Even in Paris

The Golden Arches are always lurking.

Things I Like

Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, toast with butter, Apollo 8, Garfield, the "slightly pull the car up while someone's trying to get in" gag, dogs with their heads sticking out car windows, wood paneling, pork egg foo young, rain, Roadrunner (Modern Lovers), the green type in Hulu’s search bar, Marah, Without Feathers, hour 3 of a wedding reception, French women, Rob Brydon, Indiana high school basketball, whenever anyone else cancels an appointment, The Star-Spangled Girl (the play not the movie), Cheaper by the Dozen (the book not the movie grrrrr), 1995, Camille Claudel, the perfect pen, hotels, witnessing the slow-moving car crash of when some guy replies to "I'm ______ and I'll be your waitress" with "I'm ______ and I'll be your customer!", The Red Green Show, dinner parties at 100 Metro, Robert Kennedy, the first warm sock out of the dryer, the #7, honest waiters, Russell Edson, Rankin/Bass animation, Soup (the books not the “food”), Queen Elizabeth II (sorry, I),"Bobby Jean", my orange bear hat, Ball Four, The Steven Banks Show, French Vanilla anything, Porridge (the sitcom not the disgusting "food"), a paperback with the perfect floppiness to it, oranges, Downton Abbey, shag carpet, the first 3 Ed Burns movies, peas, knowing it's about to rain, Paul McCartney, Peter Tinniswood, Cheerios, the Starbucks mobile ordering app, any toaster with more than two slots, bears, watching car tail lights crossing a bridge at night, refrigerator ice machines that work, nodding & saying "fellas" whenever I walk by two dogs together, rye bread, That Thing You Do!, Martin Short, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, Hayday, my feet in the grass, Jeff Lamp, the thrill of an upcoming rest stop with several great fast food options, women, 7/06/1957, vintage 1970s Pizza Hut, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (obviously the UK one and not the awful US version), kids who actually try to be funny, The Replacements, great straws, "What's Happening!!", Rocco DiSpirito's "The Restaurant", Christmas lights, Carol Burnett, The Turkey's Nest, thunder, "Only Fools and Horses", the fries at the bottom of the bag, the first "Mad Men" office, the Williamsburg Softball League 2003-2012, Coach Bobby Finstock, "Animal Farm" by The Kinks, London Fog, cloth couches, DT & the Shakes, Norman Lear, taking the train, a sportcoat you don’t want to take off, frozen waffles, Bill Russell, Stove Top stuffing, the mingling of generations at weddings, carpeting, BritBox, front porches, Stephen Merchant, sheepdog drone work videos, Ralph Malph, canceled meetings, the word “shenanigans”, the first time I ever pulled off saying “bodega” after moving to Brooklyn, my friend Riley, Joy Garden, David Spade doing his impression of Dennis Miller calling him "Spudly", Bob Uecker, when a sitcom pairs off two unlikely characters, "Uncle", the first Autumn issue of "The New Yorker", Johnny Hart, Doritos & peanut butter, Joe Strummer, people who don’t always pretend they have better things to do, Teen Wolf, Dancing On My Own (the song not the activity), mushy peas, St. Paul (the sandwich not the city)(sorry city I've just never been), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, R.E.M., old men only too happy to give their thoughts on the bowl of ice cream they’re eating, Bulleit bottles, Wally my cat friend, asking "what if it's a puppy?" whenever anyone gets a box in the mail, saying the word "mouse", saying “mousey mousey”, the 1995 PBS doc on rock & roll, sausage wheels, Monopoly, provolone, very old monarchies that are without actual power but still are charming enough to let you believe just a little bit in magic, oranges, Steve Jones, chicken planks from Long John Silver's, ivy, green, Love in Vain, Wayne Federman, Magic Shell, the off-off Broadway classic La Cocina, a classic barn jacket, The Great Brain, funny raccoon pictures, raw onion, every time Principal Ava on “Abbot Elementary” walks into a scene, Mr. Submarine, whatever it is I think 1970s architecture looks like, The Clissold Arms, The Wonder Years reboot, my first cronut, podcasting, Teenage Riot, Liev Schrieber narrating anything, brown, any kind of "melt" when they can still keep the mayo/tomatoes cold, Bloom County, Baby Come Back (The Equals not Player), Geoff Esper, a party mix with as close to zero pretzels as we can get at the moment, Derry Girls, John Lennon chewing gum onstage, a trail mix with as close to zero raisins as we can get at the moment, Cheez Whiz, October baseball, Lou Reed's "New York", funny Karl Mueller, The Vacant Lot, Saturday, notebooks, novels that go into great detail about what murderers on the run eat at roadside diners, Rick Sebak's "A Hot Dog Program", Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up", crinkle-cut fries, "Gavin and Stacey", Graham Linehan before he lost his mind, Alison Steadman, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", candy corn, Father Ted, day drinking, The Killer, the Hallmark Christmas Channel's refusal to spend more than a dime on fake snow, Young Frankenstein, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", Revolver, WIA (the show not the actual address), the first time of Fall when dead leaves fall like rain, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Clerks”, Dave Attell, being the only person on an entire corporate floor, Chuck Klosterman, the podcast "Let it Roll", stumbling onto terrestrial radio while in a cabin in the woods, Cardinal Point Winery, hash browns, seeing the first Christmas tree of the season, the mid-late 1990s, free office coffee no matter if it's shitty or fine, coming in from the cold, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, thinking "wow that's the hardest I've laughed in forever", Bedford & N 7th, Tony Shalhoub, 15 years of Xmastime, rubbing dogs’ butts, the first “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” hearing of the season, recliners that swivel, the constant blizzard of fat jokes in any episode of "What's Happening!!", when kids make cookies, Catherine Reitman, luxuriating in bed, "Le Morte d'Arthur", "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, Irish stereotypes about horses, tater tots, the unrelenting rock & roll of Peter Buck, "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals", orange, brake lights afar in the dark, over-the-top reenactment actors, reading books, Take My Teenage Head, writing books, the first bad weather of winter, Jon Lovitz, Alex P. Keaton, Dunkin' Donuts grilled cheese sandwich, Ralf Little, closing the work laptop to start a long vacation, Christmas Eve,

Grrrrrrrrrrr

Stick it to this loser by stuffing your stockings with one of my books! 😡😡😡😡 😜🤣

WILLIAMSBURG RATS

THE WEDDING PARTIES

Thank you and Happy Christmas everybody!!! 🤗🕺🎅🎄

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day!

Voted as the top Christmas tv moment,
Heroes and Villains-Batman& Robin-..."lets go"😅🎄🎅🍹#christmas#onlyfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy #TheBest pic.twitter.com/XE1HryK79X

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) December 23, 2022

Things That Surprise Me

Family Ties only had one Christmas episode. 

