Wednesday, October 07, 2026
Oh FFS CNN.
CNN rarely goes more than a week without yet another article about a farmer who repeatedly voted for Trump who once again, as always, finds themselves desperately trying to not lose their farm because of Trump’s stupidity and my question is, who exactly are these articles for? The farmers/fans of Trump who don’t dare read CNN because Dear Leader has demanded it’s “fake news”? Or me, who from the moment Trump descended on that golden escalator has implored people – including these farmers – to NOT vote for Trump? I’m trying not to do a big fat “I fucking told you so” but also believe we’re long past me pretending to 🤔; I’ve done all I can for these fuckers, I’m tired of pretending they’re somehow “more “American” than me & deserve chance after chance to be saved from running into traffic like a fucking toddler. Incredible.
Tuesday, October 06, 2026
XMAS YOUR ENTHUSIASM: Season 7 Out Today!!
LISTEN HERE or wherever the hell you listen to podcasts. 🤗🕺
Yeah So I'm Sorry Buuuuuuuuut...
...there's no WAY John Lennon would let himself be seen next to Potsie, NONE!
Monday, October 05, 2026
Sometimes I Scare Myself with My Own Genius
Should-be Hold Steady song lyric:
“And she said man the rhythm of the Beatles entire careerPREVIOUS HOLD STEADY GENIUS FROM XMASTIME HERE
is set so deep within us all it's almost like the seasons of the year,
And then she puked Sour Patch Kids Strawberry Melon Slurpee all over my Keds."
Depressing du Jour.
I'm rarely being accused of being prescient in this thing called life & in the world we're all living in, but this is about as prescient as it gets 😡. (poor grammar notwithstanding)
Comedy Dreams. I Have Them.
For some reason when I saw the headline below about Dennis Hastert I thought of this about George Carlin:
Carlin explains why he likes "big, fatal disasters with lots of dead people", asking: "Y'know what's the best thing I can hear on television? 'We interrupt this program' ... y'know the worst thing I can hear? 'No one was hurt' ... I'm always rooting for a really high death toll, that's why I like natural disasters."Meanwhile, I don't think Hastert's a perfect example of what I’m about to suggest but I'd like to see a great comedian go on a riff about famous people who are incredibly successful in every facet of their lives we all envy who blow it all on the 1 yard-line of life; I don’t have the stomach to do such a thing myself but man Carlin woulda fucking nailed it.
God Save the Sex Pistols
Because it's the year 2026 I went looking for & fully expecting to find a well-recorded YouTube video of the entire Sex Pistols show I went to & not only did I find it, but what looks to be the best "official" one so far for fans to find was apparently taken by someone right behind me in line; besides seeing the back of my buddy Jeff's head (hey Jeff! 👋) you can unfortunately hear my blather away off-screen. 😜
WAIT - does that mean that if for some reason someone would hafta explain as being even remotely plausible Steve Jones or Glen Matlock or Paul Cook were watching the same video then that by definition means we are now living in a world in which members of the Sex Pistols have heard my voice???!?!?!!?
I mean hey, stranger things have happened - like me possibly making Joe Strummer laugh!
Or having Jody Stephens pick up the phone when I called Ardent Studios in 1996!!!!
What an incredible show. I can't believe I stood 15 feet away from Steve Jones. All those hours listening to this album in my '78 Ford Fiesta almost 40 years ago as a teenage boy...
Cap Happily Doffed du jour
It's one thing to just cover a song, to match the overall sound of its entire recording so perfectly is a whole other thing. 👏
That Thing You Do! at 30
I saw That Thing You Do! three times in the theater & have love love loved it every day ever since, so put me on Hashtag Team YES WE SHOULD BE CELEBRATING THIS INCREDIBLE MOVIE ON ITS (GULP!) 30TH ANNIVERSARY I.E. ALLLLLLLLMOST THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF TIME BETWEEN THE MOVIE AND THE EVENTS THAT INSPIRED IT, STARTING WITH ITS PERFECT TITLE SONG:
Written by Hanks, the screenplay is so thin that the star lists out the stock types of each character in the third act. It definitely doesn’t get by on studio glitz; even if the production team did a bang-up job of recreating the early 1960s, they can’t get around the fact that much of this movie is set in a dreary Erie, Pennsylvania. Whether “That Thing You Do!” works for audiences depends entirely on if the title song lands.
Credit for that has to go to Adam Schlesinger, who wrote the track with nothing more than the film’s title and a few hints at the story. He needed to recreate the sound of the thousands of teenagers who had their heads rearranged by The Beatles and immediately ran to their garages to pick up guitars — and he nailed the teenybopper perfectionism of early Lennon-McCartney joints. Give it a listen; it sounds like it was written by committee and by four bored teens in equal measure. It’s lightning.
“That Thing You Do!” had to be that good, because no fictional rock band has ever leaned harder on their hit. The audience is treated to “That Thing You Do!” in part or in full eight times, once every 13 minutes. Whether that’s the result of a threadbare script or just Hanks knowing what he had is up to the viewer to decide. What’s certain is that “Thing” never gets old.
Credit for that has to go to Adam Schlesinger, who wrote the track with nothing more than the film’s title and a few hints at the story. He needed to recreate the sound of the thousands of teenagers who had their heads rearranged by The Beatles and immediately ran to their garages to pick up guitars — and he nailed the teenybopper perfectionism of early Lennon-McCartney joints. Give it a listen; it sounds like it was written by committee and by four bored teens in equal measure. It’s lightning.
“That Thing You Do!” had to be that good, because no fictional rock band has ever leaned harder on their hit. The audience is treated to “That Thing You Do!” in part or in full eight times, once every 13 minutes. Whether that’s the result of a threadbare script or just Hanks knowing what he had is up to the viewer to decide. What’s certain is that “Thing” never gets old.
I agree on all points; read the entire article and then watch this movie that is perfect, perfect magic in every way. 🤗🎸❤️🕺
Xmastime On/Not On Current Events
A few days ago I mentioned the horrifically botched non-execution in Tennessee & while I've debated whether or not to wonder if executions are just another thing we've become incompetent at doing as a nation just like I wrote out about assassinations almost 20 years ago but decided not to, you’re very welcome; I am however gonna wonder when someone's gonna make the obvious-but-yikes "just give a gun to a teenage white boy girls won’t talk to, he'll have no problem getting the job done" joke, as you can rest assured it will not be me, you’re welcome very much. 😔
Xmastime So Sayeth, So Sayeth Xmastime
Moi Say Moi back in 2017:
Brian Hackett may have been the worst-dressed character in sitcom history.
"Shocking" may be a tad too strong a word here, but while you can blame youth on his tragic wardrobe in the earlier seasons of the show the word somehow seems almost suitable now considering how badly he dressed by the very end of the series.😬
Sunday, October 04, 2026
Questions. I Have Them.
Upon further study of the Newbeats' 1964 smash hit Bread and Butter, why is it:
I like bread & butterWouldn't toast & butter be just as plausible a scenario as the others, if not even more so? Like...MUCH more so? 🤔🤷♂️
I like toast & jam
That's what my baby feeds me
I'm her loving man
Current Status.
Treating myself to a donut at Wegmans so I can give meaning to the Barry Sanders-esque spin move I used to avoid an oncoming shopping cart.
Goals. I Have Them.
I wanna make someone think I'm pissed off at them so I can freak them out by staring at them for a beat too long even tho I'm not actually pissed off at them at all.
Saturday, October 03, 2026
Friday, October 02, 2026
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