I love the Charlie Brown Christmas special. There's an eerie loneliness that hangs over the whole thing. The music, Charlie Brown's depression, the dying little tree, the flatness of the children's voices, the inevitability of death. A Christmas masterpiece.

It’s December 1st and we should all pay homage to Rosa Parks today. On this day in 1955 she decided not to give her seat up on a bus in Alabama, and well the rest is history. We are all going to need to channel our Rosa Park’s for the next four years! Thank you Rosa for showing us how to #Resist

Recall what happened with the FBI when Nixon politicized it by appointing Patrick Gray director. The rank and file leaked, leaked and leaked up to the assistant director (aka Mark Felt/Deep Throat) level. They destroyed Nixon. Trump is inviting big trouble with Kash Patel.

Last sunrise in Honolulu.

Moonrise, then sunrise, in Honolulu. View from the hot tub!

Now playing (after hearing them live last week here in Seattle). Super fun, lighter-than-air pop. In Chinese and English too! youtu.be/Mk5TTL9MTE8?...

Post a film gif from the year you were born.

Salmon have teeth ON THEIR TONGUES. Who knew? At the Salmon Celebration in Carkeek Park in Seattle today.

Checking out the cycle of life for
chum salmon in Piper’s Creek at Carkeek Park this morning. This guy was the success story of the day.

I started a hike to Fagradalsfjall (2021) at 2am. Just after sunrise, the last few people left. I was completely alone out there, face-to-face with the erupting volcano. To witness and feel the warmth of the creation of Earth without another soul in sight was the most surreal experience I've had.

Botic van de Zandschulp and Ajla Tomljanovic are going to be absolutely nightmares for scores of drunken bar trivia night participants in perpetuity, and I love that for them.

Chinese American Bear is completely adorable, and this song has got a simple groove that won't quit. Think I need to check them out live tomorrow night here in Seattle. youtu.be/NiYPodjvvNE?...

To those still wondering why we lost a close election and what group Dems might have reached better, I say this: All this handwringing ignores the fact that more people voted for the convicted felon, sexual assaulter and insurrectionist.

Our problems run deep. Half the voters made an INSANE choice.

"Bomb Cyclone" - I wonder how many new meteorological terms we'll be coming up with in the next few years.

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Release the Gaetz report.

Pass it on.

This is the only good news of 2024. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/a...