Things I Like

Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, toast with butter, Apollo 8, Garfield, the "slightly pull the car up while someone's trying to get in" gag, dogs with their heads sticking out car windows, wood paneling, pork egg foo young, rain, Roadrunner (Modern Lovers), the green type in Hulu’s search bar, Marah, Without Feathers, hour 3 of a wedding reception, French women, Rob Brydon, Indiana high school basketball, whenever anyone else cancels an appointment, The Star-Spangled Girl (the play not the movie), Cheaper by the Dozen (the book not the movie grrrrr), 1995, Camille Claudel, the perfect pen, hotels, witnessing the slow-moving car crash of when some guy replies to "I'm ______ and I'll be your waitress" with "I'm ______ and I'll be your customer!", The Red Green Show, dinner parties at 100 Metro, Robert Kennedy, the first warm sock out of the dryer, the #7, honest waiters, Russell Edson, Rankin/Bass animation, Soup (the books not the “food”), Queen Elizabeth II (sorry, I),"Bobby Jean", my orange bear hat, Ball Four, The Steven Banks Show, French Vanilla anything, Porridge (the sitcom not the disgusting "food"), a paperback with the perfect floppiness to it, oranges, Downton Abbey, shag carpet, the first 3 Ed Burns movies, peas, knowing it's about to rain, Paul McCartney, Peter Tinniswood, Cheerios, the Starbucks mobile ordering app, any toaster with more than two slots, bears, watching car tail lights crossing a bridge at night, refrigerator ice machines that work, nodding & saying "fellas" whenever I walk by two dogs together, rye bread, That Thing You Do!, Martin Short, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, Hayday, my feet in the grass, Jeff Lamp, the thrill of an upcoming rest stop with several great fast food options, women, 7/06/1957, vintage 1970s Pizza Hut, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (obviously the UK one and not the awful US version), kids who actually try to be funny, The Replacements, great straws, "What's Happening!!", Rocco DiSpirito's "The Restaurant", Christmas lights, Carol Burnett, The Turkey's Nest, thunder, "Only Fools and Horses", the fries at the bottom of the bag, the first "Mad Men" office, the Williamsburg Softball League 2003-2012, Coach Bobby Finstock, "Animal Farm" by The Kinks, London Fog, cloth couches, DT & the Shakes, Norman Lear, taking the train, a sportcoat you don’t want to take off, frozen waffles, Bill Russell, Stove Top stuffing, the mingling of generations at weddings, carpeting, BritBox, front porches, Stephen Merchant, sheepdog drone work videos, Ralph Malph, canceled meetings, the word “shenanigans”, the first time I ever pulled off saying “bodega” after moving to Brooklyn, my friend Riley, Joy Garden, David Spade doing his impression of Dennis Miller calling him "Spudly", Bob Uecker, when a sitcom pairs off two unlikely characters, "Uncle", the first Autumn issue of "The New Yorker", Johnny Hart, Doritos & peanut butter, Joe Strummer, people who don’t always pretend they have better things to do, Teen Wolf, Dancing On My Own (the song not the activity), mushy peas, St. Paul (the sandwich not the city)(sorry city I've just never been), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, R.E.M., old men only too happy to give their thoughts on the bowl of ice cream they’re eating, Bulleit bottles, Wally my cat friend, asking "what if it's a puppy?" whenever anyone gets a box in the mail, saying the word "mouse", saying “mousey mousey”, the 1995 PBS doc on rock & roll, sausage wheels, Monopoly, provolone, very old monarchies that are without actual power but still are charming enough to let you believe just a little bit in magic, oranges, Steve Jones, chicken planks from Long John Silver's, ivy, green, Love in Vain, Wayne Federman, Magic Shell, the off-off Broadway classic La Cocina, a classic barn jacket, The Great Brain, funny raccoon pictures, raw onion, every time Principal Ava on “Abbot Elementary” walks into a scene, Mr. Submarine, whatever it is I think 1970s architecture looks like, The Clissold Arms, The Wonder Years reboot, my first cronut, podcasting, Teenage Riot, Liev Schrieber narrating anything, brown, any kind of "melt" when they can still keep the mayo/tomatoes cold, Bloom County, Baby Come Back (The Equals not Player), Geoff Esper, a party mix with as close to zero pretzels as we can get at the moment, Derry Girls, John Lennon chewing gum onstage, a trail mix with as close to zero raisins as we can get at the moment, Cheez Whiz, October baseball, Lou Reed's "New York", funny Karl Mueller, The Vacant Lot, Saturday, notebooks, novels that go into great detail about what murderers on the run eat at roadside diners, Rick Sebak's "A Hot Dog Program", Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up", crinkle-cut fries, "Gavin and Stacey", Graham Linehan before he lost his mind, Alison Steadman, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", candy corn, Father Ted, day drinking, The Killer, the Hallmark Christmas Channel's refusal to spend more than a dime on fake snow, Young Frankenstein, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", Revolver, WIA (the show not the actual address), the first time of Fall when dead leaves fall like rain, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Clerks”, Dave Attell, being the only person on an entire corporate floor, Chuck Klosterman, the podcast "Let it Roll", stumbling onto terrestrial radio while in a cabin in the woods, Cardinal Point Winery, hash browns, seeing the first Christmas tree of the season, the mid-late 1990s, free office coffee no matter if it's shitty or fine, coming in from the cold, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, thinking "wow that's the hardest I've laughed in forever", Bedford & N 7th, Tony Shalhoub, 15 years of Xmastime, rubbing dogs’ butts, the first “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” hearing of the season, recliners that swivel, the constant blizzard of fat jokes in any episode of "What's Happening!!", when kids make cookies, Catherine Reitman, luxuriating in bed, "Le Morte d'Arthur", "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, Irish stereotypes about horses, tater tots, the unrelenting rock & roll of Peter Buck, "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals", orange, brake lights afar in the dark, over-the-top reenactment actors, reading books, Take My Teenage Head, writing books, the first bad weather of winter, Jon Lovitz, Alex P. Keaton, Dunkin' Donuts grilled cheese sandwich, Ralf Little, closing the work laptop to start a long vacation,

This is My New Favorite Sportscaster

He also dances around a good question, ie why do we keep sending people out like this? Can't we just tell people the weather is terrible and they should stay inside? Are there thousands of people that would be spinning around the roads if they couldn't see a human being suffering onscreen?

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't you point this same thing out over a dozen years ago?"

Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did.
 

This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show. pic.twitter.com/h0RL9tVQqg

— Mark Woodley (@MarkWoodleyTV) December 22, 2022

Joe Strummer

It's absolutely insane to realize he died 20 years ago today 😢

At least this year I got treated with The Miracle of My T-Shirt.

Thanks for everything, Joe.

Fucking Brilliant

 Enjoy the whole playlist HERE.

2023 Resolutions, Day 1

Focus WAY more on being well-hydrated. 

Podcast Ideas. I Have Them.

Coach K coached 1,438 games for Duke, he should do a podcast in which he goes game by game thru his entire career, one day at a time.

Let's do this, Coach!

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day!

Christmas special Only Fools And Horses🍹🎄🎅🍹
-Heroes and Villains-😅#christmas#onlyfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy pic.twitter.com/CcuXd7JBGD

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) December 22, 2022

Goodbye The Beatles OH WAIT Not So Fast

I've just always loved this clip; first because since a few months had passed after Revolver with no music coming out from the band, the public was ready to pack it in, the press had a field day “oh well, they had their day, they’re over.” While there are many people that still would still love the old records, the general mood was “time to move on.” Of course the public was soon hit with Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane and then Sgt Pepper, and that was it for any “they’re done” talk.

Also, it's insane to think you could just hang out outside of Abbey Road and grab Lennon/McCartney for a quick chat.

Today in 1966, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr were asked if The Beatles would break up in the coming year while they were on their way into Abbey Road Studios to record the first songs on what would become "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band". pic.twitter.com/lwPza1aC1s

— The Beatles (@BeatlesEarth) December 20, 2022

Egg Foo What?! Episode 27

This one has it all: Mike lets all children know the truth about Santa Claus, we kick off the Andrew Dice Clay renaissance and of course some stuff about Xanax. HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY! And thanks for listening this year  - now on to 2023! 

LISTEN HERE!

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day!

