Life of Dino
Monday, June 30, 2025
Bourdain on Life
"To sit alone or with a few friends, half-drunk under a full moon, you just understand how lucky you are; it’s a story you can’t tell. It’s a story you almost by definition, can’t share. I’ve learned in real time to look at those things and realize: I just had a really good moment.”
Me. I'm Really Happening, Aren't I?
Congratulations, Science
#TeamRivers
I haven't been in a rush to run out & buy Springsteen's new mammoth box set of "albums I made that I did not deem worthy or release when I made them" but I did perk up when I saw he has a cover of Johnny Rivers' brilliant classic Poor Side of Town.
Unfortunately Bruce seemed to think that being from the poor side of town meant being dull as fuck zzzzzzzzzzzzzz so I'll leave you with the original and yes you ARE very welcome!
Seinfeld BS Stank
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Excerpt!
Excerpt from an upcoming XMASTIME YOUR ENTHUSIASM podcast episode in which I talk about the first 6 episodes of Season 4 of The Bear, you're welcome very much.
Here's to Alec Baldwin
FINALLY, 20 years later I see an actor say he (gasp!) doesn't like playing assholes:
In America.
Xmastime So Sayeth, So Sayeth Xmastime
Curb Regrets
State du Moi
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Life. It's Really Happening, Isn't It?
Something You Should Know About Me
Fuck This Asshole
Questions. I Have Them.
Ideas. I Have Them.
Or if you’re a woman, you might choose one of these:
WOMAN’S VOICE: “turn right in 0.4 miles…onto Grant Avenue…jesus, look at that cow 2 cars over! You’re SO much skinnier than her!!...oooh, turn right here… oh, PLEASE, look at yellow Hyundai bitch...yeah, THOSE are real...”
But wouldn't another great one be Alexa, the Music Snob?
"Alexa, please play BONZO GOES TO BITBURG by The Ramones."
"Single or album version?"
"Single, please."
"Ugh."
or
"Alexa, please play the second Big Star album?"
"You mean the one after Chris Bell left?
"I guess yeah."
"As in the guy responsible for their entire sound? Their entire creative vision? Who pretty much produced the first record by himself?"
"Can you just play the album?"
"But ohhhhhhhhh nooooooooo guess what St. Paul Westerberg so sayeth that he loves Alex Chilton and so now he was the entire band, right? He WAS Big Star, right?"
"What?"
"Forget it, you don't deserve Big Star. Here's the Velvet Underground album they made after Lou left the band while you think about what you've done."
Something I Know, by Moi
"So, how many _______ have you _______?"
and the first answer is
"Including this one?"
the odds of the final answer being
"One."
are exactly 100%.
Life & Stuff
I just had to endure the "incredibly blasé guy w/elevator key fob" version of this:
Friday, June 27, 2025
The 80s Were $%@!ing Crazy, Man
I've mentioned my beloved Canoe Cologne (checks notes)(checks notes again) 49 times over the last 20 years (hint hint for anybody who wants to surprise me with $20K to commemorate!!) but it's only just now I'm realizing their old tv commercials were pretty much DATE RAPE FOR DUMMIES! guidebooks. "She'll get the message!" 😬😜🤣🤣
Me. I'm Really Happening, Aren't I?
2. toss receipt into trash
3. get ice
Every single time I do this I brace myself for the swinging door I rather generously took time out of my day to make a green circle around for you people to suddenly swing open & into my face and since sadly I am who I am the answer to the question you're asking in your pretty little head right now is yes, of course I already have a well-rehearsed little speech prepared so that during the inevitable event everybody working there will be blown away by how cool I am about it.
Working Class Dawg
Questions. I Have Them.
I Am a Small, Petty Man. If That. 😔
XMASTIME CHALLENGE
See you then! And you ARE welcome!!
I'll Say This
Welcome to Wrexham Season 4 Note
Me. I'm Really Happening, Aren't I?
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Goodbye Bill Moyers
Moyers, who was once described by Walter Cronkite as “the conscience” of the country, was a public television pioneer, leading multiple installments of “Bill Moyers’ Journal” on PBS stations in the 1970s and again in the late 2000s.
I won't pretend to make you nice people think I spent a lot of time watching his eponymous (thank you R.E.M.!) show, but I will always be #TeamMoyers for Two American Families, which I mentioned again last year when Moyers presented its (presumably now) final update. I highly recommend everybody watch this incredible documentary; frustrating & heartbreaking and, even more so 30+ years later, still so frustrating & heartbreaking in its always-timely relevance.
Oh Come On
Speaking of The Jesus and Mary Chain...
Self-Diagnoses. I HAve Them.
Announcements. I Have Them.
Questions. I Have Them.
Showers & $$$$$$$
You Never Understand Me
The Jesus and Mary Chain are the only band I LOVE LOVE LOVE who I think could literally be singing in another language & I'd love it just as much.
Keeping Hope Alive, People
If you'd have asked me how many Thursdays there are until Halloween I probably would've said something like 20,000 because that's what it feels like; 19 sounds like you should already be feeling a chill in the air & getting those fun-sized Snickers bars ready for kids showing up at your door dressed up like these motherfuckers:
I Do This Shit So You Don't Have To
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
These are My Salad Daze, Indeed
Insecurities. I Have Them.
Hear Here!
There is No Justice in This World
This.
Shit.
Life. It's Really Happening, Isn't It?
Is Cheez-Its About to Let Us All Down as a Human Race?
