USA!

Here's someone at The New York Times - or, as I call it, "The Times" - putting together a list of 25 objects that reveal something special about Americans.

And here's the things from the list I'm signing off on:

$4.99 Costco Rotisserie Chicken (The Costco hot dog/soda deal should go in the canon along with public libraries and old diners as an American National Treasure. 😔 - Xmastime)
T-Shirt Cannon
Pizza Hut Lamp
Tree-Shaped Air Freshener
Sad Desk Salad
Red Solo Cup (If they're party cups, why are they named "Solo"? - Xmastime)

Edgar Allen Poe

Eric Monte

OUT NOW

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Compiled from the deep archives of So What Records, SO WHAT RECORDS PRESENTS A SPECIAL COLLECTION, 1959–2026 gathers twelve remarkable recordings spanning nearly eight decades. Dug up from long-lost master tapes, short-run pressings and forgotten singles, these songs chart a lost history of rock & roll, from Earl Taylor's 1959 classic My Mona Lisa to The Hart Avenue's 2026 anthem What Are You Gonna Do When They Come to Kill You? and everything in between, collected & presented here for the first time. 

ENJOY! 🤗🕺🎸
 

Clockwork on Line 1.

Moi Say Moi back last month:

One of Trump's many, many infantile Achilles heels is that even after being handed all of the cookies at the table but one, no matter how underserving he is in the first place, he can’t let that one go & inevitably that’s what unspools everything in the end, drowned out by his endless bitching & screeching about how unfair everything is except that instead of him at some point being taught a lesson to just shut the fuck up and enjoy the cookies he was handed for no fucking reason, eventually someone gets tired of the whining & gives him the last cookie, therein setting off the same toddler Olympic game for the next time. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand right on schedule, what do we have here.

"This Is What the Internet Was Invented For" du Jour

Questions. I Have Them.

Have they ever tried a version of Raisin Bran with grapes instead of raisins? I mean if people are willing to eat raisins, wouldn't it make sense that they’d like what raisins wish they could still be? 🤔🤷‍♂️ 

"Absolute Peak August 5" by Xmastime

Watching What's Happening!! while listening to Revolver! 🤗🕺🎸🇬🇧

I ❤️ WHAT'S HAPPENING!!

50 YEARS AGO TODAY one of my all-time superslices of superslices What's Happening!! premiered; I've blathered about this show throughout the 20 years of this blog & promise to continue to do so for the next 50. 🤗

There's too many great posts to list here so I won't bother, just start here & start scrolling and YES people, you ARE quite welcome! 

Happy Birfday REVOLVER!!

It's my favorite album of theirs & to me it's the absolute perfect mix & balance of everything they ever did but what can I say that everybody else isn’t saying much better today; I'll only say that I'm grateful to be alive in a world with this album, and the 2022 box set was by far the most surprising – shocking, really - box set (box set? or boxed set? does anybody know, and will they ever?) I've ever witnessed.

Fucking Idiot.

The best part of this whole World Cup asshole Infantino getting his ass handed to him by the soccer world is you KNOW that when he decided to move forward with the idea he was cackling with glee to himself, assuming his years of breaking the record for kissing Trump’s ass that culminated with him delivering a favor to Trump so significant it made world headlines and will be studied by soccer scholars for decades of course meant Trump would return the favor when he needed him, and of course take a wild guess at who’s been ignoring Infantino’s phone calls since the drama blew up.

Fucking idiot.

Xmastime Confessions: Kamala, Part II

I guess there's a lot of reasons one could have for wanting Kamala Harris to run for president again, and if I'm being 100% honest right now I'd hafta admit that my reason would be how much fun it would be watching Republicans twisting themselves in knots trying to purposefully mispronounce "Harris" this time around.

Xmastime Confessions

I guess there's a lot of reasons one could have for not wanting Kamala Harris to run for president again, and if I'm being 100% honest right now I'd hafta admit that my reason would be the fact that I'm 100% confident I'm pronouncing her name correctly exactly 0% of the time.

A Few Thoughts on Tonight's Season 5 Premiere Epsiode of TED LASSO

WARNING: THESE ARE AS I TYPED THEM, I WILL NOT BE EDITING THESE TOUGH LUCK LOSERS

44 minutes long???? Right off the bat, strike 6 😡
“my king’= automatic LOL
I love grocery stores
That blond checker girl is hilarious
Ted says “see ya next week” to his boss? what kind of job is this?
“elementary” his kid's in elementary school? Dafuck?
How is Ted’s wife way better looking than before? She’s “exhausted from work’ but looks great?
7:52 panic - is there not gonna be anyone else but Ted??? Literally as I was thinking this everyone else showed up 8:06
Higgins has my New Balances!!!
How idyllic was his house outside setting? Curious.
Higgins chewing and chewing bit was great, like his moving his office shit
Has ted really not spoken to these people in 3 years? At all?
I understand the plot device but camon?
This could’ve been a Zoom call.
“Have a seat mBappe” got a legit lol
Really? This pee wee soccer coach doesn’t want any advice from a premier league coach or whatever? Really?
So him moms a psycho.
Is Keely a bird?
The woman with the twang in that clothing store was hilarious. More!!!
Tammy!
Higgins trip to NLMLB thing was sweet and I love it but….why?
Ted hates having to do incredibly tiny chores for his mother?
Thousands of people are really going to women's soccer games in Kansas City? Its like a battle of the bands on tv.
Ted’s very nonplussed considering they showed up like that.
Can’t do a clogged toilet joke with Rebecca Ted. Camon. Too classy.
Seriously do these people not communicate with each other, ever?
Be great if the only reason his kid cleaned his bedroom is because Ted beat the shit out of him.
George Brett jersey! Yes!
Earl! You’ve been missed. 🐶 #rip
Wow lets move to London after thinking about it for ten seconds sure why not.
I hate his wife and kid.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY ON XMASTIME: The Comments Section

Current Events

I worry that the news has been touting “the GOP is gonna get destroyed in November!” for so long now that it’s gonna be Peyton Manning-d into not happening:

As soon as the 1996 Heisman winner was announced, everybody in the free world said well, next year Peyton will run away with it. A no-brainer. The months went on and on and all anybody talked about was how Peyton was definitely gonna win the award. Then a funny thing happened. People got tired of talking about him being the only choice. Even though he clearly deserved to win it, people simply got tired of talking about him and started looking for reasons to vote for somebody else, anybody else. The average voter thought fuck it, I'm tired of hearing about Peyton - I'll vote for so and so; it's only one vote anyway, Peyton will still win. And ta-da! Even though he should've, he didn't win.

Questions. I Have Them.

Is recyclables bag juice dripping on the way to the trash room better than trash-bag jiuce dripping on the way to the trash room ? 🤔 🤷‍♂️

XMASTIME FILMS

OH DEAR - IT'S SOCIALISM 😬

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The Irish I Mean Amirite? 🇮🇪

I think in the very back recesses of my ragged old brain I may have once known the fact that the Titanic was built in Ireland, but I never made any connection with it until earlier today when I heard this expression for the first time: 

 

I used an image of a random coffee mug with the saying on it to highlight the fact that apparently it’s been famous for decades & decades, much to my own sweet oblivion.

So has it ever occurred to anybody to seriously consider the whole thing was ser up by the Irish, whose problems with the British were cresting at the time they were building the Titanic?

Can we turn this into a funny Netflix series at least, people???

LOOKING FOR INVESTORS EVERYBODY💰💰💰💰

Look's Like Mom's Probably Pretty Happy Too.