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TKO 🧐🍂🍁
@tkirko.bsky.social
Californian on the East Coast with a Midwestern wife. Visca Barça. Triton/Bruin/Blue Devil. Life doesn’t make narrative sense.
We literally planned a Beatles-themed homecoming at our high school in the early ‘80s. 🤷‍♂️
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wait, you’re from Poway?! (Mt. Carmel grad here, Buechler was a couple years younger than me but I remember seeing him play against us. Also , I don’t think we had anyone notable +/- 2 years, but Billy Beane of Moneyball fame was a few years ahead of me.)
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Oh god, all those years I sucked on peppermint breath mints to try to settle my stomach without realizing it was just making my reflux that much worse… 😩
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Us when we lived in Switzerland and finally realized why there was so much veal on restaurant menus…
Dis Belief Surprised GIF
ALT: Dis Belief Surprised GIF
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August 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The amount of time she has to wait for the rest of the pack to finish… 😳
July 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Oh man, in the early ‘90s a majority of my clothes were from Structure…
July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ha, same birthday! bsky.app/profile/tkir...
For me:

Drums: Dionne Warwick
Guitar: Gustave Flaubert
Bass: Ed Koch
Keyboards: Me
Vocals: Connie Francis

Screaming background vocals: Edvard Munch
Pick four people born on your birthday and start a band. You’re in it too. Everyone has the ability to sing and play any instrument.

Who’s on drums?
Guitar?
Bass?
Keyboards?
Lead vocals?

For me:
Drums: Nikola Tesla
Guitar: Arlo Guthrie
Bass: Me
Keyboards: Marcel Proust
Lead vocals: Sofia Vergara
July 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And for a kid growing up in the burbs, it was such a window into what was happening culturally in the rest of the city.
July 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Real first child/second child energy at play here.
June 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The people who made this trailer understood the assignment. youtu.be/y8lFgF_IjPw?...
Eighth Grade | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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June 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
First thing I did when I heard the news was put Pet Sounds on.
June 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We ate there every morning when visiting Reykjavik, so good!
June 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Oof, yes, *so many* Lisas!
June 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Growing up in the ‘70s, at least half of the girls I knew were some sort of variation of Jennifer, Cindy, or Michelle.
June 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
While I love the ocean, it also gives me a sense of overwhelming existential fear and dread at the thought of being in the middle of it…
May 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New pope coming out like…
a man in a suit and tie is dancing on a stage .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing on a stage .
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May 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Jean Valjean singing “Proud To Be An American” on his death bed…
May 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Yes to all of this, and also as our teen son is now learning, choose a coed sport where all of the incentives are to not be an asshole.
April 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
April 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM