David Royko
@davidroyko.bsky.social
Daddy; Hubby; Writer-Author; Picture Taker; Psychologist; Ex-Mediator; Ex-Huffpost Blogger; Ex-Boss; Ex-Chicagoan; Ex-Cabbie; Ex-Drummer; Ex-Freight Hopper; Ex-Group Therapist; Ex-Music Critic; Ex-Workshop Leader; Ex-Radio Host; Current Gluten-Eater.
Pic Of The Day Related Only To Other Wonderful Things In The World is our big Benny boy yesterday. Shhhhh. He's busy with the serious business of parsing jelly beans.
March 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Pic Of The Day Related Only To Other Wonderful Things In The World is our big Benny boy yesterday. Shhhhh. He's busy with the serious business of parsing jelly beans.
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Crustaceans Everywhere gives a big shout out to all the vegetables in the world, because [movie trailer voice here] IN A WORLD filled with Chocolate Eclairs, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and Pastel de Nata, those poor, feeble vegetables need all the help like they can get.
March 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Crustaceans Everywhere gives a big shout out to all the vegetables in the world, because [movie trailer voice here] IN A WORLD filled with Chocolate Eclairs, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and Pastel de Nata, those poor, feeble vegetables need all the help like they can get.
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything In The Entire Universe Except For Booze is from Cleveland and a Saturday night post-Ben visit in pre-covid days to our now-defunct favorite bar (B Spot) and my three-beer standing order served in glasses that have never been seen on the Billy Goat Tavern bar.
March 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything In The Entire Universe Except For Booze is from Cleveland and a Saturday night post-Ben visit in pre-covid days to our now-defunct favorite bar (B Spot) and my three-beer standing order served in glasses that have never been seen on the Billy Goat Tavern bar.
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything YOU Drive To Work proves that the Amish don't need no stinkin' internal combustion engines to pass a slowpoke. Or heat. But, whew, about that methane...
March 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything YOU Drive To Work proves that the Amish don't need no stinkin' internal combustion engines to pass a slowpoke. Or heat. But, whew, about that methane...
Today's Pic Of The Day Unrelated to God Only Knows Whatever's Next is Benny on the beach. We all gotta get to our beach.
March 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today's Pic Of The Day Unrelated to God Only Knows Whatever's Next is Benny on the beach. We all gotta get to our beach.
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Your Least Favorite Platypus is what Sriracha does to very lucky eggs. Boner apa-tittee. What, didn't know I spoke frenchy?
February 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Your Least Favorite Platypus is what Sriracha does to very lucky eggs. Boner apa-tittee. What, didn't know I spoke frenchy?
Remembering a great musician who died a couple of months ago, Zakir Hussain, Indian tabla and percussion giant.
And of course, being one of the great musicians of the world, banjoist Bela Fleck has collaborated with him.
Bassist Edgar Meyer (front), Bela, Zakir and bamboo flutist Rakesh Chaurasia.
And of course, being one of the great musicians of the world, banjoist Bela Fleck has collaborated with him.
Bassist Edgar Meyer (front), Bela, Zakir and bamboo flutist Rakesh Chaurasia.
February 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Remembering a great musician who died a couple of months ago, Zakir Hussain, Indian tabla and percussion giant.
And of course, being one of the great musicians of the world, banjoist Bela Fleck has collaborated with him.
Bassist Edgar Meyer (front), Bela, Zakir and bamboo flutist Rakesh Chaurasia.
And of course, being one of the great musicians of the world, banjoist Bela Fleck has collaborated with him.
Bassist Edgar Meyer (front), Bela, Zakir and bamboo flutist Rakesh Chaurasia.
Sunset and moonrise over Cleveland, to remind us that the sun'll come out tomorrow! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there'll be sun! er, wait, the sun? Horribly overrated. The sun sorta sucks, makes me sweat, gets in my eyes, tries to give me cancer -- no, go ahead and set. I won't miss you.
February 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Sunset and moonrise over Cleveland, to remind us that the sun'll come out tomorrow! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there'll be sun! er, wait, the sun? Horribly overrated. The sun sorta sucks, makes me sweat, gets in my eyes, tries to give me cancer -- no, go ahead and set. I won't miss you.
Ice Fishermen on Lake Erie at Presque Isle in Erie, PA."
February 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ice Fishermen on Lake Erie at Presque Isle in Erie, PA."
Eastbound on I-90 in Ohio at dusk.
February 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Eastbound on I-90 in Ohio at dusk.
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Sleeping Late reminds me, if I ever need reminding, especially at 6:00am, that retirement rules!
February 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Sleeping Late reminds me, if I ever need reminding, especially at 6:00am, that retirement rules!
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To The Winter Monochrome Sky Of Cleveland is the winter technicolor sky of Tucson, at sunset from my Mother-in-Law's patio. Cue howling coyote soundtrack.
