Brian Throckmorton
@bthrock.bsky.social
Retired editor, Lexington KY
How I feel about the preamble to “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”:
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
How I feel about the preamble to “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”:
"Sabrina”: At Audrey Hepburn’s cooking school, the window provides a dead-on view of the Eiffel Tower. Her apartment has this lofty view of Sacre-Cœur. Is she living on the Eiffel Tower? No. To see the cathedral from this angle, it's more likely that her pad is atop the Gare du Nord train station.
August 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Sabrina”: At Audrey Hepburn’s cooking school, the window provides a dead-on view of the Eiffel Tower. Her apartment has this lofty view of Sacre-Cœur. Is she living on the Eiffel Tower? No. To see the cathedral from this angle, it's more likely that her pad is atop the Gare du Nord train station.
Aww—judging from the train on its gown, this trash can must be getting married!
🎵Here comes debris!🎵
🎵Here comes debris!🎵
August 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Aww—judging from the train on its gown, this trash can must be getting married!
🎵Here comes debris!🎵
🎵Here comes debris!🎵
"Why should he buy the cow when he can get the milk for free?"
The obvious answer is "to butcher the cow and have steaks," but that takes the marriage metaphor in an unsettling direction.
The obvious answer is "to butcher the cow and have steaks," but that takes the marriage metaphor in an unsettling direction.
July 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"Why should he buy the cow when he can get the milk for free?"
The obvious answer is "to butcher the cow and have steaks," but that takes the marriage metaphor in an unsettling direction.
The obvious answer is "to butcher the cow and have steaks," but that takes the marriage metaphor in an unsettling direction.
I took a canal boat tour 10 years ago today in Richmond, Va.
You know you're in the South when the tour captain asks "Now, who led the American troops in the Revolutionary War?" and someone says "Grant."
Also: "Where were the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War?" "Savannah?"
You know you're in the South when the tour captain asks "Now, who led the American troops in the Revolutionary War?" and someone says "Grant."
Also: "Where were the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War?" "Savannah?"
July 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I took a canal boat tour 10 years ago today in Richmond, Va.
You know you're in the South when the tour captain asks "Now, who led the American troops in the Revolutionary War?" and someone says "Grant."
Also: "Where were the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War?" "Savannah?"
You know you're in the South when the tour captain asks "Now, who led the American troops in the Revolutionary War?" and someone says "Grant."
Also: "Where were the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War?" "Savannah?"
A fancy way of saying “no cholesterol—and a missed opportunity, because if they managed to put one molecule of cholesterol in each can, they could truthfully say something like “butter has 37 quadrillion times as much cholesterol as this oil.”
July 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A fancy way of saying “no cholesterol—and a missed opportunity, because if they managed to put one molecule of cholesterol in each can, they could truthfully say something like “butter has 37 quadrillion times as much cholesterol as this oil.”
Kristi Noem decries an “unapparelled” display, but that’s the kind of disaster Noem was born to fix! She’ll give that display a stunning cowboy hat, some camo, maybe a bandolier or two, and it will be all dressed up like a real grownup.
July 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Kristi Noem decries an “unapparelled” display, but that’s the kind of disaster Noem was born to fix! She’ll give that display a stunning cowboy hat, some camo, maybe a bandolier or two, and it will be all dressed up like a real grownup.
I’m too rational to pay much attention to astrology, but I realized today that my pointy-headed gay abstraction-loving child self was subconsciously vibing with being a Libra—the only sign that’s an abstract thing instead of a living being.
July 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’m too rational to pay much attention to astrology, but I realized today that my pointy-headed gay abstraction-loving child self was subconsciously vibing with being a Libra—the only sign that’s an abstract thing instead of a living being.
If you mention actor Chris Messina to me without overenunciating, I am apt to hear "Christmasina" and envision a seasonal drag queen.
July 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
If you mention actor Chris Messina to me without overenunciating, I am apt to hear "Christmasina" and envision a seasonal drag queen.
A satiric image I created in the days when the “bakers’ rights” movement was just finding its feet.
June 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A satiric image I created in the days when the “bakers’ rights” movement was just finding its feet.
Doris Day—singer, actress, animal lover, ray of sunshine, and MADWOMAN OF THE ROADS. The movie is “Julie,” and in order to correspond with how she’s steering, the street would have to be named Zigzag Drive or Whiplash Way.
June 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Doris Day—singer, actress, animal lover, ray of sunshine, and MADWOMAN OF THE ROADS. The movie is “Julie,” and in order to correspond with how she’s steering, the street would have to be named Zigzag Drive or Whiplash Way.
I am 1/4 Luxembourgeois. Three facts about Luxembourg’s national holiday:
🇱🇺 It’s called Grand Duke Day but honors a Grand Duchess.
🇱🇺The national holiday began before the nation was a nation.
🇱🇺 The Grand Duchess’s birthday occurs 5 months after the date of her birth.
🇱🇺 It’s called Grand Duke Day but honors a Grand Duchess.
🇱🇺The national holiday began before the nation was a nation.
🇱🇺 The Grand Duchess’s birthday occurs 5 months after the date of her birth.
June 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I am 1/4 Luxembourgeois. Three facts about Luxembourg’s national holiday:
🇱🇺 It’s called Grand Duke Day but honors a Grand Duchess.
🇱🇺The national holiday began before the nation was a nation.
🇱🇺 The Grand Duchess’s birthday occurs 5 months after the date of her birth.
🇱🇺 It’s called Grand Duke Day but honors a Grand Duchess.
🇱🇺The national holiday began before the nation was a nation.
🇱🇺 The Grand Duchess’s birthday occurs 5 months after the date of her birth.
After Joan was ridiculed for forgetting to take her gown off the hangers before putting it on, she developed a lifelong animus. “No … wire … hangers … EVER!”
June 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
After Joan was ridiculed for forgetting to take her gown off the hangers before putting it on, she developed a lifelong animus. “No … wire … hangers … EVER!”
