Ok Okay let’s go.  It feels like they spiked my cold brew coffee at Starbucks today.  It has the aftertaste of liquor.  I’m not getting drunk or anything, but it smacks of that liquorish (NOT LICORICE) assault on the palate coming during the second half of tasting drinking something.  First half of drinking it is fine.  Ah this is iced coffee.  Second half iswait a second this is bitter and unpleasant like a whiskey or a vodka.  MICHAEL IS IT POSSIBLE THAT’S JUST WHAT COFFEE TASTES LIKE?  I don’t think so.  I could be wrong though.  I could be very wrong.  I wish I was getting drunk.  I drank a bit during Show on Saturday!  Four or five light beers all in all!  3 before I went on!  That’s good enough!  I DID good enough!  Five songs up, five songs down!  Not in a row!  Intersperesed with another Adult Group from Long Island!  Three or four I did well, I did one of two solos decently, I HUNG IN TEHRE, I was able to tune my guitar back and forth APTLY, plus I got a ride to the show from a classmate, and SPIRITS WERE HIGH among bandmates who shew up.  ALL IN ALL IT WAS A WIN.  WE PLAYED THE SONGS.  THE BAND WON.  The other band seemed pretty professional.  Adult group from some other Long Island SOR Branch.  The lead singer was wearing a sweatshirt that saidInvade Canada.  This guy is taking Being A Rock Musician pretty Seriously!  I was impressed!  And offended.  And impressed!
    Anyway.  Finished a Half Hour Music Track on Saturday!  Based on music from three sessions over the course of the last two weeks Mostly Saturday!  Thinkin’ about sharing it with everyone!  All of you!  Leaning towards NOT!  I have until The End to decide!  It’ll give you a taste of what I’ve been doing the last year.  Why should you get a taste.  Taste is fun!  Best of the senses.  You get to choose what you taste for the most part.  Not so with sight!  You’re bombarded with horrors and terrors that you must look at all the time.  Imagine.  Okay.  Primordial Man (What we now call ENCINO Man these days) used Taste as more or less the scientific method to determine if something was safe to eat.  We don’t need to do that anymore!  We already figured everything out!  Now we get to just eat stuff we know is good!  Some people eat paste.  For the taste?  What a waste.  IN INDIA THERE IS a system that is Caste.  You gotta be a real dumb kid to eat paste.  It doesn’t even look appetizing.  It’s not likeOkay Dumb Kid I know it looks like it would taste good or feel good in your mouth but just trust me on this one you don’t wanna eat it. NO.  IT DOESN’T EVEN LOOK GOOD COMING OUT OF THE TUBE.  WHAT ARE YOU THINKING YOU IMBECILE.  Maybe they’re just trying to be rebels.  They play by their own set of rules!  They’re not eating it for the taste they’re eating it to SEND A MESSAGE.  It’s like, punk.  I dunno.  Look Ramones specifically wanted to SNIFF some glue.  Ramones Didn’t EAT glue.  Unless they did later on.  After the song was over.  Can’t count anything out!
   I never sniffed glue but I sniffed some markers.  I don’t think that gets you high.  But they do have interesting aromas sometimes!  Anyway.  I constantly forget The Ramones aren’t actually brothers.  My default is believing they’re all brothers.  And … Ramone is all of them’s real names.  And then once in a while something reminds me it’s just an act and they’re actually strangers who are pretending to be brothers for the sake of the band.  And then after a long enough time that knowledge fades away again.  It’s fun to believe in something!  Anyway I re-watched the two animated Spiderverse movies this weekend.  Great.  Now EVERYONE’S a Spiderman.  I dunno how I feel about that.  Kinda makes it less special to be a Spiderman!  What do I care.  I’m not Spiderman.  Well not TODAY.  But I might be SOMEDAY.  And that day My Spiderman Experience will be cheapened because EVERYONE will be Spiderman as well!  I dunno.  I really liked the first one.  Lots of good bits of that movie.  Second one was just okay!  But Michael part of being Spiderman is that you appreciate there being other Spidermen in the Spiderverse because you like being friends with Spiderpeople.  Well NOW I guess that’s how it works.  Didn’t USED TO BE THAT WAY.  Not in my day!  In my day Spiderman just related to REGULAR PEOPLE.  Spiderman had 0-2 friends, 0-2 romantic partners, 0-2 jobs or school commitments, 0-2 family members, and that was enough!  I guess if he Busted Out on all of those it wouldn’t be enough.  A story line where Spiderman had Zero Everything, that Spiderman might be very frustrated!  I DUNNO.
    Huh.  Spiderman huh.  We can’t trust Spiderman to solve our problems.  He’s always fighting some fantastical villain that’d never exist in real life.  HEY SPIDERMAN, how about doing something that’ll actually help alleviate REAL WORLD ISSUES.  I don’t think DOC OCK is gonna actually ever occur on EARTH: The Real One!  MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL FOR ONCE.  I dunno.  I’m angry at make believe hero for only being useful for make believe problems.  YEAH.  Hey whatever.  Does Spiderman identify with Spiders.  Does he see spiders as Relative.  Does he think of spider as part of his family tree.  To me he just seems like a man exploiting his Spider DNA.  SPIDER DNA APPROPRIATION.  There should be a storyline where he has to get in touch with his Spider Roots to become a better SPIDERMan.  THERE PROBABLY HAS BEEN at some point.  If I came up with it someone else could have too!  He becomes friends with other spiders and is like HEY WHAT CAN I LEARN FROM YOU so I could be better at being a spider.  I’m taking this seriously.  Hmm.  There’s probably a version of Spiderman where one of his powers is teaming up with Spiders to defeat or at least annoy his enemies.  Yeah.  That’s okay I guess.  I want Spiderman to become more of a Spider and less of a man, though!  I’ve seen plenty of movies about men!  Almost all movies are about men!  Not so many movies out there about people who are really spiders, though! 
    Sure.  Spiderman is okay.  Spidermen are okay.  Spiderpeople are okay.  Spideranything are okay.  Anything that was ever bitten by a radioactive spider and then decided to fight crime is OKAY.  Do spiders even really bite people.  Just checked google and said yes but it’s rare.  Hmm.  Well it’s a radioactive spider.  It’s Angry because it’s radioactive and it’s taking out that anger on you.  Through biting.  Oh okay.  How come the radioactive spider itself never achieves consciousness and fights crime.  It’s radioactive, who knows what it’s capable of!  Radioactive means Anything Can Happen.  That’s science.  Is Spiderman himself radioactive now.  Does he have to be concerned about Cancer?  I’d be!  He can use his spiderman powers to defeat the cancer.  One thing cancels the other out.  Cancel Cancer.  Cancel Culture.  Whatever.  I wonder if people 400 years from now will look back at Beginning Of The Millenium Culture and determine, MODEWISE,Man, these people really liked this Spiderman character.  A lot.  Just couldn’t get enough!  Spiderman was everyone’s favorite!  MATTHEW MODINE.  Anyway.  HEY There’s just as many Fast And Furiousness as there are Spidermen!  MAYBE NOT but Close to it, at least!  We must love fast and furious too.  Each time it gets faster and each time it gets more furious!  Anyway.  Coda— what if you were bitten by a Radioactive Spiderman?  What would YOU become? That’s it.  I’ll see ya later!

-4:25 P.M.

FEB 10 2026

    Yeah!  How’s everyone doing today?  I’m wearing a shirt.  I think I chose the right shirt for the day.  Slightly heavier shirt such that I don’t need to wear both a winter jacket AND shweatshirt under it when I go outside.  Just the winter jacket.  There’s No Nut November followed by Winter Jack-It.  Makes sense!  Been watching Christopher Guest films slightly in honor of Catherine O’ Hara.  For some reason Fred Willard used to get on my nerves but now, right now, I’m in the mood for Fred Willard.  When I was a kid Fred Willard was out of pocket.  But now Fred Willard is in the zone!  It’s possible I don’t think I know what, “Out Of Pocket,” means.  Anyway.  It’s ironic that Catherine O’ Hara’s character presumably spent time in Chicago’s O’ Hare airport station during Home Alone.  It’s possible I don’t think I Know what irony is.  It’s NOTABLE at least.  That’s a conversation starter.  Next time you’re at a mixer or social meet ‘n greet you can bring that up!  Why did Kevin McCalister have to pretend to be a TV Gangster when accepting his pizza.  He could just answer the door as himself!  Not like the teenage pizza guy would be like WHAT?  A KID ANSWERING THE DOOR?  TO GET PIZZA?  I BETTER ALERT THE POLICE.  Also I’m pretty sure you can tell if something is being said out loud or on TV.  TV sounds different than live human!  Especially if it’s being said in 1940’s static-y Gangster Talk!
   Well whatever.  This website is primarily a Movie Plot Hole blog.  80% is window dressing of me talking about my life just to get you in the door for the 20% me complaining about bits of movies that don’t really check out.  Anyway.  I hope Kevin McCaslister is refrigerating the pizza he isn’t eating.  Maybe he’s gonna eat the entire pie in one sitting.  I’ve done that before for the novelty of it!  I was aided by whiskey though and I don’t think he was drinking or doing any drugs though.  That’d be a slightly different movie!  I made my family disappear.  I Made My Family Disappear! …Time to finally try acid!  That sort of thing.  Huh.  Joe Pesci in Home Alone is a Short King let’s talk about it!  Huh.  I had that piece of shit tape recorder thing from Home Alone II they marketed the hell out of.  What was special about it?  That it could slow down what you recorded so voice sounds deeper!  Was that it?  Either way I owned a piece of movie history!  I don’t think I ever got into any trouble with it.  Didn’t purchase any hotel rooms pretending to be an adult with a Deep Slow Voice.  Cause I’m not a SOCIOPATH like Kevin McCalister.  Didn’t steal my dad’s credit card number because I’m not a BAD SEED like he would turn out to be later on (although the clues were already there if we looked!)
   Anyway.  Also JUST WOULDN’T WORK in real life.  Nobody would buy that’s a real adult person talking!  Get real!  Anyway watched the Muppet Special last night.  That was okay.  Not sure who my favorite Muppet is.  I’m just glad they all found each other and are friends for the most part.  Actually a lot of them are pretty hostile with each other.  YEAH but it’s all in good fun I think!  I dunno.  When I was a kid we didn’t have Muppets.  We had Muppet Babies.  Which was catered to kids completely and had a very different vibe!  I DON’T REALLY REMEMBER the vibe.  They were tinier and animated.  That’s about all I remember!  Characters were kinda dumbed down versions of The Regular Muppets, I think.  Can’t say for sure—I Don’t Remember!  Anyway.  HEY are the Muppets making fun of us?!?!  They’re calling US MUPPETS?  They’re muppets but they’re relatable to us so in a way Humans are like Muppets SO YOU’RE SAYING I’M A MUPPET?  Is that what you’re saying Kermit?  YOU JERK?  CALLING ME A MUPPET?  I DON’T LIKE IT!  Woah I just imagined WHAT IF I WAS A MUPPET and it was a dream come true.  It was like what if I was in a group of friends and belonged.  Can’t be in a group of friends and belong Being Human!  Gotta be MUPPET to get that sort of feeling!  Also it’s because they are each exactly a very precise character.  I dunno WHY each muppet HAS TO BE exactly that way.  But they clearly are an exact weird character and it must be for SOME Reason.  That’s another reason Being A Muppet is great! 
    Okay.  Let’s see.  Gonna have to do a little bit of guitar practice before my guitar practice tonight.  Spend half an hour doing the songs myself before doing them with the teacher later on!  Gonna wanna be slightly prepared to do a half-assed (the ass should be half-full) job for when we go over the songs during my lesson tonight!  Anyway.  With, “Ass,” the word, “Glass,” IS half full!  AMAZING.  Looking forward to the new Scream movie.  I solidly like TWO OR THREE out of six of these movies so far!  That’s more movies than you’ve ever made that I’ve liked.  Probably.  I don’t think I’ve ever been in a movie.  I’ve been on TV once or twice.  The NEWS and whatknot.  Human interest stories.  I don’t remember.  I wasn’t the focus of the piece, I was B-roll footage and whatknot.  Didn’t lead to anything bigger.  Go figure!  What’s bigger than TV.  A BIGGER TV?  I dunno.  I don’t think I’d wanna be on TV these-a-days.  Not confident on my appearance, or skillset, or anything I’d bring to the table in any sort of way!  Leave me out of it, that’s how I feel!  What if it turns out I’m the killer in Scream VII.  I think I’d remember appearing in a movie!  I didn’t do that!  Well maybe someone playing me is the killer in Scream VII.  Nobody can play me!  That’s impossible!
   Whatever.  I didn’t kill nobody!  I guess.  What was I just talking about?  Scream… Muppets… Home Alone… Catherine O’ Hara…  Okay.  Sorry.  Is it possible years from now our brains will misfire and be like Wait… do you remember Rob Reiner’s son killing Catherine O’ Hara?  It’s very possible because it happened to me several minutes ago.  Bad Memory Man.  That’s my superhero name.  It’s a blessing and a curse.  Alright there’s been a robbery let’s get Bad Memory Man in here.  BAD MEMORY MAN what do you think.  “I DON’T REMEMBER WHAT I’M DOING HERE!”  Whatever.  He’s a Batman figure you see.  Anyway.  I think as a kid my favorite Muppet (baby) was Gonzo because this guy seems weird to me and I was weird as a kid.  I’m weirder now.  But as a kid I identified as FUN weird.  Now I’m just SAD weird.  Maybe Gonzo was never weird and I wasn’t weird either and I was just like Gonzo the entire time, both normal.  I dunno!  I guess these days I like Kermit because there’s nothing wrong with him.  He’s just trying to keep everything together.  That’s relatable.  I’m just WATCHING The Muppets hoping everything works out as a disinterested observer and I can relate!  HE’S IN THE THICK OF IT so imagine how he must feel!  He feels as he acts.  How I just described.  VERY GOOD.  Anyway that’s it.  I’ll see ya later!

-3:28 P.M.

