Work.

Work.

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Them: “When are you going to stop listening to screamo?”

Real ones:

That was my moment and I let it slip right through my fingers.

When Radiohead released OK Computer did anyone sell T-shirts featuring C-3PO that read “Original Paranoid Android” or am I 30 years late with that idea?

Well, Vance may have failed to prevent the Iran war he didn't believe in, and he also failed to stop it once it had started, but at least he ALSO failed to get Orban re-elected.

Keep building that record, lil guy!

Not all advertising is art, but sometimes the audience gets lucky.

“They want nuclear.”

If it’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever read, he actually wrote it.

If it’s above a 5th grade reading level, it passed through some other hands.

Some daring and devilish Marvel house ads.

“By Supreme Court standards […] Justice Alito is a “spring chicken.””

Big affront to actual spring chickens.

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Perfectly reverse parks a minivan on a narrow uphill suburban driveway.

Good as it gets.

Work.

“In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”

Morning.

“You would want to have a commander-in-chief who is of sound mind, who is fully in control of his mental capacity, who is not volatile, who is not subject to anger. […] for the simple reason that the president has sole authority to launch nuclear weapons."

—Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War.

Morning.

My 4yo: “I don’t like it when people annoy me!”

First, same. Second, I have some really not great news for you about what you can expect for the rest of your life, honey.

You’re whip-smart if you can name this movie.

Commander Wiseman’s kids: “Dad is on the way to the moon.”

My kids: “Dad had to lie down after “a rough commute.””

I am just-sneezed-my-back-out years old.

Just use GenAI.

Writing seriously does nothing but challenge your mind, improve your thinking, and show respect to your soul.

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Remembering to cancel just before the free trial ends.

Simple and it works.

No wasted energy thinking of the small stuff in the AM and my brain is fired up and ready to go immediately afterward.

Little helpful thing I heard from Jocko Willink:

Night before, I write out my early morning to do list on an index card. No more than 5 items:

• The specific workout
• The amount of water and vitamins
• The first 2 or 3 to-do’s
• What to eat

7yo: “Dad’s so old but he’s a great wrestler. I don’t get it. Because he’s old. He’s just so great at it.”

4yo: “Yeah! I know. He already has gray hair and everything!”

7yo: “I know. That’s why it doesn’t make sense that he’d be so good at wrestling.”

“Dad, tell us more about the 2003–2008 run of Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie albums.”

—something I don’t hear enough of around this house.

It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman's making into a foreign land. Ye'll wake more than the dogs.”

From chapter 3 of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian:

“The Mennonite watches the enshadowed dark before them as it is reflected to him in the mirror over the bar. He turns to them. His eyes are wet, he speaks slowly. The wrath of God lies sleeping.