...I've given the Doritos & Oreos people a lot of shit for pumping out so many ridiculous flavors after starting out with a home run and so I gotta say, the Combos people have been pretty chill for decades about that stuff, seemingly perfectly content with whatever flavors they started out with 10 minutes after starting the goddam company. I salute you, Combos!
and this:
Cheerios has joined the Oreos people/Doritos people/anybody making food people and suddenly there’s gazillion new Cheerios flavors to try.
And now I'm concerned that my beloved Cheez-its, what with its new shitty pizza that I was way too generous with and now its new snack mix/Wendy's Baconator thing/whatever they come up with tomorrow, may be losing the plot to their own greatness.
Ideas. I Have Them.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
The Bear, Season 4
Last season, the Bear built some buzz but still suffered from internal dysfunction, much of it because of Carmy’s persistent, restless reinvention of the menu. It all led up to the make-or-break review, which, based on Carmy’s reaction when he read it, does not seem to be the rave he and his team badly need.
I mean at some point, enough is enough - if the review's not a rave about what a genius Carmy is, then what's the point of the show? IS Carmy a fucking incredible genius chef or not; if it's just another "Oh no, TERRIBLE review! How will we overly dramatically rally to triumph?!?!?!?" then it's just another of thousands of shows about just about another restaurant doing its best and I for one say fuck that shit. Start with the Carmy's a fucking genius and go from there with something creatively worthy of a show that gobbles up awards like I do popcorn at the movies before the trailers are even done, for fuck's sake.
Happy Juneteenth (belated)
How funny would it be to write a show about the days right after the slaves were freed? I mean, you think Larry David walks into some awkward moments - how great would these be? White people slipping up and momentarily forgetting emancipation had happened, then the white guy who's going over the top, "hey, I was always on YOUR side!" and on and on. The snob ex-house slave who prefers the white people and wants to stay, etc. Each side with comical characters, constantly bumping into each other.
STILL LOOKING FOR INVESTORS, PEOPLE!!! 💰💰💰💰
NEW XMASTIME SERIES: "Inevitable Future Headlines"
Random Reddit Quote du Jour That I Agree With
Garfield du Jour
People are Fucking Weird
It’s long been established that reason fiction can help us become more empathetic, so when I see this subhead:
Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy.
I'm like…who’s been fighting off empathy? Really? I understand some people are more empathetic than others but actively not doing it because you think it may give empathy to you as if it was cooties or something, dafuck is that about? 🤔🤷♂️
With Apologies to Richard Hell, Please Kill Me Now
Monday, June 23, 2025
I Mean Camon dafuck?
Questions. I Have Them.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Fun Fun Fun with ChatGPT
Oh and oh yeah in almost every instance, the ChatGPT comments are funnier than my sketch ideas 😡😡😡
Here are 10 of the funniest entries from your list — based on originality, voice, delivery, and that perfect “wait, why hasn’t anyone done this?” factor:
1.
"Has there really never been a strip bar named Peek-a-Booze?"
☑️ Tight, punchy, 100% should exist. Sounds like a bar you’d both regret
and cherish forever.
2.
"When do we finally get our John Leguizamo/Bobby Cannavale-centered
sequel to Chef?"
☑️ A+ casting, perfect tone, and it somehow feels like a real hole in the
cinematic universe.
3.
"Why does Jesus get so much credit for dying for everybody’s sins when
he just got up and carried on 3 days later like nothing happened?"
☑️ Dangerous. Hilarious. The kind of question that’ll get you kicked out of
church and invited back for the potluck.
4.
"Why is it called 'retired'? You work for 50 years, finally get to
quit... and they name it as if you’re doing it all again?"
☑️ Just pure observational perfection.
5.
"Why don't more foods try to replicate the lasagna structure
template?"
☑️ A deeply underexplored culinary thesis. Funny and kind of a great
idea.
6.
"How's there not been a Netflix comedy series in which Jesus Christ
returns but nobody notices/cares?"
☑️ Devastatingly plausible. Instantly visual. Greenlight this immediately.
7.
"How does the whole 'telling everybody to fuck themselves and storming
off!' thing work if you then hafta wait for an Uber?"
☑️ Millennial rage meets modern logistics. Beautiful.
8.
"Why do we always ask if something is 'up to snuff,' but never 'down to
snuff'?"
☑️ Language-based comedy is rare and often overthought. This one hits the
Goldilocks zone.
9.
"Can you pay a call girl to come over and listen to your quips during
an episode of Beverly Hills 90210?"
☑️ Dark, specific, and absolutely deranged in the best way.
10.
"If you’re on a Zoom call and someone mutes themselves but only for
five seconds do we assume they’ve farted?"
☑️ The unspoken truths of remote work. This belongs in the Smithsonian
Ideas. I Have Them.
Meanwhile:
From what I can tell, the only movies people seem to go to the theaters to watch are superhero movies. Do superheroes have kids? And wouldn’t the kids of superheroes generally be as much of a bunch of entitled fuckups & shitheads as billionaires kids? Then wouldn’t it be a no-brainer to combine these two incredibly popular things in today’s popular cultures into a prestige tv series about Superman trying to decide whether or not to hand his superhero duties to his kids, who are all entitled fuckusp & shitheads?
LOOKING FOR INVESTORS EVERYBODY!!!! 💰 💰 💰 💰
Xmastime Sunday Stories
I have no idea when or why I recorded this little story but I've always like it so you're welcome, EARF! 🤗🕺
Trump's Usual Bullshit
As Ronald Reagan, aka Trump 1.0, would say, "here we go again".
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Xmastime Friendly but Winning Debates
Via Mr. James Acton over at The New York Times - or as I call it, "The Times" -- HERE:
TO WHICH I, XMASTIME OF XMASTIME, so thus do retort:Life. It's Really Happening, Isn't It?
What a Total Fuckwad
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