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Been a long time since I've been stung by a bee. First time ever in the neck. Don't recommend it.

Rick Moranis coming out of retirement > Daniel Day Lewis coming out of retirement

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Stacy Wescott for the Chicago Tribune. Curtis Evans, veteran, Marine Corps intelligence under Reagan, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the ICE facility in Broadview, IL on Sept. 19, 2025

You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

Sadly, it seems Wordle performance is not an indicator of the rest of the day. (Got it in 2; today still sucked).

Two Jewish wedding gigs in a row with Phish requests makes me wonder if there's a market for an all Jewish Phish cover band: Gephilte.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Crossed off a bucket list item and saw Neil Young perform last night. The nice thing about never being all that great a singer is that it lets you age really, really well.

Pretty sure I had one of the most terrifying nightmares of my life last night because yesterday I decided to listen to "Hazard" by Richard Marx on a whim.

So far, the key takeaway from the Billy Joel documentary is that he's looked 50 since he was 14, until he reached 50 when he suddenly turned 70.

Getting on the weather certainly gave me a boost. Check it out.

To whom it may concern: I am playing at the Woodstock Music Walk tomorrow from 7-9pm with my friend Aaron Dugan on guitar. Afterwards, I will be reconsidering my stance on blindly accepting gigs in the name of the local music community.

Cold Take: Misery should have been a bigger single than Runaway Train for Soul Asylum.

Watching Washington Black and while I'm enjoying it, it's a little hard to swallow that the menacing fugitive slave hunter searching for Washington is played by... Pippin.

If I had a nickel for every time Boz Scaggs' "Lido" came up in the last two days, I'd have two nickels (before my show Saturday and as the encore at the Mountain Goats/Guster show tonight), which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Also, $.10 is more than Boz gets for streaming 2x.

Tacticool goons (one in a mask) handcuffing and roughing up Superman before sending him to an interdimensional black site private prison is a very good pop culture image to represent 2025

I don't have many celebrity pictures saved on my phone, but I do have this one. RIP, Ozzy.

"Untamed" is pretty much every detective/cop story trope you've ever seen with the twist being "but it's in the WOODS!" which somehow works better than it has a right to (it's the cast. it's a great cast).

The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations. By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕 lataco.com/ice-raids-pe...

That horrible feeling that you're not really an adult and you're never going to be enough of an adult to deal with your immediate problems.

Season finale of Murderbot in tandem with work considerations and reading that Texas Monthly article on the flooding of the Guadalupe has me processing a lot of complex emotions at the moment.

Experienced something of a Wordle miracle this morning (got it in two with no letters in the first word) and thinking about hiding for the rest of the day because it probably won't get better than that.

OK, just finished Heads of State on Amazon Prime and I think I've figured out this streaming service's problem. With both this and Deep Cover (and arguably Shotgun Wedding), you have a great setup that manages to get actual stars on board but fails to deliver on the idea.

Sunday evening at Black Spring Books! My first vinyl release of anything!

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

They’re selling postcards of the hanging

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Careless Whisper? Freedom? Freedom 90 (one of the rare sequel-ish songs better than the original)? One More Try? The man's catalog is stacked with wonderful songs.

What's better than music and books? Nothing, that's what.

Strange New Worlds' final season has to include a riff on the original TOS pilot, right?

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Was watching a singer songwriter I follow and he had a lyric about a briefcase and it reminded me that, for some reason, certain words just take me out of a song. Like "briefcase". Or "email". Like, why am I ok with the billions of songs about phone calls but text based communication kills it?

The president announces a federal law enforcement assault on the several population centers of America to achieve an expressly partisan political end.

"Deep Cover" on Prime is a fascinating example of how a screenplay can be functional but not fun. Its a silly idea, the actors are great, it does a good job of continually raising the stakes when it needs to, but because it's not nearly as funny as it needs to be, the whole thing falls flat.

I told you we’d be back

I couldn't NOT do this.

the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny

I bought running shoes today because Archie has always tried to keep up with runners on the trail. We ran; it sucked; he loved it.

Not sure I would have gone with "A Case of You" as a wedding song, but to each their own.

Did Dept. Q just disappear off of Netflix for anyone else?

Weirdly, the first two that came to mind were both about Johnny Cash; "Johnny Cash" by Kelley McRae and "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" by Alabama 3.

That sound you just heard in the distance was me screaming bloody murder because those bastards cancelled #WheelOfTime. 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Honestly, the show had found its stride and there was genuinely wonderful stuff ahead. An improvement on the books in so many ways, and an enormously talented cast and crew who deserved to tell the story. Pike as Moiraine is McKellan as Gandalf level casting.