knew his business. The Fogerty stuff is tough, but Sabre Dance stays w/ me.

As an unapologetic fan of Kool Moe Dee - and a TOTAL fan of the legendary insert to his 2nd LP, still Schooly D loyal. Few things are better. (Too Short came close, but it took my son's insistence for that realization to emerge. Leave it for the kids.)