Christmas special Only Fools And Horses🍹🎄🎅🍹
-Fatal Extraction-
"Stories about Del"😅#christmas#onlyfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy pic.twitter.com/j1BVSoOhTy

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) December 21, 2022

Things I Like

Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, toast with butter, Apollo 8, Garfield, the "slightly pull the car up while someone's trying to get in" gag, dogs with their heads sticking out car windows, wood paneling, pork egg foo young, rain, Roadrunner (Modern Lovers), the green type in Hulu’s search bar, Marah, Without Feathers, hour 3 of a wedding reception, French women, Rob Brydon, Indiana high school basketball, whenever anyone else cancels an appointment, The Star-Spangled Girl (the play not the movie), Cheaper by the Dozen (the book not the movie grrrrr), 1995, Camille Claudel, the perfect pen, hotels, witnessing the slow-moving car crash of when some guy replies to "I'm ______ and I'll be your waitress" with "I'm ______ and I'll be your customer!", The Red Green Show, dinner parties at 100 Metro, Robert Kennedy, the first warm sock out of the dryer, the #7, honest waiters, Russell Edson, Rankin/Bass animation, Soup (the books not the “food”), Queen Elizabeth II (sorry, I),"Bobby Jean", my orange bear hat, Ball Four, The Steven Banks Show, French Vanilla anything, Porridge (the sitcom not the disgusting "food"), a paperback with the perfect floppiness to it, oranges, Downton Abbey, shag carpet, the first 3 Ed Burns movies, peas, knowing it's about to rain, Paul McCartney, Peter Tinniswood, Cheerios, the Starbucks mobile ordering app, any toaster with more than two slots, bears, watching car tail lights crossing a bridge at night, refrigerator ice machines that work, nodding & saying "fellas" whenever I walk by two dogs together, rye bread, That Thing You Do!, Martin Short, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, Hayday, my feet in the grass, Jeff Lamp, the thrill of an upcoming rest stop with several great fast food options, women, 7/06/1957, vintage 1970s Pizza Hut, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (obviously the UK one and not the awful US version), kids who actually try to be funny, The Replacements, great straws, "What's Happening!!", Rocco DiSpirito's "The Restaurant", Christmas lights, Carol Burnett, The Turkey's Nest, thunder, "Only Fools and Horses", the fries at the bottom of the bag, the first "Mad Men" office, the Williamsburg Softball League 2003-2012, Coach Bobby Finstock, "Animal Farm" by The Kinks, London Fog, cloth couches, DT & the Shakes, Norman Lear, taking the train, a sportcoat you don’t want to take off, frozen waffles, Bill Russell, Stove Top stuffing, the mingling of generations at weddings, carpeting, BritBox, front porches, Stephen Merchant, sheepdog drone work videos, Ralph Malph, canceled meetings, the word “shenanigans”, the first time I ever pulled off saying “bodega” after moving to Brooklyn, my friend Riley, Joy Garden, David Spade doing his impression of Dennis Miller calling him "Spudly", Bob Uecker, when a sitcom pairs off two unlikely characters, "Uncle", the first Autumn issue of "The New Yorker", Johnny Hart, Doritos & peanut butter, Joe Strummer, people who don’t always pretend they have better things to do, Teen Wolf, Dancing On My Own (the song not the activity), mushy peas, St. Paul (the sandwich not the city)(sorry city I've just never been), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, R.E.M., old men only too happy to give their thoughts on the bowl of ice cream they’re eating, Bulleit bottles, Wally my cat friend, asking "what if it's a puppy?" whenever anyone gets a box in the mail, saying the word "mouse", saying “mousey mousey”, the 1995 PBS doc on rock & roll, sausage wheels, Monopoly, provolone, very old monarchies that are without actual power but still are charming enough to let you believe just a little bit in magic, oranges, Steve Jones, chicken planks from Long John Silver's, ivy, green, Love in Vain, Wayne Federman, Magic Shell, the off-off Broadway classic La Cocina, a classic barn jacket, The Great Brain, funny raccoon pictures, raw onion, every time Principal Ava on “Abbot Elementary” walks into a scene, Mr. Submarine, whatever it is I think 1970s architecture looks like, The Clissold Arms, The Wonder Years reboot, my first cronut, podcasting, Teenage Riot, Liev Schrieber narrating anything, brown, any kind of "melt" when they can still keep the mayo/tomatoes cold, Bloom County, Baby Come Back (The Equals not Player), Geoff Esper, a party mix with as close to zero pretzels as we can get at the moment, Derry Girls, John Lennon chewing gum onstage, a trail mix with as close to zero raisins as we can get at the moment, Cheez Whiz, October baseball, Lou Reed's "New York", funny Karl Mueller, The Vacant Lot, Saturday, notebooks, novels that go into great detail about what murderers on the run eat at roadside diners, Rick Sebak's "A Hot Dog Program", Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up", crinkle-cut fries, "Gavin and Stacey", Graham Linehan before he lost his mind, Alison Steadman, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", candy corn, Father Ted, day drinking, The Killer, the Hallmark Christmas Channel's refusal to spend more than a dime on fake snow, Young Frankenstein, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", Revolver, WIA (the show not the actual address), the first time of Fall when dead leaves fall like rain, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Clerks”, Dave Attell, being the only person on an entire corporate floor, Chuck Klosterman, the podcast "Let it Roll", stumbling onto terrestrial radio while in a cabin in the woods, Cardinal Point Winery, hash browns, seeing the first Christmas tree of the season, the mid-late 1990s, free office coffee no matter if it's shitty or fine, coming in from the cold, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, thinking "wow that's the hardest I've laughed in forever", Bedford & N 7th, Tony Shalhoub, 15 years of Xmastime, rubbing dogs’ butts, the first “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” hearing of the season, recliners that swivel, the constant blizzard of fat jokes in any episode of "What's Happening!!", when kids make cookies, Catherine Reitman, luxuriating in bed, "Le Morte d'Arthur", "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, Irish stereotypes about horses, tater tots, the unrelenting rock & roll of Peter Buck, "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals", orange, brake lights afar in the dark, over-the-top reenactment actors, reading books, Take My Teenage Head, writing books, the first bad weather of winter, Jon Lovitz, Alex P. Keaton, Dunkin' Donuts grilled cheese sandwich, Ralf Little, 

Every Word.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nope.

Is It Even Possible to Get More 1990s Than This?

Reminder to Put Money in My Pocket

HO HO HO! (to be said as Dwayne from "What's Happening!!" would say it) there’s still a few days left to stuff those holiday stockings with:

WILLIAMSBURG RATS: A Manny’s Tour of Duty

THE WEDDING PARTIES

Hollywood Notes, with Xmastime

How the hell is it possible Saturday Night Live hasn’t done a Yellowstone parody? Like, they lost the ranch and Kevin Costner has to work at a fucking Target. I mean camon guys! 🤔🤷‍♂️

Hollywood Notes, by Xmastime

How has Matt Berry NOT had John Lithgow on Toast of London? 🤔🤷‍♂️

Hollywood Notes, by Xmastime

How have John Lithgow and Kelsey Granmer never been in anything as brothers? 🤔🤷‍♂️

Questions. I Have Them.

Why has there never been a documentary made about Miskel Spillman?

Ten Years Ago Today! 🤣🤣🤣

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day!

Christmas special Only Fools And Horses🍹🎄🎅🍹
-Fatal Extraction-
"A baby or a barbecue?😅"#chistmas#onlyfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy pic.twitter.com/0sJNLsjFg0

