I dusted off my blog after almost ten years, because what I had to say was too long for a post. 💙

Some therapist is going to be able to make an entire career out of working with Altman's kid.

The best thing all of us who loved Raul and the Mavericks can do to honor his legacy is introduce his music to someone who would also love him. ❤️

The world has lost one its most gifted, talented and beautiful souls. It's hard to form words. Rest in serene peace, Raul Malo. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the gifts of your music and your wisdom. This picture was taken in late June 1994, during my tenure at a WI radio station.

I am too heartbroken to share coherent thoughts right now. May you rest in everlasting peace, our beloved Maestro. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

the people ripping out their hair over "Somali Fraud" do not bat an eye at MPD being $19 million over budget, because their so called values are as fraudulent as the schemes themselves

I wrote what I could about two very emotional concerts in honor of The Mavericks' Raul Malo over the weekend. Dancing the Night(s) Away with the Mavericks and Friends elvisatedynamite.com/2025/12/08/d...

Whoa … this is really strange. Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone. 🎁 link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

Did the Department of Obvious Obviousness write this headline?

Mark Kelly: "They are not silencing me. I'm still speaking out. I still am going to do my job every single day regardless of whether this president wants to kill me, hang me, execute me, or shut me up. I'm not gonna shut up."

I am 59 years old, and I have spent all of my Christmases with this fella. It's our 60th Christmas together.

Tomorrow night TCM "Kid Fans" kicks off with an airing of CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) Join the watch-party at 8pE tomorrow night. #TCMParty ^JW

The fabulous Jimmie Vaughan onstage with the Mavericks at the Raul Malo tribute show last night at the Ryman in Nashville. @dave-von-ebers.bsky.social @legostig.bsky.social

I receive the first ever Sasquatch Peace Prize today!

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

I can't stop laughing 😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂

Holy 4th amendment violation!

A 1964 ad for RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER — which is back on NBC tonight 8pm ET. The Rankin/Bass classic debuted on THE GENERAL ELECTRIC FANTASY HOUR — and the characters appeared in ads for G.E. products. Watch the original commercials on YouTube: youtu.be/4PJHPvm1cOw?... #Animation

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is

A "FIFA Peace Prize" is tantamount to getting an "AutoZone Best Actor in a Dramatic Play" award. And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

Hegseth meanwhile.

“What have I done!” 🤡

Enjoying a Tom & Jerry now. I made them for my sister and me with generous amounts of spiced rum and brandy.

Imagine being 22, having undergone childbirth and major surgery and everything else leading up to it, your newborn is in intensive care, and you are a female victim of violent crime who has done all you can and were asked to do. And then you get kidnapped illegally & they abandon your baby.

Finding Your Light: Creative Techniques for Outdoor Photographers Free webinar tomorrow live on Substack! Details inside.

I assume this restaurant is adjacent to Oberlin College, which sounds like the location of a National Lampoon movie. Fun fact: Oberlin College is a VERY progressive school that accepted both women and Black students in the 1830s Varsity Restaurant and Soda Grill Oberlin, OH 1920s #VintageMenus

WALZ: “.. Donald Trump’s calling our Somali neighbors ‘garbage’ and calling the state of Minnesota a ‘hellhole’. I’m assuming it’s unprecedented for a United States President. .. We’ve got little children going to school today, their president called them ‘garbage’.”

T**mp can keep the name of my state and my hard-working immigrant neighbors out of his filthy mouth.

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

Can someone ask him who pardoned J6 attackers??

I have been informed that #Dateline is the podcast I listened to the most in 2025. I wonder if @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social knows about this.

It’s Time To Goofercise 🏃🏻

Exactly 💯

lotta talk about the double tap as being a bridge too far, and it's awful, but let's please not lose sight of the fact that the first strike on any boat was murder. even if they were running drugs, which is still not proven, that's not an act of war. there's no imminent threat to Americans.

What a sick joke. Will they put photos of the murders in the Caribbean Sea in the lobby? How about a photo of Trump clapping as the murderer Putin arrives in Alaska? Or Trump having the time of his life with the murdering Saudi Prince MBS? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

while making some tea i remembered a substitute Physics teacher we had at school for a bit who'd end every lesson with a general "do you have any questions?" segment and one person asked why when you forget to boil a kettle you can tell by the sound because hot and cold water sound different

Four Christmas movies to know me by:

Yogi was such a breakout star on Huckleberry Hound’s show he not only got his own show, but his own cereal, Kellogg’s OKs (their rip off of General Mills’s Cheerios). #TCMParty #HeyThereItsYogiBear

“Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” Carpenter said in a post on X.

"They're gonna lose their pardons" -- Comer was on Fox today pretending that Trump's unhinged social media posts about Biden's pardons somehow have legal validity

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

I was thinking about how hard it is to treat addiction because the addicts need for more and more of the drug to get the same high. Wonder if that's true for someone addicted to the adrenaline they get from using power against perceived enemies. Every day.

You know a politician is about to not answer a question directly when their response begins with "Look"

Sleepy Don Trump

"DetErReNCe hAs tO mATteR" The lawyer has to matter, Pete. The law.

The president is lying through his teeth about Minnesota and the Somali population here. Somalis "contribute nothing"? Enormous lie. Somalis are "garbage"? Inhumane, inexcusable slur and also a lie. Hands off Minnesota, you lying liar.