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Josh Dobbin
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My pinned post: A story I got to tell at a Mark Twain Storytelling event at the Twain House & Museum: youtu.be/PameYRkyh9U?...
1 more: Gave a reading at a bar mitzvah right after Paul Bettany, who gave me a a sort of apologetic shrug after he finished, like, "Sorry you have to follow that." but I kicked ass & he was shocked that a "civilian" rose to the challenge. We ate ice cream later on together & talked about our kids.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
1 more: Gave a reading at a bar mitzvah right after Paul Bettany, who gave me a a sort of apologetic shrug after he finished, like, "Sorry you have to follow that." but I kicked ass & he was shocked that a "civilian" rose to the challenge. We ate ice cream later on together & talked about our kids.
1997, 5th Ave, I turned a corner & literally bumped chests with Jay Mohr. i said "sorry," & realized I knew him from SOMEWHERE, but couldn't place it (I thought I went to school w/ him?, maybe)then realized "Oh! You were on SNL for, like, 2 min, & you played a dicky guy in a movie!" But I said it..
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
1997, 5th Ave, I turned a corner & literally bumped chests with Jay Mohr. i said "sorry," & realized I knew him from SOMEWHERE, but couldn't place it (I thought I went to school w/ him?, maybe)then realized "Oh! You were on SNL for, like, 2 min, & you played a dicky guy in a movie!" But I said it..
my daughter in the photo to the left is now 18; I have had this coat since college.
Now if I wear it, my kids make fun me saying I am cosplaying John Bender from THE BREAKFAST CLUB.
Now if I wear it, my kids make fun me saying I am cosplaying John Bender from THE BREAKFAST CLUB.
December 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
my daughter in the photo to the left is now 18; I have had this coat since college.
Now if I wear it, my kids make fun me saying I am cosplaying John Bender from THE BREAKFAST CLUB.
Now if I wear it, my kids make fun me saying I am cosplaying John Bender from THE BREAKFAST CLUB.
Dune The Right Thing
Dune, Where’s My Car?
DUNESTRUCK
December 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Dune The Right Thing
If they call it "fishing" they should also call it "deering."
December 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If they call it "fishing" they should also call it "deering."
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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This man deserves one of those Genius Grant things.
I enjoy coming up with anagrams for “Spider-Man.”
PS I’m a nerd.
PS I’m a nerd.
December 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This man deserves one of those Genius Grant things.
Just played ping pong with my nephew, in VR, 4 towns away, and it was like we were in the same room, hanging out and shit-talking one another's skills.
Technology is sometimes really miraculous, when it works.
Technology is sometimes really miraculous, when it works.
December 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just played ping pong with my nephew, in VR, 4 towns away, and it was like we were in the same room, hanging out and shit-talking one another's skills.
Technology is sometimes really miraculous, when it works.
Technology is sometimes really miraculous, when it works.
My best friend was trafficked for kid-porn and molestation by strangers, for money, by his mother in the 1970s and early 80s, and he's only RECENTLY been able to deal with the memories & reality of it. It's more of a thing that happens to people you know or are in 2 Bacon-degrees of than you think.
No punishment is too great for a man who would drug and drive his own 6–8-year-old daughter to “pedophile ring parties.”
Sit with this: if this report is accurate, this child was horrifically abused. I wonder whether she’s been able to build any kind of life for herself.
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Sit with this: if this report is accurate, this child was horrifically abused. I wonder whether she’s been able to build any kind of life for herself.
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December 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My best friend was trafficked for kid-porn and molestation by strangers, for money, by his mother in the 1970s and early 80s, and he's only RECENTLY been able to deal with the memories & reality of it. It's more of a thing that happens to people you know or are in 2 Bacon-degrees of than you think.
ruin two bands by combining them:
The ZZ Four Tops
The LemonTalking Heads
MegadethCab for Cutie
The Grateful Dead Kennedys
Color Me Badd Company
Nehneh Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Ugly Kid Joe Cocker
The Mighty Mighty BossTommy Tutones
Leo Slayer
Savage Soundgarden
The ZZ Four Tops
The LemonTalking Heads
MegadethCab for Cutie
The Grateful Dead Kennedys
Color Me Badd Company
Nehneh Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Ugly Kid Joe Cocker
The Mighty Mighty BossTommy Tutones
Leo Slayer
Savage Soundgarden
ruin two bands by combining them:
Counting Crües
Counting Crües
ruin two bands by combining them:
the bee fugees
the bee fugees
December 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
ruin two bands by combining them:
The ZZ Four Tops
The LemonTalking Heads
MegadethCab for Cutie
The Grateful Dead Kennedys
Color Me Badd Company
Nehneh Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Ugly Kid Joe Cocker
The Mighty Mighty BossTommy Tutones
Leo Slayer
Savage Soundgarden
The ZZ Four Tops
The LemonTalking Heads
MegadethCab for Cutie
The Grateful Dead Kennedys
Color Me Badd Company
Nehneh Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Ugly Kid Joe Cocker
The Mighty Mighty BossTommy Tutones
Leo Slayer
Savage Soundgarden
Reposted by Josh Dobbin
This feels like one of the strongest arguments for wholesale turnover or at least “primary every Democrat”: it’s not business as usual, it’s exceptional circumstances, and we need people in Congress who are capable of operating in that mindset. Wartime consigliere, etc.
