40 years ago right about now, I used the open lunch period at high school to walk over to Don and Bob to get my usual hot dog and coke. They had WEZO playing on the speakers, and it was unusual to hear the music stop and a newscast come on. I was a space geek born at the wrong time. 1/

The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.

Unlike our paper here, or the Buffalo News to our west.

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

There has to be a point where the people with the power to stop this finally take action. Right? Right?

Your regular reminder that @morelle.house.gov has never explained, defended or apologized for his yes vote for the Laken Riley Act.

My Official Thoughts on The State of The Buffalo Bills:

Show me a politician with the courage to actually meet this moment and I will follow them to the ends of the earth. But instead I am stuck with Chuck and Kirsten and @morelle.house.gov and Bello and...

My online store is now live! Check it out for stickers, prints, posters, and buttons featuring my #art! I've got synthwave/retrowave, Star Wars, D&D, fighter jet/Ace Combat, and more! patrickkingart.com/shop/

From the banks of the Genesee...

“Sometimes the stakes are bogus Sometimes the fast lane hits a fork Sometimes Southern California wants to be Western New York..:” -Dar Williams Sometimes the Bills aren’t cursed🦬

Released 50 years ago. It had only been out in the world a dozen years when I first heard it in college, but it already felt entirely timeless. Still does.

The president of the United States is a madman, and the Republican Party is helping him destroy our country.

“That’s one hell of an act you’ve got there. What do you call it?” “The Kakistocrats!”

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

I was in an actual play at the end of this year for the first time since summer camp 40+ years ago, and I want to keep doing community theater without waiting again until I am in my 90s!

The idea that we should be happy all the time, and that if we're not happy there is something wrong with us, is arguably one of the worst ideas propagated by the late 20th century. Maybe unhappiness is a rational and healthy response to whatever situation you're presently in.

I will also not be bringing my one-man show, "Chester A. Arthur: The Dream of the (18)80s is Alive in Manhattan," to the Kennedy Center while this is all going on.

AAAAAAAAAAAUGGGHHHGGHHH #bills

I love Takei but this is not accurate. Let's take a dive into what actually happened. 1. Commercial TV networks in Canada such as Global, CTV and City make most of their $ by licensing US TV shows for rebroadcast. They *must* broadcast exactly the same content the US networks are carrying...

Pour one out for Jim Moylan

A WWII holiday card from Janet and Ed Murrow in London…

Also, don't let any Grinch try to tell you that nostalgia is somehow unhealthy or unproductive. I am telling you as a licensed therapist that it is incredibly powerful. It is an anchor, a reminder that you have experiences and sensory memories of comfort and purpose that can never be taken away

It's a particularly tough end to the year right now.

Better at bigoted grifting than swimming

This is it, #ROC - last chance to see the funny, sweet, thoughtful "Charles Darwin's Christmas Carol" and "Flora," today at 2 at MuCCC! I've had so much fun doing this show, and I hope you can share in the fun before we close.

OPENING NIGHT! Whatever chaos the world threw at us, "Charles Darwin's Christmas Carol" and "Flora" had their premiere and it was a hoot, even with my goofy Chester A. Arthur facial hair going on. 3 more shows! Come see us this weekend, #ROC! www.muccc.org/events/charl...

Opening night jitters are done - first show went great!! Come out and see us tomorrow night, Saturday night or Sunday afternoon!

A responsible headline for a story like this would read, "Administration Attempts To Change Kennedy Center Name." Followed later by a story about how and why the attempt failed.

Koyaanisqatsgrinch

It's almost showtime, #ROC friends! "Charles Darwin's Christmas Carol" opens Thursday night at MuCCC and runs through Sunday, with me as a Darwin who needs to be dragged through time to be persuaded to publish, and @lisafybush.bsky.social as Emma, my wife and first cousin. Come see us!

On the plus side, the audience for NewsNation on a Sunday night can probably be counted on one hand.

But at least they're doing it without my $. I haven't missed most of their content since I let my subscription lapse last year. At least the local public radio talk show (you still here, @evandawson1.bsky.social?) seems not to use those hot takes as cheap fodder to fill airtime as much these days.

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

You're going to be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find out that @morelle.house.gov voted for this shit sandwich of a bill.

When the print run is gone, that's it - so if you have that one weird friend you need to buy for, order now!

We hope this makes you happy, Carol.

I am descended from Eastern European Jewish immigrants who were the underclass of Brooklyn and Buffalo in the 19th century. Whatever was said about them then and what's being said about the Somalis now is all the same, and it's as wrong now as it was then.

How do you exist in 21st century America and NOT become radicalized by how far we have fallen from what we once thought were our ideals and values?

This is how things work in my town of Brighton, NY, too. Even with at least one town council member who loudly proclaims herself to be a supporter of bike and pedestrian options.

FYI this is an immediate block. You’re under no obligation to pay for my or anyone else’s work, but you won’t come onto my feed to complain about us earning a living.

For my very first NFL game ever, and my only one at the current #Bills stadium, I couldn't have picked a more exciting Sunday. I expect to have feeling back in my extremities by early 2026. 🥶 #mvp #shout #JoshAllen

Rochester/WNY friends: come see me and @lisafybush.bsky.social and some very talented friends in "Charles Darwin's Christmas Carol" Dec. 18-21! I play Darwin and she's my wife/first cousin Emma. It's a very funny, very smart play, part of a pair of one-acts. www.muccc.org/events/charl...

It's time to talk to you about my cat.

The creative you saw/experienced/listened to 100% knows everything they fucked up, didn't get right, or totally whiffed on. Telling them that you enjoyed what they did anyway, especially now, can be the difference between them quitting forever because of all that and keeping going. Please tell us!

@paranoiacs.bsky.social "In the final estimation, in the final accounting, God have mercy on the man who believes what he's been doubting." RIP Steve Cropper youtu.be/AEoBykM8aIc?...

A few bucks to Wikipedia is a finger in Elon Musk's eye.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

If you're a political junkie and you're not laser focused on TN-7 and @aftynbehn.bsky.social right now, what are you even doing?