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for scale None of those chairs are in the sweet spot. But I did find a room for Ric.

On a trip last weekend up the north shore of Lake Superior with my girlfriend and a wolf crossed the highway between Grand Marais and Grand Portage. My girlfriend rolled down the window and snapped a picture. I lived in the Northland most of my life but never thought I'd see one in the wild like this.

Okay one more - dude's shorts kill me.

RIP Consigliere

Old, but never gets old.

Just checking in on Tim .... yup, he can still play.

Exactly right. My own little slice of heaven. It has honestly been a really good post so far.

12lb American Wagyu Shoulder. SnP only. 12 hours @225. Good smoke. she'll eat.

As a friend once said, "With a voice like honey, poured over gravel". Or the M25's unofficial theme song RIP, Chris.

I'm gonna go with the The Princess Bride. Saw in theaters in '86 and have watched it periodically throughout the decades. Andre the Giant said he was happiest on the set of that film. It was the one time he felt normal.

Been in the Seattle - Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP) - many times - always enjoyed the building as much as the collections. Here is an exceedingly boring shot.

Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now and Godfather star, dies aged 95 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/16/robert-duvall-dies-apocalypse-now-godfather-mash-to-kill-a-mockingbird?CMP=share_btn_url

Robert Duvall, Oscar-Winning Acting Legend, Dies at 95.

RIP to the 8 people in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, victims of a mass shooting

RIP to Actors Bud Cort & James Van Der Beek..... Bud Cort was of course Harold in Harold & Maude, he did several other prominent roles but will likely be remembered mostly for H&M. One other movie I liked was Electric Dreams; he played the voice of the computer (and that's also where I fell in love with Virginia Madsen).

A Memento Mori for Skye was going to cost $450, so I went to Michaels, got a DIY kit, and did that myself this morning. It looks ghetto af, but it means everything to me. Then I took her up to animal control and "relinquished" her body to be communally cremated.

Greg Brown, Co-Founder of Cake and Writer of 'The Distance,' Passes Away. Pretty much the perfect pop song in my jaded opinion.

RIP Catherine O' Hara. Details coming.

Guess I'm getting to be an old guy now, or at least if feels that way at times like this. Wilbur Wood was my favorite White Sox player as a kid, along with Dick Allen who sadly also passed away in 2020. Wood was a crafty knuckleballer with a rubber arm who averaged more than 40 starts and 336 innings pitched per season for the White Sox over a 5-year period from 1971-75. He once famously was a 20 game winner and a 20 game loser in the same season and almost did it a couple of other times. I can still hear Harry Carey saying his name as he trotted out to the mound to start yet another game. "Hey, didn't he pitch just the other day?" he would joke. Wood once started both games of a double header in 1973 and lost both of them!! But he played for the White Sox and that's what they did. I didn't realize until a couple of years a ago when I Googled him that he was from the Boston area and had a thick New Englander accent. By all accounts a good guy, just an every day ordinary modest guy who happened to play baseball at one point in his life. They didn't make a lot of money in those days, so he wasn't wealthy. Just gave a wealth of memories to sports minded kids like me. Pictured is the Strat-O-Matic card from his best year, which was also the year that Dick Allen won and MVP in the American League. I was 10 and will never forget either of them. RIP Woody, my fellow chubby lefty who made me think anything was possible, even if I knew I'd never be a major leaguer. Hell, I wasn't even that good in Little League! He was 84.

Another member of the Dead is deceased. RIP Bob Weir. https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/10/grateful-dead-guitarist-bob-weir-dies/

RIP James "Jim" Moylan, inventor of the Moylan Arrow. https://www.theautopian.com/rip-the-guy-who-put-the-little-arrow-on-your-fuel-gauge-though-i-think-there-was-an-earlier-one/ https://www.carpro.com/blog/quick-shifts-rip-ford-inventor-of-the-moylan-arrow

https://deadline.com/2025/12/isiah-whitlock-jr-dead-the-wire-spike-lee-movies-1236658855/

What the actual fuck? https://people.com/rob-reiner-dead-all-in-the-family-director-8653589 Just watched Spinal Tap II last night and was disappointed. But I didn't do it. ☹️

Frank Gehry will be missed. RIP. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/05/527785250/frank-gehry-dead https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/frank-gehry-dead-guggenheim-bilbao-1234765549/ Two bonuses... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/your-name-here and

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Man in the High Castle, The Last Emperor, Bond film Licence to Kill, much from the Mortal Kombat franchise, bunch of action movies(!), &c.)