FEB 5 2026

    Hey.  How’s everyone doing?  Gotta do some dumb show this Saturday.  Share bill with other School Of Rock Branches!  Perform 4 or 5 songs!  I may or may not be able to do one song I’m lead guitar on!  MAY NOT have time to tune back and forth.  They may say Here Comes The Next Song with me INABLE to do it and they’ll just have to go on without me.  That’s what being a musician is like.  Always thinking about the next show.  Always worried about having a tuned guitar.  Always anxious about transportation, how to get there and back!  That’s why so many songs and albums are titled like How To Get There And Back or something like that.  Anyway.  Came up with a possible new musical name for myself for the immediate future.  8/10 Name!  August Tenth!  The date everything changed.  Maybe it’s just me but I feel Musician and Band Names SUCK these days.  Let’s say for the last 10-20 years.  It’s like you’re more likely to have some success with a name that’s particularly abrasive and alienating.  I THE OPPOSITE OF RELATE to these newfangled names.  I want to go out of my way to not be interested in this music!  This band must be really cool if they don’t even need my interest or potential support.  I guess that’s a WIN for them then!  I think the band is cool!  Now we play the waiting game.  Maybe 20, 30 years down the line, me thinking they’re cool translates to me listening to a track out of curiosity!  It took a while to pay off but NOW the band name has did its job!
   Okay.  What do I know.  Maybe band names are totally relatable and understandable to other people and My Interpretation Machine (brain) is the problem.  Is that a good band name.  No.  Machine is already a word in other successful band names!  Why is that guy’s name Bad Bunny.  He seems like a pretty good guy generally.  Just a straight up MODEL CITIZEN really.  Yet he chose (chooses) to call himself Bad in his advertisement of himself to everyone wherever he goes.  Hmm.  He also chooses to call himself a bunny but for some reason that doesn’t seem to upset me.  Well it’s a metaphor or a reference to something!  Michael he’s not calling himself BAD anything Other Than Bunny.  You cannot look at the word Bad WITHOUT the word Bunny.  He’s only calling himself a Bad BUNNY and NOTHING ELSE.  Oh.  Okay.  But people who tune out after the first syllable MIGHT NOT GET ALL THAT.  Alright.  It’s kind of odd there’s no bowling at the superbowl.  Also is the yearly ultimate bowling competition called The Amazing Football Event or something.  That’d even things up!  Anyway.  My jacket is broken!  The zipper!  Doesn’t zip up.  Now I have to wear my brother’s old jacket!  It’s too big for me!  It’s the same jacket as I have but bigger size!  I guess this is what being a musician is like.  Your jackets break sometimes and then you have to wear your brother’s old jacket which is the same jacket as yours but bigger.     
     WHAT ELSE is up.  I don’t like what I’m reading.  I wrote something bad then I read it and I didn’t like it even more than when I wrote it!  Maybe his name is Bad Bunny so as to constantly motivate himself to be better.  This can’t be Bad.  Must be Good.  I know the name says Bad BUT I MUST BE GOOD.  That might be B.B.’s inner monologue.  Is it possible he thinks when people look at me they see A Bad Bunny but that’s not who I am.  I dunno!  Maybe we wouldn’t see A Bad Bunny if he didn’t literally choose to call himself that on purpose!  Maybe we’d see EXACTLY whatever he called himself!  Oh ok good.  Gotta pick a good Musical Name is the point.  Lots of reasons to get it right is the point!  Has anyone been ELVIS yet.  I can think of at least two people, yes!  DAMNIT.  I dunno.  Elvis was Elvis.  Other one I was thinking of was Elvis Costello.  Wasn’t really just Straight Up Elvis.  Yes, certain connotations of the, “Bad,” in Bad Bunny are actually GOOD.  He’s BAD like Michael Jackson was BAD!  He’s OFF THE HOOK or CHILL Or maybe SEXY or something like that.  Did Michael Jackson INVENT Bad Being Good with that song.  Something to think about!  Hey they got that new Michael Movie coming up.  GREAT.  Idolize a probsible pedophile while the Epstien Files are going on.  WAY TO GO HOLLYWOOD. 
    Anyway.  How could a bunny be bad.  Bunnies know no right or wrong.  They are more or less innocent creatures.  Well it could be BAD at BEING a bunny.  Like let’s say it’s got broken hoppers.  Can’t do what bunnies are known for being supposed to do.  Then it’d be a Bad Bunny.  It’s not bad as in EVIL but it’s bad as in FUNCTIONAL.  Oh okay good.  Puerto Rico?  Sounds like this place is a Rich Port.  WHAT RICHES MAY COME.  Gotta get this place to be the 51^st state they’re a huge tax base THEY’RE ROLLING IN THE WEALTH it’s right in their name!  Rich Port seems like a pretty lazy name for your island.  Not a lot of imagination in that one! That’s almost like just calling your territory Some Place or something.  I mean it sounds prettier in Spanish.  Puerto Rico.  In English it’s a dud though!  Can we use RICO to go after the government for all the crimes they’re committing one day?  Seems reasonable!  Anyway.  I just googled Where was Jeffrey Epstein’s island and I immediately regret it. I am now On Some Sort Of List and I SHOULD BE.  But I wanted to know what part of the world it was!  I had no idea!  Now I know and it makes sense.  Anyway.  Part of the Virgin Islands.  Kinda on the nose a little bit there.  Pedophilia.  Virgin Islands.  You get it.
    Wow.  Hey remember the time the president said to the child sex trafficker let every day be a wonderful secret?  Rings some sort of bell!  What kind of person.  You know what, I’m gonna be honest- I used to be into teenagers, too!  I WAS A TEENAGER AT THE TIME but I can a sixteenthway relate!  I don’t like how the framing of EPSTEIN FILES absolves individuals of personal fault, though.  It’s a GROUP FRAMING as opposed to INDIVIDUAL.  Each guilty person should each be individually shamed and ostracized!  They did terrible things!  You don’t want your kid sitting next to them on a plane ET CETERA.  PETER CETERA.  I keep seeing there’s a four part film release based on The Beatles coming up but my main thought is I must be reading that wrong.  They must mean a One Part Film Release.  They can’t be making FOUR CONSECUTIVE MOVIES.  That’s too much!  Maybe one movie about the Beatles, that’s more reasonable!  We’ll see, I guess!  Michael Jackson wrote Beat It because he was so excited to buy the Beat’les Back Catalogue.  Oh okay some of those details might check out I guess.  BEAT(les) can mean jerking of.  JACK(son) can mean jerking off.  Lots of artists names can mean masturbation!  Two of the top of my head.  Anyway.  That’s all!  See ya later!

-5:07 P.M.

FEB 3 2026

    Hi.  Figured out how to get the Digital Information from my multitrack recorder to my computer without going through Faulty USB Drive!  So now I can use it again!  Which means I can make music without doing it Thru Computer!  Back to the way I’ve been doing it the last 20 years!  Great news.  Music is back.  MICHAEL MUSIC IS BACK.  Not so much for you, but for me, and Imaginary Audience.  And I guess Muffled Music for anyone in neighboring rooms.  And anyone who’s got the means and ways to hack into my computer.  Alright.  THEY put the most work in, they’re really the target audience.  Hackers.  They earned it.  I kinda put the most work in.  Directly.  I really should be the target audience.  Lemme think on that.  Hmm.  Started watching Wonder Man last night.  I like it!  Makes me think about Wonder Bread.  When it first came out with it did they really try to market it as particularly Wonderous.  Is it just a random name or did they really hype it up as This bread is SERIOUSLY FUCKIN SUPER. What the, “Wonder,” is to Woman or Man in Super Heroes.. That’s what this, “Wonder,” is to Bread.  Maybe!  STOP EVERYTHING I JUST SAW A COMMERCIAL FOR THIS NEW… BREAD… CALLED WONDERBREAD WE NEED TO GO TO THE MARKET RIGHT NOW.  That sort of thing.     
   Anyway.  Good show, though!  Pitch for Wonderbread commercial— guy sitting at kitchen table alone eating a loaf of Wonderbread one slice at a time and at the end he turns to the camera and say I’m Wonder Full.  Take it or leave it!  I’d leave it!  But that’s just me!  Anyway I got a solo guitar practice tonight.  I like the parts of guitar practice where it’s just learning how to play guitar IN GENERAL.  I don’t like the parts of guitar practice where it’s like Okay So Have You Practiced The Songs For The Season lets go over them?  Cause it’s like A TEST I haven’t prepared for well enough!  I mean, it’s worthwhile, because I need to prepare for The ULTIMATE TEST—the group practices and the shows at the end of the season—but I still don’t like it!  Oh Well.  I guess I could always share some new music with you guys.  I dunno what kind of music I’ll be producing exactly but it doesn’t matter!  Even the sloppiest nonsense bullshit crap I could put on the internet!  It’d be stupid but nothing’s stopping me!  Might even encourage me to Do Better In The First Place.  Wow!  Encourage!  Anyone ever tell you to act your age?  How about telling someone to Enc OUR age!  That’s close to how much my recent music makes sense.  Just imagine That Amount Of Sense but it’s Music with guitars, me singing, and a rhythm track of me tapping my fingers. ENC NO MAN.  Alright.  Great.
   What’s up.  I think you can group people from what they primarily know Sean Astin from or associate him with.  I think we should be grouping people into groups for some reason.  Uh-oh.  Either way for me it’s ENCINO MAN.  Probably a small group!  A lot of other choices that other people might feel.  My Life Led Me to go with Encino Man though for Sean Astin!  It’s a fun movie!  I watched it so many of times!  Once I’m friends with this Caveman I’m Gonna Be KING of this High School.  The premise of his character’s motivation never gets old for me.  I will point out its ridiculousness every single time it comes up in conversation (I bring it up on my blog).  It makes me laugh every single time I think about it so why would I hold back!  Anyway.  ALSO I lack the deep-thinking skills necessary to Form A Second Thought.  I already came up with one impression of the film.  WHAT You want me to Think Something Else About It Now?  That’s difficult for me!  I like lots of stuff in that movie.  Mostly unironically but sometimes ironically. It’s okay.  The bad guy’s name is Matt but for some reason I thought his name was Mike.  The bully who is also dating the love interest.  I guess that must have traumatized me to some degree.  I thought his name was Mike and he was a bad guy!  His name wasn’t even Mike!  So there’s Some Psychological Damage there somehow!  For the record the actor’s first name is Michael but that’s just a coincidence OR IS IT.  Also, he’s Dom DeLuise’s son.  I HAD NO IDEA.
   Hmm.  We all know Dom DeLuise primarily from ONE Thing and Mine is… hmm… lemme think about that… honestly, it might just be his small cameo in Robin Hood: Men In Tights doing a Godfather parody.  YEP.  My generation barely knows who Dom DeLuise is based on Small Sample Size (me)!  That’s life I guess.  Sad to say.  Some people get forgotten!  Is there a Submissive DeLuise out there I Mean C’mon!  Whatever.  School Of Rock advises all students to wear earplugs to school lessons.  I wore em for a month or two of Group Lessons and it was kinda FUN. It dulled down the noise and it made me feel like a Professional.  Like I’m taking my health and things seriously.  But then I stopped because I was like I’M TOO COOL FOR THIS.  PUNKS DON’T WEAR EARPLUGS.  But I think I played a lot better the first month or two with earplugs.  Maybe I was hearing my guitar and everyone else’s instruments/voices better in relation to each other with the plugs in.  OH WELL PUNKS DON’T WEAR EARPLUGS.  Wyatt Earp Lugs Around… etc… Was Wyatt Earp THE FIRST PUNK?  Let’s explore that later on.  In the meantime more pressing matters!  I have no idea who Wyatt Earp was.  He was from Cowboy Times.  Probably either a sheriff or outlaw.  Maybe just a straight up Cowboy.  Imagine if ICE tried to intimidate and take over towns in the Wild West.  It might go a little something like this…
   LIKE WHAT.  I dunno I’ll explore that after I explore if Wyatt Earp was The First Punk.  There’s already a list of things I need to get to!   When I think Wild West my main association is DEADWOOD.  How would Deadwood react.  Hmm.  They have to make the show themselves for me to know!  I can’t imagine it myself.  TV has rendered my mind UNFERTILE.  I dunno my mind is pretty active.  I’m thinking a mile a minute.  What goes on in my mind.  I’m thinking about THE FUTURE.  SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE ABOUT MY KIDS.  Also how come instead of (or in addition to) having Marty McFly save his kid from prison, Doc Brown doesn’t have Marty McFly save himself from the car accident that straight up ruins his own life?  Why is ONE THING okay to change but ANOTHER THING too much meddling?  Ultimately Marty DOES NOT get into the car accident by changing his attitude and behavior for the better on his own.  Maybe Doc knowingly gave him just enough information such that Marty could figure it out on his own so great I dunno.  What’s going on.  We’re pointing out individual threads of plot holes in time travel movies?  Very good.  Also just because you don’t NEED roads where you’re going, probably makes sense to STAY ON ROADS cause it’s more cost-effective!  Gotta imagine it’s a lot more expensive and worse for the environment to drive in the sky than on the ground!  Where we’re going we don’t need roads!  Yeah but there’s a road right there anyway so why not just stick to the road for now okay it’s not gonna hurt anyone.  Unless in 2015 there’s traffic on this street.  Well for that matter there could be traffic in the sky in 2015!  Well, sure, whatever.  That’s all.  See ya later!

