Mr. Brown’s Nemesis
@seren1tyseeker.bsky.social
Husband, father. Sober since 8/4/2017. Fond of big ideas, small graces, and the daily practice of trying to be a better man.
In my case, I needed 20 years of mayhem followed by regimented program work to be able to do this kind of thing. But normal, non-recovering people in my life (not all, but many) seem to do this naturally. Blows my damn mind lol.
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
In my case, I needed 20 years of mayhem followed by regimented program work to be able to do this kind of thing. But normal, non-recovering people in my life (not all, but many) seem to do this naturally. Blows my damn mind lol.
Love this. I really feel like it’s the same tools for everyone tho. Admit powerlessness. Control what one can. Ground oneself in big but simple stuff (health, kids, partner, family, etc.) at day’s end. Remember emotions change and perceptions aren’t always reality. Seek gratitude, and so on.
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Love this. I really feel like it’s the same tools for everyone tho. Admit powerlessness. Control what one can. Ground oneself in big but simple stuff (health, kids, partner, family, etc.) at day’s end. Remember emotions change and perceptions aren’t always reality. Seek gratitude, and so on.
Feels like they sense the power vacuum coming and are all scrambling to preemptively kneecap peers and grow their chunk of the grift pie. They’re gonna eat one another alive and I am suddenly craving popcorn.
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Feels like they sense the power vacuum coming and are all scrambling to preemptively kneecap peers and grow their chunk of the grift pie. They’re gonna eat one another alive and I am suddenly craving popcorn.
The kind of sick fuck who wants to find a superficially deniable way to communicate to his followers that violence against people who say mean things about him is encouraged.
December 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The kind of sick fuck who wants to find a superficially deniable way to communicate to his followers that violence against people who say mean things about him is encouraged.
Only saw bits of the show but Trombone Shorty’s version of O Holy Night for the Christmas episode is my favorite version of any Christmas song, ever. So haunting and powerful coming right after Hurricane Katrina, and 20 years later I still get goosebumps listening to it.
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Only saw bits of the show but Trombone Shorty’s version of O Holy Night for the Christmas episode is my favorite version of any Christmas song, ever. So haunting and powerful coming right after Hurricane Katrina, and 20 years later I still get goosebumps listening to it.
Thing is, kind of amazing that the system has held together based on good faith and handshakes this long. Now that he’s shattered that, it’s challenging to think of independent guardrails in a poisonously partisan, self-obsessed political culture.
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Thing is, kind of amazing that the system has held together based on good faith and handshakes this long. Now that he’s shattered that, it’s challenging to think of independent guardrails in a poisonously partisan, self-obsessed political culture.
I’m thinking broader: an independent mechanism for investigating, enforcing, and prosecuting crimes committed by the executive. He’s proven those checks need more teeth. I’m struggling with exactly how it would work tho.
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’m thinking broader: an independent mechanism for investigating, enforcing, and prosecuting crimes committed by the executive. He’s proven those checks need more teeth. I’m struggling with exactly how it would work tho.
Imagine how you’d view these photos if you didn’t yet know anything about the horrors that today make proximity to Epstein so scandalous. I expect I’d just think “this guy is plugged in with all the people who run the world. Wow.”
December 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Imagine how you’d view these photos if you didn’t yet know anything about the horrors that today make proximity to Epstein so scandalous. I expect I’d just think “this guy is plugged in with all the people who run the world. Wow.”
Not blackmail. It was a sense of invincibility IMO. If you’re chumming with the world’s richest and most powerful men and think you’re immune to consequences, he’d probably see these pics as proof of us his access to wealth, power, and influence.
December 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Not blackmail. It was a sense of invincibility IMO. If you’re chumming with the world’s richest and most powerful men and think you’re immune to consequences, he’d probably see these pics as proof of us his access to wealth, power, and influence.
That sucks. You have my sympathies. It’s so hard to watch other people get consumed by their -ism, but it’s unavoidable in recovery communities. My heart goes out to him and everyone who cares about him.
December 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
That sucks. You have my sympathies. It’s so hard to watch other people get consumed by their -ism, but it’s unavoidable in recovery communities. My heart goes out to him and everyone who cares about him.
Gonna check this out.
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Gonna check this out.
As an album, I’d struggle to think of one. IMO Guaraldi doesn’t get nearly enough credit a terrific jazz pianist b/c he’s inextricably linked with the Charlie Brown franchise.
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As an album, I’d struggle to think of one. IMO Guaraldi doesn’t get nearly enough credit a terrific jazz pianist b/c he’s inextricably linked with the Charlie Brown franchise.
That’s amazing. Congrats and thanks for showing what’s possible. It really as a way better life than what I had before.
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
That’s amazing. Congrats and thanks for showing what’s possible. It really as a way better life than what I had before.
Doesn’t strike me as something a normal drinker would ask for sure. If you’ve had one or two cases of overdoing it over the course of years that’s one thing; if you’re trying to quantify how often it’s acceptable, however…
December 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Doesn’t strike me as something a normal drinker would ask for sure. If you’ve had one or two cases of overdoing it over the course of years that’s one thing; if you’re trying to quantify how often it’s acceptable, however…
I get the logic behind “gratitude is Pollyanna BS when XYZ is happening in the world.” But that view ultimately serves little besides one’s sense of moral superiority over others. Balancing realism with gratitude offers the strength to be a force for love, healing, and change in the world.
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I get the logic behind “gratitude is Pollyanna BS when XYZ is happening in the world.” But that view ultimately serves little besides one’s sense of moral superiority over others. Balancing realism with gratitude offers the strength to be a force for love, healing, and change in the world.
Dumb yankee question: is there a technical distinction between stuffing and dressing? I always thought they were just two words that both applied to the whole genre of “things you serve with turkey” - cornbread, sage, oyster, etc.
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Dumb yankee question: is there a technical distinction between stuffing and dressing? I always thought they were just two words that both applied to the whole genre of “things you serve with turkey” - cornbread, sage, oyster, etc.
I have a few traditional stuffings I like, but my every-year-a-hit go-do stuffing is an andouille, cornbread and sage dressing. Love it. Most years I make that and a second, more traditional stuffing (for my father in law, who’s old school.)
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have a few traditional stuffings I like, but my every-year-a-hit go-do stuffing is an andouille, cornbread and sage dressing. Love it. Most years I make that and a second, more traditional stuffing (for my father in law, who’s old school.)
Love this. Perfect turkey, if such a thing exists, is HARD. And while it’s traditional, there is no rule.
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Love this. Perfect turkey, if such a thing exists, is HARD. And while it’s traditional, there is no rule.
I’m a wet brine devotee, personally. Depending on how you’re cooking it, more leeway for creativity/flavor (e.g. when I smoke a turkey, I like adding oranges and lemons to the brine and think the flavor/acidity improves the final product.)
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I’m a wet brine devotee, personally. Depending on how you’re cooking it, more leeway for creativity/flavor (e.g. when I smoke a turkey, I like adding oranges and lemons to the brine and think the flavor/acidity improves the final product.)
Four fried chickens…and a coke! 😎
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Four fried chickens…and a coke! 😎
Deep dish pizza, Italian beef, Chicago-style dogs, and (outside the Chicagoland area) the Horseshoe sandwich
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Deep dish pizza, Italian beef, Chicago-style dogs, and (outside the Chicagoland area) the Horseshoe sandwich