@WILDKATZ Fair, but a lot of culture is based on the time and era. And people are essentially "products" of the time and era that they are raised in... Look at pretty much all of the early 90s for example.

But then again, I often reference things from the late 1800s and early 1900s as if I was there, to which my wife says I'm "hundreds of years old" so maybe you're onto something...

@WILDKATZ if you really want to force "age" into it, it's simply because of what age we are in our formative years... What's considered "dad jokes" now are simply because that was the style of humor when people who are dads now were growing up ... "Dad jokes" generations prior were what was humor in the 50s, etc. What teens find funny now will be the "dad jokes" in 20-30 years.

@WILDKATZ Fair example is that I grew up with Tom Green and the Upright Citizens Brigade being TV shows that were incredibly "ahead of their time" and both would have hit even more hard a decade or so later, because comedy trends and styles evolve and adapt... Doesn't have jack shit to do with age. Only has to do with timing.

@WILDKATZ It's not ageism at all, merely trends of comedy and humor styles. They evolve over time, and both late Gen X (Xennials) and Z appreciate a more bizarre "disconnected" style of comedy that, say, my wife, a blatant millennial, think of as utterly ridiculous.

I really feel the Xennials (such as myself) and Gen Z really appreciate each other's "non sequitur" and "random" humor styles... Like there's a sort of mutual understanding there that isn't there between other generations.
Frisky Dingo... That's where the pot of gold is.

@LlamaMountainStudioArts I do audio books, but there's something about actually reading reading that I get more out of. I think it's the processing of spoken word due to TBI that makes it different.

I envy people who can read on public transit. I would get so many books read if I wasn't busy throwing up all over the place.

Almost done with an updated and better mix of my faux-Prince style holiday song "Sex U Up 4 Xmas" ... Finally making this sound more like I heard it in my head when writing it.

@omnipotus @EricaLScott I have the same reaction to "with au jus"

@AkomoCombine I don't think you're understanding what I'm saying. He said Vindman is both puppet and puppeteer... Which means Vindman is the one pulling his own strings. And then asked who's pulling the strings. Vindman, obviously... Because Vindman is the puppeteer, as already stated.

@AkomoCombine But he's the puppeteer. The question was answered in that statement already.

@AkomoCombine if he's both puppet and puppeteer, why even ask who's pulling the strings?? He's the puppeteer, so obviously himself???

@TwiHusband The breach was one from last year, first reported on back in July, and the recent article (2 days ago) was about how it was worse than previously thought...

https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/25/massive-twitter-data-breach/

@elder_cincy_guy I don't know of any specific book, but I CAN assure you that there is no reason to go to Navy Pier.

Do you know what area of Chicago or Chicagoland you'll be living in?

In to audio of cult leaders and such, I also enjoy using clips of serial killers in my music... The biggest problem is that due to my uni major, I had this clip of Bundy memorized and knew exactly where to find it.

https://youtu.be/hf2aUVjgEH8

Nick Cage smooches good!

@fienen Phil Hartman was the one that hit me the hardest and still does.

In a similar vein to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita, the original line was "Everyone's taking the chance, it's safe to dance" but the band changed it to what it sounded like when they sung it... But with the knowledge of the original lyric to what was once called "No Friend Of Mine" the entire song suddenly makes more sense.

I know pretty much nothing about The Masked Singer, but everything I've seen or heard about it just comes across like a gameshow you'd see in some post-apocalyptic show or movie, or on something like Sliders. And we'd all laugh, as viewers, at how ridiculous it is that a show like that would exist, because of how degraded that society must have become.