-4:24 P.M.

JAN 29 2026

    Okay.  Hey! How was everyone’s snowstorm.  It forced me to go a whole day without taking a walk!  WTF IS THIS.  My mind is melting!  How do people manage solitary confinement!  I live with people.  Yeah but they don’t get me.  I’ve given up a long time ago on the idea of depending on relating to the people around you!  I AIN’T GONNA RELATE TO NOBODY REGARDLESS of their relative position to me now that I think about it.  I’ll relate to THE WIND.  I’ll relate to THUNDER.  Whenever someone’s in trouble I’LL RELATE!  I’m a hero is the point.  The SOR show I had scheduled for this Sunday was Postponed for the Saturday Afterwards.  On account of possible potential snowstorm.  Yeesh.  These five songs on the setlist aren’t the best.  I like Under My Thumb okay.  Easy enough to play!  Sympathy For The Devil is fun but it’s easy to fall out of rhythm.  Anyway instead of DOING School Of Rock group class on Monday Night because it was cancelled I WATCHED School Of Rock the movie for the 26^th time and it was an INTERESTING substitution.  Really makes ya think!  I like watching movies I like over and over.  School Of Rock the 24^th time reaction:  Really Makes Ya Think School Of Rock the 25^th time reaction: Really Makes Ya Think School Of Rock the 266^th time reaction: Really Makes Ya Think and that’s SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MOVIE making me think.  Not known for being a particularly thought provoking movie!  Imagine how much Other Movies Must Be Making Me Think a lot!
    Okay.  Man this guy really doesn’t like the man.  That’s my impression of Jack Black’s character.That wasn’t what I thought at the time.  That’s just what I felt compelled to type just now!  I’m kind of getting into Talking Heads.  I just like that they exist(ed)!  FAN OF THEM HAVING HAPPENED.  Catchy tunes, too!  I like that they started off not so great but then got better.  Because I started off not so great, then I got better, then I got worse again, and now I need hope that I could get even better than before!  I wasn’t thinking right so I got GrubHub in the storm.  I knew it had Snowstormed but I didn’t really look outside and put two and two together on How Bad It Was.  So I ordered some fast food!  On Night Directly Post Storm!  Was inconvenient for that guy to drive around.  Sorry.  What else can I say!  Gave him a big tip.  I wonder if he’s still out there.  Driving around.  Futilely.  Uhhh streets are pretty clear now.  Not for him.  For him it’s Forever A Nightmare.  Hmm.  What else is going on.  Mad Men is named after Madison Avenue Men.  I’d have called the series MAMMIES but that’s just me.  It’s actually written mostly by women you see.  That’s what I read.  On the other hand the main person behind its last name is Weiner.  So there’s just so much you have to take into account.
    Yeah.  I’ve been wearing my boots this winter after skipping them in the past.  On snow days and whatknot.  Usually I’m reluctant to wear boots because it’s too much of a hassle to get ‘em on!  Gotta untie em to fit my foot in there and then retie em.  I discovered a boots hack, though!  Don’t lace em up all the way!  Leave em 1/4^th unlaced!  That way I can slip my boots on and off!  So it’s NO PROBLEM putting em on or taking them off for that matter!  Anyway I watched that Mel Brooks documentary, it was okay!  I’d say it documented Mel Brooks but I dunno if it really did!  I guess so. Otherwise what else was I watching for three hours.  I DUNNO GOOD QUESTION.  Are we sure his name isn’t L Brooks and he just always signs his name Me, L Brooks without any punctuation.  We’re pretty sure but nothings 100%.  I’ve always been signature-shamed my whole life.  My parents particularly but probably by teachers and business people and whatknot as well.  Sure it’s not real language but it’s MY Nonsense.  Sure it’s illegible but it’s CONSISTENT.  If anything I should be praised for having a Harder-To-Copy signature.  Anyway.  In my mind, when signaturing, I’M THINKING my name.  I think Okay I’m gonna write my name in cursive now.  Here we go.  And then I make a couple of squiggles that are usually similar.  I don’t know if it’s the best I can do!  Huh.  I just told you how to forge my signature.  But you have to get the squiggles right.  Any old squiggles won’t do!  Right?  Hmm.
    OH WELL.  In a just society Any Old Squiggles Won’t Do.  What just society.  Have you looked out the window lately.  GOOD POINT.  I don’t like it.  I re-watched Sinners this weekend.  This time I saw the ending!  There’s an important scene after some credits that I missed in the theaters!  It’s not just a throwaway scene.  It includes important plot!  No Spoilers.  It incorporates what to them is The Future.  1990’s!  I can relate because I lived then, too.  I wasn’t an elderly blues musician then though.  Wasn’t even interested in elderly blues music to be honest!  ALL GRUNGE ALL THE TIME FOR ME BACK THEN.  I guess.  Well great.  Hey Green Day is introducing the Superbowl!  I didn’t know bands did that.  I only knew about half time shows.  Do people Close The Superbowl as well?  Midnight Snack Show Superbowl?  Prefix The Superbowl By A Week?  HOW MANY SHOWS TO THE SUPERBOWL ARE TEHRE EXACTLY.  Anyway. If I could ask Green Day one question about anything it’d probably have to be What Do You Mean By Green.  And if I had a bonus question it’d probably be What Do You Mean By Green DAY?  I dunno.  I think it’s probably one way to go truthfully to say that Green Day was my favorite band before I had a favorite band.  Maybe when I was 6-8!  When all I had was a cassette tape of When I Come Around.  And also if Weird Al doesn’t count!  GOOD.
    SURE.  The good news is I really liked American Idiot when it came out too.  It hit hard for me!  At the risk of repeating myself, I still feel a funnier Weird Al cover would have been American Indian.  Instead of Canadian Idiot.  That sort of thing is potentially needlessly offensive from the start though so I can see why nobody wants it.  Nobody needs it!  Ya think of it once and then move on with your life!  Maybe Weird Al writes out the lyrics because that’s what he does, but everyone else just pretends it never even happened!  Don’t wanna be an American Indian/ … … Hmm.  It’s tough.  LIFE IS TOUGH FOR THEM IT’S NOT A JOKE.  That’s how I feel.  But on the other hand they’re good inspiring beautiful-cultured people so they’ll ultimately be doing fine I hope.  INDEGINOUS.  That can rhyme with Indian.  Don’t wanna be an American Indian, duhduhduhduh Indigenous.  Don’t wanna be an American Indian, supposed to love the land just cause I’m indigenous.  Hmm.  Narrator is a poor American Indian in this song.  That’s one way to go.  I suppose!  I dunno.  This land is your land, This land is my land.  That’s a different song.  Native Americans say nobody owns the land.  Woody Guthrie says EVEYRBODY owns the land.  Or at least you and me.  Pretty important distinction!  You And Me own the land.  I been assuming it extrapolates to Mostly Everybody owns the land but I dunno could be wrong.  I dunno.  That’s it!  That’s all for today.  See ya later.

