Well, it’s time for the Shit Show.

I got the news alert this afternoon that legendary actor and voiceover performer James Earl Jones passed away at the age of 93.

Mine and Katie’s Northern Illinois Huskies football team won their game today.

This is how you know the WNBA is finally making a cultural impact… poster sales at local stores!

I recently received an email from a local fire department I form g us that they were going to be practicing the art of dropping down ropes from a height at our local parking deck.

“With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles of the past. A chance to chart a new way forward, not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans,” Democratic Party Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris said during her speech at the DNC yesterday.

Y’all know what TopGolf is, right? It’s a nationwide chain of outdoor golf driving ranges that are set up as two-story buildings and they host events and parties and all that jazz.

Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, eh? This could be interesting.

U.S. Men’s Gymnastics Team Pommel Horse champion Stephen Nedoroscik is clearly my hero of these Olympic Games.

So there’s a MLB catcher named Danny Jansen who was recently traded from the Toronto Blue Jays to the Boston Red Sox. What’s really cool is that this dude is about to become the first MLB player to play for both teams in the same game.

OLYMPICS!!!

That is all.

$81M in the 24 hours since Biden endorsed her?

President Joe Biden stepping back from a re-election bid should come as no surprise. Given his age and his issues with live speaking, nope, no surprise.

A little late to the game, aren't we, Time? Sheesh.

My favorite band, Japandroids, which has been on hiatus since around 2018, just announced their new album, Fate & Alcohol, will be released on October 18, 2024. They dropped the first single as well, “Chicago,” a title I wholly approve.

Well, Mother Nature heeded one of my wishes, but not the rest.

I seriously want to know exactly what Northern Illinois did to piss off whatever deities are out there.

Lotta shit in the news the last 24 hours. A ton of noise that will just get noisier and I want to tune it out. I know I can’t but I will try.

Katie and I have spent the last couple of nights watching the U.S. Olympic Swim Team Trials on NBC. Being the Olympic junkies we are (hell, we named Nate after Olympic swimmer Nathan Adrian), we’re having fun watching and can’t wait for the Paris games to start up.

I just had a dust up with a fellow toy collector about women and minorities and their representation in toy lines and I just can’t  this was too much.

I’m truly sorry this is coming so late in the game, but Happy Pride Month, y’all!

That is all. 

We’re currently in Vancouver and it’s the evening of game seven of the second round of the NHL playoffs between the Vancouver Canucks and the Edmonton Oilers. It’s a home game for Vancouver and they just lost.

Kristi Noem…

… that is all.

Not that this is anything new, but, once in a while you’re reminded how messed up this world truly is.

Katie and I did something we never expected we would do… ever. We watched a pro sports draft event. Not just that, we watched it live. And it was for women’s basketball.

Okay, so this is a few days late, but it cracks me up to no end.

Much as I expected, the 2024 solar eclipse came and went with a whimper, to be honest. It just… was.

I am so confused about this solar eclipse that’s happening on Monday. People are going nuts about it. They’re taking off work. Traveling to places where their view will be better. Pulling their kids out of school.

Why do I always let my heart get in the way of common sense when it comes to the University of Kentucky Wildcats during the March Madness? I always pick them to do decently — not necessarily win it all — and then they do something stupid like this… in the first round…

In a move that will hopefully resound throughout the league and all women’s professional sports, CPKC Stadium opened today as the new home of women’s professional soccer team Kansas City Current. And it’s pretty swank…

It’s amazing how crippled we as humans become when we have a cellular outage.

Wow, CNN. For shame. This is why EVERY news and media organization needs to have a team of proofreaders on staff and pay them well…

With its official prediction of “RED TEAM,” Henrietta the Prehistoric Rooster is now 1-0 on calling sports games.

How is it the first third of the month of February, historically the coldest month of the year in Chicagoland, yet we have no snow on the ground save some blackened dredge piles, it’s 56°F, and we’re predicted to have rain as well as thunderstorms, hail, and even a random tornado today.