The IEP planning and special education programs currently under attack by conservatives are a hell of a lot more effective in helping kids than the Tylenol distraction sh#tshow they're putting on. The worse part is they know it's a distraction. Look over here while we demolish education!

I have to wait till Tuesday till the world ends? Frig!

Callahan's Crosstime Minibar

Watching the 1st ep of this year's GBBO and I have thoughts... #gbbo

Kinda low key fascinated (obsessed) with the 'Paper Moon' lyric in this song, it's an older term that briefly came back into vogue with the movie of the same name in the early 70s... Can't recall it being used recently, could be fun to play with.

I watched the documentary "Devo" on Netflix and I'm wondering if the band got final say on the film name. "Nothing cute, no puns, just 'Devo'". I would have gone with Devo-tion myself.

Waiting for the demand on the obvious to everyone but the biggest gaming platforms on the planet to subside a bit so I can download and install Silksong for my son. (Me too, but he's a Hollow Knight mega fan)

2nd kid returned to school today, the novelty has worn off. (still hilariously glad, of course, just don't have the same manic energy this morning. the gloomy weather may be a factor.)

Inspired by @ownsongkaraoke.bsky.social run by pop music critic extraordinaire @shadowtodd.bsky.social, here's some music video genres I've seen pop up over the years with examples...

Probably a good thing I haven't mastered video editing otherwise I'd be tempted to do fan edits of KPop Demon Hunter to Babymetal songs.

Feeling cute, may start a music video thread later.

First day of my son's school, and I am up earlier than I've been all summer and AWAKE! I expect to crash sometime soo...

If the 2pm announcement is a reboot of The Apprentice, I'm going to be pissed.

I know this one doesn't take place in Miami, but I gotta say that Dexter is getting pretty lazy this season.

I swear that Microsoft's spelling checker has gotten worse since it started putting AI in everything.

I want to read a series where the Kents and Els co-parent Clark Kent during his middle and high school years over the Kryptonian equivalent of Zoom.

@govevers.wisconsin.gov It'd be nice if we could partner with Illinois and other Midwestern states on this and other things as a regional powerhouse until the federal government returns to something resembling sanity.

With the amount of grief we've caused other countries, I'm surprised their leaders aren't taking turns calling the White House and asking to speak to Trump about random shit.

Costco Family Dinner Tip: If you get a lot of stuff besides the pizza, grab one of the smaller boxes they make available for customers nearby, and use that for the non-pizza stuff like salad and hot dogs. Much easier than balancing everything on top of the pizza box hoping nothing falls over.

Redneck engineering at its finest. Honestly, I was THIS CLOSE to using duct tape...

Tonight's adventure in 3D printing, kitty cat sewing buttons and a spacer for stacking different shaped (ramen) bowls together...

"We wouldn't have a nursing shortage if young people weren't afraid of work!" ..... (/sarcasm if this understandably angers you to the point you don't notice the quotes right away)

I've said this before, but AI support is almost understandable for free or cheap services. If you pay a premium and get AI support when something goes wrong, it's time to look for a new company.

James Gunn's original casting for Guy Gardner.

They're releasing the sequel to Hollow Knight (Silksong) the day AFTER school starts? Timing could be better, but still breaking my own rule to get it on release day.

If you had a chance to talk to a celebrity about a shared interest that wasn't directly related to their career, who and what would it be? I'll start - Steve Martin and Cyrano De Bergerac.

Welcome to my new comedy special, a Rich Little homage called "Ask Your Granddad". Impersonations include Howard Cosell, Jerry Seinfeld, Henry Kissinger, and Bobcat Goldthwait.

What gif pops up when you type your name? (OK, it was the 3rd one down, but it fit the best)

Slightly diminish a band: Oinko Boinko

My faith in the economy has collapsed to the point I buttered our corn on the cob with a chunk of butter on a fork instead of using the hot cobs on the whole stick.

Morning mental cleanse.

If celebrity deaths come in threes, why not celebrity romances? This year we've seen Martin Short and Liam Neeson find love again, it'd be awesome if Rick Moranis made it a hat trick. (Or not if Rick is content and at peace, he's awesome and owes the world NOTHING)

Are prison outlet stores a thing yet? Like, outlet stores for not-quite-perfect license plates, shoes, and furniture made in prison? It seems like it'd make a great setting for an offbeat dystopian novel and also just a matter of time.

Homework? But I just had breakfast. :P The slower more trippy songs aren't my thing, but they bring the cheery nihilism I love on their single "head empty blues" on their album Pink Balloons. Great energy, they're on Bandcamp, check them out! ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/pink-b...

I don't know anything about this band, but they were looking for shares to help them out and they asked if I'd had breakfast yet and I appreciate the lookout so here you go.

If Spotify / etc is truly using AI to determine age, I can't imagine I'll get "carded" because my entire online history screams Gen X. That said, there isn't a chance in hell I'm giving them my ID or setting up a biometric profile for their cr@ppy services. (Here included even though I'll miss it)

If you don't have salt water handy when you're washing your cybertruck, do a vigorous dry rub with kosher salt (IMPORTANT! You don't want to use salt with iodine) and wipe with lemon juice before a final rinse with distilled water.

May just be me, but the chorus hits hard when viewed through social media and the current divided times. But I can't stand up and I can't sit down 'Cause the great big problem stopped me in my tracks I can't relax 'cause I haven't done a thing And I can't do a thing 'cause I can't relax

Congrats on the single and albums!

Movie Prediction #867 - Eventually there'll be a comedy movie like Spinal Tap or Airheads, but with an 80s all female band like Vixen or the Go-Go's. With luck it'll be f'ing hilarious.

Not a believer, and the concept of hell as eternal punishment without redemption for crimes big and small has always been a big part of that. So while the whole "Ozzy's partying in hell" is understandable from the viewpoint of his persona and rebellion in general, it feels wrong.

That famous photo of Ozzy hoisting Randy Rhoads into the air has surely crossed your feed this week—and for good reason! It's awesome. Chicago photographer Paul Natkin took it in 1982. You can learn more about Paul (in his own words) from this 2022 interview. chicagoreader.com/music/paul-n...

Nothing like a visit to the dentist to make you feel like a crappy parent.

Our local FB garage sale group is a graveyard of poor unopened purchasing decisions.

My favorite thing in the world is making my kids and wife laugh and I just wrote an email to my daughter at camp where I riffed on corn sweat and labradoodles and now I'm sad because she isn't here to laugh at it.

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Random Digression #674 - I don't currently have words to properly frame why this is such a powerful clip, only to say that most fiction does self-sacrifice a horrible injustice by shrugging it off as a casual expectation or offhanded joke. youtu.be/NzJaQtZty5M?...

So it looks like "my last show isn't till next May" is going to be a running gag on Colbert's show, and can I please suggest that they have the Foo Fighters on who start to play Everlong, and then immediately proceed to The Pretender when corrected. youtu.be/SBjQ9tuuTJQ?...

Random Thought #279: A Flash villain named Oobleck with a liquid non-Newtonian slime-like coating with limited control (not Venom level, but can be directed to envelop victims.)