-5:15 P.M.

JAN 27 2026

    Hi.  Looks like we all might be getting a lot of snow this weekend!  I hope not.  Snow is bad for The Earth And It’s People.  But odds are we’re looking at An Inconvenient Snow.  The last couple of years I’ve had to incorporate Shoveling my Family Car into my life each time it snows.  No matter if it’s 1.5 inch or 12 inch!  It sucks!  I just learned a few weeks ago I can’t even shovel it into the driveway.  I can only shovel in one direction out of four.  All the way Onto the Grass.  Otherwise apparently I’m BLOCKING TRAFFIC or something.  Anyway this is the origin story of me becoming The Old Man from Home Alone.  Huh.  I was wondering who I’d turn out to be From Movies.  He doesn’t really shovel snow.  He salts sidewalks I think.  It’s all related.  Why is the Hemingway book called The Old Man And The Sea.  Sea is much older than the, “Old,” Man!  Should be called The Man And The Old Sea.  Or maybe The Kind Of Old Man And The Even Older Sea!  I dunno if I’ve ever really read a Hemingway book.  I assume lots of Hemming and Hawing.  That’s the way for that guy!  Huh.  WRONG.  He writes the Hemmingway.  Is there another writer named Hawwingway who writes the Hawwing-way?  I Mean C’mon!
    Ugh.  I started watching a new season of Stranger Things and these people are teenagers now!  Good.  How the Hell did they write this show season by season.  You can’t predict how individual actors will develop physically and write storylines attuned do that.  Maybe they can.  Maybe that’s The STRANGER THING!  Oh okay very good.  I identify with that one guy in Stranger Things Mike.  That’s my name.  Well clearly this is a person I can relate to.  That’s all it takes!  Works when I see Mikes or Michaels on TV or Film or in Books.  Not always in real life.  If I meet a Mike or Michael in real life it actually works AGAINST me feeling comfortable and on the same wavelength with them if anything.  My competition-drive kicks in.  THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.  I gotta figure out what’s wrong with this other Michael and how I can exploit their weaknesses so I can best them.  When was the last time I met a Mike or Michael.  Now that I think about it, it doesn’t come up that often!  Now that I think about it I’d love to make a Michael Friend!  Oh there’s a Michael in my School Of Rock class.  Primarily plays the bass but also is good on the drums.  He’s an okay guy!  I like him!   Drove me home from practice one time!  He may have dropped out this season?  I forget.  Guess he couldn’t handle the heat!  What heat.  Heat II: The Sequel.  It’s in pre-production!
    Okay.  Sinners got all the nominations but how come there’s no film VIRTUERS?  There was also a film slightly synonymous with Sinners The Bad Guys II.  Go figure.  Getting slightly closer to proficient at making music with my computer.  ALMOST there.  Once I’m there then I’m there.  But I’m NOT QUITE there yet.  Huh.  Anyway I went to the dentist this morning.  It was okay!  About 40 minutes of mild annoyance!  Then they had THE NERVE to tell me you’ve been brushing pretty good once a day and it’s all okay but you should brush twice a day.  What’s your problem!  It’s all good at once a day.  I don’t have time or energy for twice a day!  If anything you’re gonna burn me out brushing twice a day for like a week, discourage me, and then I might just stop brushing completely!  THINK about what might happen!  Anyway.  Had two Microcavities.  Two precavities.  Two kindacavities.  Not quite cavities they were!  Some sort of issue with two teeth!  They did something to ‘em within 3 minutes that wasn’t Fillings and sent me on my merry way!  Great.  I like the radio in the dentist.  It was pop music from 2012!  I LIKED pop music from 2012 and never before and never since!   That’s the dentist for you.  Pop music?  More like poop music!  That’s me if I was a musical critic. 
     Okay.  Great.  I always go to the dentist with my Dad.  Back to back appointments!  Cause we’re a team!  I don’t enjoy going every four months but that’s what my Dad does and Dentist seems to like it so who am I to argue!  And if there’s always something wrong each time I see him then you can argue It’s Never Soon Enough!  Great.  Can I Start a meme of pictures of Billy Dee Williams, Tommy Lee Jones, and Aaron Eckhart side by side and text beneath them saying Dent, Denter, and Dentist?  They all played Harvey Dent aka Two Face from Batman.  I don’t think I’d be allowed to start that meme!  NOT RIGHT NOW.  MAYBE LATER.  Anyway.  I just went in chronological order for that for sequencing that meme.  I think Tommy Lee Jones should be Dentist perhaps.  He really goes for it!  Whatever.  Billy Dee Williams and Tommy Lee Jones have interestingly similar names.  Let’s talk about it at some point in the future.  Also, Billy Dee Williams name is William Williams?  Wow.  His stylized name is one of the best names but his exact, given name is one of the worst.  Go figure. Unless your middle name is Carlos.  Then William Williams suddenly works somehow.  Huh.  I got a guitar lesson tonight.  Looking forward to learning something!  Teacher MIGHT expect me to have half-perfected intro and/or solo for Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton.  Which I have not!  But guitar lessons are a PROCESS.  And my process is NOT REALLY PRACTICING.
    OK.  Great.  I just googled if any of those three actors ARE or HAVE EVER BEEN dentists.  Which would add to the premise of that image.  Nope!  Tommy Lee Jones once was in a scene in a television show with another character who played a dentist though!  Hilarious I’m laughing already!  Anyway.  It’s always been my dream to come up with a joke that makes sense as a meme that would make people go, “I could see that being a meme sort of but not really, wouldn’t actually catch on but it’s sort of funny.”  Anyway.  I don’t want to MEME.  That’s not the kind of thing I want to devote my life to.  MEMING!  Who cares I’ve got other things to worry about!  Also Memes should be more general and apply to different situations.  That’s just a one note joke.  If I were to Meme it’d have to be a lot more universal and widely applicable to YOUR lives!  What does Dent/Denter/Dentist mean TO YOU?  Anyway.  Crashing cars.  That’s what I think of.  I thought we were doing Rorschach tests.  What else is going on.  Here Comes Snow!  God damnit one of the strings on my bass guitar is messed up.  I hit the open D string and it makes a musicless twang.  I hold down the first fret and same thing. THEN I hold down other frets and it works fine as do all the other strings.  Either way IT BETTER BE the string that’s messed up and not the bass guitar.  Otherwise there’ll be Hell to pay!  By which I mean I don’t know the bass is probably still under warranty!  Anyway that’s all.  See ya!

-5:12 P.M.          

