At last, the exhaustive, spoilerrific 10,000-word tale of our trip to the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser is ready for you to read on my blog: https://bit.ly/katdanstarcruiser

If the news of its shutdown has you curious to know what it actually IS -- and I can tell you now, it's not a "Star Wars hotel" -- this travelogue to space will hopefully explain. It's your long-read for the weekend!

A big comic convention straight up stole one of my photos for their advertising campaign. Making progress in contacting someone about compensation for unauthorized use of my photo and my likeness.

How's your Tuesday going?

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OK, that felt good

Actual question posed on the bird site: "If you ban guns, how would I protect myself and my family?"

A fence, an alarm system, motion-activated lighting, cameras, a dog — all of these things have been endorsed by my local law enforcement as ways to protect my home & my family.

When someone kicked down my door and attempted a home invasion, the alarm is what made them run.

That's what my police department encouraged. Or don't you back the blue...?

Recently overheard a member of 'the greatest generation' say they didn't realize the Village People were gay.

When I was 6, they were my favorite band. Too young to understand their act.

But as an adult? I mean...the range goes like

Not Gay
Kinda Gay
Gay
Clearly Gay
YMCGay

Make no mistake, I respected them more when I understood (and I still love disco today). But there was almost no subtext to their act and they got away with it.

Brilliant, yet blatant! How do you not get the point?

On April 26, 2022, I asked
then-Congressman, now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy to explain why he lied about recommending President Trump's resignation. As a Californian, I want my officials to be accountable for their choices.

One year & dozens of follow-ups later, still no response or responsibility. Bird-site 🧵below.

https://twitter.com/DanAmrich/status/1519125983235698688

After years of dodging it, I finally got COVI. I was better after about a week. I credit this speedy recovery to vaccinations, boosters, and Paxlovid. In other words, thank you, science.

Long ago I handled community for Activision and had to explain why "free speech" didn't mean you could make in-game artwork of swastikas made of penises. This was my best analogy to try to reach people who insisted. Make it at home and not be arrested? Sure. Build it using someone else's art tool in someone else's environment? Nah.

For the last time: Nobody is stopping you from taking fruit and making it as cold as you want to make it

Absolutely no one is restricting your right to freeze peach

20 years after LASIK, I need glasses again. It's okay, as I have reached the age where a) I can make my own decisions about specs appeal and b) it just makes me look aged and wise now.

Gas stoves are the 4th of July hamburgers of Starbucks cups

Manfactured outrage: It's always something and it's always nothing

We are all watching the GOP demonstrate, in the most painful and public way possible, that even they agree that none of them are fit to lead

so you say you need a proven leader in the house

hear me out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xMJZHrG_94

#cosomusic

2022 GOP: Just wait until we get into the new year! We're going to enact swift, terrible vengeance the moment we have power!

2023: It's been two days and we still can't pick a team captain.
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Speaker of the House voting be like

I've been headhunted before, but tonight I was faithhunted. A total stranger who lives in my town innocuously sent me an FB message asking about my guitar collection. Red flag -- potential thief? Worse -- he's an Elder Mormon. I have to assume, knowing how aggressive they are, that this is merely a tactic to get him another potential convert.

As an ex-altar boy of no fixed denomination, I blocked him. I do not want to jam.

It's not that John Lennon would have been 82 in 2022.

It's that he should have been.

stophandgunviolence.org

Not Quite Beatles Songs

“Leave it Be”
“Michelle, Oui?”
“Hey There, Jude”
“I Could Use Some Help!”
“Wonderwall”

Yesterday we cut, cleaned, and shipped a dozen Yahtzee cards, most of which were personalized with names & in-jokes, but a few blanks too. Totally your call! But if you want some for holiday gifts, visit http://bit.ly/katrinauch and we'll make more!

Fire up the clavinet! Or maybe in this case, the Rhodes?

🎶Guilty of sedition
writing's on the wall
guilty of sedition
Keepers 'bout to fall

When you believe in things
that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Ooh, sedition ain't the way 🎶