Juice

My wife loved our last MOG-OFF.

Not sure why they are being so beta about it.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

“Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph.”

W.E.B. DuBois, co-founder of the NAACP on this day in 1909.

(Art not my own)

“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

Nelson Mandela

(art not mine)

Heard Elon wants to take his circus to the moon and - while it’s just as likely as his dreams for Mars - it seemed appropriate to bring this song back

A work in progress + brief refresher on the history of immigration in North America, featuring The Dawes Act of 1887:
www.instagram.com/reel/DUgQAZ2...

#onthisday #oilpainting #portraitpaintig #wip #workinprogress

“The good walker knows that the great trip is life and it requires companions.”

- Don Helder Camara

Me 🤝 your dad

"Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher." - Tertullian

oil on canvas by yours truly

#art #oilpainting #portraitpainting

"unclear"
unpresidential
unhinged
unsurprising
unintelligent
unholy
unfit

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

a man wearing sunglasses and an orange hoodie is sitting in front of a microphone . ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and an orange hoodie is sitting in front of a microphone .

Richard who now wrote this

I saw who the headline ultimately blames, and then directly beneath it "smh.com"

Not sure there's ever been a more fitting website linked to a headline.

permission to geek out when you see your fellow cult leader, @lateroundqb.bsky.social

It really has gotten so bad that even with the fantasy content I looked around and was like - wait why am I here?

I’ve shared with other fantasy figures I’ve got no judgment for keeping ties. The industry is still grossly anchored there.

I merely obsess over fantasy as a fan & it STILL took me a year of wrestling with it to finally delete this offseason.

Maybe I regret it later. But here’s to mental health.

a group of people are sitting in a park with a white truck in the background . ALT: a group of people are sitting in a park with a white truck in the background .

when my wife is watching this (as usual) and I see it’s your episodes

It’s a shame ol Bill got snubbed, but in my house this is the only Hall of Fame that matters

🫡 👦🏾

#portraitpainting #fatherhood #oilpainting

Right 😂 as soon as I sent that I thought “well you’re technically an idiot” ….but why delete when the compliment still stands!

OR… I can tell you my age by failing to remember five classes I took in college by their exact name 😅

It reminds me of all the people protesting the NFL from both sides after Kaepernick’s protest. You never knew which side anyone was protesting from, which seemed counterproductive.

I gotta get on that discord. But first, as a 42 year old geezer, I gotta figure out what on earth a discord plugs into.

Wow. In many instances time flies and what I’d think was 4 years is actually 10. This somehow feels the opposite. Like I can’t remember my commute and week to week life without it. And it’s probably because you are just that freaking prolific.

Appreciate you and your hustle always 🫡

“Let labor be heavier on the men, and let them work hard at it so that they will pay no attention to their God’s words.” -Exodus 5:9

I’ve grown to realize Pharaoh’s strategy that sounds right out of Screwtape Letters is one that we take the bait on again and again in our workaholic Western culture.

“Play til the end of their funeral” goes hard, ngl

On this day

January 24th, 1848 - James Marshall discovers gold and sets off the California Gold Rush. 150,000 Native Americans call the region home

1851 - the Cali government endorses the extermination of the Native people, offering $ per head

1870 - an estimated 31,000 Native Americans are left

“Our Father in Heaven is our Father in Hell
'Cause that's where we need Him the most”

The nostalgia with this album hits so hard I just blacked out for 15 minutes.

I can remember sitting at the school lunch table thumbing through the album’s CD booklet before it entered my Dodge Neon’s CD player and didn’t exit for months…

So based on that alone?
A solid 14.5.

As a “not exactly” plugged in fan at this point in the offseason, I’ll take it.

“I was probably in on all of these”
- me starting this pod on my way to work