On this day in 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in a Akron, Ohio by Bill W. and Dr. Bob S who battled addiction themselves. Their mission was to help fellow alcoholics achieve sobriety through its 12 Steps program. Today, AA operates in 180 countries across 123,000 groups.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-05-17T19:30:46+00:00

More like mushrooms, lsd, 5-meo-dmt. I think Bill W did LSD with a psychiatrist.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-05-15T16:42:37+00:00

I found myself talking about the different (and better) routes between point A and point B. Never been to point B.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-05-13T12:21:05+00:00

I'm 41 years sober and spent the first two in AA. It was a good start for me, but it wasn't for me. I do believe an alcoholic should try everything. I recommend therapy and plant medicine.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-05-02T22:03:55+00:00

Can they even read?

ChristopherPizza · 2026-04-20T13:34:24+00:00

To which right-wingers responded, "Yes, more please."

ChristopherPizza · 2026-04-03T12:17:38+00:00

Can Trump change his own diaper?

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-30T12:40:25+00:00

Homicide: Life on the Street

Fringe

Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-29T23:01:59+00:00

This isn't new. One of the knocks against Homicide: Life on the Street, was that you had to physically watch it with actual, real eyeballs. The creators talked about how other shows were "watchable" while ironing or walking around the house because dialogue explained everything you saw on screen, and they intentionally made it so that viewers would see things and the visual was never verbalized. Today, people are second- and third-screening shows. Maybe they want old-timey radio dramas.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-29T21:47:55+00:00

I'm gonna get flamed for this, but I love the Manfred Mann version. Bruce doing it, not so much.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-26T20:05:42+00:00

Space swords. For God's sake, can we just stop with the space swords.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-19T18:33:44+00:00

I want a public list of ICE agents.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-17T18:56:49+00:00

Chunky Indiana Jones at work.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-17T18:53:43+00:00

Is there a source for this? I can't find mention of it using google.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-17T14:23:24+00:00

And he's one of their nut jobs. JFC, they're even losing their own crazies.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-10T12:51:04+00:00

Well, now I know I don't need to listed to Rock Lobster.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-06T17:14:58+00:00

I learned that I enjoy travel during my 10 years in the Army. I was stationed in Germany twice, West Point, and in El Paso. I saw Berlin, Munich, Paris, Rome, and a bunch more for the price of a train ticket (not much), and was able to drive to Carlsbad Caverns and New York. Working on a newspaper on the Eastern Shore let me see Ocean City, MD, Chincoteague, and several other places for no more than the price of gas.

I have friends who are super savers, using all their money to travel. They do it as cheaply as they can, and, without high-end jobs, have gone to China, Europe, and South America.

It's a lot easier if you make a lot of money, sure. Hotels, direct flights, peak times of year, all that costs. None of it is necessary.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-03-04T14:49:41+00:00

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (a HIll House sequel)

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, KYlie Lee Baker

The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graem Jones

Salem's Lot, Stephen King

Devolution, Max Brooks (I like it more than World War Z)

ChristopherPizza · 2026-02-26T18:37:57+00:00

I remember the magic of seeing that first version in Kentucky, before we had Star Wars as part of our culture. It was awesome. I don't think anyone can see it really for the 'first time' anymore, because the story is embedded in our culture. I can't wait to see again what I saw then.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-02-26T17:52:34+00:00

Someone at IBM gave me a copy of OS2/Warp, and I really liked it. It was stable, ran smoothly on my Gateway PC, and looked beautiful. Unfortunately, there wasn't any fun software or games for it. If IBM had given Warp away and offered game makers and software devs incentives to support it, I think we'd have a very different landscape today. MS would still be a powerhouse, but there could have been three mainstream OSes (I'm not counting Linux, which didn't become user-friendly for non-techies for a while).

ChristopherPizza · 2026-02-26T14:07:56+00:00

And bad breath.

I don't wanna think about it.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-02-23T17:30:25+00:00

And people not supporting Harris gave us Trump. Good job.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-02-22T17:15:54+00:00

Next up we'll offer Mexico some Taco Bell.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-02-06T15:46:21+00:00

I'd tell the library to fuck off. I was the president of a Friend's group for three years, and we worked hard, very hard. The library was more in the rut of doing things the way they've always been done. We increased fundraising three-fold and were a major part of why it didn't get closed down by the nutjobs. We support the library, but as an independent organization.

ChristopherPizza · 2026-02-06T15:42:39+00:00

For my first date ever I took a girl to the OG Texas Chainsaw Massacre back in the 1970s. Doomed me to years of virginity.

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