Bob Proehl

Thank you.

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

MTV’s Dead at 21

We’re here.

Lisa Simpson on stage lecturing to an auditorium full of people. there is a slide projected on a screen behind her. the slide says: "The people who made Jurassic Park didn't think it was possible to transition from female to male and that's why they got eaten by dinosaurs. Moral of the story ỈS, support trans rights or g get eaten by dinosaurs"

If you're a DC area bartender or related service industry worker and you hear govt./military people talking about the strikes on Iran, let me know what they're saying. I'm on signal at nslayton.12

If we killed one “evil” octogenarian and 100 schoolgirls, that’s, like, pretty evil?

Yeah fuckin widen that gyre. That falcon gives zero shits about that falconer’s blah blah blah all day.

Gimme some blood-dimmed tide.

But I come back a lot to the question of what my grandfather would have said about Trump, and whether he would have considered him “masculine” or “manly” and nope. Everything that guy pulls would fall under my grandfather’s definition of “a real man doesn’t.”

And honestly, it’s not a bad start, to define masculinity by its guardrails. An effective “real men don’t” PSA campaign could do a lot of work.

It was a weird thing caught up in tradition and respect but it was an understanding that “masculinity” meant a kind of decorum. His conception of masculinity was all about limits on behavior. “Real men don’t [x]”

Every time I see that dipshit in his baseball cap delivering a “major speech”, I think about how I NEVER wear hats indoors because my grandfather, who served in Korea, told me simply “Men don’t wear hats indoors.”

Reminder that the media loves war spectacle and already have musical accompaniment and graphics ready to go

Good news, Gen Xers: with our third unjustified war in the Middle East, we get a fourth one free.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Hot dang.

Just a casual reminder that Mister Rogers NEVER told you to “look for the helpers”. He told BABIES that, so they wouldn’t lose hope in dark times. YOU, ADULT, ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF THE HELPERS THE BABIES ARE LOOKING FOR. Get your fuckin helmet on and get out there.

Copyediting is a lost art.

Puggle proudly wearing a bow tie.

One of my trivia night regulars made Oshi a new bow tie, and he would like you all to see how dapper he looks.

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
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James van der Beek at 48. Chadwick Boseman at 43. My best friend Nick at 44.

Please PLEASE my mid-forties dudes, schedule that colonoscopy. Poop in that bucket. Get yourself checked out because colorectal cancer is a terrible terrible way to die young.

Just saying that if you were selling prints of some of these, then some amount of my dollars would immediately become your dollars.

For those struggling

Have you never considered that having a disability can be & is often a massive hurdle to gainful employment?

Have you considered that disability is sprawling, diverse & comes for us all?

That even from a self-preservation standpoint you should advocate for disability justice?

Job offer!!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.

This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

Most incredible guitarist I have ever seen live. Hands down, full stop.

New on Netflix: BEST IN SHOW, A MIGHTY WIND, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, and AFTER HOURS

Just a heads-up that Netflix has added a bunch of Catherine O'Hara movies. Credit where due!

Sometimes I just google "how old is Ross Douthat" to confirm that Ross Douthat is younger than me and man, how does that happen?

Like, what kinda mileage got put on that guy?

just saw an ice stop on my way to work again — thompson road in syracuse. they keep grabbing people after they come off the thruway.

Weirder if they attacked under.