Jim. From Kansas.

Other than some outdated textbooks, I always pass my unwanted books along, rather than dumping them in the trash or recycling.

About ten years ago, I made an exception for Scott Adams.

I'm too lazy to look up how to take a screenshot on this tablet, so my word for 2026 is.... AGAIN?

I take a small amount of comfort from the fact that while I know who this is about, I don't know (and don't want to know) any of the specifics.

Humpty Hump saw this, noped out, and went to Burger King.

In a better world than this, Sara is a massive star. I feel fortunate that I caught a PMJ show with her in the cast.

My New Year's Day resolution: I'm not going to drag you down with my crushing depression and anxiety over (waves arms) all of this.

But tomorrow is another day.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Lawrence KS. Limestone construction with the nave on the left and the spire on the right.

That church is Trinity Episcopal in Lawrence, Kansas. Not as gothic, but you're in the ballpark.

Chiefs-Titans is the only game I can watch in the early window.

I probably deserve that.

#NFL

"Rudy, that Red Beaked Reindeer" IIRC.

I haven't been in the mood for holiday music in the last decade, so I may be misremembering.

My mom says I loved canned beets when I was little, but when I was twelve I decided I was done with them.

They taste like dirt, and no one will change my mind on that.

Found her.

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called The Eagles!!

A late scene from 1975's Jaws, with Chief Brody on the mast of the nearly-sunken Orca. He's ready to put a bullet into the oxygen tank in the shark's mouth.

The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go.

So I'm either going to be eaten by a shark, or narrowly avoid being eaten by a shark. That tracks.

Commando Cody? That's a, um, choice.

I was grown up and a married to a Jr High science teacher when I realized that the 9th grade Biology teacher my group of miscreant smart-kid friends drove insane couldn't have been more than ten years older than we were at the time

I'm sorry, Joanne.

It's been a couple of weeks. Let's see if I'm ready to deal with the political hot takes that sneak into my feed no matter how hard I try to keep them out.

I'm just tired, boss.

Yer a wizard, Harry!

One sheet poster for "Marooned". On top, you've got small pictures of the astronauts - Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, and James Franciscus. At the bottom, you've got Gregory Peck, David Janssen, and the much lower billed Lee Grant, Nancy Kovack, and Mariette Hartley. In the middle, the very large names of the five male stars and a rocket taking off from the pad.

Finally, a One Sheet poster for 1969's Academy Award Winning (for best visual effects) Marooned, aka Space Travelers when it received the MST3K treatment.

All of these people had prime roles in 70s disaster films in their futures.

#MST3K

Lobby cards from 1961's "The Magic Sword." In the top card a red-velour-swathed Basil Rathbone gestures with both arms raised. Various castmembers in medieval palace garb stand around the palace behind him. In the lower, our hero, the chainmail and tabard wearing Gary Lockwood appears to be ready to spring into action of some kind. Anne Helm stands slightly behind him in a pinkish dress, while more of those medieval types stand in the background. Some of them are coneheads. No, I don't remember why.

Next up, that 1961 Bert I Gordon classic, The Magic Sword. Rathbone! Winwood! Lockwood!

All willing to pick up a check from the notorious B. I. G.

#MST3K

Two lobby cards for the cheapo 1959 horror movie "The Killer Shrews." In the top card, our tan-uniformed hero has someone slung over his shoulder. In the lower card, our hero and a few other characters kneel around a victim of those killer shrews. Both cards have "all that was left after.. THE KILLER SHREWS" on the right hand side, with a tentacle laying across a pink women's shoe below. The background is green.

One of my low-key hobbies is collecting cheap One Sheets and Lobby Cards for movies I've seen on MST3K. (emphasis on the cheap) I picked some beauties up at an antique show this weekend.

First: The Killer Shrews! I guess the dogs covered in carpets didn't photograph well.

#MST3K

Sam's not a businessman, he's a business, man.

Crap. I missed Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day.

Where can I get Belated Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day cards?

#Watchmen

BNL saw that and said "hm, maybe we have had enough Kraft Dinner."

There's a performance aspect to great teaching most people don't understand. You're putting on a one-man/woman show several times a day for an easily distracted audience that may not want to be there. That takes skill and passion, and you're not rewarded nearly well enough for it.

I once had the chance to watch my wife teach a class. That was a true "Holy shit she's good at what she does!" moment for me.

True, but Chicago certainly didn't return to what they were after his departure.

I was 24 in 1989. IIRC, I had gone retro and was listening to "Who's Next" and the like for a couple of years.

The death of Terry Kath ruined Chicago. Making Cetera the frontman was like paving over their entire history.

It's been several years since the Chiefs offense was this much fun to watch. Amazing what a healthy recieving corps and finding a couple of guys who can actually play LT can do.

Hmm. I believe this pumpkin patch lacks a certain..... sincerity.

Try again next year.