I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.
Pelosi: "Right now, Republicans in Congress have abolished the Congress. They just do what the president insists that they do. That will be over as soon as we have the gavel."
December 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This feels like one of the strongest arguments for wholesale turnover or at least “primary every Democrat”: it’s not business as usual, it’s exceptional circumstances, and we need people in Congress who are capable of operating in that mindset. Wartime consigliere, etc.
What’s everyone’s favorite Avatar quote?
Mine is: "Hello, my name is Avatar. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Mine is: "Hello, my name is Avatar. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
What’s everyone’s favorite Avatar quote?
Mine is: “Nobody puts Avatar in a corner."
Mine is: “Nobody puts Avatar in a corner."
What’s everyone’s favourite Avatar quote?
Mine is: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give an Avatar.”
Mine is: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give an Avatar.”
December 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What’s everyone’s favorite Avatar quote?
Mine is: "Hello, my name is Avatar. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Mine is: "Hello, my name is Avatar. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Post a criminally underrated song from the 1990s.
This one is good for what ails ya if what ails ya is a broken heart & the hair of the dog that bit ya is your kind of preferred medicine.
youtu.be/zr5mCBFejIE?...
This one is good for what ails ya if what ails ya is a broken heart & the hair of the dog that bit ya is your kind of preferred medicine.
youtu.be/zr5mCBFejIE?...
December 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Post a criminally underrated song from the 1990s.
This one is good for what ails ya if what ails ya is a broken heart & the hair of the dog that bit ya is your kind of preferred medicine.
youtu.be/zr5mCBFejIE?...
This one is good for what ails ya if what ails ya is a broken heart & the hair of the dog that bit ya is your kind of preferred medicine.
youtu.be/zr5mCBFejIE?...
Post a criminally underrated song from the 90s. Challenge points for songs that never charted in the U.S. but should have.
youtu.be/ORHWMMh4xQw?...
youtu.be/ORHWMMh4xQw?...
December 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Post a criminally underrated song from the 90s. Challenge points for songs that never charted in the U.S. but should have.
youtu.be/ORHWMMh4xQw?...
youtu.be/ORHWMMh4xQw?...
Most Palone, is that anything?
December 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Most Palone, is that anything?
Post a perfect album (or 4!) from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
December 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Post a perfect album (or 4!) from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
I think about this at every Trump sign or flag I see.
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I think about this at every Trump sign or flag I see.
A review—
ANACONDA: You don't want none.
ANACONDA: You don't want none.
December 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A review—
ANACONDA: You don't want none.
ANACONDA: You don't want none.
Anybody else getting a glut of bot-follows?
December 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Anybody else getting a glut of bot-follows?
A metaphor for our current day
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A metaphor for our current day
GOALS
My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
GOALS
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I only like Plato as a friend
December 27, 2024 at 3:29 PM
I only like Plato as a friend
2 types of dudes in the world: those that heard Otis Redding sing "Try A Little Tenderness" in their formative years & took it to heart, in that special time when meaningful things *mean* things & those that didn't, or did & didn't hear the call.
Daughter's boyfriend? 2nd type. Christmas fail.
Daughter's boyfriend? 2nd type. Christmas fail.
December 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
2 types of dudes in the world: those that heard Otis Redding sing "Try A Little Tenderness" in their formative years & took it to heart, in that special time when meaningful things *mean* things & those that didn't, or did & didn't hear the call.
Daughter's boyfriend? 2nd type. Christmas fail.
Daughter's boyfriend? 2nd type. Christmas fail.
This is how you manage expectations, deliver truth-in-advertising AND make those things virtues, with style.
10/10, no notes.
10/10, no notes.
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is how you manage expectations, deliver truth-in-advertising AND make those things virtues, with style.
10/10, no notes.
10/10, no notes.