Karen Bischer
@kbischer.bsky.social
YA and Children's author (THE SECRET RECIPE FOR MOVING ON, Macmillan; SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS: LEGEND VS LEGEND and SEASONS OF THE YEAR, Capstone). Yankees fan. TV-watcher. Unapologetic 80s music enthusiast.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250242303
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250242303
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Karen Bischer
@kbischer.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Things you can expect me to post about here:
⚾️Baseball (if you hate the Yankees, you've come to the wrong account, tho)
📝Writing/books
📺TV
🎙️Casey Kasem's American Top 40 and other 80s music
🎶 (Any music from the 40s-90s, really)
🏠Old houses and home improvement
🐶🐱My dog and cat
🦉Birds
🤌🏻New Jersey
⚾️Baseball (if you hate the Yankees, you've come to the wrong account, tho)
📝Writing/books
📺TV
🎙️Casey Kasem's American Top 40 and other 80s music
🎶 (Any music from the 40s-90s, really)
🏠Old houses and home improvement
🐶🐱My dog and cat
🦉Birds
🤌🏻New Jersey
"He caught his sweetheart cheating with a man he deems unworthy, aka an 'alley-cat-coat-wearing,
punch-bucket-shoe-wearing crumbcake.' That's poetry right there, Clarence."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*The Rain, Oran "Juice" Jones, #13 this week in 1986
#caturday
punch-bucket-shoe-wearing crumbcake.' That's poetry right there, Clarence."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*The Rain, Oran "Juice" Jones, #13 this week in 1986
#caturday
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"He caught his sweetheart cheating with a man he deems unworthy, aka an 'alley-cat-coat-wearing,
punch-bucket-shoe-wearing crumbcake.' That's poetry right there, Clarence."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*The Rain, Oran "Juice" Jones, #13 this week in 1986
#caturday
punch-bucket-shoe-wearing crumbcake.' That's poetry right there, Clarence."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*The Rain, Oran "Juice" Jones, #13 this week in 1986
#caturday
Back porch cam: There's a person at the back door
The "person":
The "person":
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Back porch cam: There's a person at the back door
The "person":
The "person":
Kill the chyron, MLB. I need to see Judge's dog(s?).
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Kill the chyron, MLB. I need to see Judge's dog(s?).
My cramps & tension headaches beg to differ. Also: when I had a wisdom tooth pulled in 2013, the doc sent me home with oxy and Rx-strength ibuprofen. When the novocaine wore off, I was in AGONY but too chicken to take the oxy, so I took the ibuprofen. It worked. Well. Like, I would fight him on this
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My cramps & tension headaches beg to differ. Also: when I had a wisdom tooth pulled in 2013, the doc sent me home with oxy and Rx-strength ibuprofen. When the novocaine wore off, I was in AGONY but too chicken to take the oxy, so I took the ibuprofen. It worked. Well. Like, I would fight him on this
AFIAK, she grew up in the same neighborhood I did, where my dad still lives. While it's definitely in the more modest part of what many would consider a fairly well-off town, seeing it described as "working class" is WILD.
I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
AFIAK, she grew up in the same neighborhood I did, where my dad still lives. While it's definitely in the more modest part of what many would consider a fairly well-off town, seeing it described as "working class" is WILD.
"So I knew this song my whole life and assumed it was about a ship that sank in the early 1900s...and then in my 30s I found out it sank in 1975 via Casey Kasem in a 1976 episode of AT40 on iHeart. No, really."
- today in Explaining The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot to My Cat
- today in Explaining The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot to My Cat
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"So I knew this song my whole life and assumed it was about a ship that sank in the early 1900s...and then in my 30s I found out it sank in 1975 via Casey Kasem in a 1976 episode of AT40 on iHeart. No, really."
- today in Explaining The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot to My Cat
- today in Explaining The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot to My Cat
🎶 Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge 🎶 is a staple of my region circa the 80s/early 90s but this resort also had a banger of jingle:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvd...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvd...
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🎶 Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge 🎶 is a staple of my region circa the 80s/early 90s but this resort also had a banger of jingle:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvd...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvd...
