I use an acronym - SWIK - sunglasses, wallet, iphone, keys. Used to be SWICK when I would often take my camera but that’s in the phone now. When leaving the house, I’ve trained my brain to say “SWIK!” and it prevents me from forgetting this stuff, which I used to be notorious for. I suppose I wouldn’t get far without…

Have fun.

You’re not selling it very well if that’s your vantage point.

I was being a little flippant... you’re taking a bit of a chance of course, but there’s at least one brand I know of that will come pick it up within 100 days if you don’t like it for any reason... which I figured was a better trial period than laying for 5 to 10 minutes on a mattress in a shop. I went this route and…

Just order up one of them mattresses that come in the mail. Done.

That’s nonsense. Plenty of “real breweries” have the tasting paddles or some other tasters setup. And I order them. Because I want to try ALL THE BEERS.

My response “Don’t bring your fucking kid to a brewery on a Friday night.”

If that’s your motivation for making music, in order to get it into a commercial, do something else with your life.

Forget making any music, you then just marry the Canadian drummer and move there for the free healthcare.

a 9 year old that is very self focused

Yet when someone who is poor or even blue collar working class, rural or exurban, white, and doesn’t have an above average IQ, all things that end up with them never having had a meaningful chance to develop a reasonably cogent view of the world, does what you would expect someone raised in that environment to do,…

He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.

I think of them as “Generation F” (as in “Fucked”) or “The Carbon Kids”

“I started letting him sit in the front around age 9, when he was the same height as my wife.”

My gf does the “Is it good?” thing the second something she cooks hits my lips. Babe, I’m appreciative you cooked this for me, but let me taste a few bites first.

All the LOLs

So when normal people are in charge again

Most definitely.

especially in its focus on Cruise’s bland character that you’re supposed to like simply because he’s played by Cruise.

I was kind of indifferent to jazz until I took a history of jazz class in college and learned, for lack of a better word, “how” to listen to it. It helped that it was taught by a respected jazz artist, James Newton, whose enthusiasm for the subject was infectious... best class I ever took.