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Michael Van Lane
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Staying connected, just not everywhere. Music, books, public policy, and good conversations.

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Roasted thick pork chops, mashed cauliflower, and creamed carrots.

The goals of losing weight and living well are fighting it out right here.

Advantage living well.
January 2, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Brendel, whoever you are, that is some brilliant shit.
January 1, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Ending the very tumultuous 2025 with the first album I ever bought, The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
January 1, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Sitting around shooting the shit hits different when millions are affected.
Don’t listen to fools or you might become one.
December 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I made some potato soup for Monday and Tuesday lunch.

Wednesday’s lunch will be a litre of wine.
December 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m on a Frankenstein spree!

Here Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

As a kid, I absolutely adored Abbott and Costello.
December 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The Bride of Frankenstein today, with Elsa Lancaster.
December 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I am watching the original Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, and starring Boris Karloff.
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Some of this week's listening.
December 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is a bit too long, but the gist is that there's a serious global economic realignment underway.

I have been hearing about the coming American economic pain because of Trump's policies, but a year in, it still seems Americans are tolerating it well enough.

youtu.be/imEdj3jx2DQ?...
U.S. Tries to Corner Canada Europe Switches Sides Overnight | Trade Shockwave
YouTube video by Conway Political Analysis
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I don’t know if know who Jake Paul is, but it was the most delicious news.

Watch this charming segment of the Graham Norton show so you don’t have the watch the violent example of a comeuppance.

youtu.be/oFF134_iokI?...
Anthony Joshua DESTROYS Punching Bag Record! | The Graham Norton Show
YouTube video by The Graham Norton Show
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reposted by Michael Van Lane
Bluesky needs to explain itself. We do not need another Facebook/X disaster.
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
December 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I started making soups to eat at my desk. Tomato (pictured), butternut squash, carrot/ginger, and mashed potato, and Good Lord, they are good.

I should have gone down this lunch road years ago.
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What a punch in the face this weekend was.

Every text message brought me more horrible news.
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Design parameters are pretty common in organizations so documents maintain a consistent look.

But design protocols based on political ideology is some crazy shit.

www.instagram.com/p/DSGHdXtD2u...
People’s GD Archive on Instagram: "Decree banning the use of blackletter, 1941 rough translation:� "For general notice I announce the following by order of the Führer: It is false to regard or descr...
2,526 likes, 103 comments - peoplesgdarchive on December 10, 2025: "Decree banning the use of blackletter, 1941 rough translation:� "For general notice I announce the following by order of the Führer...
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December 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Found image on Tumblr with the following credits: “Two girls racing sheep on a farm in Cornwall, England (colorization), 1969 - by John Drysdale (1925 - 2016), English”
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Della Reese on the turntable. A delicious late breakfast on the go. Sunday.

And they said I’d never amount to much.

Ha!
December 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
LOL
December 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Good lord! Corporate serfdom. It’s not enough that the productivity of the average worker is 270% than it was 60 years ago.

Pretty soon, these corporate bosses will be strutting around in crowns, and their positions will be officially inherited.

Workers of the world, gather around. I know a guy…
December 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
LOL
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
What happened here?!

In any democracy, it’s always good to have an intelligent, capable, ethical opposition. The Conservatives seem to be driving over themselves.

youtube.com/watch?v=IkHf...
Watch in full: John Rustad's resignation as B.C. Conservative Party Leader
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Hegseth must cling to this paragraph, if he hopes to avoid prosecution.

“A CNN report said that while Hegseth ordered the operation to ensure everyone on the boat was killed, it was not clear whether he knew there were survivors prior to the second strike.”

www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM