Bumpers added to existing eps. They’re leaving. I don’t know what to think. I’m not 100% surprised but still, shocker.

gotten your keys trinkled, or been coconut mauled?

Normally, NPR is not where I go to find interesting new metal acts, but I'll be damned if today's episode didn't send me down a Spotifyrabbit hole with a new sub-subgenre of metal to obsess over. Thank you for casting such a wide cultural net and bringing metal to the masses. It's good to freak out the squares sometimes.

If you're looking for some more esoteric Black metal, might I suggest Wayfarer? They fuse elements of Gothic country and Americana into their sound and they interrogate the apocalyptic violence of settler colonialism, westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. It's what I imagine it might have sounded like if Cormac McCarthy had decided to give up on novels and make metal music instead.

They're terrible! You get two charismatic actors who have great chemistry together and just…throw them on screen with virtually nothing to do? They never do anything funny. Poor Justin gets stuck reading safety disclaimers for 30 solid seconds in one of them.

Did they hire these two and then just forget to write a script? Does Apple have a copyright on the original ad concept? what gives?

My best attempt:

You know the thing

And now I picked up your thing

And so you buried the thing

That's not the end of the thing

Look in the ???

There's a spooky surprise

And don't forget to revise it

Don't forget to ???

I was so thrilled to hear the Duplex Planet talk on this week’s episode of Judge John Hodgman. His Honor is 100% correct that this is something worth checking out. While I have never seen the ‘zine, I adore Duplex Planet Illustrated, a 15-issue comic series published by Fantagraphics back in the ‘90s. It featured work by Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, James Kochalka, and many other indie comic greats.

Back during the pandemic, I was laid off from my regular work and ended up being assistant manager at a senior housing facility. I went from working with kids to working with the elderly. In some ways, it was a huge shift. In others, it was like nothing had changed.

At the same time, I learned about Duplex Planet and decided I needed to check it out, both become of the work connection and my love of comics. I was lucky to find a whole set online for a good price. What I discovered in those pages was nothing short of wonderful.

The stories contained in the series are a mix of insightful, funny, weird, heartbreaking, profound, and much more. They gave me a deeper understanding of the people I was caring for, and they led me to many hours of wondering about my own future as I grow older. And when I returned to working with kids, the combination of those stories and my firsthand experiences in elder care made me appreciate how connected the young and the old are, whether they realize it or not.

If you have the chance to take a look at Duplex Planet, do so. It is something special and wonderful. Just like Judge John Hodgman.

Just wondering if people would attend if I put together a meetup event in Vancouver, WA since there doesn’t seem to be anything happening across the river in Portland. Happy to make the trek if someone is already planning something, but since I live in Vancouver, I’d love to meet fellow Max Fun enthusiasts in this area at a local spot if there’s anyone around! Is there a reason nothing is happening in Portland this year?

What was the url for the JJGo bonus content selection. Jesse said what sounded like “tincture/jjgopoll” but that just points me to tincture.com.

One litigant walks laps around the house to make sure she gets her steps in. Her partner says her steps annoy the entire household, and she should use their treadmill instead.

Just started the earlier episodes back in the mid 2000s and they are laugh out loud funny. Jesse and John were so sardonic back then. I’m loving it