Man of the Hours


Fake ad for 'The KLOK, K L O K, by John Kruk' with clock on home mantelpiece displaying Kruk's face but no hands or numbers / 'Just 300 payments of $29 each but what even is money / Does anybody really know what time it is, asked the band Chicago, but this clock is all Philadelphia by way of West Virginia'

As they say, IYKYK, but in case you don’t know here’s a ready-to-click DuckDuckGo search for “John Kruk” Phillies clocks time. My first thought amidst the laughter while listening to the broadcast live was that Last Week Tonight’s staff must be cursing their luck at the show being dark for a spell because they’ve featured Krukker’s off-kilter observations during color commentary more than once in their interstitial segments. I’m breaking my hiatus from the former Twitter, now X, to share this with him and lead play-by-play man Tom McCarthy.

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Arch-Ray Vision


With an infinite multiverse I guess it’d be inevitable that somewhere out there (Earth-F, perhaps?) Quentin Tarantino is Superman.

Close-up of plastic bendable Superman in packaging with head and face oddly resembling Quentin Tarantino

Pop Warner


A Facebook post that I’m always happy to have show up in Memories is somehow
from nearly a dozen years ago now.

a bunch of toy bang snaps in sawdust outside box reading Fun Snaps

My sister and her kids are visiting. We’re in Mom’s driveway playing with those little wrapped bang snaps you throw on the ground. My sister J momentarily blanks on both the word “grown-up” and the word “adult”.