JAN 22 2026

   Hey.  I’m glad you’re here!  Otherwise I’d just be writing for everyone else.  I like everyone else fine I guess.  Either way, I dunno, how am I gonna come up with 5 paragraphs!  I’ve DONE nothing to write about to inspire five paragraphs.  I will be DOING NOTHING to inspire five paragraphs WHILE THEY’RE HAPPENING.  I don’t think I’ll do anything IN THE FUTURE to retroactively inspire these paragraphs TIME TRAVEL-WISE.  Hmm.  I’ve been watching Mad Men.  It’s good!  Don Draper reminds me of Donald Trump because his name is Don Da’ Raper.  They came up with it not me.  That other guy in the office reminds me of Dave Foley from Kids In The Hall.  Just based on appearance! I THOUGHT IT WAS HIM for an episode or two!  Anyway it’s a good show.  It encourages me to be less of an asshole like everyone on the show.  So Far I’m Still Working On It!  Luckily I’m mostly a private asshole!  I don’t interact with people too much.  Certainly not intimately.  Mostly just an asshole in my own mind!  Asshole to myself.  See how I like it.  I DON’T.  What’s a good personality though besides being an asshole.  Hmm.  Who needs a personality.  Just BE.  Personalities are overrated I think!  Take things moment-by-moment!  That’ll get you where you’re going!
   I’d like some consistency in who I am and what I do and how I behave!  That’s what personalities are.  Your overall TREND.  Oh okay very good.  Anyway.  Is Private Asshole a character in Catch-22 or something?  Feels like I heard that somewhere.  I hate all these books or whatever that try to assign meaning to numbers.  Let numbers be numbers!  That’s what they’re good at!  Giving numbers numerology-type meaning is the opposite of what we should be doing!  MATH IS ITS OWN THING.  IT MEANS NOTHING AND THAT’S WHY IT’S BEAUTIFUL.  That’s what makes it cool!  You’re RUINING IT.  But wouldn’t it be cool if 22 was a particular fun number for some reason.  Just MEANT something weird.  Wouldn’t that be kinda awesome.  STOP IT.  YOU’RE PUSHING IT.  Anyway.  I get it.  Started a new book.  About Talking Heads.  The band!  It’s a good book and you know what it’s an okay band.  I like that they sound different!  Sure all bands sound somewhat different and this band doesn’t sound that much different than any band sounds different from any other band but when I listen to this band’s songs I just think Hey These Songs Sound Different.  Even though I’ve only listened to the songs that I Know And Everyone Knows so far.  Which really are The Same when it comes down to it.  Huh.
    Okay.  Talking Heads?  WHAT ELSE would you expect to be talking?  I dunno!  Ace Ventura talks with his butt sometimes.  Not really.  He mimes doing it.  I don’t think he actually achieves speech coming from that part of his body.  Why do people say you’re talking out your ass like it’s a negative thing.  That’d be amazing!  The next stage in human evolution!  People would be astonished!  Anyway.  I got a make-up guitar lesson tonight.  Awesome!  I like that sort of thing.  I am strongly considering working on new music tomorrow.  If I can dream it, I can do it.  And if I can do it, I can do it for a full three or four hours!  And if I can do it for a full three or four hours, I WIN.  I’ll have accomplished what I set out to do!  Things Have Worked Out Exactly The Way I Wanted Them To!  What if I did music for 3-4 hours but it was terrible.  Good or Not Good Music, There Is Not.  JUST IS MUSIC BE.  That’d be easy for Yoda to say the only song he knows is the Star Wars Theme.  Best song of the 20^th century.  I like to imagine the characters in Star Wars hear the Star Wars music all the time in the back of their head and can’t exactly explain why.  Seems right.  Darth Vader himself is consciously thinking the Imperial Death March DUH DUH DUH Duh duh duh DUH DUH DUH whenever he walks around.   
   Alright.  Star Wars was the first song I learned.  On Piano.  I just played the main riff.  YES.  That’s all I could play the first 13 years of my life!  MUSICWISE.  Anyway.  What else is up.  I don’t mean to brag but we own a piano.  There’s a whole ass piano in our house.  I don’t know how we got it in there but it’s here!  Hmm.  WHAT’S THE DEAL with guitar pedals these days.  They cost three times as much as they did when I was a kid!  Exact same pedal that was $40 when I was a teenager is now $120!  Let’s get some Talking Heads complaining about that one.  It’s what people are concerned about!  Meet people where they are!  Makes me wanna not buy a guitar pedal at all.  I already don’t wanna because I gotta do manual work!  Gotta STEP ON IT.  What I gotta do exercises while I’m playing my song?  Don’t I have enough going on?  I DON’T LIKE IT.  Anyway.  All these Talking Heads people went to Art School.  I’ve never been good at visual arts!  Drawing or painting or anything.  Solidly in the bottom 10% at all that stuff!  NOTABLY poor.  I dunno if it’s hand-eye coordination or just hands or just eyes or what!  BRAIN maybe!  Maybe if I was inspired I could draw something interesting but for the most part I suck.  I just look at the world and think HOW CAN I POSSIBLY REPRODUCE THIS.  It’s impossible!  Can’t be done!  I wouldn’t know where to begin!
    Huh.  Let’s see.  “Traditional Art,” starts off as a palindrome but then goes nowhere!  Fun.  Almost!  If you were talking about David Byrne’s of Talking Heads possessions you would say Mr. Burns something or something.  That guy from that Television Thing.  Anyway.  Trying to remember things I’ve drawn.  I think in sixth grade art I once had to draw my kitchen.  And I drew my microwave and window and other stuff way out of proportion.  And everything just looked terrible.  Like a six year old drew it.  Can’t remember if it was drawn from memory or if I even had the benefit of Observation.  Hmm.  Maybe the microwave was bigger because it looms large in my heart.  THAT WASN’T THE ASSIGNMENT.  Anyway.  I understand the assignment!  Draw your kitchen in proportion.  Okay Very Good.  Not a panoramic view.  Not each and every side of your kitchen!  Pick one place to look at!  There are 31 kids in this class teacher can’t go through 124 drawings!  I think my kitchen has more than four walls.  Maybe six.  It is a Corner Kitchen.  It wraps around a corner.  I can’t do the math in my head right now but it’s complicated!  WOW.  Okay.  I just doxed my kitchen.  Next thing you know my kitchen is getting bomb threats.  Is the phrase, “Kitch,” from, “Kitchen?”  OR VICE VERSA?  Either way who cares I’m done with the entry!  See ya later!

-4:55 P.M.

