Rick Aaron

Rick Aaron

@rickaaron.bsky.social

Artist lover, reader, avid dog

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The human body is truly a complex and wondrous thing, who’d have thought that one day I’d find my whole body could be wracked with pain following a solitary sneeze.

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After Ernie left, Bert’s life became an amphetamine-fueled whirlwind of after-hours parties, drunken Grindr hook-ups, and multiple arrests for public indecency, finally ending in a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic for “exhaustion” and his membership in the Church of Scientology.

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This day in history. 1757. English poet Christopher Smart, also known as Mrs Mary Midnight, Ebenezer Pentweazle, and Freddie Two-Barns Burnett, was committed to an insane asylum by his father-in-law for being alarmingly religious.

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“First you bug me to go out, and now you want to come right back in? You've been out there for like thirty seconds. Did you at least pee? Tell me you at least peed."

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judge: how do you plead? me: well, I can't speak for the defendant but— judge: of course you can, you’re his attorney me: well in that case, he’s clearly guilty as hell!

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This day in history. 1945. Hermann Göring sent Hitler a telegram stating that he Göring was prepared to take over for him Hitler if he Hitler was incapacitated. This made Hitler so angry that he ordered a halt to all work on the Adolf and Eva Hitler Ballroom then being built above the Führerbunker.

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It’s Earth Day… Hug a tree! - Text the tree the next day. - Start hugging the tree regularly. - Meet the tree’s parents. - Move in with the tree. - Marry the tree. - Stop hugging the tree. - Grow apart from the tree. - Start hugging other trees. - Divorce the tree. - Die alone.

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So it turns out you can eat cranberry sauce when it’s not Thanksgiving and nothing happens. You don’t get arrested or anything.

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There’s little that can reduce you to tears quite so exquisitely as the right piece of music at just the right time. That said, a well timed football to the testicles does come close though.

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This day in history. 1968. British Conservative MP Enoch Powell delivered his Rivers of Blood speech against immigration from Commonwealth countries and anti-racism legislation. Party leader Edward Heath demoted him the next day but he did receive the Football Association Peace Prize.

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On a foggy early morning walk through my quiet suburban town today, I watched as other trudging figures began slowly emerging from the mist, and suddenly I felt like I was a member of the cast of a zombie apocalypse film comprised exclusively of middle-aged white guys.

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This day in history. 1518. Bona Sforza was crowned queen consort to Polish king Sigismund I the Old. The name Bona can mean good-looking but she was not bona. In fact when a marriage was proposed for her to young Federico Gonzaga, his mother bit the matchmaker.

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This day in history. 1680. Mohawk saint Kateri Tekakwitha died near Montreal. Her spirit form however kept popping up for several weeks in front of her friends shouting PEEKABOO and BOOGA BOOGA.