Mike Stephens

@mikestephens.bsky.social

I call myself the blond Christian Slater to compliment my acting career and insult my hairline

The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins

My younger kid has an emotional support hockey stick (carries it around with him everywhere, gets upset when he has to put it down etc.) but he’s small and keeps hitting me with it in the shins while walking around the house. This must be what living with Brad Marchand feels like

“Canada is a medium sized high school” moment. Went to buy my older kid a hockey helmet at Canadian Tire and the guy who helped me is cousins with a guy who just got drafted by the Minnesota Wild. Then I went to the LCBO and recognized a guy who used to work at the one near me.

being a rich tech guy in the 90s must have been so sick. every morning you start a web page that sells ring tones, sell it at lunch for 2 million dollars, get dinner at a “sushi” restaurant and go to a night club wearing a cologne called Apartheid Sapphire

donald trump insulting a tragically murdered beloved director, starting an aggressive and illegal war in venezuela for no reason, then the epstein files hopefully finally releasing this friday is a generational run of potential worst possible week for any president in awhile

People don’t discuss the Parenting Overton Window enough. First one gets the sniffles and you’re terrified they have consumption. Checking their temperature every 20 minutes, debating going to Emerg. Second kid falls and cuts open their lip? Shit, guess that one’s just a bleeder.

The rest of the movie is pretty mid, but the opening scene of 28 Weeks Later is one of the absolute best openings in any horror movie ever. Explains everything you need to know about the world, provides stakes and consequences in about 5-6 minutes.

I think everyone should have kids but man hearing my boys argue in the basement is so damn tedious. I know the older one is overreacting but I also know the younger one is being a dickhead and now I gotta go play peacemaker cause they can’t just watch Octonauts in peace.

Uber keeps sending me push notifications about their services. Dude I’ll use you when I’m going somewhere but I’m currently a 39 year old father, I don’t do shit unless it’s a child’s extracurriculars.