Thomas McKeon
@narrowback.bsky.social
I'm a man of neither wealth nor taste. Not much of a man either, come to think of it.
My book "Grievances" on Amazon https://a.co/d/8i9T6xX
My Substack blathering: https://narrowback601.substack.com/
My book "Grievances" on Amazon https://a.co/d/8i9T6xX
My Substack blathering: https://narrowback601.substack.com/
Fabric Softener Sheets: Why is it that you can lose a sock in the dryer on a regular basis but never lose those damn fabric softener sheets? In fact, it’s the opposite: You put one sheet in with your laundry and like ten come out... [1/2]
February 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Fabric Softener Sheets: Why is it that you can lose a sock in the dryer on a regular basis but never lose those damn fabric softener sheets? In fact, it’s the opposite: You put one sheet in with your laundry and like ten come out... [1/2]
Grievance | 5 Feb 2025
The female preoccupation with shoes: I have a few pairs of shoes for utilitarian purposes, but I have no desire to look at shoes in magazines and websites for hours on end. When questioned, the reversal... [1/3]
The female preoccupation with shoes: I have a few pairs of shoes for utilitarian purposes, but I have no desire to look at shoes in magazines and websites for hours on end. When questioned, the reversal... [1/3]
February 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Grievance | 5 Feb 2025
The female preoccupation with shoes: I have a few pairs of shoes for utilitarian purposes, but I have no desire to look at shoes in magazines and websites for hours on end. When questioned, the reversal... [1/3]
The female preoccupation with shoes: I have a few pairs of shoes for utilitarian purposes, but I have no desire to look at shoes in magazines and websites for hours on end. When questioned, the reversal... [1/3]
Grievance | 26 Jan 2025
The TV Show “The Amazing Race” for propagating the ugly American stereotype. “Blah! Blah! Blah! Speak ENGLISH you sonofabitch and immediately drive us to the Sacred Pools! Just Go! Go! Go! Go!”
The TV Show “The Amazing Race” for propagating the ugly American stereotype. “Blah! Blah! Blah! Speak ENGLISH you sonofabitch and immediately drive us to the Sacred Pools! Just Go! Go! Go! Go!”
January 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Grievance | 26 Jan 2025
The TV Show “The Amazing Race” for propagating the ugly American stereotype. “Blah! Blah! Blah! Speak ENGLISH you sonofabitch and immediately drive us to the Sacred Pools! Just Go! Go! Go! Go!”
The TV Show “The Amazing Race” for propagating the ugly American stereotype. “Blah! Blah! Blah! Speak ENGLISH you sonofabitch and immediately drive us to the Sacred Pools! Just Go! Go! Go! Go!”
Grievance | 16 Jan 2025
Legos: It’s crack for kids. My boys must have every Lego diorama they see. They put it together once and then it breaks apart a few days later, never to be whole again. Every midnight trek to the bathroom I must navigate these Danish landmines...[1/3]
Legos: It’s crack for kids. My boys must have every Lego diorama they see. They put it together once and then it breaks apart a few days later, never to be whole again. Every midnight trek to the bathroom I must navigate these Danish landmines...[1/3]
January 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Grievance | 16 Jan 2025
Legos: It’s crack for kids. My boys must have every Lego diorama they see. They put it together once and then it breaks apart a few days later, never to be whole again. Every midnight trek to the bathroom I must navigate these Danish landmines...[1/3]
Legos: It’s crack for kids. My boys must have every Lego diorama they see. They put it together once and then it breaks apart a few days later, never to be whole again. Every midnight trek to the bathroom I must navigate these Danish landmines...[1/3]
Grievance | 12 Jan 2025
When women dance with their arms over the heads: A modern day Salome–sans severed, haloed head–to draw attention to themselves. “Hey, Look at me! Look at me!”
When women dance with their arms over the heads: A modern day Salome–sans severed, haloed head–to draw attention to themselves. “Hey, Look at me! Look at me!”
January 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Grievance | 12 Jan 2025
When women dance with their arms over the heads: A modern day Salome–sans severed, haloed head–to draw attention to themselves. “Hey, Look at me! Look at me!”
When women dance with their arms over the heads: A modern day Salome–sans severed, haloed head–to draw attention to themselves. “Hey, Look at me! Look at me!”
Grievance | 10 Jan 2025
Jägermeister: Oh dark, vile seepage from Hell’s septic tank, what havoc you hath wrought lo these many years. Faces–nay, the fabric of space-time itself–disfigure from a mere molecule of your wretched stench. I curse you in the name of all that is holy.
Jägermeister: Oh dark, vile seepage from Hell’s septic tank, what havoc you hath wrought lo these many years. Faces–nay, the fabric of space-time itself–disfigure from a mere molecule of your wretched stench. I curse you in the name of all that is holy.
