♦ ♦ ♦
2018 2019 2020 2021
2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Everything is on these pages, but
there are also separate archives for
• And Now the News •
• Breakfast at the Diner •
• Neverending Film Festival •
• Pathetic Life •
• StephMemorial •
Knife in the Water, and a few other films
And now the news: 9/22/2026
KM 31: Kilometer 31, and a few other films
Sun Ray Cinema Policy Trailer, and a few more films
Anything goes: 9/19/2026
And now the news: 9/18/2026
Perfect Days, and a few more films
And now the news: 9/15/2026
The end of movies and television
Kiss Me Deadly, and a few other films
Anything goes: 9/12/2026
And now the news: 9/11/2026
Late days with Mom
And now the news: 9/8/2026
Kismet, and a few better movies
And now the news: 9/5/2026
Anything goes: 9/5/2026
Kings of the Road, and a few more films
And now the news: 9/1/2026
Two men, met in my travels
The King of Comedy, and a few more films
And now the news: 8/29/2026
Anything goes: 8/29/2026
“ShopPING?”
And now the news: 8/26/2026
King Kong, and a few other King Kongs
Bugged, and other observations
A King in New York, and a few more films
And now the news: 8/22/2026
Anything goes: 8/22/2026
More tales from the transit center
And now the news: 8/17/2026
Four more comedies
In which I almost have two conversations!
Anything goes: 8/15/2026
And now the news: 8/12/2026
A few more comedies
The days of Dean’s week
The kitchen talk show
Anything goes: 8/8/2026
Three more comedies
You never know in the big city.
And now the news: 8/5/2026
Another schmuck on the bus
Three moments on three buses
Anything goes: 8/1/2026
And now the news: 7/31/2026
A morning with Dean
Three comedies
Me & Donald Trump’s balls
And now the news: 7/27/2026
Anything goes: 7/25/2026
At the Burien Transit Center
A grumpy day in a grumpy life
And now the news: 7/19/2026
Anything goes: 7/18/2026
Two lost drivers
Mom updates
Nature’s way
A new toilet at the bus station
And now the news: 7/12/2026
Anything goes: 7/11/2026
Umami and Mom
Riding with Jesus
And now the news: 7/6/2026
Diapers & vomit
400 new Americans
More tales from the bus
And now the news: 6/29/2026
#99 neighbors
Anything goes: 6/27/2026
Four items, none particularly interesting
And now the news: 6/22/2026
Four BIG YES movies, plus a NO and a MAYBE
Anything goes: 6/20/2026
Blossom Vegetarian Restaurant
MSNOW and The Monkey Wrench Gang
Overall, I’d give Pathetic Life a B-.
“This is where you get off.”
And now the news: 6/14/2026
The tall, skinny, ugly man
Anything goes: 6/13/2026
People on the bus
A rational, reasonable conversation
“Caution. The ramp is being deployed.”
Leaning on a telephone pole
Three days with Mom
Thinking about walking
The hell of technology
The view at twilight
And now the news: 6/7/2026
Mostly letters
Anything goes: 6/6/2026
Urgent calls
My month eating (mostly) vegan
“See you tomorrow.”
Wasting time in Oakland
Knock, knock. Who’s there?
The edited version
And now the news: 5/31/2026
Mr Previn
Anything goes: 5/30/2026
Togas and tomato sandwiches
Ahab
The loudest motherfucker
The libertarian in me
Blood, sweat, adrenaline, and Levi
From Burien to Renton, and back again
A hummer at the movies
And now the news: 5/24/2026
Check your messages, check your bags
Anything goes: 5/23/2026
A different kind of shaker
Salt & salt
The salesman
The moral of the story is, lose your morals.
And now the news: 5/18/2026
A good drenched
Rubattino’s in Renton
Blown away
Anything goes: 5/16/2026
Mom takes a shit.
Holy moly!
Monday, Monday
The pretty woman & the bum
Inspector Benji
Best Mother’s Day ever!
Ashley’s big dinner
And now the news: 5/10/2026
The rules, from the roof
A buffet in Hell
A beer from the heart
Anything goes: 5/9/2026
Happy that way
A ringing phone
And now the news: 5/6/2026
Five women in one day
Too much mail
Flank and Larry
70% Dean
Absolute Jasper & the mouth-breather
Messiah of Evil, and a few more movies
Anything goes: 5/2/2026
Vote for yourself
No meat, no dairy, no eggs (asterisk)
Sincerely, goodbye.
And now the news: 4/30/2026
Moaning, barking, hammering
Fire on the fourth floor
Party at People’s Park
“Skilled nursing”
Rearranging the furniture
The very slightest of slights
And now the news: 4/26
22 Fillmore, eh?
“Can I sleep at your house tonight?”
