I did!! That was the season I found at the charity shop. It also had Elizabeth Ashley as Richard’s mother and had the best joke of the season:

Oh don’t worry, I saw that too. I liken it to when a friend saw on his “Friends on Plex” update that I’d watched 7 episodes of Caroline & the City and immediately screenshotted it and texted me with “you okay, buddy?”

Jon.

Aw beans, it was record store day and I forgot to go to a record shop, how will I show me face down the legion hall

Barry Newman pulls his battered old convertible up in front of Johnny’s country bar, featuring Coca-Cola signs, gas pumps, and a teenager in a blue and white striped shirt coming out to fill his gas tank. From fear is the key 1972.

Barry Newman has now walked into the store, while behind him at the door, the kid fills up his tank of gas. Behind Barry, are shelves and shelves of fishing, lures, hardhats, and other bric-a-brac, and a 7-Up chalkboard with nothing written on it. From fear is the key 1972.

Barry sits down at a bar, with a wall of liquor bottles behind it, next to a bartender who stands and smokes next to four different colored straw hats, and a cooler of soft drinks. From fear is the key 1972.

The bartender has just told Barry without looking up from his newspaper that they don’t serve hard liquor on Sundays and Barry looks at him incredulously. Barry is at a for Micah and wood panel bar, with bottles all behind him. from fear is the key 19 72?

Sometimes I watch old movies and marvel at the sheer amount of character and detail in the background sets. Like look at all this! (from Fear Is The Key, 1972)

Realised on the way back from walking the dog that I had a headache and was sore and tired so the scratchy throat yesterday is clearly me fighting off something so I laid down to rest but joke’s on me, I’ve already had two coffees this morning so I’m groggily wide awake

The Number’s Up There Somewhere: the Jon Batiste Story

Sometimes I get annoyed at how specific some targeted ads are, and other times I get an email telling me it’s my last chance to get Ed Sheeran tour merch and I laugh because motherfucker, you ain’t got a clue

“Some people are called geniuses the way the insect is called a millipede - not because it has a thousand legs, but because nobody bothered to count.” - Richard Brody

Heard a line in a film critic’s TikTok and it’s been rattling around my head since.

A white cassette tape of Charlie Rich’s “Behind Closed Doors” next to its case, featuring a picture of Charlie Rich wearing a black cowboy hat with long white sideburns.

The white tape again, with the track list

The bottom of the tape, with the tape part broken

Put on a Charlie Rich tape I got in a mixed box of second-hand stuff to listen to for the first time as I worked, and as it got to the end of the side, I hear a soft click, and when I took the tape out, it had snapped. I think that’s kind of poetic.

SO GOOD

John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats playing guitar and singing lit by one spotlight.

Went to see the Mountain Goats and met friends in line that I hadn’t seen in years and listened and yelled and whooped and danced and cried a bunch and hugged people and bought a t-shirt.

I keep this around for a reason. (Also this is wild, I’m literally listening to that KJB ep on the train and just heard that very bit)

Always remember the three rules of the mosh pit:

1. If someone falls pick them up.
2. If someone wants in, let them in.
3. If someone wants out, let them out.

“When you put on a baseball cap, do you push your hair back and then have the hat hold it in place or do you smoosh the hat on top of your hair so your hair is held down”

A person is holding a bottle of wine which reads "this little pig didn't transition, they unlocked their true selves."

Our D&D wine says trans rights.

If anyone had “Lucas drops his work phone in the toilet while picking up the clothes hamper” on their Bingo card, the lady at the front will give you a special door prize.

(it was clean water, and this iPhone model is basically waterproof but it gave me a shock)

29 years ago today, Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and Ralph Wiggum saw one of the babies and the baby looked at Ralph.

#TheSimpsons episode “Grade School Confidential” first aired April 6, 1997.

I wonder if there will ever be an answer song to Dion and the Belmonts’ “The Wanderer”, where Rosie puts together an Avengers-style team with Mary, Flo, and Janie to get revenge on the nameless fuckwit who’s been stringing them all along then skipping town.

If someone gave me a Leica M I would sell it to someone who could bother women about it and use that money to buy every camera and lens I’ve ever wanted

Oh sweetie. ❤️ love you

Indeed thou made me an April fool when thy faked a hair transplant, claimed Seth Rogen had sworn off the weed and that Michael Sheen was not Welsh but Milton Keynes borne. Thou made sport of my trust, my faith in thee. Now it is YOU who is the fool (also I was gonna do the Seth Rogen one ffs)

The ugly laugh I just did

The New Say coming out of a cereal box wearing Dragon Ball gear at Wrestlemania 32

A waffle on a green plate with whipped cream, strawberries and maple syrup with bacon on the side

Starting my birthday off with waffles and Wrestlemania.

Play games / don’t do a The Game / be told

And better this than ending up in a The Game situation

I was out at a fancy restaurant dinner for my birthday with my friend @euchrid.bsky.social and there was a moment where we each pulled out the Game Boy-esque emulator console we had bought independent of the other to compare games and I guess this is our lives now

This was a 1997 movie where for Michael Douglas’ birthday, his brother Sean Penn signs him up to a Game that like, fucks with his life and puts him in the middle of a big conspiracy. It’s an early David Fincher!

I am immortal
I have inside me blood of kings
I have no rival