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

   Okay.  Hey!  Been sick the last two days.  I think.  I feel sick!  I just bought a thermometer and it’s telling me I am not feverish.  Can you be sick without a fever?  I’m sick in the sense that I’m ill.  By which I mean I’m dope.  I used to love getting fevers or the flu as a kid.  SURE it’s unpleasant feeling under the weather but I get to skip school!  That’s a net positive outcome!  Watch daytime TV.  Forbidden Zone!  People my age aren’t supposed to see this content!  What about during the summer.  Hmm.  I dunno.  Anyway.  Got a double Guitar Lesson today.  Regular lesson followed by make up lesson.  This lesson is gonna take forever!  Last two nights have been when Weakness and Discomfort really kicks in, too!  Hopefully not tonight!  THE SHOW MUST GO ON.  Well Preparing For The Show Must Go On.  Well Guitar Practice Must Go On.  You get it.  Huh.  Been watching the original Star Wars trilogy.  They’re okay!  Feels like Luke Skywalker loses some spunk over time.  He starts off with some attitude on Tattooine!  As he learns the force and becomes a Jedi he loses some of his gumption!  Kinda seems like he’s making Backwards Progress!  Anyway.  The Forrest Gumption Of A Nation.  What’s happened to us!  I don’t like it.  Didn’t bother to think too much overnight while feeling sick last night.  Too busy feeling shitty!  That’s one positive.  Just lie in bed thinking about trying to fall back asleep because I felt bad.  There was no thought for thinking about anything else!
     I bet Yoda and R2D2 would get along.  On account of dwarfism.  Anyway George Lucas really knocked these names out of the park.  So many memorable names.  Gimme a main character name that ISN’T amazing.  Princess Leia.  Kinda only OK.  But then again maybe that’s because Lucas intended for her to be a Kind Of Only Okay Character because of misogyny.  Anyway.  Star Wars is a Space Opera.  Does that make Fight Club a Soap Opera.  Not sure.  Hmm.  ANYWAY.  Michael what if you said stuff what was good.  Entertaining or funny.  Maybe relevant.  I can’t THINK.  I feel SICK.  What if I started to think soon.  Then maybe I’d stop feeling sick.  Good. Great.  It’s a problem!  What’s on my mind is the Fascism!  The government is killing us!  The media is enabling it!  Powerful people are turning a blind eye!  And the small voice I do have, I don’t know what to do with it!  Oh okay I get it Good One.  Anyway.  They want us to be scared.  Hey they did it!  I’m scared!  Maybe they want us to not just be scared But also the opposite, to be indifferent and ignorant, too.  Well I’m kinda those things too!  Whatever it is, We’re Not Doing Good Enough!  Unless you are.  Maybe you are!  SOME PEOPLE are probably doing good enough!  WELL DONE.  Anyway.  The Force is all around us.  Just put my faith in that, right?  That’s what Yoda would say.  Not sure that’s accurate though.  Interesting counterpoint.
    Anyway.  Kinda seems like The Dark Side is all around us.  Maybe It’s Just Me. Anyway I bought two new pairs of pants.  And they arrived today!  What’s the point of the half a dozen tags and stickers and whatknot that they attach to new pants.  Seems like they’re just giving us busy work to deal with.  Think of all the better things I could be doing rather than taking off these plastic tags!  I could be lying in bed in pain with my mind off for once!  Make the most out of this current debilitation.  Just LAY.  IN.  BED.  I don’t get it.  I dunno.  Had a make up guitar lesson with a different teacher on Tuesday and we were jamming together and dude really emphasized what I was doing was FYRE.  Not sure he intended it as Fyre or Fire but either way he seemed genuine in his praise.  I didn’t think what I was doing was all that good.  Seems like he mighta been blowing some smoke!  WHERE TEHRE’S SMOKE THERE’S FIRE THOUGH so either way it’s accurate.  Anyway.  If Star Wars is a Space Opera that means it has ads for Space during the commercials.  That’s my opinion.  I wouldn’t mind going into space these days.  In the past Astronauting seemed dumb and pointless but NOW I get it.  Get me outta here.  Anyway.  You can’t survive for long times in space.  Not yet.  You can only visit space.  Is that accurate. I don’t know.  I wouldn’t want to raise a family in The International Space Station though for example.  People WORK there.
   Okay.  Maybe being sick and playing guitar will compliment each other.  2+2=4.  I’ll excel at Guitar Lesson Practice.  I won’t feel good but you can’t argue with the results!  What are some good songs about Feeling Sick.  Hmm.  I dunno.  Not sure I know too many songs.  Only about 2 or 3 dozen when it’s all said and done!  NOT A HUGE MUSIC BUFF.  I’ve gotten in the habit of playing the guitar while in the lobby waiting for my lessons.  I saw other people do it before and I figured I could do that too!  I’m always 10-30 minutes early because Why Not.  So I just get there early and play guitar by myself.  People seem to probably not enjoy it but nobody says a thing!  FREE CONCERT FOR THEM.  I like what I play!  Maybe when they go to sleep at night they’ll think back to what they heard earlier and go YA KNOW WHAT ACTUALLY I KINDA LIKED THAT.  That’s good.  Should probably wear a mask to Guitar Lesson. As a kindness precaution.  Hmm.  I don’t THINK I have covid.  But then again I don’t THINK at all.  I TOLD YOU that’s what makes this illness so delightful!  Anyway.  I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not.  Catchphrase kinda lost all it’s power once we figured We Were Okay With That!  YEAH.  WE KNOW WE’RE NOT.  COMPLETELY COOL WITH THAT.  Anyway.  I’m Not Chevy Chase And You Might Be.  That’s WHAT I SAY. 
   Alright.  I guess.  There’s other Chevy Chases out there.  Even Chevy Chase himself must say I’m Chevy Chase and You Might Be.  Surely there’s more than one!  But I guess Chevy Chase just doesn’t care about the other people named Chevy Chase out there in the world!  Chevy Chase Erasure.  WOW WHAT AN ASSHOLE.  Anyway.  My show is in two days.  Good odds I’m Over My Illness by then!  Got a practice session with my Clashmates tomorrow night.  We’ll see how sick I am then!  I DUNNO. I have no choice but to show up for the show!  This is it!  Been working on this since September 2025!  Without me 9 out of 14 songs WOULDN’T MAKE SENSE.  What else is up.  I had one or two drinks of alcohol before Summer’s Show.  Classmate had a bottle of something!  I forget what!  I partook a little bit!  I think it didn’t hurt and maybe helped.  Not sure if I should do it again if he offers again.  Maybe I’m a Sober Songster this time around.  Although in general I do like to drink!  HMM.  If I’m still SICK I probably shouldn’t drink.  Feeling Ill + Drinking = Multiplier of Badness For Guitar Playing!  Alright then.  I don’t like it.  What.  Mostly everything.  You know.  That sort of stuff.  Alright! See ya later.

-5:18 P.M.

JAN 8 2026         

   Okay Good.  I’ve got bad news, I’ve been identifying with Darth Vader.  I was watching the Star Wars prequel trilogy the last few days and I’ve been enjoying it.  So there ya go.  I think they’re pretty good films!  You see Jar Jar Binks is so annoying as to get us really angry and turned off such that we Identify With Anakin While He Turns To The Dark Side.  They’re LAYERED movies!  I’ve seen these films a few times before but I’m paying slightly more attention this time.  I still don’t like the pre-amble for any of these three films.  For at least two of the three, the text that appears in the beginning that sets up the plot for the film, although it presumably is simple enough that a children can understand it, I’m left thinking WHA?  HUH?  I DON’T GET IT.  THESE 3 PARAGRAPHS CONFUSE ME.  I DUNNO WHY BUT MOST OF THESE WORDS MAKE NO SENSE TOGETHER.  MIGHT JUST BE THE ANGLE THEY’RE AT.  CONFUSING ANGLE.  WHY.  Maybe my problem is it’s cause there’s so much pressure to read it while it’s passing by.  I gotta read it before it leaves the screen and I’m panicking because I don’t operate well under pressure!  Maybe cause the plot is always confusing.  THE SENATE IS DOIN SOMETHING.  CHANCELLOR UP TO NO GOOD.  SEPERATIST SOLAR SYSTEMS OR SOMETHIN.  YOU’LL SEE.  I guess my reading comprehension is POOR.
   Anyway.  They’re good films though.  Quite the spectacle!  I can get into this!  I really liked Episode One: The Phantom Menace.  WHO is the Phantom Menace.  I have several guesses.  The truth is there might be multiple phantom menaces.  No, the title is pretty clear there’s a singular Phantom Menace.  Oh okay.  Anyway.  What else is up.  Am I committed to binge watching All Of Star Wars after I finish Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith?  No I don’t think so.  I could stop whenever I want!  Do I want to stop then?  I got nothing better to watch!  Sure, there are other things to watch on the TV.  STRANGER Things perhaps.  After my show on Saturday I promise to start working on music again.  To myself.  You can accept that promise if you want.  But it’s really a self promising. Music will really only be for myself, too!  You won’t get much out of it for now!  You won’t even be able to listen to it for who-knows-how-long/ever!  Anyway.  Softcorn Porn called Jedi Nights.  Softcorn?  Yeah like when the band Korn Goes Acoustic.  Anyway.  I’m still inadequately fucking around for parts of 2-3 songs out of the 9 I’m on for my SOR show.  Just hopefully barely making sense musically are the notes I’m playing for those 2-3 bits of songs.  But ALL IN ALL I feel comfortable with how much prepared I am for the show.  The amount I’m prepared is to be Barely HOLDING MY OWN!  That’s GOOD ENOUGH I GUESS.
   Wow.  I identified with Darth Vader in Episode I because I am the same height as a nine year old.  What more do you want from me.  Anyway.  I don’t see myself Going Towards The Dark Side.  I don’t WANT to be evil.  Get off my back about it!  Just use the force.  Listen to Yoda.  Pretty simple stuff.  How come Yoda has had thousands of students but none of them adopt his way of speaking.  He speaks in a very specific sentence structure, and I assume he’s taken on lots of PERSONAL MENTORSHIPS, and I’m pretty sure all of them Talk Unlike Him But Like Everyone Else.  Seems like if I was mentored by Master Yoda I’d come out of it Speaking Like Him.  If he was really my Main Master for the long run.  Talk Like Him I Would.  Otherwise how deep is this apprenticeship really!  Anyway.  I dunno.  Halfway through the entry.  Halfway through my life, maybe.  Probably!  Bought new jeans online.  For some reason my jeans keep ripping in the crotch area.  The bottom/back of the crotch area.  Takes about 3-5 months but it’s inevitable!  Same with socks.  Takes about 6-8 weeks for socks!  But a sock’ll tear in the toe area at some point, you can bet on it!  You can bet on anything!  It’s encouraged!  Not sure how I feel about that.  I’m all for personal freedoms but it seems like not the best use of your time and/or resources!
    Whatever.  What were the odds Michael Complains About His Clothes Ripping.  80:1?  WHO WON BIG MONEY ON THAT?  Why is that something people do.  Anyway maybe I should be identifying with The Incredible Hulk. Off the top of my head His Clothes Rip Too. Rest In Pieces, The Incredible Hulk’s Clothes.  They’re dead cause they’re broken.  Tattered.  No longer useful as clothing.  Anyway.  How are there THIS MANY aliens in Star Wars.  LOOK in real life Humans would be shocked to find out ONE Kind Of Aliens!  In Star Wars there’s, what, TENS OF THOUSANDS kinds of aliens?  Hundreds of thousands?  Already thousands SOLAR SYSTEMS populated.  Exponentially more aliens you’d think.  I dunno.  What’s the ratio of Pretty Much Human Aliens to Weird Lookin’ Aliens.  1:1?  2:1?  1:2?  I HAVEN’T PAID ATTENTION ENOUGH.  Anyway.  I remember seeing Star Wars IV re-released in theaters as a kid as well as The Exorcist re-released in theaters.  Both were fun experiences!  Any other films re-released in theaters Michael?  HMM.  ISN’T TWO ENOUGH FOR YOU?  I guess to make sure I’m not forgetting anything I have to Browse A List Of Every Movie Ever Made.  Meh.  Or find a list of Every Movie That’s Ever Been Ever Popularly Re-released.  That’s a fraction of a fraction!  YEAH.
    OKAY.  Not Sure what t-shirt to wear to my show on Saturday.  That’s a tough one.  HMM.  I don’t wanna wear my Rolling Stones t-shirt.  We’re doing a Rolling Stones show!  PER MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WOULD BE LAME.  Anyway.  The good news is I’ll probably stand in the back corner again so no one will be able to see me either way.  They’ll be none the wiser that I’m even there!  They’ll know 2-3 times over the course of the 14 songs that Something Sounds Off but they won’t be able to quite put their finger on it!  Sure they will.  Guitar.  People know what a guitar sounds like.  One of the guitars will sound off.  Oh Okay Good.  Anyway.  When pressed to choose between Star Wars and Star Trek, I’d always identify more with Star Wars content but Star Trek fans.  Star Wars is a little more engaging but Star Trek fans are smarter.  They’re NERDS LIKE ME.  Per my understanding. Trek is a nerdy word!  Let’s go on a, “Trek.”  Only a nerd would say that!  And I like it.  Anyway.  There’s a Wilco album called Star Wars released roughly 2015.  Seems like a real choice to use that title.  Really gotta wonder what Wilco was going for.  It’s not ABOUT Star Wars.  Unless it’s in the subtext.  I dunno.  Is it possible to read into the supertext of something.  My guess is No I Don’t Think So.  Alright.  I’ll see ya later.

-4:39 P.M.

JAN 6 2026

   Great.  Gotta write five paragraphs of some sort of content.  Judge me not on the color of my skin but on the content of my paragraphs.  Also Should we be judging people on the contents of their characters, either?  Maybe we just shouldn’t be judging people at all!  Unless we’re judges!  That’s a special case!  I dunno I judge people on the content of their character all the time.  It’s a big part of my life.  Without it I don’t know what I would do!  Society judging people on the content of their character encourages people to have better characters!  So it sounds like a productive social activity I guess.  ANYWAY.  Tobey Maguire: Don’t Judge Me On The Content Of My Character.  Me: You Mean Spiderman?  What else is going on.  Spiderman is a character not just Tobey Maguire plays but one that Tobey Maguire As Peter Parker plays.  Discuss.  Hmm.  Here’s a thought—If Zohran Mandani was a baseball player and he hit a homerun a sports color commentator might call it a, “Mamdinger!”  Wow.  Here’s a thought—A right wing news color commentator might say, “With Zohran as mayor we are all in Mamdanger.” Great.  WELL those are the Two Puns you can make out of his last name!  See ya later!  What else is up.  What’s the over/under of Mamdani playing himself as Mayor Of New York in at least one major motion film in the next four or eight years. 
     Spiderman Films would possibly be appropriate!  Spiderman lives in New York.  Unless Spiderman tweeted out in August he’s leaving New York if Mamdani wins.  I don’t think Peter Parker would do that!  Maybe Black Suit Spiderman would do that.  EVIL SPIDERMAN/Venom would vote for Cuomo and threaten to leave if Mamdani won. Anyway.  Why would Peter Parker be on twitter.  Can’t get enough of Grok like the rest of us.  Oh okay.  Unless Peter Parker is gearing up TO FIGHT Grok then I don’t get it.  Anyway.  Re-watched Adaptation last night for maybe the 25^th time.  This time I got even more out of it!  Each time I watch it I generally get a little more out of it than the last time.  It’s one of those movies that somehow improves with age!  My age!  Not so much its age!  Maybe its age, too, I guess, I dunno!  Hmm.  Also it STARTED OUT as one of my favorite movies of all time.  So for it to always improve on that over and over is pretty cool!  Keep in mind that in 2003 when I first saw it I still primarily wanted to be a screenwriter.  KEEP THAT INSIDE YOUR MIND for a few seconds.  I’ll let you know when you can stop.  OK now’s good.  NOW think about anything you want!  FREETIME.  Play Space!  Go Wild!  Lady’s Choice!  Have Fun!  Now start paying attention to the next paragraph.
     OKAY.  If I wanted to be a screenwriter how come I never wrote a screen.  Or a script.  Or any sort of Film at all.  Same reason I’m not doing music right now.  Cause I was and/or am is AN IDIOT.  Not too late for me to write a screenplay NOW in 2026.  But I don’t want to anymore.  NONSENSE.  The thing you want to do when you’re 12-14 is the thing YOU REALLY wanna do.  You just FORGETTABOUTIT as a teenager.  But Preteen Dream is really what you’re meant for!  I read about it in a Hot Take somewhere maybe on the internet.  Also I never really got about how Screenplays are supposed to be detailed and elaborate.  I just always thought they were People Say Things Along With The Barest Amount Of Bones of Stage Directions Happening.  But NOW I think they’re supposed to be really detailed and imaginative and provocative.  I don’t… I can’t… that’s not… I don’t even want to… SORRY.  Hmm.  