Patrick

Hi, folks. Writer, native Yinzer now in Pacific Time. Thinking of following me? I post on a wide array of topics. If your feed is all reposts from other sources, single topic content, lots of your OF/JFF grind, or just a constant flood of posts I will block, sorry. All the best, though!

Holy fuck, a new Everything But The Girl song, album next year. Perfection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs-N...

My support is always with Dem candidates, but this excellent piece outlines some very real concerns about fundraising - and about party leadership. Between ActBlue and candidates who use NGP Van campaign software, I get at least a half dozen texts a day. In recent weeks, it's more like 20.

“My hairdresser’s nephew didn’t speak until he was seven. Then one day, in the parking lot of a Gelson’s, he said, ‘thermodynamics.’ Now he’s a concert pianist.” buff.ly/yvtg5zT

Between this quote, "Pillion," and the film where he plays a sentient wicker basket in the shape of a man, Skarsgard is really representing a whole spectrum of queer love out there!

Something I wish more people would realize.

An important note: domestic violence can come in many forms, including emotional abuse. My sister's experience with her emotionally abusive husband was a contributing factor in her death by suicide. Please share this info.

I still don't have my ballot. My spouse's ballot arrived 2 weeks ago, a few days after it was mailed.

The "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game is bullshit and always has been. These crazy bastards used data science to prove it: pudding.cool/2026/10/kevi...

As a Pittsburgher, I know our local usage of "yinz" apparently came from "you ones" - an attempt to address a plural group - so it's fascinating to see the parallel of "that one."

ZIIIING 🎯

These people don't have even a basic understanding of what those property taxes are covering. Maybe cities should abandon property taxes and start sending a la carte bills for everything. Or deny road access, waste water treatment.....

Training period aside....I lasted a week at a bank branch. The managers of that particular branch (of a well known bank, in Columbus, OH) had very dedicated religious beliefs and made the employees pray with them. The anti-LGBTQ everything started on day 3, if I recall.

Dear @dylanthyme.bsky.social - I'm pretty sure #ComfortRead is my favorite of yours yet (no disrespect to the other wonderful books that came before it)!

"Age yourself with an image of one of your earliest crushes" I'm so old that there are no existing GIFs of the guys I was crushing on back in the day. I'm not even sure there are daguerreotypes......

This made me cry. A little for me, but mostly for so many others. Cities and places with resources, support, etc. take in the people other areas of the country discard.

I read about this in McDonald's memoir a few years ago. I'm glad his son reconnected with him (and his birth mother). www.avclub.com/michael-mcdo...

'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. "The fall of the leaves" was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.

everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.

Somebody Somewhere is too low. Downton Abbey is ranked way too high. And Wonderfalls is not anywhere on the list. (Though I guess with only 3 aired episodes it had its handicaps.)

stockard channing was in practical magic with sandra bullock and I'm going to just go ahead and assume she sang 'look at me I'm sandra b' at her at least once

What the actual...... Wow.

Terrible choice for a House rep. Also, a reminder to NEVER use his sticker company.

please read

The number of reels/TikToks et al that bleep out normal words is....astonishing. Sure, bleep out a curse word or put in an asterisk. But....dead? "Dead" doesn't need to be bleeped. Nor names of diseases. Is it the filters on social media platforms? Or is it sensitivity gone amok?

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

I still remember when Miller was a C-level talent who popped up on TV sometimes (including....a kids show?) in Pittsburgh. The fact that he's had a 40ish year career since - and that it included SNL - is one of the great mysteries of the universe.

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

Lived in Pittsburgh in the 90s and 00s. Suit and tie wasn't unusual for downtown, but if you were beyond that, you'd absolutely get asked if yinz were going to a wedding or funeral all dressed up. I had neighbors and family who would wear their "good sweatpants" to fine dining spots....

This dude would not be the first politician to forget that Pennsylvania exists beyond its southeastern corner. He might be the first to wear a blazer that looks like the couch from the set of The Golden Girls. And his hair is almost Traficant-ly.

Brett Favre: I was a QB for the Packers, and then revealed my true self to be a morally repugnant, misogynistic sack of shit! Aaron Rodgers: Hold my cheese curds!

The stupidity, it BURNS. Hollywood is making a fucking HAWAII FIVE-O movie, so revisiting an existing premise isn't a foreign concept. The audience wants the original. A slight update for today's guests and audience, like the Sabrina episode? Sure. Otherwise, give us the original recipe Muppets!

One generation, too. Parents both born in late 1930s, both lived without indoor plumbing for much of their childhoods. Dad lived with a relative in HS and also had no electricity, iirc.

C'mon Disney/ABC, light the damn lights already! We know variety ain't cheap. Do 6-8 episodes a season. Make it happen. We want it!

As a lifelong East Coaster/Midwesterner I was shocked when I moved to the desert, saw a road runner.....and realized they were SO much smaller than a coyote. I feel cheated and misled by Looney Tunes! /s

As a former bookseller, next year will mark 30 years of me being sick of hearing about HP. Books, films, and now the author's horrifying personal crusade. Please, someone make it stop and/or disappear.

I miss old style conservatives, the kind who would complain and shake their fists at the scourge of teen pregnancy.

Amazing band. I've all but sworn off air travel AND concerts, but I would have made my way to Chicago for this had I known about it. I love their whole catalog of music (but wish at least one or two early tracks had been on the playlist).

A lack of acknowledging pain is the last stop on the highway before the death of empathy....woo hoo?

I'm experiencing this issue as I write my novel....but also the reverse, at least with prose/language. As a journalist trained to be concise, I am struggling with the transition to "show, don't tell."

Trying to decide which option is a more tolerable 💩 sandwich: (1) paying nearly $1K a year to have "concierge" care for a doctor who might see me twice a year (and is about as warm as a glacier) OR (2) Work with another health system an hour and a half away. Health care in 2026 sucks.

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live: Alison Moyet Ben Folds Five Andrew Bird Tina Turner The Go-Go's Shawn Colvin Matthew Sweet Bettye LaVette The Cardigans Tori Amos (Alas, I've missed a number of favorite bands/musicians live - the woes of a US based British music fan...)

Did someone at the WH *really* choose the original Hawaii Five-O music to play over this atrocity? (It begs for Yakety Sax.)

RIP Jaye P. Morgan. Feeling the lyrics of this one today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YP...

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.