January 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Grievance | 10 Jan 2025
Jägermeister: Oh dark, vile seepage from Hell’s septic tank, what havoc you hath wrought lo these many years. Faces–nay, the fabric of space-time itself–disfigure from a mere molecule of your wretched stench. I curse you in the name of all that is holy.
Jägermeister: Oh dark, vile seepage from Hell’s septic tank, what havoc you hath wrought lo these many years. Faces–nay, the fabric of space-time itself–disfigure from a mere molecule of your wretched stench. I curse you in the name of all that is holy.
Wake-up call, San Francisco style
January 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Wake-up call, San Francisco style
Grievance | 5 Jan 2025
Seems like every time I go to a concert, just as the band comes on, some clown lifts a girl on his shoulders right in front of me. Every time. As if seeing that balancing/courting act is why I paid the $150...[1/4]
Seems like every time I go to a concert, just as the band comes on, some clown lifts a girl on his shoulders right in front of me. Every time. As if seeing that balancing/courting act is why I paid the $150...[1/4]
January 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Grievance | 5 Jan 2025
Seems like every time I go to a concert, just as the band comes on, some clown lifts a girl on his shoulders right in front of me. Every time. As if seeing that balancing/courting act is why I paid the $150...[1/4]
Seems like every time I go to a concert, just as the band comes on, some clown lifts a girl on his shoulders right in front of me. Every time. As if seeing that balancing/courting act is why I paid the $150...[1/4]
Grievance | 29 Dec 2024:
Memory Foam mattresses with amnesia: I’ve been trust falling back into an ever-deepening tempur crater each night for 5 years. In the morning I’m stuck like a breathtakingly-muscular vintage toy impressed in its custom-cut, protective foam shipping container.
Memory Foam mattresses with amnesia: I’ve been trust falling back into an ever-deepening tempur crater each night for 5 years. In the morning I’m stuck like a breathtakingly-muscular vintage toy impressed in its custom-cut, protective foam shipping container.
December 29, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Grievance | 29 Dec 2024:
Memory Foam mattresses with amnesia: I’ve been trust falling back into an ever-deepening tempur crater each night for 5 years. In the morning I’m stuck like a breathtakingly-muscular vintage toy impressed in its custom-cut, protective foam shipping container.
Memory Foam mattresses with amnesia: I’ve been trust falling back into an ever-deepening tempur crater each night for 5 years. In the morning I’m stuck like a breathtakingly-muscular vintage toy impressed in its custom-cut, protective foam shipping container.
Grievance | 17 Dec 2024:
This has happened to me several times since becoming a father: I’m out somewhere with my kids and without my wife and someone, always a female for some reason, refers to this act as ‘babysitting’.[1/3]
This has happened to me several times since becoming a father: I’m out somewhere with my kids and without my wife and someone, always a female for some reason, refers to this act as ‘babysitting’.[1/3]
December 17, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Grievance | 17 Dec 2024:
This has happened to me several times since becoming a father: I’m out somewhere with my kids and without my wife and someone, always a female for some reason, refers to this act as ‘babysitting’.[1/3]
This has happened to me several times since becoming a father: I’m out somewhere with my kids and without my wife and someone, always a female for some reason, refers to this act as ‘babysitting’.[1/3]
These laces are so long the shoes would just dangle back down at eye level. Maybe their lace length is an anti-bullying measure? That is the only possible reason for it so I withdraw my complaint. [3/3]
December 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
These laces are so long the shoes would just dangle back down at eye level. Maybe their lace length is an anti-bullying measure? That is the only possible reason for it so I withdraw my complaint. [3/3]
He made it, of course.
November 23, 2024 at 8:39 PM
He made it, of course.
Grievance | 19 Nov 2024:
Cool guys who insist on always backing into a parking spot. Known to some as “Fancy Parkers,” they justify the 3x-time-wasting parking maneuver as saving time when pulling out. The only people who need a quick out are firetrucks and get-away cars.
Cool guys who insist on always backing into a parking spot. Known to some as “Fancy Parkers,” they justify the 3x-time-wasting parking maneuver as saving time when pulling out. The only people who need a quick out are firetrucks and get-away cars.
November 19, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Grievance | 19 Nov 2024:
Cool guys who insist on always backing into a parking spot. Known to some as “Fancy Parkers,” they justify the 3x-time-wasting parking maneuver as saving time when pulling out. The only people who need a quick out are firetrucks and get-away cars.
Cool guys who insist on always backing into a parking spot. Known to some as “Fancy Parkers,” they justify the 3x-time-wasting parking maneuver as saving time when pulling out. The only people who need a quick out are firetrucks and get-away cars.