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) December 19, 2022

Things I Like

Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, toast with butter, Apollo 8, Garfield, the "slightly pull the car up while someone's trying to get in" gag, dogs with their heads sticking out car windows, wood paneling, pork egg foo young, rain, Roadrunner (Modern Lovers), the green type in Hulu’s search bar, Marah, Without Feathers, hour 3 of a wedding reception, French women, Rob Brydon, Indiana high school basketball, whenever anyone else cancels an appointment, The Star-Spangled Girl (the play not the movie), Cheaper by the Dozen (the book not the movie grrrrr), 1995, Camille Claudel, the perfect pen, hotels, witnessing the slow-moving car crash of when some guy replies to "I'm ______ and I'll be your waitress" with "I'm ______ and I'll be your customer!", The Red Green Show, dinner parties at 100 Metro, Robert Kennedy, the first warm sock out of the dryer, the #7, honest waiters, Russell Edson, Rankin/Bass animation, Soup (the books not the “food”), Queen Elizabeth II (sorry, I),"Bobby Jean", my orange bear hat, Ball Four, The Steven Banks Show, French Vanilla anything, Porridge (the sitcom not the disgusting "food"), a paperback with the perfect floppiness to it, oranges, Downton Abbey, shag carpet, the first 3 Ed Burns movies, peas, knowing it's about to rain, Paul McCartney, Peter Tinniswood, Cheerios, the Starbucks mobile ordering app, any toaster with more than two slots, bears, watching car tail lights crossing a bridge at night, refrigerator ice machines that work, nodding & saying "fellas" whenever I walk by two dogs together, rye bread, That Thing You Do!, Martin Short, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, Hayday, my feet in the grass, Jeff Lamp, the thrill of an upcoming rest stop with several great fast food options, women, 7/06/1957, vintage 1970s Pizza Hut, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (obviously the UK one and not the awful US version), kids who actually try to be funny, The Replacements, great straws, "What's Happening!!", Rocco DiSpirito's "The Restaurant", Christmas lights, Carol Burnett, The Turkey's Nest, thunder, "Only Fools and Horses", the fries at the bottom of the bag, the first "Mad Men" office, the Williamsburg Softball League 2003-2012, Coach Bobby Finstock, "Animal Farm" by The Kinks, London Fog, cloth couches, DT & the Shakes, Norman Lear, taking the train, a sportcoat you don’t want to take off, frozen waffles, Bill Russell, Stove Top stuffing, the mingling of generations at weddings, carpeting, BritBox, front porches, Stephen Merchant, sheepdog drone work videos, Ralph Malph, canceled meetings, the word “shenanigans”, the first time I ever pulled off saying “bodega” after moving to Brooklyn, my friend Riley, Joy Garden, David Spade doing his impression of Dennis Miller calling him "Spudly", Bob Uecker, when a sitcom pairs off two unlikely characters, "Uncle", the first Autumn issue of "The New Yorker", Johnny Hart, Doritos & peanut butter, Joe Strummer, people who don’t always pretend they have better things to do, Teen Wolf, Dancing On My Own (the song not the activity), mushy peas, St. Paul (the sandwich not the city)(sorry city I've just never been), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, R.E.M., old men only too happy to give their thoughts on the bowl of ice cream they’re eating, Bulleit bottles, Wally my cat friend, asking "what if it's a puppy?" whenever anyone gets a box in the mail, saying the word "mouse", saying “mousey mousey”, the 1995 PBS doc on rock & roll, sausage wheels, Monopoly, provolone, very old monarchies that are without actual power but still are charming enough to let you believe just a little bit in magic, oranges, Steve Jones, chicken planks from Long John Silver's, ivy, green, Love in Vain, Wayne Federman, Magic Shell, the off-off Broadway classic La Cocina, a classic barn jacket, The Great Brain, funny raccoon pictures, raw onion, every time Principal Ava on “Abbot Elementary” walks into a scene, Mr. Submarine, whatever it is I think 1970s architecture looks like, The Clissold Arms, The Wonder Years reboot, my first cronut, podcasting, Teenage Riot, Liev Schrieber narrating anything, brown, any kind of "melt" when they can still keep the mayo/tomatoes cold, Bloom County, Baby Come Back (The Equals not Player), Geoff Esper, a party mix with as close to zero pretzels as we can get at the moment, Derry Girls, John Lennon chewing gum onstage, a trail mix with as close to zero raisins as we can get at the moment, Cheez Whiz, October baseball, Lou Reed's "New York", funny Karl Mueller, The Vacant Lot, Saturday, notebooks, novels that go into great detail about what murderers on the run eat at roadside diners, Rick Sebak's "A Hot Dog Program", Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up", crinkle-cut fries, "Gavin and Stacey", Graham Linehan before he lost his mind, Alison Steadman, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", candy corn, Father Ted, day drinking, The Killer, the Hallmark Christmas Channel's refusal to spend more than a dime on fake snow, Young Frankenstein, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", Revolver, WIA (the show not the actual address), the first time of Fall when dead leaves fall like rain, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Clerks”, Dave Attell, being the only person on an entire corporate floor, Chuck Klosterman, the podcast "Let it Roll", stumbling onto terrestrial radio while in a cabin in the woods, Cardinal Point Winery, hash browns, seeing the first Christmas tree of the season, the mid-late 1990s, free office coffee no matter if it's shitty or fine, coming in from the cold, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, thinking "wow that's the hardest I've laughed in forever", Bedford & N 7th, Tony Shalhoub, 15 years of Xmastime, rubbing dogs’ butts, the first “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” hearing of the season, recliners that swivel, the constant blizzard of fat jokes in any episode of "What's Happening!!", when kids make cookies, Catherine Reitman, luxuriating in bed, "Le Morte d'Arthur", "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, Irish stereotypes about horses, tater tots, the unrelenting rock & roll of Peter Buck, "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals", orange, brake lights afar in the dark, over-the-top reenactment actors, reading books, Take My Teenage Head, writing books, the first bad weather of winter, Jon Lovitz, Alex P. Keaton, Dunkin' Donuts grilled cheese sandwich, 

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day!

One of my faves! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Christmas special Only Fools And Horses🍹🎄🎅🍹
-Dates-
"Derek Duval😅"#chistmas#onlyfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy pic.twitter.com/bRRPsvzdPF

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) December 18, 2022

It's Official

I'm putting the odds of Elon "What Do I Need to Do to Look Like More of a Baby Fucking Toddler Than Trump?" Musk naming Jared Kushner CEO of Twitter at 100%.

Things I Like

Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, toast with butter, Apollo 8, Garfield, the "slightly pull the car up while someone's trying to get in" gag, dogs with their heads sticking out car windows, wood paneling, pork egg foo young, rain, Roadrunner (Modern Lovers), the green type in Hulu’s search bar, Marah, Without Feathers, hour 3 of a wedding reception, French women, Rob Brydon, Indiana high school basketball, whenever anyone else cancels an appointment, The Star-Spangled Girl (the play not the movie), Cheaper by the Dozen (the book not the movie grrrrr), 1995, Camille Claudel, the perfect pen, hotels, witnessing the slow-moving car crash of when some guy replies to "I'm ______ and I'll be your waitress" with "I'm ______ and I'll be your customer!", The Red Green Show, dinner parties at 100 Metro, Robert Kennedy, the first warm sock out of the dryer, the #7, honest waiters, Russell Edson, Rankin/Bass animation, Soup (the books not the “food”), Queen Elizabeth II (sorry, I),"Bobby Jean", my orange bear hat, Ball Four, The Steven Banks Show, French Vanilla anything, Porridge (the sitcom not the disgusting "food"), a paperback with the perfect floppiness to it, oranges, Downton Abbey, shag carpet, the first 3 Ed Burns movies, peas, knowing it's about to rain, Paul McCartney, Peter Tinniswood, Cheerios, the Starbucks mobile ordering app, any toaster with more than two slots, bears, watching car tail lights crossing a bridge at night, refrigerator ice machines that work, nodding & saying "fellas" whenever I walk by two dogs together, rye bread, That Thing You Do!, Martin Short, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, Hayday, my feet in the grass, Jeff Lamp, the thrill of an upcoming rest stop with several great fast food options, women, 7/06/1957, vintage 1970s Pizza Hut, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (obviously the UK one and not the awful US version), kids who actually try to be funny, The Replacements, great straws, "What's Happening!!", Rocco DiSpirito's "The Restaurant", Christmas lights, Carol Burnett, The Turkey's Nest, thunder, "Only Fools and Horses", the fries at the bottom of the bag, the first "Mad Men" office, the Williamsburg Softball League 2003-2012, Coach Bobby Finstock, "Animal Farm" by The Kinks, London Fog, cloth couches, DT & the Shakes, Norman Lear, taking the train, a sportcoat you don’t want to take off, frozen waffles, Bill Russell, Stove Top stuffing, the mingling of generations at weddings, carpeting, BritBox, front porches, Stephen Merchant, sheepdog drone work videos, Ralph Malph, canceled meetings, the word “shenanigans”, the first time I ever pulled off saying “bodega” after moving to Brooklyn, my friend Riley, Joy Garden, David Spade doing his impression of Dennis Miller calling him "Spudly", Bob Uecker, when a sitcom pairs off two unlikely characters, "Uncle", the first Autumn issue of "The New Yorker", Johnny Hart, Doritos & peanut butter, Joe Strummer, people who don’t always pretend they have better things to do, Teen Wolf, Dancing On My Own (the song not the activity), mushy peas, St. Paul (the sandwich not the city)(sorry city I've just never been), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, R.E.M., old men only too happy to give their thoughts on the bowl of ice cream they’re eating, Bulleit bottles, Wally my cat friend, asking "what if it's a puppy?" whenever anyone gets a box in the mail, saying the word "mouse", saying “mousey mousey”, the 1995 PBS doc on rock & roll, sausage wheels, Monopoly, provolone, very old monarchies that are without actual power but still are charming enough to let you believe just a little bit in magic, oranges, Steve Jones, chicken planks from Long John Silver's, ivy, green, Love in Vain, Wayne Federman, Magic Shell, the off-off Broadway classic La Cocina, a classic barn jacket, The Great Brain, funny raccoon pictures, raw onion, every time Principal Ava on “Abbot Elementary” walks into a scene, Mr. Submarine, whatever it is I think 1970s architecture looks like, The Clissold Arms, The Wonder Years reboot, my first cronut, podcasting, Teenage Riot, Liev Schrieber narrating anything, brown, any kind of "melt" when they can still keep the mayo/tomatoes cold, Bloom County, Baby Come Back (The Equals not Player), Geoff Esper, a party mix with as close to zero pretzels as we can get at the moment, Derry Girls, John Lennon chewing gum onstage, a trail mix with as close to zero raisins as we can get at the moment, Cheez Whiz, October baseball, Lou Reed's "New York", funny Karl Mueller, The Vacant Lot, Saturday, notebooks, novels that go into great detail about what murderers on the run eat at roadside diners, Rick Sebak's "A Hot Dog Program", Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up", crinkle-cut fries, "Gavin and Stacey", Graham Linehan before he lost his mind, Alison Steadman, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", candy corn, Father Ted, day drinking, The Killer, the Hallmark Christmas Channel's refusal to spend more than a dime on fake snow, Young Frankenstein, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", Revolver, WIA (the show not the actual address), the first time of Fall when dead leaves fall like rain, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Clerks”, Dave Attell, being the only person on an entire corporate floor, Chuck Klosterman, the podcast "Let it Roll", stumbling onto terrestrial radio while in a cabin in the woods, Cardinal Point Winery, hash browns, seeing the first Christmas tree of the season, the mid-late 1990s, free office coffee no matter if it's shitty or fine, coming in from the cold, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, thinking "wow that's the hardest I've laughed in forever", Bedford & N 7th, Tony Shalhoub, 15 years of Xmastime, rubbing dogs’ butts, the first “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” hearing of the season, recliners that swivel, the constant blizzard of fat jokes in any episode of "What's Happening!!", when kids make cookies, Catherine Reitman, luxuriating in bed, "Le Morte d'Arthur", "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, Irish stereotypes about horses, tater tots, the unrelenting rock & roll of Peter Buck, "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals", orange, brake lights afar in the dark, over-the-top reenactment actors, reading books, Take My Teenage Head, writing books, the first bad weather of winter, Jon Lovitz, Alex P. Keaton,

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day!

Christmas special Only Fools And Horses🍹🎄🎅🍹
-The Jolly Boys Outing-
😅#chistmas#onlyfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy #TheBest pic.twitter.com/9uw9zmKnGI

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) December 17, 2022

Still a Great Idea.

Things I Like

Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, toast with butter, Apollo 8, Garfield, the "slightly pull the car up while someone's trying to get in" gag, dogs with their heads sticking out car windows, wood paneling, pork egg foo young, rain, Roadrunner (Modern Lovers), the green type in Hulu’s search bar, Marah, Without Feathers, hour 3 of a wedding reception, French women, Rob Brydon, Indiana high school basketball, whenever anyone else cancels an appointment, The Star-Spangled Girl (the play not the movie), Cheaper by the Dozen (the book not the movie grrrrr), 1995, Camille Claudel, the perfect pen, hotels, witnessing the slow-moving car crash of when some guy replies to "I'm ______ and I'll be your waitress" with "I'm ______ and I'll be your customer!", The Red Green Show, dinner parties at 100 Metro, Robert Kennedy, the first warm sock out of the dryer, the #7, honest waiters, Russell Edson, Rankin/Bass animation, Soup (the books not the “food”), Queen Elizabeth II (sorry, I),"Bobby Jean", my orange bear hat, Ball Four, The Steven Banks Show, French Vanilla anything, Porridge (the sitcom not the disgusting "food"), a paperback with the perfect floppiness to it, oranges, Downton Abbey, shag carpet, the first 3 Ed Burns movies, peas, knowing it's about to rain, Paul McCartney, Peter Tinniswood, Cheerios, the Starbucks mobile ordering app, any toaster with more than two slots, bears, watching car tail lights crossing a bridge at night, refrigerator ice machines that work, nodding & saying "fellas" whenever I walk by two dogs together, rye bread, That Thing You Do!, Martin Short, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, Hayday, my feet in the grass, Jeff Lamp, the thrill of an upcoming rest stop with several great fast food options, women, 7/06/1957, vintage 1970s Pizza Hut, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (obviously the UK one and not the awful US version), kids who actually try to be funny, The Replacements, great straws, "What's Happening!!", Rocco DiSpirito's "The Restaurant", Christmas lights, Carol Burnett, The Turkey's Nest, thunder, "Only Fools and Horses", the fries at the bottom of the bag, the first "Mad Men" office, the Williamsburg Softball League 2003-2012, Coach Bobby Finstock, "Animal Farm" by The Kinks, London Fog, cloth couches, DT & the Shakes, Norman Lear, taking the train, a sportcoat you don’t want to take off, frozen waffles, Bill Russell, Stove Top stuffing, the mingling of generations at weddings, carpeting, BritBox, front porches, Stephen Merchant, sheepdog drone work videos, Ralph Malph, canceled meetings, the word “shenanigans”, the first time I ever pulled off saying “bodega” after moving to Brooklyn, my friend Riley, Joy Garden, David Spade doing his impression of Dennis Miller calling him "Spudly", Bob Uecker, when a sitcom pairs off two unlikely characters, "Uncle", the first Autumn issue of "The New Yorker", Johnny Hart, Doritos & peanut butter, Joe Strummer, people who don’t always pretend they have better things to do, Teen Wolf, Dancing On My Own (the song not the activity), mushy peas, St. Paul (the sandwich not the city)(sorry city I've just never been), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, R.E.M., old men only too happy to give their thoughts on the bowl of ice cream they’re eating, Bulleit bottles, Wally my cat friend, asking "what if it's a puppy?" whenever anyone gets a box in the mail, saying the word "mouse", saying “mousey mousey”, the 1995 PBS doc on rock & roll, sausage wheels, Monopoly, provolone, very old monarchies that are without actual power but still are charming enough to let you believe just a little bit in magic, oranges, Steve Jones, chicken planks from Long John Silver's, ivy, green, Love in Vain, Wayne Federman, Magic Shell, the off-off Broadway classic La Cocina, a classic barn jacket, The Great Brain, funny raccoon pictures, raw onion, every time Principal Ava on “Abbot Elementary” walks into a scene, Mr. Submarine, whatever it is I think 1970s architecture looks like, The Clissold Arms, The Wonder Years reboot, my first cronut, podcasting, Teenage Riot, Liev Schrieber narrating anything, brown, any kind of "melt" when they can still keep the mayo/tomatoes cold, Bloom County, Baby Come Back (The Equals not Player), Geoff Esper, a party mix with as close to zero pretzels as we can get at the moment, Derry Girls, John Lennon chewing gum onstage, a trail mix with as close to zero raisins as we can get at the moment, Cheez Whiz, October baseball, Lou Reed's "New York", funny Karl Mueller, The Vacant Lot, Saturday, notebooks, novels that go into great detail about what murderers on the run eat at roadside diners, Rick Sebak's "A Hot Dog Program", Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up", crinkle-cut fries, "Gavin and Stacey", Graham Linehan before he lost his mind, Alison Steadman, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", candy corn, Father Ted, day drinking, The Killer, the Hallmark Christmas Channel's refusal to spend more than a dime on fake snow, Young Frankenstein, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", Revolver, WIA (the show not the actual address), the first time of Fall when dead leaves fall like rain, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Clerks”, Dave Attell, being the only person on an entire corporate floor, Chuck Klosterman, the podcast "Let it Roll", stumbling onto terrestrial radio while in a cabin in the woods, Cardinal Point Winery, hash browns, seeing the first Christmas tree of the season, the mid-late 1990s, free office coffee no matter if it's shitty or fine, coming in from the cold, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, thinking "wow that's the hardest I've laughed in forever", Bedford & N 7th, Tony Shalhoub, 15 years of Xmastime, rubbing dogs’ butts, the first “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” hearing of the season, recliners that swivel, the constant blizzard of fat jokes in any episode of "What's Happening!!", when kids make cookies, Catherine Reitman, luxuriating in bed, "Le Morte d'Arthur", "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, Irish stereotypes about horses, tater tots, the unrelenting rock & roll of Peter Buck, "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals", orange, brake lights afar in the dark, over-the-top reenactment actors, reading books, Take My Teenage Head, writing books, the first bad weather of winter, Jon Lovitz, 