February 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To The Winter Monochrome Sky Of Cleveland is the winter technicolor sky of Tucson, at sunset from my Mother-in-Law's patio. Cue howling coyote soundtrack.
Today's Pic of The Day Unrelated to Anything Grey is red, blue and silver. And juicy.
February 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Today's Pic of The Day Unrelated to Anything Grey is red, blue and silver. And juicy.
Today's Pic of The Day Unrelated to Prolate Spheroids Everywhere commemorates our joyful season, assuming your favorite activity in life is making snow angels in sub zero weather. Otherwise, brrrr.
February 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Today's Pic of The Day Unrelated to Prolate Spheroids Everywhere commemorates our joyful season, assuming your favorite activity in life is making snow angels in sub zero weather. Otherwise, brrrr.
Today's Pic of the Day Unrelated to Less and Less is sunrise from the Metra train. A perfect roll-over-and-sleep-late-instead sunrise. But beware because, obviously, Voldemort is nearby.
February 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Today's Pic of the Day Unrelated to Less and Less is sunrise from the Metra train. A perfect roll-over-and-sleep-late-instead sunrise. But beware because, obviously, Voldemort is nearby.
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Order, and you know how it is. Where the heck is that book? The only book that will do? Ben's diligent when it comes to books. (And cookies.)
January 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Order, and you know how it is. Where the heck is that book? The only book that will do? Ben's diligent when it comes to books. (And cookies.)
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything Else In the Free or Shackled World is mushrooms + Sriracha. Breakfast Of Champions. Or weirdos.
January 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything Else In the Free or Shackled World is mushrooms + Sriracha. Breakfast Of Champions. Or weirdos.
Cleveland Pic Of The Day Unrelated to Surfing. Ice anyone? (No, not that one. The frozen-water one.)
January 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Cleveland Pic Of The Day Unrelated to Surfing. Ice anyone? (No, not that one. The frozen-water one.)
Today's Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Patience Everywhere celebrates big companies that have entire departments dedicated to designing packaging that will easily open and close.
And those (spouse) who defy them.
And those (spouse) who defy them.
January 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Today's Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Patience Everywhere celebrates big companies that have entire departments dedicated to designing packaging that will easily open and close.
And those (spouse) who defy them.
And those (spouse) who defy them.
Today's Pic Of the Day Unrelated To Pompeii hearkens back to an earlier super-dee-duper freeze, as seen at 6:15am from the train window -- tracks ablaze! Urban thrills.
January 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Today's Pic Of the Day Unrelated To Pompeii hearkens back to an earlier super-dee-duper freeze, as seen at 6:15am from the train window -- tracks ablaze! Urban thrills.
How to Foil ICE (at least once), by David Royko, 1/22/2025
A quick dip back into the world of scum before heading back to my highly avoidant Pic of The Day Unrelated to All This Crap...
davidroykomusicwhatever.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
A quick dip back into the world of scum before heading back to my highly avoidant Pic of The Day Unrelated to All This Crap...
davidroykomusicwhatever.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
January 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
How to Foil ICE (at least once), by David Royko, 1/22/2025
A quick dip back into the world of scum before heading back to my highly avoidant Pic of The Day Unrelated to All This Crap...
davidroykomusicwhatever.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
A quick dip back into the world of scum before heading back to my highly avoidant Pic of The Day Unrelated to All This Crap...
davidroykomusicwhatever.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
Pick of the Day Unrelated To Anything Else in the World Except for the View From My Former Office Window on a Frigid But Sunny Afternoon is, uh, well, that's it. Stay warm!
January 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Pick of the Day Unrelated To Anything Else in the World Except for the View From My Former Office Window on a Frigid But Sunny Afternoon is, uh, well, that's it. Stay warm!
Today's Pic of the Day Hopefully Unrelated To Your Own Own Job -- all hail snow plowers. The Picasso statue on Chicago's Daley Plaza does. You can tell by the obvious appreciative expression on her/his/lgbtq face, because Picasso created it with no winter coat. Dickwad.
January 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Today's Pic of the Day Hopefully Unrelated To Your Own Own Job -- all hail snow plowers. The Picasso statue on Chicago's Daley Plaza does. You can tell by the obvious appreciative expression on her/his/lgbtq face, because Picasso created it with no winter coat. Dickwad.
Today's Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything In The Sahara celebrates the joy of Cleveland in the winter as we are about to have a few below-zero days -- PARTY! Incidentally, that is a color pic.
January 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Today's Pic Of The Day Unrelated To Anything In The Sahara celebrates the joy of Cleveland in the winter as we are about to have a few below-zero days -- PARTY! Incidentally, that is a color pic.
Today's Pic of The Day, from a highway rest-stop in the days before eight out of 10 trucks on the road said "Prime."
January 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Today's Pic of The Day, from a highway rest-stop in the days before eight out of 10 trucks on the road said "Prime."