That's your solution to everything, under the sea. It's not gonna happen!

Why couldn't he be the other kind of merman, with the fish part on top and the man part on the bottom?

Obviously Commando.

My music is currently on an external hard drive that I have misplaced, so my list is stuff I heard on the radio or other things that pop into my head.

I introduced the kids to Animaniacs. I didn't understand all those old movie references when I was a kid, and now they're another generation removed, but fortunately it's still bizarre enough to be hilarious for everyone.

That Day Tripper riff is still tight, 50 years later.

Blessid Union of Souls - Hey Leonardo
Tsunku - Dreams of Our Generation
Silverchair - Abuse Me
The Chantays - Pipeline
The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
Grapes of Wrath - All The Things I Wasn’t
Pearl Jam - Black
Panic at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place
Imagine Dragons -…

A friend in high school punched a bully in the face. The bully was an amateur boxer, so the immediate aftermath was not pleasant for my friend, but the other kid got suspended and my friend wasn't in trouble at all.

We're going with the "just ignore him" speech just so my son will have some sense of agency, as if something he can do will matter. But at the same time we're doing everything else we can to get the other kid removed from the class. Even though that's probably not going to happen either.

It crosses my mind whenever I see him…

Same, but with Thru The Eyes of Ruby.

Last week the bully kid in my son's class was grabbing my son for no reason, just randomly, according to everyone including the teacher and according to that kid himself. Later that day, he tackled my son and slammed his head into the ground, because my son "smirked at him".

Miss Hoover: Remember that time you saw Snagglepuss outside?

We got the publishing proofs for a book that I contributed a chapter to, so publication is imminent! (But "imminent" could be "several months" to "years, we dunno")

Mary Hoskin - Those Were the Days
Dave Clark Five - I Like it Like That
The Marketts - Out of Limits
Jessie Reyez - Shutter Island
Gene Vincent - Blue Jean Bop
Trooper - Two for the Show
Jain - Come
Smashing Pumpkins - Cupid de Locke
David Bowie - Station to Station
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Walk on the Ocean
Sabrina Carpenter -…

We got the Playboy Channel but the video was all scrambled. The audio was fine though. I remember spending a lot of time trying to figure out what was going on.

Yeah we're not encouraging him to punch the kid…but if he happens to punch him, I think we'll let it slide.

I thought it was slow to get going, and more like a textbook for the first half (which is great since dry history textbooks are my jam), but it gets more exciting at the end.

It should be easy to make Kathleen Wynne look bad, but it's amazing how incompetent her opponents are. Anyway in this case she is in the right, so at least there's that!

But her essays!