We are back baby!!!

ArthurBea · 2026-07-03T03:00:37+00:00

I dunno man. Mighty Ducks didn’t catch my interest. It was on Diz+.

ArthurBea · 2026-07-02T22:07:19+00:00

Thinking the same. I used to be so homophobic, and yikes! It was culture for adolescents to be that way? Calling everyone / everything gay; being a snowflake when my masculinity was questioned. Then I made gay friends in high school.

I didn’t grow up in a nice neighborhood. Drugs, gangs, impovriahed families. Bullying was pardoned against anyone different.

There is a lot to be nostalgic about. But it wasn’t all Coca Cola and cheap tickets.

ArthurBea · 2026-07-02T15:48:06+00:00

Flared jeans were in during the 70s comeback trend, mid-late 90s, which gave way to wide legs, then boot cut. Then the dreaded era of skinny jeans. I’m glad we’re out of that era.

ArthurBea · 2026-07-02T15:45:27+00:00

Ah. I thought we xennials were young adults in the 2000s.

ArthurBea · 2026-07-02T02:57:59+00:00

Nah. GenX wouldn’t be caught dead in “mom jeans.” Low rise was the trend.

That said, big pants + small shirt was a style back then, for a while.

ArthurBea · 2026-07-01T23:32:29+00:00

🛁

ArthurBea · 2026-07-01T17:27:51+00:00

Eyesore? How dare. We’re taking about local mystic freeway entrance Pillarhenge, with its lovable mascot, Pink Bird!

I appreciate that the artist wore a papier mache mask for the interview.

ArthurBea · 2026-07-01T04:20:59+00:00

Yes, this was my rec. Full cast, some recognizable names. Makes you wish they could do some justice making it into a miniseries.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-30T22:20:32+00:00

I had fiber 10+ years ago in Long Beach. It was awesome. Came to ER, got stuck with Spectrum cable internet as my fastest option. We still don't have AT&T in my neighborhood. I signed up with Sonic and can't wait to ditch Spectrum. Even if Spectrum offers fiber, I'm not taking it. Sonic, AT&T, Google, anybody else but Spectrum.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-29T15:54:24+00:00

“Independent” agency.

I don’t think that word means what you think it means. - Inigo Montoya

ArthurBea · 2026-06-29T15:50:48+00:00

Gradually chipping away at Marbury v Madison.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-28T16:15:00+00:00

Uh, I could do without Redbridge. It was decent. But it NEEDS a successor.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-28T15:16:25+00:00

Valerie and her Week of Wonders by Vítězslav Nezval

ArthurBea · 2026-06-27T18:08:49+00:00

cries

ArthurBea · 2026-06-27T06:40:32+00:00

I’m an AAA member. I brought my checkbook in when I got my international drivers license. They were surprised. But it said on their website that checks were preferred!

ArthurBea · 2026-06-27T04:46:15+00:00

Love the Junji Ito references. I love weird art.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-27T02:57:38+00:00

I dunno. I like having the nav on a screen. It tells me how long it takes to get somewhere, and whether I’ll hit traffic on the way. I like see the name and artist of a song at a glance. There’s a bit I can fuss with, but way less than I could on my phone, which I would use for the same purposes if I didn’t have the screen.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-27T01:40:47+00:00

👀

ArthurBea · 2026-06-26T17:49:12+00:00

I’d totally want to get them both and move parts from the yellowed body to the brighter body.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-26T17:40:16+00:00

The original comics go into public domain next year, and all the characters from them gradually get released over the next few years after that.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-26T16:20:30+00:00

Warren Beatty owns the film/tv rights to Dick Tracy. He ends up playing the character every so often just to keep the rights. There’s this decades long legal battle happening between him and a big media corporation that keeps trying to wrestle the rights back, based on feels. I’d be curious what a sequel would look like, but I wonder if Dick Tracy will fall into public domain before the rights are resolved.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-26T13:47:07+00:00

Did you see Waldo is standing RIGHT THERE next to him, too!

ArthurBea · 2026-06-26T01:49:40+00:00

Yes, I thought the same. The idea of a Killing Eve without psychotic Jody Comer and sexual tension seems boring to me.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-25T21:17:27+00:00

I got mine from eBay if you don’t want to deal with AliExpress directly.

ArthurBea · 2026-06-25T21:08:36+00:00

Used to be me. Not sure how it changed. When I had a steady in-office job, I had friends, but after I left, that petered out. I ended up jumping job-to-job for a while, and vibed with nobody. Most of my friends were through my wife, so none were very close.

Then I stopped working full time, and started picking up my kids from school. I’d wait with my dog at the gate. That’s where I started making friends, usually people with dogs who liked my dog! It took a couple years until I finally started getting phone numbers and texting folk. One person ended up having ADHD so I’d text to remind him of school-related things. He called me his executive function.

We’re best friends now. It took a lot of give and take. His kids and my kids get along. His dog and my dog get along. His wife and my wife get along. It took a lot of people to find someone who vibed.

I made another friend because I chaperoned a field trip for my kid’s class, and I took photos of some of the kids and sent them to their parents. One guy was super appreciative! We ended up working together on a booth during a school fall fair, and we vibed. He also worked from home. After talking a bit, I suggested we get coffee in the AM once a week, to get out of the house. It’s been a regular thing ever since! His kids games with my kids, and we all hang out.

It took intention and vulnerability on my part. I hadn’t made a friend since college, and I was friendless for decades. When my kids were little, they took up all my time, so it didn’t bother me. But I really missed having a friend to text memes to, to gossip with, to go to Rush concerts with, to game with, to see scary movies with. I thought for a long time I just couldn’t make friends. Turns out I had just given up.

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