Happy 92nd birthday, Tom Baker! 🎁 #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

The mashup I never knew I needed until now www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbe4...

Spent most of this morning recovering from a brief foray outside (to take out garbage - I came back with tingling gloved fingers), Zoom meetings, and an overall chill. Thankfully, using my electric tea kettle to make tea helped a *lot*.

Be sure not to spare any sundials, while you're at it.

Me, logging on and checking the news, every day

Fox reporter in Minneapolis.

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Name your fav film from a woman director

Share a television show that raised you:

Block instantly.

Caring for aging family members can be challenging in many ways—emotionally, physically, and financially. For grandchildren new to caregiving, the learning curve & added responsibilities can be difficult. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/29/grandchildren-as-caregivers-aging-population/

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Me in my DJ booth:

The house from the 1960s DARK SHADOWS has a new owner — an artist who likes to communicate with the dead. He should feel right at home in the sprawling 1920s Newport mansion, which is, of course, haunted. pagesix.com/2026/01/16/l... #DarkShadows #TVSky

If you ever wondered whether St. Louis was a city worthy of monkeys on the loose... Here's a sandwich recipe video that may explain it all. Offered without comment or apology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMzp...

youtu.be/UbkerkzH2SI?... @collinsportgirl.bsky.social @gordondym.bsky.social #DarkShadows #DanCurtis

OHMYGODOHMYGODIT'SMYFAVORITETROUGHTONSTORYSQUEEEE..... Yes, I'm excited about this YouTube debut, why do you ask? #DoctorWho

Sunday's weather is going to be cold and bleak... so obviously, we're holding a virtual #DoctorWho event at 2:00 pm CST. Join us for our Vashta Narada double feature - information via Patreon. Hope to see you there! www.patreon.com/posts/144979...

I love DARK SHADOWS That's it. That's the post.

#thesimpsons #homersimpson

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I say this as a small business owner, whose business would totally grind to a halt under a General Strike. I don't care. There is no real economy under a Nazi regime. They have killed men who look like me and just murdered a woman who looks like a lot of my customers. SHUT IT ALL DOWN.

All of these unions...ALL OF THEM...need to stop doing things. ALL THE THINGS. We don't make shit, ship shit or do shit until all of this ends. Nazis don't care if you're a citizen or a hard worker. They only care that you oppose them and their nazi paymasters. STOP EVERYTHING.

Worth reading.

Today's statement of the obvious

Thankfully, @chipublib.bsky.social allows you to reserve community *and* study rooms online. You can easily search your local branch name, scroll on the "officlal" CPL page, and block off time. (You also can leave a generic reason, such as "independent work" or "neighbor meetup" without details)

In recognition of the passing of cartoonist Scott Adams, here is my archived Chicago Now column involving my interactions with him. I'll just leave this here and let you be the judge. gordondym.wordpress.com/2018/07/05/s...

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Splurged on a day pass to a #coworking space, and it has been an absolute joy... Within two hours, I achieved quite a bit. The free coffee helps.

Without saying Gundam, name a giant robot

Tomorrow I'm planning to visit a #coworking space to get things done...but also field-test my #Linux laptop as a work laptop. Because if it passes, I'm cloning the drive on my Windows Thinkpad as a backup and switching to Linux.

Let's see: I accomplished quite a bit today... so I'm heading out later to treat myself to seeing FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS at @chipublib.bsky.social Budlong branch!

JOIN US! Celebrating 40 years of building tenant power for John Bartlett's retirement. 🗓 Thursday, February 26, 2026 ⏰ 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. 📍National Public Housing Museum (919 S Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607) 🔗 Register: bit.ly/RSVPJohnRetirement

Drop some COATS 🧥 🖤 🥼

Tonight in 1972 — THE NIGHT STALKER debuted on ABC. Produced by #DarkShadows mastermind Dan Curtis, written by Richard Matheson, and directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, this TV movie introduced reporter Carl Kolchak. "Darren McGavin is the guy who truly made Kolchak Kolchak," Curtis said. #FilmSky

I'm just gonna leave this here....

In case you needed clarification...

Boosting the signal

That at most, you had about 10 - 15 workable channels on your television. And that you had two dials - one that gave you clear pictures, and the other you would have to tune in but had static in between channels.

I prefer my beef tallow where it belongs - in shaving soap.

"If I fall delete my browser history," but for Nazis. Wonder what Ross' browser history shows about protestors and immigrants and ..groups

…just not the brave people of the United States.

Waiting to get vaccinated for Hepatitis B (my doctor's recommendation)... Because my health is one of the few things I *can* control in this current hell scape

Periodic reminder: Gen AI only seems cheap/free because the companies that are selling it stole work to train their models. If they'd had to compensate artists, they couldn't have afforded to train the models. OpenAI even admitted this out loud.

Go. Read. Now.

Now that the world is continuing to be an existential garbage fire, I'm managing to crank out a nonfiction project draft. My next #writing projects after this: a #caregiving memoir and several speculative crime novels. Because turning thoughts into words feels very therapeutic right now.

He looks like Abe Lincoln detoxing from heroin after being booted as lead singer of a grunge cover band.

...or, and hear me out... maybe people are checking his work out on YouTube, or checking out his CDs at the library and burning them? (And don't tell me that physical media's dead. I know better)

we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell