my careless contagion

This is one of my favorite things. I enjoy looking back at how awesome and wonderful and sometimes detestable our popular culture was. Care to follow along? Don't care? Okay, square. You can stay home and miss all the fun. Relax with a dizzying dazzle of towels after a hot shower and jump into an even more horrifying bed of patterns guaranteed to make your eyes hurt.  I know this is hard to read, but I have a point to make. Everything in the 70s had a pattern! Even toilet paper! Everything was colorful. And, often, the colors matched everything around it (a design faux pas now). In an era when everything is stainless steel, black, or white, it may seem strange. But it was glorious. For the record, my personal design philosophy (if I'm allowed to have one as a heterosexual male) is minimalistic and clean. Still, there is something endearing in these old designs.  Though the sardines are arranged in a pleasing pattern, this is not endearing. This is horrifying, (oh, but those cu...

Here we go again with random stuff! Why not? It's fun and no one gets hurt. Well, I hope no one gets hurt. Maybe some egos. Maybe some Eggos. This is just for fun. So, grab a hot drink and take a seat around the fireplace! Let's get this party started. Low-key party, though, cus I'm old and the tea knocks me out. Chamomile. That's the good stuff. This is a long post. But it might be the most important thing you'll read all year. Or just a really long, stupid, but hopefully fun read.  There is a lot to unpack these days. I felt a great sense of relief when the Supreme Court denied the OSHA vaccine mandates, which would have affected my workplace. God answers prayers. The devil never sleeps and has but a short time to unleash his hatred on humanity. But, not today.  Yeah, I expected the apocalypse to be a lot sexier too, just like in the movies. Instead, we are all looking like The Dude from The Big Lebowski (with a mask). Sigh. But, I did love that movie once upon a ...