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in other news ... yes, I got my covid booster today ... and why does it feel like a risky thing to discuss? I feel all twisted up about this aspect of the current state of things. There are only a few people I know with whom I would dare to bring up vaccines.

Could the entire Internet go back to just Wikipedia and a few friendly forums I like?

During my COVID booster today, I heard "Wonderful Christmas Time" for the first time this year. Among my all time least favorite songs. The timing of it all just seemed odd.

Last night I watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager - the main plot was that the crew found a planet where an alien species had stashed some humans that they abducted from Earth in 1937, INCLUDING, Amelia Earhart. Some abductees had escaped and in the 400 intervening years formed a new human civilization. Incredible story. This is why I watch TV.

Just as sounds do indeed exist in empty woods, albums can still exist even though they're not available on the major retail streaming outlets.

I don't like being seen, and I don't understand why people like to do live videos so much. Attention grubbing and vain.

The "new" Radiohead song Follow Me Around is just weird. In the vein of Electioneering. Drop D. Almost bluesy, which is disorienting.

Started playing SUPER METROID. Unsure why it took me nearly 30 years to figure out that it's a great game, but I'm glad I did.

you want to write about your middle school rock band - and the jimmy jam - and teaching George the bass. But you also want to eat mozza sticks and watch SUCCESSION - because the internet is talking a lot about SUCCESSION - a marketing thing. Also, you want to listen to the REM album NEW ADVENTURES IN HI FI - which is their most underrated album to debut at no.2. Goodnight.

Among cultural artifacts I should revisit: Plastic Ono Band is higher up the list than The Queen's Gambit.

No offense to The Queen's Gambit.

I don't know why but I can't shake the feeling that I am secretly despised by many - almost everyone actually secretly despises me.

American Idiot is a great album. Not embarrassed to say so. It's no Invisible Man - but it's good.

A hot take for today: Rough and Rowdy Ways is not only a solid album for an 80 year old icon - it is the best album of Dylan's entire career.

“I lost the ball for about three seconds,” Johnson said postgame. “Luckily it popped back into my vision. That’s part of it. You know, you can’t make excuses. That’s part of the elements. You see different elements throughout the year. I’m grateful I came down with it. It felt good.”

Sports in general would be better if we, as the public, would let players do their talking on the field of play.

Unless, of course, what they have to say dovetails with a pertinent political issue the country is grappling with. Then, by all means, let's hear their fire hot takes.

I want to trim my dog's nails, and I got the nail clippers, but I'm doggone nervous about the entire thing. Nothing to do but take the furry plunge and remember how much I used to hate trimming my own nails.

when there's a knife already in the butter dish that had been used, and I go to make another kind of sandwich, i just take that butter knife, wipe if off on the bread, then dip it into whatever fresh spread I'm about to use.

Haven't had enough time to do the crossword lately. That must be remedied, somehow, someway.

In other news, trying to get the Homepod to play "Jesus Lord by Kanye West" instead of "Jesus is Lord by Kanye West" is a high degree of difficulty.

When I was just now pouring the water into the water well of the coffee maker, some drops accidentally spilled into the grounds in the basket - I was mortified by those drips, because the ground aren't supposed to get wet prior to the brew - but I was also too lazy to change them out for fresh. #life

Rich Mullins. If you haven't listened to him, he's far more than whatever you thought. Listen.

The 2nd half of Modern Vampires of the City is up there with Abbey Road as my favorite records ever. Such great flow of tunes and moods. I love it and it makes me happy and sad all at the same time every time I listen.