"You and the great Dionne Warwick are both from New Jersey and you have absolutely every right to look smug about that right now."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*Heartbreaker, Dionne Warwick, #38 this week in 1982
#caturday
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*Heartbreaker, Dionne Warwick, #38 this week in 1982
#caturday
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"You and the great Dionne Warwick are both from New Jersey and you have absolutely every right to look smug about that right now."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*Heartbreaker, Dionne Warwick, #38 this week in 1982
#caturday
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*Heartbreaker, Dionne Warwick, #38 this week in 1982
#caturday
FYI: Many AI mediums were trained on (pirated) books. Authors use em dashes. A lot. It's been a running joke among authors for as long as I've been authoring. PLEASE stop saying an em dash is indicative of AI use or I swear to god I will fill every sentence of my WIP with them (RIP next copy editor)
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
FYI: Many AI mediums were trained on (pirated) books. Authors use em dashes. A lot. It's been a running joke among authors for as long as I've been authoring. PLEASE stop saying an em dash is indicative of AI use or I swear to god I will fill every sentence of my WIP with them (RIP next copy editor)
Post you from a different era (aka the era when I was trying to convince my parents to get a dog. This was my cousins' sweet dog, Dusty.)
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Post you from a different era (aka the era when I was trying to convince my parents to get a dog. This was my cousins' sweet dog, Dusty.)
Reposted by Karen Bischer
It turns out being super racist and cynically bringing up 9/11 at every turn wasn’t the best way to win the hearts of New York City voters
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It turns out being super racist and cynically bringing up 9/11 at every turn wasn’t the best way to win the hearts of New York City voters
Now that more of the country knows who he is, when someone prompts "name a celebrity encounter you've had," I can say I rode in a elevator with Curtis Sliwa circa 1999. I was carrying the Post or the News (whichever had the Jumble - I did that at lunchtime) and he read the backpage over my shoulder.
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Now that more of the country knows who he is, when someone prompts "name a celebrity encounter you've had," I can say I rode in a elevator with Curtis Sliwa circa 1999. I was carrying the Post or the News (whichever had the Jumble - I did that at lunchtime) and he read the backpage over my shoulder.
Not me liking every post I can about yesterday's best marathon signs. Truly one of my favorite race byproducts, along with all the other assorted good feelings that come with the day. (This was mine from 2017, some of my best creative work involving giant markers.)
November 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Not me liking every post I can about yesterday's best marathon signs. Truly one of my favorite race byproducts, along with all the other assorted good feelings that come with the day. (This was mine from 2017, some of my best creative work involving giant markers.)
Let's see how that job hunt is going 🫤
(TBH, I'd actually been looking for about a year before I got laid off because I sensed cuts were coming. I applied to more than 20 jobs in that time and only heard back from one, but it didn't go beyond a recruiter call. So...not surprised by any of this.)
(TBH, I'd actually been looking for about a year before I got laid off because I sensed cuts were coming. I applied to more than 20 jobs in that time and only heard back from one, but it didn't go beyond a recruiter call. So...not surprised by any of this.)
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Let's see how that job hunt is going 🫤
(TBH, I'd actually been looking for about a year before I got laid off because I sensed cuts were coming. I applied to more than 20 jobs in that time and only heard back from one, but it didn't go beyond a recruiter call. So...not surprised by any of this.)
(TBH, I'd actually been looking for about a year before I got laid off because I sensed cuts were coming. I applied to more than 20 jobs in that time and only heard back from one, but it didn't go beyond a recruiter call. So...not surprised by any of this.)
"Well, war is never good and hoomans are STILL stupid, so not much has changed in the last four decades, I'm afraid."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*The War Song, Culture Club, #24 this week in 1984
#caturday
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*The War Song, Culture Club, #24 this week in 1984
#caturday
November 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Well, war is never good and hoomans are STILL stupid, so not much has changed in the last four decades, I'm afraid."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*The War Song, Culture Club, #24 this week in 1984
#caturday
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*The War Song, Culture Club, #24 this week in 1984
#caturday
It is windy AF today but the trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood are persisting. Much respect.
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It is windy AF today but the trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood are persisting. Much respect.
"It's about butts."
- today in Explaining Classic Rock* to My Pets
*Tush, ZZ Top, playing tonight while I made dinner. They are only interested in the bacon I was making, however.
- today in Explaining Classic Rock* to My Pets
*Tush, ZZ Top, playing tonight while I made dinner. They are only interested in the bacon I was making, however.
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"It's about butts."
- today in Explaining Classic Rock* to My Pets
*Tush, ZZ Top, playing tonight while I made dinner. They are only interested in the bacon I was making, however.
- today in Explaining Classic Rock* to My Pets
*Tush, ZZ Top, playing tonight while I made dinner. They are only interested in the bacon I was making, however.
Also, this is the best use of a song from 1989 and I will not be hearing any slander against said song as a result:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ef...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ef...
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Also, this is the best use of a song from 1989 and I will not be hearing any slander against said song as a result:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ef...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ef...
While '89 isn't my fave music year* of the decade, I've dramatically acted out most of these songs for my pets while making dinner or cleaning so 🤷♀️.
(*Official Ranking That No One Asked For:
1. 1985
2. 1984
3. 1986
4. 1983
5. 1987
6. 1988
7. 1989
8. 1980
9. 1981
10. 1982)
(*Official Ranking That No One Asked For:
1. 1985
2. 1984
3. 1986
4. 1983
5. 1987
6. 1988
7. 1989
8. 1980
9. 1981
10. 1982)
People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
While '89 isn't my fave music year* of the decade, I've dramatically acted out most of these songs for my pets while making dinner or cleaning so 🤷♀️.
(*Official Ranking That No One Asked For:
1. 1985
2. 1984
3. 1986
4. 1983
5. 1987
6. 1988
7. 1989
8. 1980
9. 1981
10. 1982)
(*Official Ranking That No One Asked For:
1. 1985
2. 1984
3. 1986
4. 1983
5. 1987
6. 1988
7. 1989
8. 1980
9. 1981
10. 1982)
13 years ago tonight was a wild ride, aka Superstorm Sandy. My office building did indeed have 6 feet of water outside/3 feet inside...which destroyed the newly renovated basement cafeteria. We didn't get back in the bldg till March. The sign outside my local DTJC gym a few days later was top tier.
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
13 years ago tonight was a wild ride, aka Superstorm Sandy. My office building did indeed have 6 feet of water outside/3 feet inside...which destroyed the newly renovated basement cafeteria. We didn't get back in the bldg till March. The sign outside my local DTJC gym a few days later was top tier.
Not necessarily the most joy (because the Yankees had been chasing them for the division lead a lot of that summer), but Carter's walkoff for the Blue Jays in 1993 WS was the first real "holy s***, did that just really happen?" moment of awe I experienced as a baseball fan.
Alright, let's see if I phrase this the right way.
Which World Series victory in your lifetime – NOT featuring your favorite team – brought you the most joy?
(For me I think it's 2019 Nationals with 2016 Cubs close behind.)
Which World Series victory in your lifetime – NOT featuring your favorite team – brought you the most joy?
(For me I think it's 2019 Nationals with 2016 Cubs close behind.)
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Not necessarily the most joy (because the Yankees had been chasing them for the division lead a lot of that summer), but Carter's walkoff for the Blue Jays in 1993 WS was the first real "holy s***, did that just really happen?" moment of awe I experienced as a baseball fan.
"No, they're not referring to a kitty cat grooming himself and shaking the bed while his owner is trying to sleep. But I can see why your brain went there."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC, #39 this week in 1980
#caturday
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC, #39 this week in 1980
#caturday
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"No, they're not referring to a kitty cat grooming himself and shaking the bed while his owner is trying to sleep. But I can see why your brain went there."
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC, #39 this week in 1980
#caturday
- today in Explaining Old School American Top 40* to My Cat
*You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC, #39 this week in 1980
#caturday
Reposted by Karen Bischer
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
I hope knowingly stealing all that copyrighted material to train said AI was worth it!
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I hope knowingly stealing all that copyrighted material to train said AI was worth it!
Corporate Recruiter Influencer "this is what your dumb ass is doing wrong with your resume, and I'm going to drag this out because this post with a lot of unnecessary filler words is monetized" Tik Tok is definitely a stress I did NOT need in my unemployed life.
a close up of a black and white cat 's face with its tongue out .
ALT: a close up of a black and white cat 's face with its tongue out .
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Corporate Recruiter Influencer "this is what your dumb ass is doing wrong with your resume, and I'm going to drag this out because this post with a lot of unnecessary filler words is monetized" Tik Tok is definitely a stress I did NOT need in my unemployed life.