MONDAY MORNING DISPATCH (5/5/25)
1) I hate driving.
Besides how boring it is, the main reason I hate driving is other drivers. I realized the other day that my typical driving routine is broken up thusly:
50% yelling at other drivers who changed lanes or made a turn without using their blinker.
10% yelling at drivers who obliviously have their blinker on all the time.
40% yelling at other drivers who slow down for green lights.
The first two groups, I understand. They’re idiots.
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1) A while back, my son asked me to write a story about him. I said, “Sure!” Then time went by.
I worked on something. Scrapped it. Worked on something else. Scrapped that.
I finally worked on what I thought it would be. Got almost finished, and realized it was not the story he would want, or what I originally envisioned. Also, he had matured quite a bit during that time, and he was reading things at an older level. My originally story was aimed at an elementary school-age kid, and he was reading YA books.
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Started an Easter tradition this year.
I decided to honor Jesus by disappearing Friday evening, and staying gone until late Sunday. I think next year I might broaden it a bit by having dinner on Thursday night with twelve of my friends.
Except I don’t have twelve friends. I think I have, maybe, four.
So, time to start making new friends.
Anyway…
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1) This past week, the defense team for Bryan Kohberger was in court, trying to get all kinds of motions granted. You know who Bryan Kohberger is:
The dead-eyed Ph.D. student accused of murdering four Idaho college students.
Bryan has an airtight alibi. He was stargazing at the time of the murders.
And also, that knife that his Amazon account shows he purchased? He doesn’t know anything about it.
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1) Val Kilmer, dead at 65. Seems rather young, but knowing Kilmer’s health battles over the past decade, I guess it’s not totally unexpected. Still hits hard, as I liked him as an actor and he’s in one of my top 5 favorite movies (TOMBSTONE), and gives probably my favorite dramatic performance as Doc Holliday.
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Tomorrow is April 1st, and if you’re expecting some cheesy April Fool’s bit, you’re going to be sorely disappointed.
The current administration has decided the best way to handle a dumpster fire is to drag it out into a heavily wooded area, dump gasoline on it, then deny they did it. And claim anyone who saw them do it is a liar.
You want an April Fool’s joke? It’s on all of us.
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1) David Chase, the creator of THE SOPRANOS, was a guest on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast a while back, and he was talking about the series finale and how/why he chose the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believing” to play during the final moments. He said he had it mind what the final episode would be and he knew he wanted one of three possible songs to be playing.
Chase asked some of his production people what they thought. He listed the three possible songs (and no, I don’t recall what the other two songs were and I’m not going to go back and relisten to the podcast interview again). Chase said the other two songs received positive responses, while “Don’t Stop Believing” received negative ones. Everyone was in agreement that the Journey song should not be the final one, and the it should be one of the other two.
That’s when Chase knew, without a doubt, he would use “Don’t Stop Believing.”
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1) Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Or as the rest of the country calls it:
Happy Another Excuse to Go Out and Drink Excessively Day!
(Yes, this counts as #1 on my Dispatch list this week. Deal with it.)
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1) I know I said I didn’t want to discuss politics and how sick I am of hearing about it from both sides… But I have to say something.
It appears to me that there is a significant portion of the American population that is treating our government as some sort of reality program, and they are voting in politicians based on who says the craziest stuff, who says the dumbest stuff, who is the most outrageous, who is a compulsive liar, etc. It’s as if people are at home watching a government version of BIG BROTHER (the TV show, not the book version) and going:
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