Mr_Roarbert

What's your favorite part? Personally, I like when strangers get to hear my birthday

As a kid I watched some kind of bird (at the time I decided it was a kestrel, but that was 30 years ago) swoop down off our mailbox and grab a snake out of the grass, and I still think about it. The founding legend of Tenochtitlan being reenacted in miniature outside my house.

I was going to say I absolutely want the falcon to eat the pigeons, but I realized I'm also on board, so to speak, with letting the pigeon drive the bus.

In 2024, I took a trip to Scotland, where Outlander stuff I didn't understand kept being mentioned. In 2025, I went to a concert by the composer for the show where the encore was the theme song.

I still don't have any interest, but I feel vaguely stalked by Outlander.

One repaired radios and later ran a service station, the other was a manager at IBM.

So does reading the news and getting real mad

Requiescat in Prickliness

My German teacher also taught Spanish, so she liked to dip into her collection of English language movies with Hispanic actors. We watched Fools Rush In with Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek once.

I learned no German and by all accounts the Spanish students did no better.

I've seen maybe thirty seconds of that movie and I figured that out.

I continue to be bothered by how bad a reading of Family Matters this is.

Is your dad the one with the pants? I love those pants.

Yesterday there was a post on a parenting forum I read from someone whose daughter was livid at her for throwing out her "yowee" books.

I think it was probably a troll, but still.

As a kid we had a few months where a wild turkey took up residence on the road to school and would just square up with cars and buses all morning.

I want to eat that

If he also wants to go to an alpaca farm, you better keep him away from my mom

That's delightfully niche.

I went through a phase where I'd have my dad read to me about one shipwreck a night from this book about nautical disasters. He insisted we also read The Bible, but I was there for the shipwrecks.

I went to a very boring public high school, but I think ours is Linda McMahon? We also had the guy who did the "You've Got Mail" voice for AOL, but that reference is getting kind of dated.

I reassure myself that my kid's dream is probably to be a classicist and that's never been a good career move, so nothing has changed.

She's also nine so whatever.

This is a thing I noticed on parent boards where people are (understandably) stressed about what their kids are going to do for work. No one has any actual idea what to do, other than maybe become a plumber, so it's just clueless people yelling at each other for dooming their kids to poverty.

I had no idea she was on Doctor Who, which is odd since I follow you.

I'm also very out of touch and had no idea who she was until we saw her on Broadway last year.

We used to live at the corner of Massachusetts and Wisconsin and "Flower Mart-like numbers" made me chuckle.

Say what you will about Kid Rock, but I watched six seconds to see how bad the lip syncing was and every word of "Bawitdaba" flooded back into brain like it was 1999 again

One of my all time favorite Wikipedia pictures is this one of NBA player Chris Webber

My mom was obsessed with that song he did with Sheryl Crow. I'm guessing she's never heard "Cowboy."

I like to think I'm a pretty good uncle myself.

This is ridiculous. Everyone knows Yellow Tail pairs best with restaurants that delivered to my college apartment in 2005. The red blend and a Nathan's pizza puff and corn dog? That's living right there.

It was an excellent baby.

I also should clarify that I needed a copy of my transcript recently to join a class action lawsuit against my university. I'm not that organized.

I looked at my transcript, and there's one class I have zero memory of entirely which was interesting.

Five classes I took in college:

1. Byzantine Empire 1025-1453
2. From Vikings to Crusaders
3. Thinking with Stories
4. American Originals: Franklin and Lincoln
5. Disasters in the Ancient Mediterranean World