Besides I’m on a Music Kick.  I FANTASIZE about Making MUSIC.  BUT ENOUGH ABUOT ME.  What are you fantasizing about right now?  Kinda thinkin about the Ludacris song, “What’s Your Fantasy.”  Because that’s how my brain works.  Words remind me of the same word and THAT’S HOW MY CREATIVITY MANIFESTS.  What a vivid imagination!  Anyway I gotta do SOMETHING this year.  This is the year of DOING SOMETHING.  Multiple Things seems like what I’m aiming for but Something might be the more responsible way to go.  I don’t want to overextend myself! That’s a good way of putting pressure on my joints!  Disjointing myself!  Don’t do it.
    Fuck.  Anyway.  I got bad news the water in my bath/shower is very cold.  Luke warm at best.  It’s not pleasant taking a bath or shower because of it!  I don’t know why this keeps happening.  I blame The Way Of Water.  I assume this is what the second Avatar movie was about I wasn’t really paying attention.  Anyway.  I’m looking at my old middle school’s website and I don’t see ONE of my old teachers still teaching there.  I graduated middle school just a year or so before I saw Adaptation for the first time!  That is a long time I GUESS.  But at the same time it’s not that long ago!  24 years.  Okay yeah but so what.  Teachers teach!  What’s your point.  I dunno.  FOR TE RECORD none of my elementary school teachers are still there, either!  WHY is the world moving on as if I Never Existed!  ALL PROOF OF THE WORLD I INHABITED IS GONE.  It’s like What I Experienced Didn’t Even Happen!  Pretty sure most of my classmates are still around.  They can testify that my K-8 years occurred!  Oh good.  Who cares.  It’s a part of Michael’s History.  In my presidential library one day we’re gonna want everyone to know the full story!  I WANT to know the full story!  I forget most things.  I want someone to remind me. I remember 30 other kids and 1 teacher at a time.  And the teacher would try to teach.  And I would try to be a Smart Alex.  And that’s about it!  I think the term is Smart Alec.  How many Alec’s do you know.  Alec Baldwin, that’s all.  The term is Smart Alex, thanks!
   Anyway.  Google’s definition of Smart Aleck is different than mine.  I’M JUST GONNA GO AHEAD and assume everyone is on board with Mine though.  Seems foolish.  Yeah!  Also I’m NOT saying I was a Smart Aleck.  I was a Smart ALEX.  I TOLD YOU.  Different thing!  Well anyway.  Anyway now I’m a Dumb… Jerkoff.  I dunno what name to go along with Dumb.  Just Jerkoff’ll do I guess.  We go through different phases as we age!  It’s the circle of life!  Smart, Dumb, whatever!  It all comes out in the wash!  Also Dumb people are some of the smartest people I know!  You can be dumb and be really smart sometimes!  I’m basing that on Hope.  On account of Because I’m Dumb.  So that’s good.  Anyway.  What’s the next holiday coming up.  Valentine’s Day?  I gave a girl a valentine once.  In third grade.  Girl in my class named Stephanie.  I forget if it was just a personal card or if I gave some sort of minor gift whatever it may have been.  Either way I don’t remember ever getting any sort of response so she must not have cared at all.  And that’s the furthest I’ve ever gotten Romantically with someone.  Sort of!  We were friends beforehand.  We would laugh about things in class and whatknot.  But she apparently couldn’t give two shits about my deep heartfelt feelings for her.  Just acted like it never even happened!  It’s POSSIBLE I never gave her the Valentine.  I just thought about doing it.  Hmm.  Anyway.  That’s all! See ya!

-4:32 P.M.

JAN 2 2026