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Artwork by my buddy Mark Stivers, joke by me.

"We happy?" "Yeah, we happy."

"I like my instrumentals simple yet funky and enhanced. Any recommendations?"

Freddie Cannon holds the American Bandstand record with 110 appearances. Don't know who Freddie Cannon is? That's everything you need to know about the nature of fame.

Product Idea: Aesloppy Joes, the Meal With A Moral®

How music would've suffered if Skynyrd cut a rug down at a place called Dave and Buster's.

My Three Favorite Mailers: 3) #10 window envelope, letter-sized 2) 7" x 5" padded, self-sealing 1) Norman

Not watching the Oscars, so somebody please tell me when Fresh Prince slaps Conan.

I really miss that hotel chain co-owned by Kenny Loggins and Kenny Rogers. I always enjoyed staying at Kenny Lodgers.

Truck nuts, you've met your match.

Who knew "great again" translates to "like 1929"?

Their karma is not your job.

From the short story "The Academy" by Robert Sheckley, originally published in a cruddy sci-fi magazine in 1954.

Considering a cartography career as a side hustle.

What's your guess for when we're back to "freedom fries"? Just a month is fine, but if you want to go for a specific date I'm game. Winner gets a trip to the Showcase Showdown.

You've been warned.

It is...alive! ALIVE!!! #vintagehifi

Story Idea: Father and son opthalmologists Bob and Roger Sloan juggle life, relationships, and eye infections in "Stye and the Family Sloan."

Did You Know: Cher has a twin sister named Cheralike. #rimshot

Celebrity Trivia: Legendary film composer Maurice Jarre's brother, Mason, was equally revered among home canning enthusiasts.

I'm going to start dressing like this when I go to Home Depot and exclaim loudly, "What ho, where are the time machine parts?"

"I know it was you, Frito." --The greatest Super Bowl commercial never made.

I played this on repeat as a teenager, which is no surprise given that I grew up in a household where guilt was more plentiful than pocket lint. Safe travels to the great #MarianneFaithfull. youtu.be/zltRCMPqhNg?...

Best name for a family therapist? Probably Dr. Ama.

I saw Party Server II today and I was, like, totally lost because I never saw the first one.

What she said.

Blaupunkt console hi-fi with built in stereo. Swingin'!

Passed a Dunkin' tonight with its "N" burned out, and now I want to fight a donut.

This is Richard DeLisi. He was convicted for selling weed and was "sentenced to penalty-free unconditional discharge." Just kidding! He got 90 years.

If only we had a word for such a machine.

What the heck kinda police department hires a shit sandwich?

I feel like I'd have a better chance of leaving my worries behind if the Groove Line ran through my area.

"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex." -Frank Zappa

Is this THE @violetthunk.bsky.social ??????

Every Christmas my sister holds an "ugliest wrapping" contest, so I brought this over. And they didn't hold an ugly wrapping contest this year.

Ate the full bag, did not improve my performance in the sack. Zero stars.

Tree's up.

From a 1967 Saturday Evening Post op-ed. That we've been having this conversation for almost 60 years is interesting, but not as interesting as the fact that there once were sects named Truthful Baptists and Lying Baptists.

2025 Predictions: Efforts to roll back the clock to simpler times hit a peak when suspects begin hearing their Carmen Miranda rights.

As opposed to using a silencer in a crime of benevolence? One for the Department of Extra Words Department.