True Confession Time

As much as I LOVE LOVE LOVE my superslice of superslices R.E.M. - and you know this, motherfuckers! - I've never liked Reckoning as much as most other fans. 😬🤷‍♂️🕺

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day! (A Rare 2nd One of the Day!)

Christmas special Only Fools And Horses🍹🎄🎅🍹
-Fatal Extraction-
"Whales"😅#chistmas#onlyfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy pic.twitter.com/1UGZbRUcsp

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) December 16, 2022

Xmastime: Hollywood Producer

I mean I'm just saying, has anyone actually seen Owen Wilson and Jennifer Coolidge in the same room at the same time? 🤔🤯

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day!

THE JOLLY BOYS OUTING - this is one of my favorites even tho it’s not even close to being the funniest. But there’s something really warm about it, probably due to the beano to Margate giving us an excuse to see so many of the characters together, which is always great.

Christmas special Only Fools And Horses🍹🎄🎅🍹
-The Jolly Boys Outing-
"Cold!?"😅#chistmas
#onlyfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy pic.twitter.com/SvZbvAQvf0

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) December 16, 2022

Things I Like

Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, toast with butter, Apollo 8, Garfield, the "slightly pull the car up while someone's trying to get in" gag, dogs with their heads sticking out car windows, wood paneling, pork egg foo young, rain, Roadrunner (Modern Lovers), the green type in Hulu’s search bar, Marah, Without Feathers, hour 3 of a wedding reception, French women, Rob Brydon, Indiana high school basketball, whenever anyone else cancels an appointment, The Star-Spangled Girl (the play not the movie), Cheaper by the Dozen (the book not the movie grrrrr), 1995, Camille Claudel, the perfect pen, hotels, witnessing the slow-moving car crash of when some guy replies to "I'm ______ and I'll be your waitress" with "I'm ______ and I'll be your customer!", The Red Green Show, dinner parties at 100 Metro, Robert Kennedy, the first warm sock out of the dryer, the #7, honest waiters, Russell Edson, Rankin/Bass animation, Soup (the books not the “food”), Queen Elizabeth II (sorry, I),"Bobby Jean", my orange bear hat, Ball Four, The Steven Banks Show, French Vanilla anything, Porridge (the sitcom not the disgusting "food"), a paperback with the perfect floppiness to it, oranges, Downton Abbey, shag carpet, the first 3 Ed Burns movies, peas, knowing it's about to rain, Paul McCartney, Peter Tinniswood, Cheerios, the Starbucks mobile ordering app, any toaster with more than two slots, bears, watching car tail lights crossing a bridge at night, refrigerator ice machines that work, nodding & saying "fellas" whenever I walk by two dogs together, rye bread, That Thing You Do!, Martin Short, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, Hayday, my feet in the grass, Jeff Lamp, the thrill of an upcoming rest stop with several great fast food options, women, 7/06/1957, vintage 1970s Pizza Hut, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (obviously the UK one and not the awful US version), kids who actually try to be funny, The Replacements, great straws, "What's Happening!!", Rocco DiSpirito's "The Restaurant", Christmas lights, Carol Burnett, The Turkey's Nest, thunder, "Only Fools and Horses", the fries at the bottom of the bag, the first "Mad Men" office, the Williamsburg Softball League 2003-2012, Coach Bobby Finstock, "Animal Farm" by The Kinks, London Fog, cloth couches, DT & the Shakes, Norman Lear, taking the train, a sportcoat you don’t want to take off, frozen waffles, Bill Russell, Stove Top stuffing, the mingling of generations at weddings, carpeting, BritBox, front porches, Stephen Merchant, sheepdog drone work videos, Ralph Malph, canceled meetings, the word “shenanigans”, the first time I ever pulled off saying “bodega” after moving to Brooklyn, my friend Riley, Joy Garden, David Spade doing his impression of Dennis Miller calling him "Spudly", Bob Uecker, when a sitcom pairs off two unlikely characters, "Uncle", the first Autumn issue of "The New Yorker", Johnny Hart, Doritos & peanut butter, Joe Strummer, people who don’t always pretend they have better things to do, Teen Wolf, Dancing On My Own (the song not the activity), mushy peas, St. Paul (the sandwich not the city)(sorry city I've just never been), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, R.E.M., old men only too happy to give their thoughts on the bowl of ice cream they’re eating, Bulleit bottles, Wally my cat friend, asking "what if it's a puppy?" whenever anyone gets a box in the mail, saying the word "mouse", saying “mousey mousey”, the 1995 PBS doc on rock & roll, sausage wheels, Monopoly, provolone, very old monarchies that are without actual power but still are charming enough to let you believe just a little bit in magic, oranges, Steve Jones, chicken planks from Long John Silver's, ivy, green, Love in Vain, Wayne Federman, Magic Shell, the off-off Broadway classic La Cocina, a classic barn jacket, The Great Brain, funny raccoon pictures, raw onion, every time Principal Ava on “Abbot Elementary” walks into a scene, Mr. Submarine, whatever it is I think 1970s architecture looks like, The Clissold Arms, The Wonder Years reboot, my first cronut, podcasting, Teenage Riot, Liev Schrieber narrating anything, brown, any kind of "melt" when they can still keep the mayo/tomatoes cold, Bloom County, Baby Come Back (The Equals not Player), Geoff Esper, a party mix with as close to zero pretzels as we can get at the moment, Derry Girls, John Lennon chewing gum onstage, a trail mix with as close to zero raisins as we can get at the moment, Cheez Whiz, October baseball, Lou Reed's "New York", funny Karl Mueller, The Vacant Lot, Saturday, notebooks, novels that go into great detail about what murderers on the run eat at roadside diners, Rick Sebak's "A Hot Dog Program", Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up", crinkle-cut fries, "Gavin and Stacey", Graham Linehan before he lost his mind, Alison Steadman, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", candy corn, Father Ted, day drinking, The Killer, the Hallmark Christmas Channel's refusal to spend more than a dime on fake snow, Young Frankenstein, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", Revolver, WIA (the show not the actual address), the first time of Fall when dead leaves fall like rain, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Clerks”, Dave Attell, being the only person on an entire corporate floor, Chuck Klosterman, the podcast "Let it Roll", stumbling onto terrestrial radio while in a cabin in the woods, Cardinal Point Winery, hash browns, seeing the first Christmas tree of the season, the mid-late 1990s, free office coffee no matter if it's shitty or fine, coming in from the cold, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, thinking "wow that's the hardest I've laughed in forever", Bedford & N 7th, Tony Shalhoub, 15 years of Xmastime, rubbing dogs’ butts, the first “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” hearing of the season, recliners that swivel, the constant blizzard of fat jokes in any episode of "What's Happening!!", when kids make cookies, Catherine Reitman, luxuriating in bed, "Le Morte d'Arthur", "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, Irish stereotypes about horses, tater tots, the unrelenting rock & roll of Peter Buck, "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals", orange, brake lights afar in the dark, over-the-top reenactment actors, reading books, Take My Teenage Head, writing books, the first bad weather of winter,

Mythic Quest Update

I don't get to vote on these things but the little kid who played young Poppy in this week's episode should win all the awards; moment by moment she was funny/endearing/sad/sweet/funny again. Fantastic 🤗

War is Done but Not Egg Foo What?!

This is the video mentioned in this week’s EGG FOO WHAT?! episode of special guest Will Croxton's band The Habit featuring Mike & me, who MAY have mentioned once or twice during the show about being miffed my best comedy bits weren’t included. Enjoy!

Just Had My First Real Doctor's Visit In Years

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Egg Foo What?! Episode 26

Longtime buddy Will Croxton tries egg foo young for the first time ever on the air, we all are obsessed with how good looking Watty is and there’s some weird bathroom stuff. It’s all here, people! #eggfowhat

LISTEN HERE!

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day!

Christmas special Only Fools And Horses🍹🎄🎅🍹
-Dates-
"The Raquel Turner?"😅#chistmas#onlyfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy pic.twitter.com/8KrNKW6aO4

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) December 15, 2022

Bullshit du Jour

The whole bullshit thing about comedians being “cancelled” is that by the time they’re big enough to have people give a shit about what they’ve said they’re also too big to be “cancelled”. 

OFAH Christmas Month Rolls On Another Day!

Strangers on the Shore - a good episode, best remembered for the classic bit about accidentally kidnapping an illegal immigrant whom they then pretend is an old friend of Rodney's named "Gary". 

Oh Rodney, you PLONKER!! 🤣

Hello Trigg, what are you doing here?😅#onlsfoolsandhorses #ofah #comedy #TheBest pic.twitter.com/LQZRxKvPA2

— Only Fools And Horses Clips (@foolshorses_) October 3, 2022

Yes, No, No, No, Yes, N/A, Yes, No, No, Yes, No, No

 

It Really IS the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!!!!! 🤗🕺🎸🎄

Listen to the entire playlist HERE!!!!

Zing! du Jour

On Nebraska

I didn't mention this October being the 40th anniversary of the release of Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen's most haunting, austere album which would grow exponentially in its influence over the ensuing decades. I can't think of anything brilliant to say about it other than posting something I did 10 years ago (NOTE: in re-assessing I'd probably drop Johnny 99 a few spots and raise Atlantic City up a few spots but dammit in this life we live with no regrets dammit):

Springsteen sat in his bedroom and recorded Nebraska:

While the album was released on September 20, 1982, today officially marks three decades since Springsteen began recording what would become his sixth album...At the time, of course, Bruce did not intend for any of the tracks he was recording at home to be what listeners actually would hear when they played his next album. Springsteen thought he simply had found a convenient way to prepare a set of demos for the E Street Band to use as a guide in recording his new songs. The idea was just to make the recording process with his band more efficient and less expensive. Some of the Nebraska-era demos actually led to successful full-band recordings that were released later (often sounding much different than the original demos), such as "Born in the U.S.A.," "Working on the Highway," and "Pink Cadillac." For the most part, however, it became clear pretty quickly that much of what Bruce had recorded at home was very special in and of itself.

I will now list my Nebraska slices in order, followed by a photo of Bruce on that day with a group he called "The Guys!"

Johnny 99
Mansion on the Hill
My Father's House
Reason to Believe
Open All Night
Atlantic City
Highway Patrolman
Nebraska
Used Cars
State Trooper

Followup Movie Review, by Xmastime

I first mentioned The Banshees of Inisherin yesterday.

I loved this movie, although I'd be lying if I said a big part of that wasn't the insanely beautiful scenery, what with it being on the coast of Ireland and all. As someone who's been there to witness such a place, even I just can't believe it's still as untouched and stunning as it all is.

Gleason is his normal great self, and Ferrell should be up for whatever awards are out there. A great, great movie I know I'll revisit over the years.

HOWEVER.

I don't know why Ferrell kept confronting Gleason about "being nice", instead of not wanting to be his friend anymore. Why did it become a bit of a quasi-"we should all be nice to each other" lesson instead of the bitter heartbreak that would come from such a turn by a friend?

Not that Ferrell didn't do plenty of just that, but he did it all in his eyes and mannerisms and movements; I just don't know why during his confrontations he'd implore Gleason to be nice more than outrage/questions over his sudden rejection of friendship. After all, Gleason continued being nice to everybody else, just not his now erstwhile best friend.

Just Sayin'

The geniuses that be are wringing their hands re: DeSantis vs Trump, but I would suggest that the reason Republicans are still clinging to Trump is their insane fear of losing his base, that 30% or whatever number of fucking assholes who would chop their own arms off for Dear Leader. Which is yet another reminder of how abnormal Trump is: let's say DeSantis does the unthinkable and defeats him in the GOP primary. Now, in every other scenario throughout history, the vanquished candidate would magnanimously tell his supporters to swallow their defeated pride and vote for the candidate who beat them within their own party.

BUT THIS IS TRUMP!!! Of COURSE he's going to DEMAND his cult followers to NOT vote for DeSantis, therein crippling him in the general race and, cherry on top!, lets Trump bray that see, HE would've beaten Biden etc etc.

I mean, just sayin'.

The Year In Review: Original Tweet That Changed the World

Freaky-Deaky, Peeps

I've said the same thing before about a film from the same era: there may be a person within the frame of this film that was born in the 18th century.

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE FIRST RECORDED PEOPLE HERE YOU'RE WELCOME.

The oldest inductee to the #NatFilmRegistry this year is an 1898 film of the “Mardi Gras Carnival” parade in New Orleans. It was long thought to be lost but was recently re-discovered in a museum in the Netherlands. pic.twitter.com/ptCU4gmS5F

