parroting what toddlers say (rather than responding “ok” or “uh huh”) because the alternative is that they keep repeating the same phrase until you do, until the heat death of the universe, it turns out, causes the heat death after all

but (here’s the twist) it’s worth it

watching the kid this afternoon so that the everloving wife can go vote to authorize a strike for her CNA local over short staffing (she often gets no breaks, no support staff, and recently even had to be charge), job site floats (as opposed to floor floats) and traveler use

damn, how have I never heard of The Budos Band before https://thebudosband.bandcamp.com/album/long-in-the-tooth

never properly did a ZZ Top phase so I’ve been blasting Tres Hombres a lot and it is easily up there w/ Muddy’s “Hard Again” as a desert island blues record, but now I’ve got “Have Mercy! been waiting for the bus all day” DVD-logo-bouncing in my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXSzgNe4xE

naming our kid “Bastian” <<<< shortening it to “Bash” <<<< using “Crash”

I’d like to remind everyone to chew mail pouch tobacco. it’s ribbon cut! treat yourself to the best and chew mail pouch tobacco

they’re really stirring your roux over on cajun twitter

hit the bricks

damn, the lathe of heaven, had no idea this existed