JAN 20 2026 

   Hi!  I’m afraid the time has come to ask for a plumber.  This water temperature in my bath is unacceptable!  I was hoping at some point it would turn around on its own and get better but that’s not happening! Give it some more time.  Things like this don’t get just better on their own! You need Mario and Luigi to GET IN THERE and fix it!  I don’t know what to do.  I don’t like causing a fuss!  Also, based on experience, it’ll only crap out on me in a year or two and turn cold again!  Maybe I should figure out how to fix it myself.  DIY.  BYOB.  TMOTTBG.  Byob is a bummer of an acronym.  Acronyms are supposed to be FUN and A BLAST.  BYOB is a reference to a CHORE and something we HAVE TO DO.  Isn’t DIY, for that matter.  DIY is about becoming a better more well-rounded person!  BYOB is about having to make an extra stop at the liquor store before the party.  I wonder if 50 Cent ever thought about Get Rich Or DIY Trying.  And it’s about how he had to do it all by himself or at least A Lot By Himself.  If I were him I would have thought about that a few times.  I never saw the movie but if that’s an actual prominent theme of the movie then that vindicates that theory.  Cool.  Watched most of season II of Stranger Things.  I like watching kids get older.  It feels like at least one of us is accomplishing something.  Feels productive!
   I would LOVE Boyhood.  The movie.  Probably the concept, too!   I’ve never seen the movie and I forget most of the experience.  Wait, something’s coming to me.  I remember sitting in cafeterias with other kids my age.  During lunch time.  That must have been part of it.  Huh.  Chatrooms.  Group Chats and individual Person to Person instant messaging.  It was an important part of socializing.  In my boyhood.  That kind of friendship contact was right up my alley.  I get to be a wiseass from afar without any real intimacy forming to muck up the gears of the relationships.  Really made me the man I am today!  Wait a second…  Whatever!  I should probably do some practicing before my Guitar Class tonight.  Teacher probably is expecting me to have practiced what we went over Last Week.  I DID NOT.  Hmm I could devote 15-20 minutes to that I guess.  First comes Boyhood.  Then comes Manhood.  Then comes Robinhood.  It’s.  The.  ULTIMATE.  I dunno.  Manhood is slang for condom right.  Alright.  I have a really old condom in my wallet.  Not sure where I even got it.  It’s gotta be very expired!  In an earlier draft of that story I told you exactly how old I estimated it was.  Then I was embarrassed by how long it implied I haven’t had sex!  In this draft you just use your imagination.
    That’s fun.  Con the Dumb.  Yep that’s who I was gonna con in the first place but thanks for the tip.  I don’t wanna con the dumb.  They have enough problems as it is!  I think I’ll con the brilliant!  Or maybe the moderately intelligent!  Anyway.  Grateful Dead guitarist died a week or so ago.  He should feel happy about that.  As a synonym or so.  Anyway he was ALREADY The Grateful Dead.  Now that he’s even more dead what is he.  Somethin’ Else.  Somethin’ Different.  I dunno what.  Double dead.  Hopefully double grateful too for his sake!  My guess is I don’t know.  I bet he’s doubly grateful in actual death.  Why not.  He earned it!  HE played guitar for all of us!  I had very little idea who he was before a week ago but that’s on me!  I told one of my new guitarmates who seems fluent in music my favorite kind of music was Indie Rock Alt Rock and Punk and he was like Indie rock, hmm, so like The Replacements? And I was like Yeah Sure!  Cause WHY NOT.  I like The Replacements as one band out of 200!  It’s True!  Also if not them WHO.  I dunno who else I would say!  So SURE THEM!  I wanted to be like Yeah Sure!  HMM Terrible what’s going on in Minneapolis to signal I know they’re from there and to keep conversation going.  But I just said YEAH SURE.  WELL GOODNIGHT instead.
   Okay.  ICE MELTS IN ‘SOTA.  I came up with that.  Probably dozens of other people too.  Also, “T,” = “D!”  They’re VERY close!  I don’t know if it will come true or not.  But my heart goes out to Minnesotans fighting the good fight!  Anyway I guess I need to write two more paragraphs.  I think I’m all caught up on Star Wars movies.  Now I have to watch the series.  Sounds like a big commitment!  Also sounds like I’d have to pay close attention to really follow what’s going on.  Movies are 2.25 hours and I can halfwatch to figure out what’s going on.  Series are 3 seasons of 10 episodes and I’m gonna have to .85 Watch the entire thing to know what’s happening!  DANGIT.  Anyway all this time I’ve been hearing about Baby Yoda and apparently it hasn’t been Baby Yoda at all!  Just a baby who looks like yoda!  At least it has the force not unlike Yoda.  That’s close enough I guess.  Same species, still has the force, is a baby… STILL.  THAT AIN’T YODA.  WORDS HAVE MEANING.  Where’s Baby Emperor Palpatine.  He’s human. That’d just be a baby.  Oh.  I was imagining a baby who looks like an old man.  Hmm.  Anyway sometimes Liz Lemon of 30 Rock says, “A-doy!” and that’s, “Yoda,” backwards. Cracked that code.   
    Also Liz Lemon backwards is Nomelzil which sounds like a prescription drug of some sort.  Okay.  The title of this entry implied there’d be Hot Takes.  Titles imply lots of things!  I guess.  I dunno.  Do you ever think about how People We Enjoy And Admire keep on dying but no one we get anything out of are being born?  I mean I guess people are being born that ONE DAY will be productive in the arts or elsewhere.  But it’s never breaking news that someone was born that’s going to be great.  We won’t know about it for decades!  Probably.  Who cares.  I dunno!  Me!  I want new great people to look up to!  Luckily I look up to almost everyone I meet!  VERY short man!  Anyway.  Must be really weird to be a standard height.  How odd.  You’re just like everyone else.  How strange.  What else is up.  What if I were to get pizza tonight.  Would that make me happy?  Yeah maybe.  Pizza is a metaphor for pizza.  What else.  I remember sometimes having French Bread Pizza in elementary school Hot Lunch.  OOO-LA-LA.  PARISIAN CUISINE.  What is French Bread?  It’s when it’s a rounded off rectangle instead of a circle (or 1/8^th circle shaped).  Pretty sure that’s it.  Cool.  I remember one or two classmates wouldn’t eat their hot lunch and we were more than happy to accept their donations for ourselves.  Looking back what was wrong with them.  Somethings off if you’re deciding not to eat lunch every day for the entire school year.  We should show more concern for our friend.  But at the time AWESOME Double Decker Chicken Sandwich this is a sweet deal.  Anyway.  See ya later.

-3:59 P.M.

JAN 15 2026                  

   What’s Up.  At some point I started confusing Website Content with Just Talking About My Life.  Yes that is an Often Overlap but it’s Usually Wrong and I’m sorry.  Problem is I don’t know what to say most of the time.  Talking about my life Gets The Words Flowing.  Flow.  In the first draft of Star Wars Obi Wan was to teach Luke about The Flow.  Use The Flow Luke!  The Flow is all around us.  Providing strength and balance to every living thing.  Use the flow to Pick Up Rock for practice and whatknot.  Pick up rock and put it back down.  Or just pick it up and let gravity do the second part No One Would Be The Wiser CHEATER.  Anyway Emperor Palpatine looks like the most powerful person in Star Wars to me.  He can electrify people. Gonna fuckin’ point his fingers at you and start cookin’ you alive.  Seems like the go-to move as far as I can tell.  Somebody must stop him!  Somebody did.  Darth Vader threw him off a cliff.  Then some other people also killed him again.  It was climactic!  Anyway.  Maybe we should call Global Warming, “Climactic Change,” so people would be more engaged.  Now I’m even less engaged then before.  Oh okay good.  I’m guessing there’s a big overlap between people who don’t believe in Global Warming and Flat Earthers so is it possible they’re actually just objecting to the, “Global,” part and not the, “Warming?” part?  Maybe there’s more common ground to be found with these Idiots than we thought!          
    Okay.  Anyway.  Here’s a pun I’m kicking around—Abolish ICE But it’s actually the polar ice caps melting from Global Warming.  Still working out the kinks on that one.  I’ll get around to it.  Anyway the ICE on everyone’s mind is terrible but ICE IN SODA is a nice microtreat.  If I drink soda at home as I do all the time I would never put ice in the glass myself.  But if I go to a restaurant and get ice in my soda as they always will put it in, WOW!  Nice bonus extra!  Really makes things seem special!  Before ICE: The Horrible Agency Which Will Go Down In History As One Of The Worst Things America Ever Did, regular ice was great here and there!  Ice could mean something similar to smh in texts.  “I Can’t Even.”  Just one man’s opinion.  Gonna have to come up with SOME new text abbreviations If I Want To Be The New Shakespeare!  I think I’m just all caught up with Abbott Elementary.  I didn’t realize they still have K-8 public schools in other parts of the country!  Also Philadelphia isn’t that far from my part of the country.  I could practically walk there if you gave me enough time and allowed me to rest and could afford food and lodging and whatknot.  Sounds like fun.  Let’s do it.  And what happens at the end?  The reward is in the journey not the destination.  Well surely there must be some sort of payoff in the destination.  Nope.  Just the journey!  You’re not gonna like the destination One Bit!  
    Okay.  Started my new round of music for School Of Rock.  It’s all assorted blues songs!  The group got 5 songs for now and I GOT FIVE SONGS for now.  We’re down to 3 guitarrists and the other 2 are brand new to the group!  I guess because of seniority it worked out that I’m on all five songs either in rhythm or lead capacity.  Ugh.  I like rhythm!  It’s easier!  Playing chords is kinda my thing!  I do like sometimes when I’m improvising the lead on some songs IN THEORY.  Sometimes I enjoy it because it’s fun, Doing it makes me get better at it, and it’s what I signed up to do more or less IN THEORY.  But also that’s when Pressure Kicks In!  So I don’t like too much of it!  Anyway.  I like a balance!  If it were up to me I’d like to play majority rhythm and then some lead and the lead I play would be mostly improvision and the non-improvised lead should be EASY to play.  IF IT WERE UP TO ME.  I gotta take the workload that’s given to me!  That’s what bands are all about!  This is sort of a band.  DNA BAND TOGETHER. Is that the start of some wonderful anagram/palindrome?  Cause they do.  Double Helix.  Something like that.  We cloned Dolly The Sheep in the late 1990’s.  Whatever happened to that clone.  Just BEEN livin it’s life I guess.  If anything particularly terrible or particularly wonderful happened with it we would have heard about it! 
    Begun the Clone Wars have.  That’s how Star Wars II ends, with Yoda Saying That.  And then I never heard about the clone wars again.  I guess they may have been going on in Star Wars III but I didn’t really notice anything about Clone Wars really!  For all this talk about Clone Wars here and there in Star Wars I DIDN’T SEE MUCH ACTUAL CLONE WARS.  Whatever.  Took a break from watching The Star Wars Franchise to watch Spaceballs.  It’s… okay!  About as good as I remember it!  I’m excited for Spaceballs II though because I Love To Laugh and I Laugh To Live.  Whatever.  The only Mel Brooks movie I had on VHS as a kid was Robin Hood: Men In Tights.  We rented some of the others multiple times.  But I watched Robin Hood: Men In Tights dozens of times.  Lots of laughs in that one!  IT PARODIES Robin Hood Movies.  Which I have never seen then or now.  But I get the idea.  It takes place in Medieval Times!  British!  Robin Hood is A HERO.  Sheriff Of Nottingham is A ZERO.  Also that’s how I already liked Dave Chappelle by the time I was seven years old.  And now I don’t like Dave Chappelle as much now that I’m thirty seven years old.  I DIDN’T CHANGE HE DID.  I’m still the same person I was when I was seven.  Maybe a little dumber all in all.  I dunno.
   Okay.  I’m surprised Dave Chappelle joined the cast of Men In Tights seems like crossdressing would be a bridge too far for him!  Anyway.  What else is going on.  I should be writing TWO entries a week not THREE.  And/or ZERO entries a week not TWO.  Who needs any of this.  Either way what else.  Apparently Rick Moranis is making his triumphant return to acting in Spaceballs II after 2 decades off (3 decades if you only include live performances).  This is very exciting!  I WONDER if John Candy or Joan Rivers will return from the dead.  That would be the real kicker!  Somehow Joan Rivers Returned.  Okay.  I don’t think there’s any subtitle to Spaceballs II.  They had a few ideas but I guess they couldn’t commit to one so they just said FUCK IT if we can’t pick one WE’RE GOING WITH NOTHING.  I guess I can’t argue with that logic.  But it feels like they shoulda gone with SOMETIN.  These movies tend to have SOME Subtitle!  GOTTA PICK SOMETHIN.  But Michael who cares what you think.  Good counterpoint.  Anyway.  Do I need to see DUNE to get Spaceballs II.  I might need to watch All The Dunes.  I get it they live in Sand.  What more do I need to understand.  Possible there are sandworms like in Beetlejuice.  Sure!  Anyway.  That’s all.  See ya later.

