Rick Aaron

@rickaaron.bsky.social

Artist lover, reader, avid dog

After Ernie left, Bert’s life became an amphetamine-fueled whirlwind of after-hours parties, drunken Grindr hook-ups, and multiple arrests for public indecency, finally ending in a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic for “exhaustion” and his membership in the Church of Scientology.

A Bert (from Sesame Street) doll is leaned up against a chain link fence, among strewn trash, next to a large blue dumpster. A bearded man in a blue shirt stands in the background.

This day in history. 1757. English poet Christopher Smart, also known as Mrs Mary Midnight, Ebenezer Pentweazle, and Freddie Two-Barns Burnett, was committed to an insane asylum by his father-in-law for being alarmingly religious.

This day in history. 1945. Hermann Göring sent Hitler a telegram stating that he Göring was prepared to take over for him Hitler if he Hitler was incapacitated. This made Hitler so angry that he ordered a halt to all work on the Adolf and Eva Hitler Ballroom then being built above the Führerbunker.

It’s Earth Day… Hug a tree! - Text the tree the next day. - Start hugging the tree regularly. - Meet the tree’s parents. - Move in with the tree. - Marry the tree. - Stop hugging the tree. - