The whole damn world is upsot.

If you look at the box scores, 2024 really landed some dramatic punches. But, 2025 has just ground me down, round after round. I have lil' energy for almost anything festive.

I've seen Rare Exports. I know what's REALLY killing Finland's reindeer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbR6...

Holy shit, I have the whole house to myself (minus the lug-nut pictured below). It’s almost as exhilarating at 50 as it was at 13. Just pray I don’t nearly burn down the garage with homemade napalm; which may or may not have happened once long ago.

Not too early to start thinking of that new years resolution

We're really humbled by the great turnout at our record release show a week ago tonight. Our good pals @rmhayes.bsky.social & @ryansarnowski.bsky.social documented the event with top-notch audio and photography, which we want to share here. www.milwaukeetaper.com/2025/12/dryh... dryhouseruins.com

A night at the Milwaukee Ballet watching our ballerina perform in the Nutcracker. I suppose this has become a holiday tradition, but for her it’s more like a gig.

@j-halprin.bsky.social What’cha been up to lately? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Someone has taken over the commissary speakers and is blaring New Kids On The Block’s “Funky, Funky Christmas” And it wasn’t me 🤯

Catzilla invades the North Pole, demanding to know why she is on the naughty list!

It’s that time again.

An early annual reminder that this is THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS SONG ever written. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeTp...

Next year I'm gonna forgo keeping up with new music releases, then in December of 2026 I'll scour through everyone's year-end, best-of lists and decide what I want to listen to.

RIP Gil Gerard - May you enjoy that big, sci-fi disco in the sky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqae...

Every time someone derails a meeting with personal chatter an angel gets dragged into a dark alley and has its wings ripped off.

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Kid is at home sick. I'm in a meeting and suddenly the sick one is calling me, over and over. I assume it's a real emergency. I step out, call him back, worried that I'll need to rush home. Naw, he just wants to know how to unclog the toilet.

‪ Me - trying to mind my own merry business. The World - forcing me to listen to THAT ONE DAMN CHRISTMAS SONG I've been trying to avoid.

Sarnowski family Christmas decorations are coming together. Just need a few more lights.

@j-halprin.bsky.social just reminded me that it’s John Cassavete’s birthday. So, in honor of the other JC, I am watching the Christmas episode of Johnny Staccato.

For the rest of us

Got my Festivus decorations out

I'm no musician, so I got nothing to peddle on Bandcamp Friday, but I did take band photos for @dryhouseruins.bsky.social And you don't wanna ruin your day by failing to order this record of improvised, blissful and blistering music. dryhouse-ruins.bandcamp.com/album/dryhou...

People were letting the ink dry on their best-of lists when along comes @shaneparish.bsky.social scribbling all over those lists. I love a good spoiler as much as I love genre-bending covers. This is going to something else, something outstanding.

In the basement painting Christmas trees and listening to Fever Ray while 12 quarts of pumpkin peanut soup, made for the Quaker teen cafe, simmers upstairs. My life is a zig, a zag and a swirl.

Editors are the ass-wipes of the documentary world. Know thyself.

Only 112 day until Opening Day. It's gonna be a long winter.

I joked with a friend that I'm "communication fluid". I'll write emails, send texts, make phone calls, and even pen snail-mail if it keeps me in touch with close friends. But, now that friend sends me a 30 minute long audio-email and I'm howling. I love my people. Always finding new paths forward.

When that winter light hits just right, but you are doomed to sit in a dark room and edit video.

Has anyone checked the Bucks for Chronic Wasting Disease?

My kids are going to be crushed. When I worked at doc|UWM, B'n'B was a near daily stop; snagging those discount deli left-overs and inevitably running into some friend or acquaintance. Now, where the hell am I gonna get my gluten free Key Lime Pie? milwaukeerecord.com/food-drink/b...

Everyone who posts a ranked best-of list needs to show their work. Give us empirical evidence that brought you to your conclusions.

The best albums this year are probably ones I have yet to listening to.

With both my parents gone, Usingers and Swiss Colony are going to get one less order this year. I don't even expect a Swiss Colony catalog this year. Is it even Christmas-time if that deceptive book of delights doesn't find its way to my mailbox? www.youtube.com/watch?v=46n3...

Happy Cyber Man-day to all those who celebrate.

Weather update from Wisconsin ( IYKYK)

Me trying to delete all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday ads flooding my inbox.

Some exercise before going to a pie-party at the Quaker grandmas’ house, then watching the dog show, followed by a modest meal, and rounded out with some movie watching. Not exactly Norman Rockwell, but it has been our tradition for years.

On the eve of the Thanksgiving break, 34 years ago, a dumb prank committed by bored Straightedge teens would make front page news a few weeks later… I understand Banksy on a level you will never understand.

As I made my way from the grocery store, I took a moment to be thankful when I saw a zombie horde lumbering their way inside and right then and there I knew my decision to cut short my conversation with a running-buddy and bee-line to the checkout was a most wise and prudent decision. Amen.

Like a like a rafter of turkeys waiting to be pardoned from the holiday slaughter the few of us in the office mill about waiting for the boss to "surprise" us with an email that says we can all go home early. This is a tradition stuffed with absurdity.

How soon until we have AI designed to scrape a person's Letterboxd account and make a psychological analysis of the user based on their movie watching habits?

Look what I found. I can’t wait to slide into this holiday weekend.

How the hell have I not seen this until today?! It's like Neil Young and Hal Ashby fell under the influence of Gerry Todd from SCTV vimeo.com/741221968

Thinking about changing my title to: Bartleby, the Turd Polisher I'd prefer not, but most days this accurately describes the work I do.

This is a 100 times better than the theme to Elmo's World, which has been stuck in my dead for two days.

I am 100% behind social media posts including the location of the author. But it needs to go further! Was this a shower thought, a toilet tweet? People should know where this shit is coming from.

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Someone said, "How come there aren't any Thanksgiving songs?" I told them "Gratitude" is a Thanksgiving song. The were not thankful of my suggestion. But, I was being serious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5...

Like a lot of dudes, my introduction to reggae (outside of the Bob Marley that gets played at college parties and hung on dorm walls) came from this film and its soundtrack. But what appealed to me most was its unintentional sense of documentary that runs through the film. RIP Jimmy Cliff.