Anything goes: 4/25
If it lasts another 25 years…
And now the news: 4/22
Mom is Cooking
Channel 7 van man
Project Hail Mary, and a few more movies
Buildings and buildings, blocks and blocks
Jerry and Jesus
And now the news: 4/19
Sadomasochism and me
Anything goes: 4/18
My part of town
Me and Will Shatner
The Breakfast Club, and a few more movies
A tale of two cities
Justice Dept protects Oath Keepers and Proud Boys; feds prep election denial; Vance schools Pope on theology…
Lesser people
But, what can you do?
A stop and a ride
So many reasons to be blue
Diary: 4/13
Poetry on the Ave
A question for the Councilmember
Trump regime appoints pizzagate wingnut as immigration ‘judge’; DOJ targets key January 6 witness against Trump; toilet paper proves flammable…
Anything goes: 4/11
Airplane fall down, go boom.
The Kids are Alright, Diary of a Lost Girl, and a few more films
This is what a movie theater should be.
Not at all a date
Tuning in, riding away
Easter at the nursing home
Silence before bingo
Bowling with Jesus
ICE refuses to allow life-saving dialysis for abducted man — unless he signs deportation papers; Trump goes a little bit insaner; Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only…
Walking the new neighborhood
Under the fire escape
“Someone’s in here.”
Not even a drip
Anything goes – 4/4
Dinner under a parking lot
Frolicking alone
Mom’s rehab
Trump regime cites white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship; 50,000 troops poised for whatever’s next in the Middle East; Trump urges world’s nations to steal oil…
Room 403 at the Hotel McMillan
Stereophonic nuts
Living lousy for less
It’s Jim Cranston Day!
Everyone else’s mess
I’m coming home.
Anything goes, 3/28
More than 11,000 kids have had their parents abducted by American secret police; conservative election fraud activist convicted of election fraud; handcuffed man fatally shoots himself with his own gun in the back seat of a squad car…
Didn’t see that coming
Utne Reader, MRR, and The Match
Him, Claudius
First day of my last spring
An invitation to what?
That darn Jasper!
Joyful ambiguity
Another day in Berkeley
Anything goes, 3/22
Chavez was a perv; FEMA head says he can teleport; Epstein matter gets curiouser & curiouser…
Talking politics & watching a double feature
Diary, 3/20/2026
Sisyphus with a mop
Eye 👁️ on AI, 3/19
The Lord works in mysterious ways, 3/19
Open wide
Democrat funneled PAC money to Republicans; US considers withholding AIDS help unless there’s a kickback; Judge delays Kennedy’s attempt to kill children…
Jacque’s invitation
My browser history, minus the porn, 3/17
American police are out of control, 3/16
Rivers of living water
Baked, beaned, and burned
Anything goes, 3/14
50¢
Protesters convicted as terrorists; ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas; Republicans come for abortion pills…
The Kid, and a few more movies
Incident at Burger King
Quick Pack Food Mart
At Mabel’s place
Weekly dead, 3/10
“Yucky stuff”
Eye on AI, 3/10
Brenda, Bradley, and Barbara
Ignoring the climate emergency, 3/9
#14 — Belltown to Mount Baker
My guess is four times daily
American police are out of control, 3/8
Prosecution for the witness… Tracked through Candy Crush… Republicans propose jailings without charges…
Life, death, and anonymity
Anything goes, 3/7
The Lord works in mysterious ways, 3/7
Keep an Eye Out, and a few more films
My browser history, minus the porn, 3/6
Orange-bellied enforcers
Dinner and a double feature
Me & Quimby’s
ICE abductee dies of untreated toothache; Miami Republicans’ racist chat is “Nazi heaven”; Senator leads beatdown of protester…
American police are out of control, 3/4
My old pal Steve
Not my best moment
Weekly dead, 3/3
Walking pneumonia
It’s Larry Ellison’s world; Republicans propose nationwide book bans; ICE still evil; Trump still stupid…
Still sick, sorry.
Kapo, and a few more films
Christmas tree capitalism
My browser history, minus the porn, 3/1
Why does it have to be so difficult?
Famous last words
American police are out of control, 2/28
Anything goes, 2/28
Doctor Who (7th season, 2011-13)
Ignoring the climate emergency, 2/27
US gov’t ignores court orders, Constitution, etc; ICE kills again, this time without shooting; Trans folks can’t drive in Kansas…
The Lord works in mysterious ways, 2/26
👁️Eye on AI, 2/25
Weekly dead, 2/24
Dinner for five hours
Deported parents may lose their kids, Trump admin proposes dismantling Amtrak, Republican calls for hanging Americans in the streets…
Dog’s Dialogue, and a few more movies
I deserve worse.
Honesty in government
A stranger’s dead uncle’s stuff
Anything goes — 2/21
War, probably; another ICE murder; Rogue fed says rogue feds will be held accountable…
American police are out of control — 2/20
The Lord works in mysterious ways — 2/20
Nap time’s over.
