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  • June 01, 2024

    June 1, 2024

    Click on the date (either one) to see the entire post. Everything about this website has been completely wiped out and I’m starting from scratch. I kind of did this recently, but it was a little half-assed. I saved some old posts to put back up and I used my old logo image, re-created the…

  • Nathan in Landman

    August 31, 2025

    I think Billy Bob’s put-upon lawyer roommate is my favorite supporting character in a series of the last year. Specifically, when Billy Bob’ daughter first comes to visit. The writer and/or the actor just nailed that prudish, country boy attitude and added a dash of humor. It works so well.

  • Maisie: The Life and Death of a Stray Cat

    August 20, 2025

    Maisie started coming around the farm in 2019 or 2020. She was scrawny and underfed. Erin and I met her on a trip up to see my folks. We were working in Dallas at the time. She birthed a litter of kittens under the front porch. I remember Mom telling me about it when we…

  • The Loneliness Epidemic

    August 10, 2025

    I was listening to a podcast of Dr. Phil on Dave Rubin’s show while I was shopping earlier. If you follow Dave, you know that he’s in the middle of his “Off the Grid August”, but he pre-records segments for his team to air. Dr. Phil was talking about the loneliness epidemic. He basically said,…

  • The Birds

    August 10, 2025

    I had to go into town this morning.  I was about a mile from the house, turning onto the main road when the largest flock of birds I have ever seen took to the sky. They were in the pasture to the right of the road. I think that’s the Goodmans’ farm, but I’m not…

  • Power On

    August 8, 2025

    When I turn on my earbuds, a little recorded voice says, “Power On”. I can interpret that as the device telling me that now it has been turned on. I prefer to think that it’s a double entendre and my earbuds are no turned on, but they’re also encouraging me to power on, in spite…

  • Listen to the Ground

    August 2, 2025

    Night Fever by The Bee Gees has been in my playlist for the last couple of weeks. I am still a Ride or Die Goth guy and More Punk Rock Than Thou, and am going to pretend there is no contradiction between these facts and The Bee Gees, dig? The first verse of Night Fever…

  • Convincing AI of the Existence of God

    July 28, 2025

    He’s not the first person I’ve seen do it, but he does a good job of it. I tried to watch some of his other videos, but I didn’t like them as much. I just can’t get behind the idea that the Earth is 6000 years old. I understand how they’re coming to that conclusion,…

  • Istanbul (Not Constantinople) – Not the Version You’re Expecting.

    July 24, 2025

  • Warrior Princess Dream Girl

    July 24, 2025

    What the hell was the guy thinking running off? If I were 20 years younger and that were my first date, I’d be considering a proposing, right there in the coffee shop. Assuming I could refrain from swooning long enough to get the words out. Guys, if a woman shows up armed, armored and ready…

  • They Might Be Tubthumping

    July 24, 2025

    Completely by accident, I came across a video of They Might Be Giants covering Chumbawamba’s Tubthumping, accompanied by The AV Club Chorus. I don’t know which AV Club the Chorus came from, or if they’re a band in their own right. I could do a web search, but my intention here is to share the…

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