I will turn 65 in eleven days. I would like to go on a date for my birthday. Any advice on finding a woman willing to help with that? They don’t have to make out with me or anything, just pretend to enjoy my company over dinner.

Checking in on a friend’s cat while they’re away, and I admit it’s pretty hilarious when they get the zoomies and are chasing some predator that exists only in their mind. Though I kinda get the feeling, too.

The United States is in the hands of a brain-dead fascist and I feel sick as a dog. I want to move into the beguiling beauty of this song for a while.

If you want to avoid watching that inauguration thing, TCM is honoring MLK Day by showing an impressive slate of film about Black Americans. They’re worth seeing and make for excellent counter-programming.

If Donald Trump really is foolish enough to use military force to seize Greenland and/or Canada, I wonder how many of our allies will abandon us and lend them support. I’m sure Trump doesn’t care, but it makes me nervous.

I hope my friends in California and their people are out of immediate danger. The news footage is horrifying. Love and mercy to you.

Happy New Year to those who celebrate. 2025 will not be easy.

AAA are not my friends this morning.

Rhino Records is going to release a Hootie & the Blowfish box set. I suppose it’s for the tiny handful of people who regret getting rid of their copy of CRACKED REAR VIEW and can’t be bothered to go to a rummage sale to replace it.

Nothing more fun that having text conversations with two different people at the same, especially when the both go on radio silence when you really need them to answer you (and they don’t appear to have read your previous messages).

Perhaps I’m too suspicious of others and not as trusting as I could be, but when a stranger in the parking lot of a gas station urgently tries to give me a large bag of leftover turkey, my instinct leads me to take a hard pass.

Just bought tickets to see Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve in March, so I’m trying to stay cautiously optimistic that America will still exist by then.

In a fortnight of awful news stories, I'm glad to see one that actually makes me smile.

OK, here we go. Let’s hope this doesn’t turn into a hellscape in a decade.