Geoffrey Keezer quoting My Favorite Things during his solo break on Caravan — that's the way it's done, baby.

Does listening to an hour of hammered dulcimer music make you want to get hammered yourself?

It ain't Christmas without Dave and his turkey.

Playing chess online. Capture opponent's queen. Their next move is to offer a draw.

All biographies of Russell Wilson should note that, despite being named for two sporting goods companies, he never scored an endorsement deal with either of them.

We've got the circuses. Still working on the bread. Perhaps if we got the long-awaited Musk vs. Zuckerberg cage match...

YouTube now is polluted with ads for "one weird trick" to cure anything from diabetes to asthma to Alzheimer's. One such ad uses video of Ben Carson at a podium, along with a deepfake of his voice, to make it look like he endorses the weird trick. Will Ben sue, or is he really that dumb?

Keith Frank is a zydeco accordionist. I didn't think zydeco was a genre where one encountered parental advisory labels frequently — particularly since, if you want to cuss, you have the option of doing it in French. Perhaps when I listen to zydeco I should pay more attention.

The most terrifying thing to hit my email today.

Saw this online - making fun of the fifa Trump Peace Prize mess

I told le fils the pardon was most likely a tit-for-tat by the fuhrer, and indeed it was. He expected Cuellar to owe him one. Problem is, he never told Cuellar!

Kudos to Bill Radke at KUOW for kicking off "Year in Review" by re-enacting Dave Niehaus's call of The Double. Well done EXCEPT FOR ONE THING. The score was *NOT* tied. The Mariners were down 5-4. Cora was the tying run. Griffey was the winning run.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Wait, the Mariners traded Harry Ford for this guy?

What the story doesn't mention is that the blingtastic violin was completed three years ago and has been sitting without a buyer ever since. I'm guessing people who have 5.8 million euro to spend on a violin probably want something by an old master.

can i just say, if what feels like the inevitable happens re: a certain vice president's marriage converting to catholicism and almost immediately having to stare down a divorce? hilarious shit. great job.

Holy cow. An *ordinary* "Stumpf fiddle" is enough of an abomination. But an ELECTRIC one?

Oh no. @mecrowley.bsky.social and I had tickets to see Crop in concert, but the show was canceled.

Once in a while I'll wonder about one of the spooky short stories I liked to read as a kid, mostly in those Alfred Hitchcock anthologies, although if I'm not mistaken this one was in Reader's Digest.

Perhaps the fog of war is related to the Tullamore Dew.

WOW

The more I listen to Shemekiah Copeland, the more reasons there are to keep listening.

Bears and Patriots? Is it 1985 all over again?

Costco wants a refund if tariffs are repealed. Would any of said refund be passed along to consumers?

If the strikes on suspected drug boats become normalized... Eventually there will be strikes on refugee boats. There will be strikes on people walking down the street suspected of drug possession. Duterte did this, and now he's in The Hague.

I know you're Canadian ... but you still need to sue this idiot for intellectual property violations.

There was much scrutiny of Kegsbreath's personal shortcomings during his confirmation hearings. How much scrutiny was given to his philosophy? Contempt for rules of engagement, obsession with lethality — he wrote books about that stuff. What's happening now was entirely predictable.

The CD spine read GREAT DIVORCE SONGS FOR HIM. Thought it was a gospel album by a band named for a C.S. Lewis novel. Then I looked closer.

I had been thinking about trying the Fried Liver Attack, just for fun. But someone tried it on me first.

The ultimate clickbait headline? It made me click, anyhow.

I'd watch that film...

#OnThisDayInHistory, William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway in 1582. She looks amazing, what's her skin routine?!

What keeps THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL from being great is the unwatchable "Marleys" sequence. It should be ghostly, but it's ghastly. Marley should never be played for laughs.

I don't disagree, but good luck making this happen. Kegsbreath actually published a book about, among other things, how he thinks the Geneva Convention and rules of engagement are for wussies. Anyone who didn't see this coming is blind. He might be impeached, but he won't resign.

It's fun to see Basil Rathbone as Scrooge, but operatic baritone Robert Weede as Marley steals the show. As an actor he's no Frank Finlay (the best screen Marley), but he has something Finlay didn't: a song. Lyrics a bit cheesy by today's standards, but Weede absolutely sells it. Incredible.

He is risen

Well, there's an interesting take. I don't support these Guard deployments, but the troops themselves are hardly the ones to blame. They're only pawns in the game.

Elevated political discourse from Elvin Bishop.

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

The famous Sergio Leone films may be the best spaghetti Westerns, but they're hardly the only ones. Bought this box set at the thrift store because it doesn't have any of those films in it.

DUCK SOUP and THE GREAT DICTATOR are deservingly placed. WAITING FOR THE NAKED GUNFFMAN are not. FARGO isn't even a comedy.

I don't know about you, but I've had to sleep overnight in an airport terminal. Until you can guarantee that it'll never happen again, don't tell me not to wear pajamas.

Boris Karloff (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969)

Regulate AI? Hell, it should be illegal.

I didn't realize that Philip K. Dick's Precrime Unit was part of ICE.

Stupid AI doesn't know orcas are bigger than great whites.