I might have to take a social media fast. I already hate Twitter, but I'm thinking of staying away from FB as well.

I've been calling my Senators and Representatives. I actually made one of the people at my rep's office laugh when I told him that I'm grateful for being redistricted because my last rep was a useless jerk. I'm not going to bother calling my governor because he's Chris Christie.

I'm going through a reread of Preacher in the hardcover edition. It's aged slightly, and wow is it violent, but it is still some fine comic readin'.
I also finished Amir and Khalil's Zahra's Paradise, and everyone should read that. It's about a protester in Iran who was disappeared by the police, and his mother and…

Congratulations, good luck, and all the love!

I made 'jerk' chicken in the crock pot last week, and I still had a bunch left over, so with some carrots, celery, and scallions, as well as a few cups of the turkey stock I made, i turned it into jerk chicken soup, which was excellent and I'm having some for dinner tonight.
I also used the crock pot to make shredded…

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists — Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Weezer — Undone (The Sweater Song)
Barenaked Ladies — Blame It On Me
Stone Temple Pilots — Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart
Ramones — I Just Wanna Have Something To Do
Bow Wow Wow — I Want Candy
Sigur Rós — Við Spilum Endalaust
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers — Wa…

If they are, they're not as well-known and -liked as they used to be.

The very beginning is a very good place to start, I've heard.

Dik's just late in starting it. We can call this the thread, and start fucking shit right here!
Fuck "alternative facts". It's been five days and it's like the administration isn't even trying to hide its contempt for reality.
Also fuck the fact that I can barely stand to read the news, social media, or pretty much…

Finally got back to the gym after too long away. It's hard to find spaces in between the resolutionaries, but I will soldier on. I'm sticking with machines for now since I'm still not cleared for free weights, but it feels good to be lifting things for no reason again.

Keep fighting the good fight, MLA, both internally and externally. We're here for you.

Porto Kopke's tawny is one of the best ports I've ever tasted.

Stardew Valley is consuming my life. It's at least not as much of a "you MUST log in every day" like Animal Crossing was, and it's more fun, but I still want to play it more than I feel I should.

I just read Matt Faulkner's Gaijin: American Prisoner Of War, which is about a half-Japanese teenager who is brought to the internment camps along with his white mother. He has as hard a time getting along in the camps with the Japanese kids his age as he did with the people outside the camps after Pearl Harbor. It's…

Tom Waits — Yesterday Is Here
The Police — King Of Pain
Foo Fighters — Learn To Fly
Melissa Etheridge — Chrome Plated Heart
Screaming Females — Ghost Solo
Monty Python — Henry Kissinger
Dick Dale — Taco Wagon
The Kinks — Destroyer
The Who — The Seeker
The Magnetic Fields — Zebra

Half of the articles are about Twitter; it's an obvious confusion.

No, proprio non ha saputo. Va bene.
(My Italian is so rusty…)

"Bruto" means "brute" or "brutish" in Italian. ("Brutto" is "ugly").

WHICH IS ALWAYS

I loved that series growing up, and Adam West is my second favorite Batman. (Kevin Conroy is number 1, of course.) Plus I once got to hold Julie Newmar's hands to warm them up at a con.