A Happy 58th Annual The Monkees Singing Early Music in Spanish in Multipart Harmony Live on TV to all who celebrate. (Thanks Chip Douglas).

My working theory is that Italian Americans are naturally pro-immigrant but over generations more parents are giving kids pasta sauce from jars leading to people like Bondi and DeSantis turning out wrong.

One day, I came into work to find an anonymous voice mail that said, "Your newspaper is so awful, my pet bird died of constipation because he wouldn't even shit on it." Turns out, it was one of my boys calling to bust balls. I kept that voice mail until I left. I thought it was hysterical.

Mental illness runs in my family. I’m sure it doesn’t help that I was a crime reporter, my parents were critical care nurses and my brother was an EMT. (Chuck’s stories from working at a plasma donation center in downtown Youngstown in the late 70s are harrowing AND hilarious.)

Not gonna lie: I will watch this out of sheer morbid curiosity.

Filmed in Cleveland!

I smell a boutique bakery…

When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.

Hey, I wrote this!

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THE THING HAPPENED

Our chest freezer was legit a game-changer.

I like to think there's an alternate cut of A Christmas Story that kept in all the dad's actual profanity

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In addition to it being Christmas, today would have been Rod Serling’s 101st birthday. Here’s a piece I wrote earlier this year about his formative years in Ohio, for Ohio Magazine. www.ohiomagazine.com/ohio-life/ar...

December 25, 1899: Humphrey Bogart is born in NYC.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good grid.

Merry Christmas to one and all See you at Sicks' Stadium in 1970!

I miss hearing this story every year. youtu.be/a_eJhIamI6E?...

NFL Films made this for all of us. A Carol of the DOINKS.

75 years ago today, the #Browns won their first NFL Championship -- and it was a barnburner. My story, for @clevelandmag.bsky.social clevelandmagazine.com/articles/195...

My grief counselor died recently. He was so good I don’t even care.

Remember, folks: Christmastime won't be a drag ... 'CAUSE SANTA'S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3tJ...

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir #christmas "You may have the falcon, but we certainly have you."

This is another one of those shows I watched, but apparently no one else remembers watching.

Here we go, #FrightClub www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR07...

I feel seen.

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This used to be a proper country...

I still remember the McLean Stevenson rule from MTV's "Remote Control": Old actors never die, they just find more demeaning roles.

Guess what time it is? www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcV8...

Browns starting QB next year. #Dawgpound

Happy 30th anniversary to one of the most iconic fights in the history of action movies.

EARLY TOON TUESDAY #ToonTuesday

This isn't my story. It's from my friend and mentor, the Rev. Dr. Joe Boyle, who's no longer around to tell it. While doing research for his book, "Toledo's War" (www.utoledopress.com/TWset.html) he was at the National Archives in College Park. Just for fun, he asked my grandfather's name & unit...

Ah OMG OK so my SIL was an archivist at goddamn MOMA and she showed me the note from Marcel Duchamps to the museum who said, basically, "fuck it, we ball" after they told him one of his pieces broke in transit and he liked it even better now

Reading old newspapers is my idea of a good time! (And I'm an extrovert who's adopted a couple introverts at the conference.)

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#Funfact: I can still sing the Smothers Brothers Show theme song because I watched it on Nick At Nite.

Yeah, they lost that one too.

It’s that time of the year when we celebrate one of James Stewart’s best roles. He was never better than as incorruptible cop John Hartigan in Sin City (1952)

My wife’s aunt and uncle sent us a Christmas card with an expiration date.

Lonnie Chisenhall 3B-RF Debut: 2011 - Retired: 2018 CLE

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ICYMI: I profiled Peter Vecsey at rest (an oxymoron, I know) and how the role of the NBA insider has changed for @poynterinstitute.bsky.social. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...