My browser history, minus the porn — 2/19
One in 350
No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating’, Judge orders end to slavery, Dems pay $6.5-million kickback to Kamala Harris…
An acceptable variant
Weekly Dead, 2/17
Eye on AI 2/17
Ignoring the climate emergency — 2/17
Still perfectly edible
Cinnamon
American police are out of control — 2/15
DHS gets Social Security and social media data, Secret Police lie again, US military murders more Caribbean boaters…
No answers, FishGuy
A Scanner Darkly, and a few more films
Seven women
Anything goes — 2/14
My browser history, minus the porn — 2/14
A card with no words
Our song
The Lord works in mysterious ways — 2/13
My theory of hygiene
A movie that changed my life
Judge orders human decency, Bondi goes bonkers, cops tap school cameras to help ICE…
Eye on AI 👁️2/12
Ignoring the climate emergency — 2/11
Too nice
Weekly dead — 2/11
A goddess from Walhalla
American police are out of control — 2/10
A moment of violence
My browser history, minus the porn — 2/9
Paranoia runs deep
At Pike Place Market
Feds fund fascism worldwide, dildos fly in Minneapolis, Trump says America should move on from Trump-Epstein files…
Heat simmers, and U/A sucks
One of the best and most liberating things
Anything goes — 2/7
American police are out of control — 2/6
Consider yourself nudged
The Lord works in mysterious ways — 2/6
Juno, and a few more movies
Hegseth threatens Boy Scouts, DHS hunts down 67-year-old US citizen who criticized them in email, hell continues in Minnesota…
Eye on AI 2/5
Two bad rides on BART
Weekly dead — 2/4
Listening to pirate radio
My browser history, minus the porn — 2/3
Diary, 2/3/2026
The Lord works in mysterious ways — 2/3
Not today, thanks.
Ignoring the climate emergency — 2/2
Inspected and invited
The Jungle, Jungle, and a few more movies
ICE buys land for concentration camps across America, reporters arrested, fresh attack on voting rights, and… everything else…
CopWatch
American police are out of control — 2/1
A brand new start of it, New York, New York
Anything goes — 1/31
A fine rat
My browser history, minus the porn — 1/30
Fondue Fred
Judgement at Nuremberg, Jules and Jim, and a few more movies
American police are out of control — 1/29
Street Krishnas
Breakfast at Mrs Rigby’s
Never steal a pirate’s galoshes
Eye on AI 👁️ 1/28
NIH shares children’s brain scans with white supremacists, censorship on social media, more horrors in Minnesota…
Weekly Dead — 1/27
50¢ worth of crime
My browser history, minus the porn — 1/26
The Bill of Rights is mostly bullshit.
American police are out of control — 1/26
Playing in the rain
A big fat failure
Anything goes — 1/24
‘DOGE’ shared Social Security data with wingnuts, CDC OKs more measles & return of polio, war on Minnesota continues…
Diary, 1/23/2026
Man down
The Lord works in mysterious ways — 1/22
American police are out of control — 1/22
Gerry goes to jail
Judas and the Black Messiah, Judex, and a few more movies
The Weekly Dead — 1/21
A familiar face
Ignoring the climate emergency — 1/20
Mr Pudgy and Mrs Rigby
My browser history, minus the porn — 1/20
Feds invoke killing of Renée Good to threaten protesters, Trump pardons same fraudster a second time, RFK Jr deletes data on autism…
American police are out of control — 1/19
Mr Menthol at the Paramount
Eye on AI 👁️ 1/19
Pee-wee Goes to Prison, and a few more movies
Visit to the old church
Wishing her the very best
Anything goes — 1/17
Dear diary, 1/16/2026
My browser history, minus the porn — 1/16
Remembrances in the rain
Trump mulls canceling elections, clampdown on journalism continues, US goes to war against Minnesota…
The Lord works in mysterious ways — 1/15/2026
Vampyr, and a few more films
Graham cracker slumgullion
Weekly Dead People — 1/14
Intruder alert
American police are out of control — 1/13
Joseph Kilián, and a few more movies
Midget and Stickman
Two rules
An invitation to tea
Musk calls for white solidarity, feds ramp up invasion of Minnesota, Trump says he’s constrained only by his morality…
The people in charge
Mailbag
Anything goes — 1/10
8 Johnnys
Goodbye, damn it.
Tannenbaum massacre
Brainworms guy cuts vaccine recommendations, Somali fraud video came from notorious right-wingnut, Texas A&M says no to Plato…
Brenda
My browser history, minus the porn — 1/8/26
American police are out of control — 1/8
And there goes Izzy
Inarguably fucked up in the head
Weekly Dead People — 1/6/2023
Joe versus the Volcano, and a few more movies
Baseball at my brother’s house
“Like hell you will.”
Dean wants to talk to me.
All I ask of the future
Trump says US will govern Venezuela, NASA dumps science library, regime works to suppress votes…
American police are out of control — 1/4/26
Eye on AI 1/4/26
JFK, and a few more movies
Anything goes — 1/3/26
Distance is my favorite family value.
The God-fearing tweaker
Ignoring the climate emergency — 1/1/26
Fortress, and a few more movies
More from the archives:
2018 2019 2020 2021
2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
