Hair metal guys playing guitars face-to-face while a smoke machine is going and glee club singers from the opening credits of Cheers... long-lost cousins it turns out

Trip Shakespeare - Pearle (Music Video) YouTube video by Big Sunn 0))) 🎧

Had never seen a Trip Shakespeare video before now... the 1990 requirement of having guys singing into a microphone together at hair-metal camera angles fits into their weird Edwardian-poets-at-a-state-college deal surprisingly well

[Attempting to smile cryptically] I won't

I bought a big floppy hat this morning, because today was my day to go up on the roof and bring the swamp cooler online, and the kids absolutely hate it. Getting bullied in my own home when all I want is to bring cool, humid air to their desert lives without getting a huge sunburn

"The dog doesn't like my toy. But that's okay. Dogs can have their own opinions." - Nancy

There are a lot of things that characterize me as having been born in a specific 2-3 year window but I think paying full freight for a bunch of DVD box sets of individual seasons of TV is a big one

I've already checked Reddit since having this thought, of course. Some decent types of timeshare guys on there but not this particular one

A random guy I would like to read ~750 words about is whoever is out there getting the most value out of owning a timeshare. But I wouldn't want the extreme couponing min-max version of this story, just a guy who has done the math and is getting a great deal on his family's annual trip to Ixtapa

My grandpa grew up there and we visited once, great balloon festival

Search engines could just deprioritize headlines like this... might be nice

This is about two years ago, easier to get seated on a Saturday now that Melvin is bar-compatible

Back @ Waffle House. Lady who works here recognized the kids by name after 10 months like it was nothing

"My tummy's breaking my heart... I think I need milk at home..." - Melvin's most impressive way yet to say his stomach hurts

Melvin does not spend a lot of time in his lawnchair but it was a set of two at the thrift store and, more importantly, one child-size lawnchair would be an enormous provocation in a two-child situation

Lawnchair setup (4 pc.)

Nancy has always hated when I sing in the car and Melvin asks me to do it. It's nice to have more than one kid in case your first has really bad opinions on important topics

This week he's picking up "Photograph" by Weezer too. Songs where the title is right in there in the chorus are a big hit

Melvin's favorite song ever since he heard it a single time like six months ago has been "Far, Far Away" by Five Iron Frenzy. At this point we are singing the chorus together along with the track every morning on the way to daycare

Late 90s message board software. All posts are <300 characters directly in the subject line with (NT) at the end

EarthBound planet 'n meteor logo

[Uploading an image over the BlueSky developers' frightened, keening pleas] For an additional amount of money (mine): When I would doodle the EarthBound logo in class I went with this one every time. I was right 25 years ago and I'm right now

[Transmitting a single message through space on a fragile and collapsing platform, I have no idea who will read it or when, it could be my only link to posterity] A lot of great stuff on the EarthBound soundtrack, but for my money the best song has got to be Your Name, Please

Screenshot of of the "Following" BlueSky feed. There's a message in a red box that says "You can't cut back on funding! You will regret this!"

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The way the guitar solo in "Juicebox" sounds like it's being unrolled out of a big tube or shaken out of a jar at the beginning... love that

Text: Every time I read a review of Saul Bellow I get the heaves. Oh this big, wild, rowdy country, full of whores and prizefighters, and here I am stuck with an old river in the twilight and the deterioration of the middle-aged businessman.

John Cheever, journal.

Man I hate it so much. If you are against the supposed [new word for concept] of the world do not [new word for concept] the language we use to describe the world

That's a good question and I do not know the answer... I'm on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger and I think that's it while I don't have my sim card in, if either of those works

Yeah if you watched Tom Glavine pitch every week the strike zone that's been called since like 2003 is going to seem permanently strange to you. A foot too tall and 18 inches too narrow

I'm a huge fan of how Thackeray drew himself

Baby! But that's how it goes / Children of people! Living at home

Baby train