— Library of Congress (@librarycongress) December 14, 2022

Things I Like

Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, toast with butter, Apollo 8, Garfield, the "slightly pull the car up while someone's trying to get in" gag, dogs with their heads sticking out car windows, wood paneling, pork egg foo young, rain, Roadrunner (Modern Lovers), the green type in Hulu’s search bar, Marah, Without Feathers, hour 3 of a wedding reception, French women, Rob Brydon, Indiana high school basketball, whenever anyone else cancels an appointment, The Star-Spangled Girl (the play not the movie), Cheaper by the Dozen (the book not the movie grrrrr), 1995, Camille Claudel, the perfect pen, hotels, witnessing the slow-moving car crash of when some guy replies to "I'm ______ and I'll be your waitress" with "I'm ______ and I'll be your customer!", The Red Green Show, dinner parties at 100 Metro, Robert Kennedy, the first warm sock out of the dryer, the #7, honest waiters, Russell Edson, Rankin/Bass animation, Soup (the books not the “food”), Queen Elizabeth II (sorry, I),"Bobby Jean", my orange bear hat, Ball Four, The Steven Banks Show, French Vanilla anything, Porridge (the sitcom not the disgusting "food"), a paperback with the perfect floppiness to it, oranges, Downton Abbey, shag carpet, the first 3 Ed Burns movies, peas, knowing it's about to rain, Paul McCartney, Peter Tinniswood, Cheerios, the Starbucks mobile ordering app, any toaster with more than two slots, bears, watching car tail lights crossing a bridge at night, refrigerator ice machines that work, nodding & saying "fellas" whenever I walk by two dogs together, rye bread, That Thing You Do!, Martin Short, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, Hayday, my feet in the grass, Jeff Lamp, the thrill of an upcoming rest stop with several great fast food options, women, 7/06/1957, vintage 1970s Pizza Hut, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (obviously the UK one and not the awful US version), kids who actually try to be funny, The Replacements, great straws, "What's Happening!!", Rocco DiSpirito's "The Restaurant", Christmas lights, Carol Burnett, The Turkey's Nest, thunder, "Only Fools and Horses", the fries at the bottom of the bag, the first "Mad Men" office, the Williamsburg Softball League 2003-2012, Coach Bobby Finstock, "Animal Farm" by The Kinks, London Fog, cloth couches, DT & the Shakes, Norman Lear, taking the train, a sportcoat you don’t want to take off, frozen waffles, Bill Russell, Stove Top stuffing, the mingling of generations at weddings, carpeting, BritBox, front porches, Stephen Merchant, sheepdog drone work videos, Ralph Malph, canceled meetings, the word “shenanigans”, the first time I ever pulled off saying “bodega” after moving to Brooklyn, my friend Riley, Joy Garden, David Spade doing his impression of Dennis Miller calling him "Spudly", Bob Uecker, when a sitcom pairs off two unlikely characters, "Uncle", the first Autumn issue of "The New Yorker", Johnny Hart, Doritos & peanut butter, Joe Strummer, people who don’t always pretend they have better things to do, Teen Wolf, Dancing On My Own (the song not the activity), mushy peas, St. Paul (the sandwich not the city)(sorry city I've just never been), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, R.E.M., old men only too happy to give their thoughts on the bowl of ice cream they’re eating, Bulleit bottles, Wally my cat friend, asking "what if it's a puppy?" whenever anyone gets a box in the mail, saying the word "mouse", saying “mousey mousey”, the 1995 PBS doc on rock & roll, sausage wheels, Monopoly, provolone, very old monarchies that are without actual power but still are charming enough to let you believe just a little bit in magic, oranges, Steve Jones, chicken planks from Long John Silver's, ivy, green, Love in Vain, Wayne Federman, Magic Shell, the off-off Broadway classic La Cocina, a classic barn jacket, The Great Brain, funny raccoon pictures, raw onion, every time Principal Ava on “Abbot Elementary” walks into a scene, Mr. Submarine, whatever it is I think 1970s architecture looks like, The Clissold Arms, The Wonder Years reboot, my first cronut, podcasting, Teenage Riot, Liev Schrieber narrating anything, brown, any kind of "melt" when they can still keep the mayo/tomatoes cold, Bloom County, Baby Come Back (The Equals not Player), Geoff Esper, a party mix with as close to zero pretzels as we can get at the moment, Derry Girls, John Lennon chewing gum onstage, a trail mix with as close to zero raisins as we can get at the moment, Cheez Whiz, October baseball, Lou Reed's "New York", funny Karl Mueller, The Vacant Lot, Saturday, notebooks, novels that go into great detail about what murderers on the run eat at roadside diners, Rick Sebak's "A Hot Dog Program", Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up", crinkle-cut fries, "Gavin and Stacey", Graham Linehan before he lost his mind, Alison Steadman, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", candy corn, Father Ted, day drinking, The Killer, the Hallmark Christmas Channel's refusal to spend more than a dime on fake snow, Young Frankenstein, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", Revolver, WIA (the show not the actual address), the first time of Fall when dead leaves fall like rain, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Clerks”, Dave Attell, being the only person on an entire corporate floor, Chuck Klosterman, the podcast "Let it Roll", stumbling onto terrestrial radio while in a cabin in the woods, Cardinal Point Winery, hash browns, seeing the first Christmas tree of the season, the mid-late 1990s, free office coffee no matter if it's shitty or fine, coming in from the cold, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, thinking "wow that's the hardest I've laughed in forever", Bedford & N 7th, Tony Shalhoub, 15 years of Xmastime, rubbing dogs’ butts, the first “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” hearing of the season, recliners that swivel, the constant blizzard of fat jokes in any episode of "What's Happening!!", when kids make cookies, Catherine Reitman, luxuriating in bed, "Le Morte d'Arthur", "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, Irish stereotypes about horses, tater tots, the unrelenting rock & roll of Peter Buck, "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals", orange, brake lights afar in the dark, over-the-top reenactment actors, reading books, Take My Teenage Head, writing books,

With Apologies to Stephen Curry's Dad and Some Rando Farmer...

...these are truly my favorite Dels 🤗🤣 🤗🤣 🤗🤣 🤗🤣

Shook, II

I'm listening to a podcast right now and the guy has used the phrase "those data" four times now and I mean camon guys dafuck already

Shook

In my office lobby yesterday I walked past a small group of Christmas carolers. "How delightful!" I thought. Two minutes later I walked by again and they were just standing there talking to each other, hanging out just as easy as you please and it's taken me until now to be able to talk about it. I mean I'm not saying it's like seeing KISS without the makeup but camon guys (AND gals!) what're we even fucking doing here ?

Xmastime Part-Time Movie Review Check-Ins

I'm a sucker for any movie about a guy longing for regular human connection, and only 15 minutes into this flick I gotta say Colin Ferrell is absolutely killing this for me. A bit sad & pathetic, a little dumb & a lot naive; you instantly start desperately rooting for him to be okay. 

Ergo, so far it has a bit of a Bobby Cannavale/Peter Dinklage The Station Agent vibe.

Ah Yes, the Trump Business Model

Just don’t pay people you owe money to. That sure makes the ol’wallet happier. Easy-peasy. I look forward to seeing what other shithead policies this shithead adopts from King Shithead himself. 

Peep This Bitches

Apparently someone the US is looking to make an American version of Peep Show...AGAIN!!!

It will mark the fifth attempt to remake Peep Show stateside. In 2005, Fox cast Johnny Galecki in the lead of a pilot that wasn’t picked up before Spike TV developed another in 2008, set to be written by Armstrong and Bain, but it never came to fruition. There was another attempt by Starz in 2016 and most recently, in 2019 FX tried again with Community writer Karey Dornetto. Peep Show became Channel 4’s longest-running comedy starting in 2003 and ending in 2015. It starred David Mitchell and Robert Webb and also featured Olivia Colman in an early role. Mitchell and Webb said in a 2021 interview that they would consider a new series when they are in their 60s.

I mean for fuck's sake already. Not only is it entirely unnecessary to make American versions of British shows now that we have such better - tho not exhaustive - access to all the great shows via streaming services, but Peep Show in particular is a hard show to pull off anyway, with its crazy pioneering style of being inside the characters' heads at all times. Supremely unique, supremely FUNNY!!, and this is supremely unnecessary. They stopped trying to make Fawlty Towers after three tries, I can't believe they're still trying with this classic which is in the Xmastime Britcom Pantheon!!!

Grrrrrr.

The Boss Gets Me.

Op used to say that one day some girl would swoop in and before I even knew it I'd be snatched away to Iowa or some other bumfuck place, blissfully in love; nowadays, all I ask for is a woman who's impressed by both my being able to lift heavy boxes and my dynamite quips during Beverly Hills 90210, lazily jerking me off reading Cosmo as I watch Frasier reruns. - XMASTIME

Right Now, Somewhere, This Dude is Running a Company Worth Millions of Dollars (or her date was Del Boy Trotter?!?!?!?!)