-5:30 P.M.

JAN 13 2026

   Hey.  Had my School Of Rock show yesterday!  Went okay.  About a six or seven out of ten!  Nothing terrible happened!  Didn’t knock my solos out of the park personally but all in all we were solid.  HEALTHWISE I’m back to basics.  Feelin’ fine!  About 95%!  Just a little congested!  My Dad was telling me to blow my nose and stuff.  Is that a generational thing?  I don’t think I’ve ever blown my nose in my life.  I’ve sneezed of course.  When I have to involuntarily sneeze I sneeze.  I usually enjoy it!  But I’ve never manually forced myself to sneeze.  I don’t think millennials or Gen Z people blow their nose!  OK BOOMER you can blow your nose I’ll just play things as they go.  Anyway.  A lot of people are leaving the SOR class after this season.  Kinda feels like they just don’t like me.  That’s what my mind jumps to.  Maybe because Body Language and Other Helpful Intuition Hints.  I dunno why but in my life almost all people I meet Just Don’t Like Me!  On the one hand I KINDA GET IT and on the other hand WHAT THE HELL Is Wrong With Me.  It’s a close balance between WHAT THE FUCK and I UNDERSTAND.  Anyway.  Watching the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.  I like these films!  I like the BB-8 robot.  Cute little guy.  Nice name.  B’s LOOK LIKE 8’s!  So the name really makes you think!
   Huh.  BB is a musical note or chord.  B flat!  Don’t think for a second Star Wars didn’t take that into account!  Huh.  I feel like I said that exact thought last time around I talked about watching this movie years ago.  Word-for-word.  Deja-Vu’d myself!  I assume because of Iraq War we are now calling that phenomenon a Freedom Memory.  I’m still bitter about 2003.  I can hold a grudge a long time!  So can The Grudge!  From the movie The Grudge!  It won’t go away!  Scary!  The kids group who preformed before us yesterday’s theme was Grunge!  That’s kind of like Grudge!  Half their songs were Nirvana!  LUCKY.  Lucky would be a good band name.  Probably several dozen bands have tried it out at some point or another.  Anyway.  We had a lot of people in the crowd for us but I don’t know where they came from.  Most people I talked to in our group said they had no one coming.  I had my brother coming and that’s it.  All in all it was like sixty or so audience members.  WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE.  I wanted to look out at the audience as I preformed to show I wasn’t scared of them but I mostly looked down.  Sometimes at my guitar.  Sometimes at the floor.  Sometimes at the singer and/or the other band people.  Especially as the song was ending.  To show them we all know the song was about to end!  YEAH.
    Alright.  Wore my Wilco t-shirt!  That’s one way to go.  Just wear a Band T-shirt.  Band I like.  That isn’t the band I was playing.  Fair enough!  The most high pressure part of the day was tuning the guitar for the one song in a different tuning!  Sucks!  I should be focused on actually playing the songs, you’d think!  WRONG.  Most of my mental attention and worry was concentrated on the tuning back and forth for the one song in a different tuning.  Making sure I’d have the guitar tuned in time for that one song and back!  TURNS OUT I DID.  Cool!  BAD NEWS I’m still not done with Rolling Stones!  Got another show with these songs in a few weeks!  Only playing half a dozen of the songs, which I’m on five of!  Also it’s a selection of songs I don’t really like!  AH WELL LIFE SPINS ON FRIEND.  The point is The Rolling Stones made a point of saying they’re not touring this year after saying they would so THIS MAY BE IT.  If you wanna hear Rolling Stones this may be your best chance.  Probably not your best chance.  One of your least good chances, though!  If you wanna hear The Rolling Stones this is one of your Less Good Chances!  Oh wow cool.  Anyway.  Time to start working my own music this week.  IT’S BEEN time.  BEN Solo.  That’s Kylo Ren’s name.  He has several names.  Two that I know of.  Adam Driver too in another world.  Anyway.  “My Name Is Han Solo! Now Listen to this!” and then he does the Michael J Fox too-complex-Johnny-B-Goode riff from Back To The Future that turns off teenagers from the 1950’s.
    Okay.  I remember when I first saw The Force Awakens in 2015 I was like wow these original stars returning from the original Star Wars ARE OLD AS FUCK.  They’re like A HUNDRED YEARS OLD.  How are they STILL MOVING.  Harrison Ford would have been the oldest at 73 when it came out, not even when it was filmed.  Carrie Fisher was only like 59.  Mark Hamill was in his 60’s.  Anyway.  Good movies!  Huh.  Also I saw Hayden Christiansen show up in Return Of The Jedi!  The ghost of Darth Vader pops up at the end as a friendly specter cheering on Luke Skywalker and his friends and NOW IT’S HAYDEN CHRISTIENSEN I guess as a special feature.  Seems wrong but what can I do about it.  Wouldn’t that just confuse Luke Skywalker.  He wouldn’t recognize that as Darth Vader.  He’d be like WHO ARE YOU?  My Father as a teenager?  BUT WHY?  If my Dad died and showed up as a ghost to haunt me but then showed up as a 19 year old I would be like Who The Hell Are You.  My Dad?  Oh.  I guess I can see it.  Well if you’re happier this way then I’m happy for you.  Good.  Well how’s death.  Anyway.  Death can’t be that good if he’s here hanging out with me.  My existence sucks.  Anything else would be more fun!  He’s not here for fun he’s here to help me.  Oh Helpful Ghosting.  That’s good.  Good Dad.  Good Young Ghost Dad.  I get it.
   What else is going on.  How dare they close that Star Wars immersive Disney Resort.  I wanna go there!  They thought we wouldn’t wanna go there but we do wanna go there.  They were dead wrong.  Maybe they can try it again in the future.  Anyway I lost track of what I was talking about.  Star Wars.  Oh.  Yes.  The film franchise and assorted other business operations.  Whatever.  It appears the main hero of the sequel trilogy is a woman.  Is that WOKE.  Only Mostly Everyone Else is a man!  It appears the title of the first film of the sequel trilogy is THE FORCE AWAKENS.  Is that WOKE.  SOUNDS LIKE IT.  The Force is woke!  Literally right there in the title!  Anyway.  Also, rearrange the letters of, “Woke,” ya get, “EWOK!”  Those crazy critters!  Wonderful.  Anyway.  What exactly is the dark side.  It’s like The Force but also You’re Angry And Scared And Confused About It.  Just use the force but compliment it with Bad Feelings.  Hmm.  Makes sense.  George Lucas really thought this one through!  I can see how this Force vs Dark Side struggle might really be evenly matched!  It’s close but I THINK AND I HOPE Dark Side loses.  Cause of Justice and Righteousness and Goodness and whatknot.  Anyway.  That’s it for today!  I’ll see ya later! 

-5:17 P.M

JAN 11 2026