Jason Parton

@jasongrvin.bsky.social

Cat dad, movie buff, drinking man with a guitar problem, good at video games, a voice and a face for radio. Videos, music, podcasts, live stream, books and more at: https://www.jasonsgroovemachine.com

Children's Hospital of L.A. is doing a card drive, for every card submitted to a kid in Hospital that can't trick or treat or celebrate Halloween, they get a $1 donation. The Cards are FREE to send online & it's a good thing to do to make a kid's Halloween great. secure1.chla.org/site/SPageNa...

Send a Halloween card to a child in the hospital!

You can help a child in the hospital have a spook-tacular Halloween. Send a special card before the deadline.

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I was behind on updating my book list for the year, so once I added The Stranger and First King of Shannara I passed my goal of 16 books this year. I realize that's not a terribly lofty goal, but Musashi was like 60+ hours. I didn't want to over extend. "You Like It Darker" is next.

About 2 years ago I started smoking a pipe. Maybe once a week on average. I enjoy the ritual of it. Anyway. Every since I started that I've had compliments on my singing voice then I ever have in my life. Probably combined.

This may be a long one, bear with me. Work encourages us to take Universal Classes through our local library as part of our year long wellness program. I support that. I think that's a fine idea. No problems there. BUT... the courses are all kind of dumb and take WAY too long.

I haven't heard anyone say it like this so here I go. Fuel prices are way up. This makes driving more expensive. Trump is removing fuel efficiency guidelines for new vehicles. This also makes driving more expensive.

The idea now is for Ai to research Ai to find out why Ai is so good at being so bad for humanity. Sure. Yeah. Sounds great. Been working out so well to self regulate food right now.

What if Tommy Tuberville was just sitting down to some gay porn, as most "straight" male Republicans often do, and accidentally clicked on something about furries in airplanes?

I've been feeling a little more down that usual this week. Today while mowing the lawn I went back to listen to The Old Man And The Sea and that's helped a bit. But ya know? I never noticed on my first listen but... I think I am the old man. We're very similar.

I don't know if you folks saw this but while giving his *ahem* "address" at the UN the other day Netenyahu said that the media isn't doing a good enough job reporting on what's going on in Gaza. Just a reminder that Netenyahu hasn't allowed the media inside Gaza for three years.

So I made that post looking for the you know what yesterday and I had SO many replies. Most of them bots. Some of them maybe not bots, but because of the world we live in I had some of the samples checked to see if they were AI. I'd say a good 80% of the samples came back as likely.