Despite having around five hours of sleep last night, waking my butt up early today for work, and climbing up four flights of stairs to get home because the elevator in my apartment is down, I somehow got the energy to post. Let me ride it before I eventually crash.

This should’ve been posted weeks ago, but it’s been 15 years (and some weeks) since I got to see the one and only Prince in concert. And, because I can’t find any pictures from the show at the moment, these cropped screenshots of two Yahoo emails (yes, I still have a Yahoo Mail account) from 2011 are the only proof I have that I was there. 😭 In fairness, the camera I used during that show is long gone, and I can’t access my old laptop that likely has those pictures. *sobs* But if I do get access to them, I’ll try to make time to post them here. Because even from my upper level seats (clock the price for my tix, by the way), I had a pretty good view of His Royal Badness.

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Maine* really voted for the Nazi rapist posing as a Democrat to challenge Susan Collins in November. And George Takei (who was in the internment camps during World War II) actually came out in support of the Nazi rapist. What a timeline.

*I know some of you in Maine did their part to not vote for the Nazi rapist, so you’re good in my book, and I’m sorry.

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I need a new pro baseball league to root for. The current SF Giants roster has officially gone mask-off with their bigotry, with some of them pulling a Kershaw on Pride Night last Friday. I’ve already been let down by the team ever since they let go of Gabe Kapler and Renel while still keeping their MAGA owner around, and that incident just sealed the deal in me pulling my support for the Giants for the time being. That Buster Posey also allowed that bigoted bullshit to happen has completely changed my view of him. Just five years ago, in his last season before retiring, he seemed like he could do no wrong. All the goodwill he amassed during his playing years has since gone poof after what happened last Friday.

The Giants can get back to me when all the bigots and bigot-enablers are gone.

And whatever team knocks out the Bums in the playoffs could be my team to root for (as long as it’s also not the Yankees *shudders*).

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If any Giants fan needs eye bleach from what just happened, here’s the story for you. Talk about a real one.

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The NBA crowned a new champion yesterday and I’m actually happy for the Knicks. (This was one of those Finals where the title could’ve gone to either team and I would’ve been glad for them.) They’re a likeable team, the franchise waited so long to end the drought (one that could’ve ended back in the 90s had not Jordan’s Bulls stood in the way), Mike Brown finally won one as a Head Coach, KAT got his ring after all he’s gone through, and Bluesky delivered banger skeets like this:

And this:

— Julian Lucas (@jcljules.bsky.social) 2026-06-14T04:10:17.034Z

With so much ugly things going on right now (one of them happening at the White House as I type), silly stuff like this is so needed. Hope the Knicks can get him for their parade; if he can balance Oscar The Grouch’s home on his head, he can balance the Larry O’Brien trophy, too!

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And, as I write, a new Stanley Cup champion just got crowned, and…whatever. I used to enjoy watching the Stanley Cup playoffs and finals, but I stopped following the NHL a year ago since the pro league is openly MAGA now. I saw this year’s Cup Finals as a battle of who wants to go the White House and enjoy cheap-ass food with the Orange Clown since no NHL team seems to have the balls to stand up against the current regime. (But maybe the Canes–or at least a few of their players–can prove me wrong.)

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Images from my time at this year’s Jazz On The Hill. Could you believe I almost didn’t go? If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have discovered Vanessa Collier (third pic). It’s my first time hearing about the Blues singer and seeing her live, and she is AMAZING!

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It’s Obama Day, y’all. The night he won the 2008 Election remains some of my favorite pics of him. It was one helluva night; his victory meant, among other things, no more Dubya thank God (still can’t stand that warmonger).

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Oh, just posting the top song on the Billboard Hot 100 from 25 years ago…

We used to be a proper nation.

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And on this Flag Day, the only flags I shall salute, no apologies.

I don’t know why the Progress Pride flag is being flown upside down there, but whether it’s accidental or not, it’s fitting considering LGBTQ+ rights (among other human rights) remain threatened here in the States. Which is one reason why I cannot with anything red, white, and blue right now. Between the World Cup stuff and July 4th coming up, it’s all an eyesore.