good evening from ATL’s best restroom

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it’s Day 739 of the holidaze and we’re surviving

I’ve been thinking about this since I read it.

oh hello it’s your dad austie here with a review of ZOOTOPIA 2: a little slow in the first act and a little flabby over all, but also pretty fun and absolutely packed full of ridiculous wordplay and jokes, including a hungry hungry hippos bit i’m convinced was the entire reason for two characters

one of those moments where letting the kid entertain herself feels illegal

Eric did a great job. 🍺 📈 Now it’s your turn. 🍺 🫵 Follow the directions here: airportbeer.selfhelpartpublishingempire.com

if you drive impatiently behind me i’m going to slow down and that’s a promise 💅

temperatures in the 70s in georgia in december is a buncha goddamn fucking horseshit

lounging on a loveseat in my parents’ sun room in rural illinois after everyone else in the house has gone to bed on christmas night playing MJ Lenderman on youtube on a weird little tv hanging up in the upper corner of the room just to feel something

After waking up this morning in one set of pajamas, and changing into different pajamas, it is finally time to slip into a third set of pajamas. This, to me, is Christmas 🎄

In total agreement with Austie and here is some proof: From the Air France Lounge in Chicago in 2013. We call them “vacation beers.”

don’t worry, we knocked out the traditional christmas tree climb

rewatching the church scene in HOME ALONE with Kevin and Old Man Marley on christmas eve >>>>>>

behold: midwestern excellence

time to check in on dad’s basement bourbon stash 🥃

“Did you make eye contact with a bartender? Perfect. Talk to them. Ask about the beer. ‘How much of it can you give me?’ you might say. They might respond, ‘We have beers available in portions of 10 ounces, 16 ounces, and 49 ounces.’ Go with the biggest one they’ll give you.”

🚨 the 8yo has learned to drive the side-by-side i repeat the 8yo has learned to drive the side-by-side 🚨

on the farm with my parents for the holiday and don’t worry it’s SUPER chill and there are no expectations or pressure whatsoever

overhead a dad telling his kid “we’re about to get on a plane and i’m gonna sit next to you and we’re gonna play!” and the kid responded “no! why?” and i felt that with my entire body, good luck up there, dad

Airports are liminal spaces where everything is expensive and time doesn’t exist. Get yourself some cheez-its, peanut butter M&Ms, and the largest beer you can find. I support this airport management practice.

shoutout to southside park imho

told the 8yo we could watch a few minutes of NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION before he went to bed even though it was probably too old for him and that turned into 45 mins of his face looking like this the whole time goddamn movies are magic

a good sunday about to become a great sunday tbh

sounds great man let’s do it

TFW i look at the floor in my home after a bunch of children have been enjoying bagels

The only AI I am interested in is large AIrport beer

look at god

I miss Creative Loafing.

I hadn't seen a photo of Gavin Newsom in a while and forgot how much be looks like when the Joker disguises himself as a regular guy so he can go through airport security

This is peer reviewed

watching KPOP DEMON HUNTERS with my children for maybe the 11th time in what is now possibly a holiday (???) tradition or at least more generally a thing that cannot be compartmentalized to any one particular time of year

Did you know that for two centuries, noncitizen American men in every state participated in elections? That was, until women and Black and Brown folk began demanding their right to vote, of course. That and a lot more, in my essay for @austinlouisray.bsky.social's How I'd Fix Atlanta: (🧵)

Words to live by. 🍻

thinking about this as i pay a guy hundreds of dollars to fix a shower head smh

welcome home to your parents’ house, the channels are Yellowstone, masterpiece mystery, and Jimmy fallon, btw someone from your high school died in a real weird way

How would @alexip718.com fix Atlanta? Immigrants pay taxes, work hard, send their kids to public schools, and build better futures for their communities. It's time to let them vote in local elections as well. how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-alex-ip-...

my goodness there are SO MANY things you could be doing with your one precious life that aren't watching that fucking ghoul of a man talking on television and i urge you to embrace some of them this evening for your sanity if nothing else

Here's the stick library for dogs my neighbors installed yesterday. 🐶

personally i think i've done more than enough work in 2025 and should be allowed to not do any more work until 2026 just one man's opinion tho

"Samuel F.B. Morse was an uncreative hack, a crybaby with an enormous sense of entitlement, a freeloader, a pathetic fame seeker who coasted on the achievements of others, a backstabbing traitor who shut out his most loyal ally, and a fraud." www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyB...

We have all known the rules, but now we have more documentation.

🔧 folks!!! 🍑 we're publishing the Season Four finale of How I'd Fix Atlanta on thursday @alexip718.com wrote an excellent piece that's a fitting end to this season imho sign up here so you don't miss it: how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.

"Happy kids aren’t all sunshine and rainbows. Oftentimes, happy kids present a lot more like real pains in the ass." www.theringer.com/2025/12/16/p...

hey @ossoff.senate.gov and @warnock.senate.gov what the fuck

I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"