back at work and have a million emails waiting... what if I let them wait another day. what are they gonna do, email me about it

He's been like this for the last hour

I hope that Ving Rhames got paid extremely well for his part in this Mission Impossible movie, where his role is "wears a hat, sits in a chair, and leans forward conspiratorially"

Sometimes I can summon a warm and comforting glow by remembering instances of revenge that I have successfully carried out

Security at O'Hare is really not sweating it today

The situation has escalated

I basically can't get away from oral history. I promise I'm not going out of my way to find this kind of stuff

Itadakimasu

Watched the first episode of CITY last night and I want to watch it again now

Last morning in my home town. Time moves so slowly here. It takes so long for 10 minutes to pass -- no way to measure it, but my estimate is around an hour of subjective time per 10 minutes of clock time

I'm the misery whips

Update on the oaf... Oafdate

Ah ha ha ha ha "Salary range: $250"

I can't say that nothing interesting ever happens here... When I was in junior high, the great grandson of the embezzlement governor was kidnapped and buried alive

I do not respect Roger Ebert

I remember sitting in a metal folding chair at a performance of the Kankakee Symphony Orchestra and seeing that every chair in the rows ahead of me had PROPERTY OF KKK PARKS DEPARTMENT stencilled on the back. Because that was the municipal abbreviation you see

I hate it here

On the road for a couple more days... Homesick for this oaf

Here's what I got for $35. Maybe I'll regret reading Dazai right now but I didn't want to get any manga that I've already read, or that I've seen the anime of, and I didn't want to make myself crazy again by buying something in Japanese, a language I cannot read

Melting down in the Mitsuwa Marketplace food court. Furuhata Ninzaburo please come arrest me now

It sucks to go through every day behaving as if you're in a fight for your life and one false move might cost you your income and insurance, but it also sucks to get fired for regramming someone else's Instagram post

Starting five days of stressful family travel right now... So kind of the universe to give me something else to stress about for the long weekend

What are some ways that you can screw up an oral history... here are ten examples

This review of the new Neko Case album seems to take place entirely in the reviewer's imagination

Sure why the hell not

another loose thought, and this is pretty far away from anything Dave was discussing, but I believe a whole generation of writers were steered in a misleading direction by reading "The Problem With Music" at a formative age -- I guess I read it when I was around 20 years old

This is great and you don't need to read the earlier installments in the series to fully appreciate this essay. It's dislodged a few things that were rattling around in my brain, not sure how relevant they are but let me type them out and see

Good morning everybody

Sunday night meditations

Another post that will live in my head forever

Post that I just remembered, was it only 5 months ago? Thanks Dave for making me aware of Lia Lia

e-commerce report: every record by the Chills that I've ever tried to sell on Discogs, someone contacts me about it and tries to get me to sell it to them off-platform and at a discount. what is it about this band that invites hagglers?

excuse me. excuse me, sir. put that away please

It's hard to believe this, but it's been more than ten years since the Athens Piggly Wiggly Ruckus

Sorry I had to delete a thread. I got mad about stuff and now I'm even madder

looks like me in 1991 but I had worse posture and it was a Dinosaur Jr shirt. hey buddy, a word of advice, those shoes are really bad for your feet, go get some New Balance or Saucony for walking around in

some of y'all haven't listened to "Disappointed" by PiL or "Medicine Show" by Big Audio Dynamite in, like, 30 years... and it shows

Got my flu shot yesterday and that's probably part of why I'm feeling a little down today

logging out

My brain is fried from trying to do actual work so I'm going to take a couple of minutes to log the week's e-commerce

I bet Brian Eno lost his shit the first time he ate at a Buca di Beppo

I am just remembering that in the movie Slacker there's graffiti in the background of a scene that says IF YOU DON'T LIKE NYC DON'T GO -- sure wish I could find a still of that scene but I guess I could torrent the movie later and go looking for it. Anyway, if you don't like NYC don't go

I spend a fair amount of time watching the moves of US college-and-university accrediting bodies, and I have been shocked and horrified at the moves taken by MSCHE, the second-largest and most craven of the big six formerly-regional accreditors

I'm holding my spreadsheets close to my heart today! I've got my spreadsheets to keep me warm

I think the best bathroom graffiti I've ever personally seen was upstairs at the bar in Transmetropolitan, Athens GA circa 2009: Y'ALL DON'T SEEM READY FOR VERY MUCH FOOTBALL

Look, I'm just going to say it. That's too many novels

A bug in a mug... When you say it out loud it sounds like a cute storybook, but actually it's the thing that gave me an unpleasant surprise when making coffee this morning

E-commerce report: NMH - On Avery Island LP, $30 Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist LP, $40 Flying Saucer Attack - FSA LP, $60

So far today I've been copied on non-urgent emails from three different coworkers. The library is open on Saturdays but none of the people who sent these emails are on the calendar for today

I deleted a tweet because it was phrased misleadingly but I did want to let @debianxfce.bsky.social know that I saw a pristine 80s TownAce dump truck in the ATL suburbs today