I'm about to try making a version of a square (Sicilian or grandma) style pizza. I hope it goes well, though at worst... it'll still be pizza.

"Hello, this is Durbin Stanton, reporting from the Horse Legislature, where the passage of the latest bill has been stymied by a unanimous vote of 'nay.'"

Is there such a thing as emotional auto-sadomasochism?

Feh. Feh, feh, feh.

It's a chilly afternoon in suburban Los Angeles but I'm not complaining because in a couple of months I'll be longing for these temperatures.

Today should not be Star Wars Day. Today should be a remembrance of the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State.

It'd be wonderful if I could switch the relaxed, inquisitive feeling I get at bedtime with the sleepy, dreamy feeling I have when it's time to get up.

Think it's time to trim my hair. I looked in the mirror this morning and saw Uncle Leo from Seinfeld.

I decided to power wash some wooden skids. It was a real pallet cleanser.

I use flabbergasted skewers to make sheesh kabobs.

Has there ever been as much of a gap between the actual usability of a technology and the hype around its capabilities as there is with A.I.?

I woke up to find a baby sheep sleeping next to me. It was bedlam.

My taxes are going to be very simple, one advantage of being unemployed, but a local politician is offering a tax help session with tacos and pupusas, and...

The Artemis II mission and its passing through the Van Allen radiation belts makes me think of an old science book illustration of the belts that reminded me of two big pieces of ring bologna.

In 30 years of using modern computers, I don't think I've ever double-clicked on text and had it select exactly what I wanted.

I hate that we've had humans fly by the moon for the first time in 50+ years, seeing perspectives that we've never seen before, and yet the unprecedented views are mixed in with A.I. slop because some other humans can't be satisfied with the simple beauty of reality.

I would hate House arrest. Some sarcastic doctor walking around and making fun of me all the time?

I just told a friend that I studied high school in Spanish, if you want to know how my day is going.

These are the same people who kept mockingly bringing up "participation trophies," and yet...

I will always struggle in my search for the perfect barbecue potato chip, but the Trader Joe's ketchup flavored potato chips are so good that I may just accept that my search is over.

It may be factual, it may be cruel.

Feeling lousy today so I just made a smoked Dutch cheese and Parmesan grilled cheese with homemade Kewpie mayo thousand island dressing.

My Red Cross name tag says "I'm giving the gift of life." So I guess they should put up a sign that reads "All the gifts of life are held within our walls."

Dave Capisano I hardly know him

And now, my text impression of Ted Levine as Captain Stottlemeyer: "Murnk!"

If Arthur Conan Doyle had named his detective a more common name - at least from the perspective of modern USA residents - would that name have become a way to mock someone's lack of knowledge or awareness? Would we have said, "No shit, Shaun"?

I've started selling a scented detergent for use by male German martial arts students. It's called Herr, Your Gi Smells Terrific.

If Olive Oyl married Brad Pitt she'd be Olive Pitt. (I'm pretty sure someone else came up with this joke decades ago but I just thought of it and I'm going to pretend to be the first.)

On my way home, I stopped at Burlington and picked up some candy I'd never seen before but which was marked down. I get home and find that it was already opened. Sigh. Going back tomorrow.

I read this story and for a very brief moment thought about sending it to my dad, but I can't do that no more, can I?

Tonight's flavor of insomnia is the one where you worked on an intensive, repetitive task during the waking hours and now your brain keeps trying to repeat that task.

There's something healing about a picture of a cat with that happy, satisfied look on its face.

Nothing like an evening where your mood moves around like a superball in a paint shaker.

Did you you hear they made a Mandarin-language show about Joey Tribbiani? It was called Ni Hao You Doin'?

Which is worse - being attracted to someone who you can't be with because you're shy and weird or being atttacted to someone who you can't be with because they're out of your age range?

I'm trying to save money on my gas bill, but sometimes I just gotta turn up the heater, even in suburban Los Angeles.

Blurb.

God only knows what I'd be without you... Of course, since there is no "you," everybody else knows too.

“The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest And visit their graves on holidays at best The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them”

Having the traditional Pennsylvania German pork and sauerkraut, but substituting kimchi because why not?

Outlook for the new year ...

I realized that one leg of my bed frame is broken. When I attempted to lift it, I pulled something in my back. However, I did not say "It's go time" beforehand.

In The Big Bang Theory S3E12, in reference to the Glendale Galleria, someone says an event will take place "in the center court near Macy's." But Penney's is in the center court, not Macy's. Factual error!

I bought some rum in anticipation of adding it to some egg nog, but they were all out, so instead I grabbed some Coke and am having one in memory and in honor of Dad.

Thinking back to a Christmas Eve a few years ago when I wound up on a Twitter thread with Steven E. de Souza, the cowriter of Die Hard, trying to convince @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social to watch it for the first time.

It's not my culture, but I had to get some sufganiyot/Hanukkah donuts.

I can manage to see and unsee both perspectives with a little effort. Which is weird because I was never able to see those magic eye posters.

The comments and quote posts on this are…disgusting?? It’s a Hanukkah party? We eat fried foods in Hanukkah because the oil burned for eight days so we use oil to commemorate it is?? This isn’t even lavish it’s just a holiday meal?? Can y’all be normal about Jews?? Fuck Trump and also this ain’t it