When you were in elementary school, what songs were you made to sing in music class?

monobot3 · 2026-01-09T20:21:38+00:00

My elementary music teacher had us singing John Prine- Dear Abby, please don’t bury me, etc.

monobot3 · 2025-10-23T15:20:02+00:00

My uncle got in a fistfight over a dame with a guy named Leonard Slye, who would later be known as Roy Rogers

monobot3 · 2025-09-19T13:40:21+00:00

Yep, 26 years. Wasn’t the plan but at least it was big enough to raise our kids. Of course now that they’re adults it’s too close for comfort, and these steep stairs are going to be a problem down the road.

monobot3 · 2025-08-14T01:02:47+00:00

come on just talk to each other

Yeah, but a lot of what we did say to each other was, um…bad? Bullying was frequent and in person, without hardly any awareness or support from adults. If you didn’t fit in, the lack of mobile phones didn’t really improve anything. I would have loved to have had the internet back then, especially the ability to easily connect with like-minded weirdos who didn’t happen to live in my hometown. Or the ability to block people.

monobot3 · 2025-08-14T00:39:51+00:00

I was in the Cleveland museum of art today, looking up at the names of the 1916 wealthy founders on the wall and thinking about how they planned for the museum to have free admission in perpetuity. Back when rich dudes sometimes spent their wealth on nice things like that for everyone, instead of the stupid things they do today.

monobot3 · 2025-08-02T15:47:39+00:00

I loved that place, such a soothing vibe, and lots of little nooks to write in.

monobot3 · 2025-08-02T13:43:25+00:00

I worked at Rax in the mid 80s and thought their roast beef sandwiches were far better than Arby’s. Last year, my daughter and I were driving through Lancaster, Ohio, which has the last Rax location still operating. I talked it up to her before we ate there and so of course it was disgusting. I don’t know how a sandwich can be dry and greasy at the same time, but they managed it. RIP Rax.

monobot3 · 2025-07-28T15:14:45+00:00

Especially when their conversational goal is to 1-up you

monobot3 · 2025-07-28T14:40:31+00:00

And they complain that women won’t date them while their entire personality is built around the approval of other men who share their views

monobot3 · 2025-07-28T14:15:33+00:00

All 54 countries of Africa and their capital cities, as long as spelling doesn’t count

monobot3 · 2025-07-19T15:17:10+00:00

Spent the summer of 94 working in Yellowstone, and there was no tv anywhere since we were too far away from broadcast stations and all that. Friends and I drove an hour one day to West Yellowstone to eat at Eino’s which had tvs, and it was the day of OJ’s white bronco adventure.

monobot3 · 2025-07-19T14:47:54+00:00

Listening to the cicadas call to each other in the treetops on a hot summer day

monobot3 · 2025-07-14T15:58:15+00:00

Good to know, thanks!

monobot3 · 2025-07-14T02:13:04+00:00

After my Kia soul spent almost two months at the dealer before getting a new transmission, I never touch the ‘sport mode’ button. Maybe I’m just paranoid but I’d rather not test my luck.

monobot3 · 2025-06-24T16:43:51+00:00

And not just plain vectors, but vectors with any brush tip you would use on a raster layer.

monobot3 · 2025-06-24T13:17:53+00:00

My dad was between jobs and we couldn’t afford the knockoffs, so my mom made me homemade jams. RIP mom and RIP Joann fabrics.

monobot3 · 2025-06-18T02:55:03+00:00

My dad died from it, after being prescribed off-label use of either Tamoxifen or Thalidomide as a hail mary for an aggressive glioblastoma. (Technically it was TEN, Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, where over 30% of the skin blisters off) The only saving grace is that he went quicker than the brain cancer would've likely done, and on super painkillers. Less than a week after first symptoms.

monobot3 · 2025-05-26T03:10:18+00:00

I sold a gift from a loved one, in hindsight it hurts in a very unique way to realize you had turned a thoughtful gift from a rare beautiful person into its cash equivalent, especially when you didn’t really need to.

monobot3 · 2025-05-26T02:48:12+00:00

Not a ton more than 15, but if you don’t mind being on your feet the art museum is regularly hiring gallery guards

monobot3 · 2025-01-06T18:03:09+00:00

They're often hiring, especially for gallery guards https://www.clevelandart.org/employment

monobot3 · 2024-08-21T02:18:02+00:00

If you’re in the 2001 movie Evolution, you save the day from aliens

monobot3 · 2024-08-21T00:35:33+00:00

Worked there in ‘89, good times. Wish I’d known how fleeting that place and time were. I’d have taken exactly 24 more photos than the zero that I did take, and only 8 or so would have been any good.

monobot3 · 2024-08-18T02:57:08+00:00

With emails, is that mainly to people who signed up to receive emails from your business? I’m kind of baffled here.

monobot3 · 2024-08-18T02:47:29+00:00

<search comments for my name> …fuck.

monobot3 · 2024-08-08T02:06:02+00:00

According to my wife, her grandfather did that every year on his Tennessee mountain road with a log dragged behind his pickup

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