I guffawed at the first video, watching the great great granddads of the Jackass crew smearing each other across the field.

I do think Mr. Corgan could've gone with a photo that says "avuncular, tweedy lit professor" versus "high school dean who found you vaping in the stairwell."

Whenever I see someone on Linked In or elsewhere "geeking out" or fanboying over AI, it's like someone cheering about abdicating their humanity. "Isn't this EXCITING? Pretty soon you won't have to do ANYTHING! You won't ever need to think or create or participate or apply your intelligence again!"

From the folks at @secretworldbooks.bsky.social

I'd like to take this moment to announce that I've split with myself over creative differences, and I'll now be pursuing separate projects.

Still proud of this one.

Black American should not be given reparations for hundreds of years of slavery. Here’s why the January 6 rioters should be given reparations for a couple months in jail for committing treason

I caught hell for a dog.

“Devotion” (1946) — a film that gets grief for taking liberties with the lives of the Brontë family, but otherwise is an entertaining, well-made production. Arthur Kennedy, Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland and Nancy Coleman play siblings, nominally based on Branwell, Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë.

Name an American pop musician who didn’t peak in their younger years and continued to grow their whole career.

Two things should be true in a democracy: 1. Being rich should not help you get elected. 2. Getting elected should not help you get rich. How’s your country doing on these criteria?

Quitters never win. But quitters also never quit quitting.

Cover by Jack Binder.

Sam Sianis, the longtime owner and patriarch of the legendary Billy Goat Tavern, has died. He was 91. blockclubchi.co/4dd1iDN

I may have hit a wall with posting here. I'm not sure what's worth sharing anymore.

Snoo? What's snoo?

I'm reminded of the words of Ellen Ripley: "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Christopher Hitchens died 15 years ago. I don’t think I’ve heard his name brought up by anyone since.

Why does Hitler look so pleased?

I may have to sit down and watch Repo Man with the kids. So they'll understand their old man a little more.

Imagine spending your entire life knowing what your obituary would say.

My office is a walk-in closet, about 5'x8'. I have a framed copy of the cover of The Dunwich Horror and Others, which has an author photo of Lovecraft, hanging behind me. I always take it down before I interview someone by Zoom, so as to avoid the inevitable question "Who...is that?"

I once made a comment on LiveJournal about southern white republicans being racist, and a southern-based "punk" republican person got mad and said I was being prejudiced against southerners. Nah. And I think the latest rush to take the vote away from southern Black people proves my point.

Paul McCrane! Who has possibly died more horribly on-screen than any other actor, living or dead!

If you see this, post a STAR TREK

We’re kinda reaching the point where they’re saying, “We won’t stop until you stop us for good.”

Once I kissed my wife and gave her a static shock, causing her to yell, “AHHHHHH!!! WIRE MOTHER!!!”

Skimming my old journals, and realizing I'm a completely different person now. Words of advice for young people: it happens.

Ladies... @dicknixon.bsky.social

Richard Cory didn’t kill himself.

It's my son's last day of high school today, and I can honestly say...I don't understand why people think "it all goes by so fast." It felt like 18 years, and if he DIDN'T grow up, that would be creepy.

Rewatching The X-Files and now it looks as dated as The Night Stalker.

Did you ever see any parson a wearing mourning for the devil?

Half of the folks I follow here have been friends since the LiveJournal days.

Been saying this for years… it gets especially gross with “leftists” who let slip that some folks are just naturally inferior. I’m thinking of one particular ex-teacher right now.

Meet George Jetson. In five minutes he will die.

Please remember that George W. Bush knew what he was getting when he appointed Racist McHateful to be chief justice of the Supreme Court.

RIP, Joe Sedelmaier. The ad man who came up with the fast-talking Fed Ex man and discovered Clara “Where’s the beef?” Peller.

“…for his dollies!”

The obsession with pushing fertility while making it more difficult to afford to have children is THE best example of Republican cognitive dissonance.

William James, philosopher, father of American psychology, and 1865 hipster.

Slightly increase a band. Toms Waits

And now, a rerun: HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Digging up the overgrown flagstone. I am very popular with the local robins.

RIP Kôji Suzuki