• It recently occurred to me that, someday, the social media messages of our society, especially those of our leaders, will be the subject of academic scholarship
  • I look forward to seeing “Use of the Poop Emoji in Presidential Proclamations, 2016 to 2028” as somebody’s PhD thesis.
  • “Look, Javier, I understand that jigglypuff2001 was creative in her eschatological imagery when referring to her political opponents, but if you look at her posts from September 22, 2020, you can see her inner thoughts about inner city poverty. “There’s nothing better than walking through the hood at 2 AM knowing that my non-binary, two-spirit fox-self will be perfectly at peace with the decolonized, indigenous population of West Oakland #atpeace”. I mean, you can just feel the serenity exuding from her soul when she wrote that.“
  • In this study, we shall discuss the festive imagery and joie de vivre in the post of April 7, 2019, where ponyboy85613 said “Gettin off work! This weekend gonna be lit as f!ck when me and the boys turn up!”
• Today, while driving down the freeway, I saw a CyberTruck with a spare tire on a roof rack, a large light bar above the windshield, and red clay mud all over it.
  • All I can say, sir, is at least you tried.
• For anyone considering moving to Kentucky, please keep in mind that the first 5 minutes of run off from me power washing my driveway today was a greenish-yellow slurry of pollen and mud.

When I was 16, I thought to myself that I wanted to be a caring father who listened to his children and took their feelings into account on every decision.

I have a 16 year old son now. This morning I told him to take the extra bass out of his voice when he speaks to me. I also considered if it was too late to send him to military school.

Apparently, I’ve evolved.

• Irish Woman has been watching a TV show called ‘1923’, in which Harrison Ford plays one of the Dutton men from the Yellowstone franchise. He’s apparently married to Helen Mirren (lucky bastard), and there’s some danger of losing the ranch. He has a nephew/son/cousin/I really can’t be bothered to find out, who is a troubled war hero, and has taken 5 years to get home with his English wife that nobody knows about. In the end, a bunch of folks get killed, some deservedly, and the camera fades to black.
  • If you’re of an age and saw Legends of the Fall and Far and Away, you’ve already seen this show.
  • Mmmm, Nicole Kidman and Helen Mirren in the same movie might bring about the apocalypse, but I’d go happy.
  • I really need to get Irish Woman to go and work some of the farms my family has in North Dakota. Let her deal with cattle and all that for a few weeks, and we’ll see how many more half-ass cowboy soap operas she wants to enjoy.
  • Come to think of it, I need her to winter over in a place where the snow starts in October and melts in June, and then we’ll see how much those “I Survived Alone in Alaska” shows on Disney+ she continues to watch.
  • Yeah, I’m a little cranky this morning, why do you ask?
• The flood waters are receding, but a good chunk of Kentucky continues to be underwater. We only got a little water in the basement, which a vacuum, 2 big fans, and a dehumidifier took care of. Others weren’t so lucky.
  • One part of the flood that’s gotten a lot of attention is the Buffalo Trace distillery, which was submerged by the Kentucky River.
  • One thing that occurs to me – At least a few of the barrel houses at Buffalo Trace have at least one floor that is below ground. Looking at news footage, at least the first above-ground floor of those barrel houses is underwater.
  • That could mean that at least 2 floors worth of bourbon barrels in multiple barrel houses is submerged in flood water. I’m pretty sure all that is going to have to be destroyed. The whole point of wooden barrels is that they allow water and alcohol to seep through them.
    • We’ll know I’m wrong when Buffalo Trace releases a limited “Great Flood” line of whiskey later this year.
    • An odd thought – As Gen X ages, products that appeal to our nostalgia will start to appear on the market. Distillers could get ahead of this by releasing a “Smells Like Teen Spirits” line of top-shelf whisky, rum, vodka, and tequila.
  • All distilleries sit on a water source, so others might have a similar problem if the flooding was bad enough.
  • In other news, I did a little, well, let’s not call it panic, buying yesterday. I’m good from now until the end of the decade if we don’t have another party like Thanksgiving 2022.
• There’s nothing like 10 hours spent in a hospital waiting room to put a nice spin on your day.
  • I did get to watch a southern grandma use a knife hand when addressing a young jerk who was playing a loud video game on his phone and yelling obscenities at it. That made up for the leg cramps from sitting on that uncomfortable chair.