Nathan had some fun with one side of cousins yesterday. Fun that ended in a trip to Build-a-Bear at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL.

I finally went out with my bro and saw Cocaine Bear tonight. I know I was really looking forward to it and that usually is a dangerous gamble.

I snapped this photo of two action figures recently.

Seeing this headline killed me… “Cartel suspected of American kidnappings issues alleged letter of apology.”

IYKYK*

For the longest time, I swore I had been a fan of Depeche Mode since their album Violator dropped. However, I recently looked up the release date (March 19, 1990) and that just doesn't jive at all. I know, for a fact, that I've been listening to them (along with The Cure and Duran Duran) since middle school, which, for me, was 1987-89. That was my personal British Invasion. So I guess that means I've been listening since the days of Music for the Masses although I've never owned that album, though I do know the songs.

Have you ever experienced a complete taste overhaul on something you've eaten just by properly identifying what it was? Like, when you had it misidentified, the taste was so bad, you couldn't stomach it. But once you realized what it truly was, it was perfectly fine?

When I first say announcements about the actors involved in the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem movie coming out in August, I really thought it was going to be another hybrid of real life and animation.

The creativity of some people just astounds me. It would be one thing to see a build of a lifesize LEGO tuna.

There’s nothing like walking back to your house after getting the mail and finding a completely random Pokémon card sitting there on your driveway.

Apparently today was the Day of Tree Felling in our neighborhood. No warning. No alerts. No notes on our door or the HOA Facebook page.

Just a quick reminder that I added a new goal at the beginning of this month, so you all have something new to hold me to. Shall we see how I did?

Okay, so maybe I aimed a bit high for such a short month. Shall we recap?

My son has now officially been introduced to Swedish pop superstars ABBA and their hit single "Dancing Queen" thanks to Dipper Pines and his obsession with Icelandic pop superstars BABBA and their hit single "Disco Girl" on the animated TV show Gravity Falls. Yes, that last one is a joke from the gnarly mind of show creator Alex Hirsch. 

I absolutely love low tech solutions to high tech problems. Like parents who want their kids to pay more attention to what's going on around them. For that, here's one possibility...

The purge continues at Kasa Kapgar. Today, while we didn't collect quite so much in the way of donations, we did get rid of a few things, but we focused on cleaning our master bedroom. A purge of filth, as it were. And while it was hard work -- lots of dusting, vacuuming, steam cleaning, rearranging, laundry, etc. -- it felt good. 

For a few years now, we had planned to get a new TV for our living room to upgrade from our 42” plasma to a 65” QLED for a better and larger picture. At that time, we’d move the 42” upstairs to replace our 32” LED in our bedroom.

NFT avatars on Twitter? You have got to be kidding me! This is Elon Musk's newest way to raise Twitter from the dead? 

This is appropriate, don't you think?

In line at Michael's over the weekend, I saw this special edition of LIFE magazine making a VERY bold claim on the cover...

I received an email from the Overlords du FitBit (read: Google) announcing that some changes are coming to our beloved platform.

IT’S BACK, BABYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

Today, Katie and I took Nathan to Water Tower Place in Chicago for the Harry Potter: Magic at Play event.

Have you ever watched a film and the whole time you’re just sitting there asking yourself, “What the hell am I watching?” And you know it’s not quite “bad” yet but your hopes are quickly being dashed. However, you just can’t turn it off.

To our dearest Katie,

You are the most amazing wife, friend, partner, confidant, and mother these two otherwise hopeless boys could ask for. We love you with all our collective hearts (and then some). We’re not perfect, but we hope you can love us all the same.

The Chicago Bears have officially closed on a deal to purchase the former Arlington International Racetrack from Churchill Downs, Inc. This deal has been in the works for a couple years now, but now the terms are all ironed out and agreed upon. US$197.2M will change hands.

It’s about dang time!

The collection (and obsession) grows…

It’s kinda funny how when you have zero investment in the outcome of the Super Bowl, you can just kinda relax and not worry and just enjoy the game for what it is.

I love my local parks department. The activities. The facilities. All of it. But my love can be tempered when those activities and facilities jack up their prices with no obvious benefit.

Friday night. I'm sitting here watching the 2020 remake of The Invisible Man with Elizabeth Moss. Why not write up some more reviews for the Jay-Mike-Fred: A Horror Compendium. To see my rankings of these films, go to the Rankings page.

We’re supposed to be getting snow this time of year. Not flooding of water runoff fields.

Scream VI is being released on March 10 and I’ve gotta admit that since I caught up on the entire series back in January, I’m kinda stoked about seeing it in theaters.

Soon, my friend. Very soon.

I am officially of the firm belief that human beings cannot handle organized religion.