Pretty sure that's "aqua". It's a bit brighter than teal.

I wish I could be more of a Flyers skeeter and less of a politics skeeter but it feels like the political posts are just more pertinent these days.

Blue, but like a weird blue.

I called them "Temu Colts jerseys"

I'm always embarrassed by how much I liked the Doors in high school, but my love for Zep has withstood the test of time.

At the same time, much of the media, the fourth estate, the people whose role in democracy is holding power accountable by informing the public, decided that an old president’s oldness was a bigger scandal than another old president’s connections to and likely participation in child sex trafficking.

it is fucking infuriating to think how one different staffing choice, someone like Doug Jones, could have made all the difference in the world

A good number of years ago I had to walk up to Glasnevin cemetery from Phibsborough to attend a funeral. I was wearing all black and I guess the jacket was a tad military-esque. This group of lads see me and start singing "Welcome to the black parade" it genuinely made me laugh.

In 1995 we were saying this about 1973 because some people started inexplicably wearing bell bottoms again.

Good God

Can the answer be "both"? I don't think that voice ever goes away - at least, it never has for me, and I've got a few years on you - but the more you live, the more you do, the more you're able to ignore it, push back on it, and figure out how to prove it wrong. To me that's "being okay."

I always enjoyed the old Miss Manners column in the newspaper because every letter was like "Can I use this obscure manners rule to be an asshole?" and Miss Manners saying "No, because being an asshole is bad manners."

This is the same thing but Miss Manners is the Pope.