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With everything going on in the world it’s easy to forget that I’m cute Like, really really cute Incapable of taking a mirror selfie without holding my cellphone like some kind of goblin…but a cutie nonetheless

Nothing about our incipient & concurrent sociological, ecological, and economic crashes is "funny" per se BUT the notion that at some point in the Not Too Distant Future people are going to talk about the US the way millennials talk about going to the mall in the 90s has a certain comedic undertone.

My Scary Kids? Scaring Kids. (This is technically backwards but IDC)

Age yourself with a movie you saw in theaters.

Look, I am not saying my 3rd act should be Tech Guy Turned Celebrity Dog Whisperer I am NOT saying that BUT I can wake dija up from being dead asleep with the smell of pork chop & she won't take it until I say it's ok and surely that's worth more to the world than web infrastructure geekery, right?

> Fortunately everyone I've ever been concerned with impressing has either died or disappointed me I'm glad my personal collection of neuroatypacies doesn't include an inability to read faces so it's obvious by the look my dog park interlocutor gave me that we have different ideas of "fortunately".

It happened. The snoot booped back.

My VA psych told me that I should "just try not to pay attention to it, focus on the positives & do your affirmations" in response to my saying that I'm doing as well as I can given [gestures vaguely] and the more I think about it the angrier I get.

Can’t sleep so disassociating while shining boots because shoe polish definitely isn’t a scent with a whole lot of emotional baggage for me. Not this guy.

Everything is awful all of the time so tonight dija gets breakfast for dinner (kibble omelette) and you get to watch her eat it. It’s not much, but it’s what I got.

I love /r/asknyc where the top reply on "my neighbor is trying to blow up the building (per my super); what do I do??" is >try to get a recording of the guy admitting to it BUT >Have you spoken to the guy in case maybe your super is just lying to you? is CRAZY LIB TALK/OBVIOUSLY WAY TOO DANGEROUS

Good night, Neverland

Granted it’s a show from 2005 literally called Prison Break but boy they sure were casual about sexualized violence for a show that aired on prime time network TV

Request for assistance: Can anyone think of a situation where I could use the word "ukulelevangelist" in a sentence, and if so could you help get me in that situation?

One of my favorite stories about Military Leadership is how my platoon sergeant was constantly pissed off that my paperwork was so sloppy (as in illegible) and had become a problem so eventually he just assigned someone to fill out forms for me. That was it. Problem solved.

Something decidedly odd about "I'm old enough to have had unticketed family meet me at my gate at the airport" being a thing that dates me, but finding out I'm older than credit scores is a whole new feeling and I don't like it.

I know ‘’maybe vocab isn’t the real issue here” is a point so belabored as to be wholly redundant ATP but I’m old enough to remember when White People got sick of being called racist so we started calling things problematic but White People didn’t like that because “everything is problematic now!”

Love to watch a video of nurses treating a suspected (but eventually confirmed not to be) Ebola patient while wearing a surgical mask at a walk-in clinic a few blocks from my home adjacent to the grocery store where I shop. That’s a good thing, actually. Great, even.

Delighted to discover that “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it” was coined by the same guy who said “A fanatic redoubles their effort when they have forgotten their aim”

It happened. The snoot booped back.

My most unpopular (Star Trek) opinion is that it is utopian only in the minds of the characters in it (and it's creator). The material conditions of the Federation while Good & Enjoyable™ are still rooted in colonialism & assimilation (lol) and I'm tired of pretending that it's not.

Just the best girl.

Hell is patient.

Me: ugh this fucking stock price Interlocutor: decimated, huh? Me, restraining myself: A decimation would have preferable, frankly Int:? Me, sighing deeply: yep, absolutely decimated I know abolishing the police starts with killing the cop in your head AND words are meaningless but…just…ugh

Protect your neck, but keep your eye on the ball.

A fun part of Getting Old is the scale of “If you’d told N year old me…” starts to just get silly. Like, if you’d told 30 year old me that in a little over a decade I’d Have To Hand It To Macklemore unironically I’d not just laugh, I’d laugh as I left whatever room you were in to avoid you.

An irritating notion that was the result of a much more fun shower thought is the realization that I would almost certainly be a much worse person if I had grown up in a better world. It feels like this should motivate me, but I don’t know what towards.

Pet your puppies, everyone. Pet your puppies.

Looking to coin a word for an Obscure Joy (like an Obscure Sorrow...but you know...happy): The sensation one feels upon discovering that a word or phrase you are already familiar with is named as such for deeper and/or more descriptive reasons than you'd originally thought or assumed.

I wish I had more to offer this moment in history than brief glimpses of my own personal respite from this never ending hell world…but alas. Today: particularly long walks with a puppy, petrichor, and the dulcet tones of Gil Scott Heron.

sneak preview of the titular track from my upcoming LP: Dog Day Afternoon; an album composed with one hand on a dog at all times...or what feels like all times because SOMEONE is only needy when I have an ipad in my lap

Well this week has certainly proved me correct.

few parts of middle age more devastating than discovering -at 0200 no less- that p much every song on Coldplay’s Parachutes (2000) is an emotional trigger

Get yourself someone who looks at you the way dija looks at pork ribs.

an underrated part of being a Just A Little Bit Odd Adult is the look of bemused shock and potential on a small child's face when they ask why my shoes are different colors and I say "because when you're an adult you're allowed to do whatever you want so long as you're kind."

can't sleep, Apache Hive logo will eat me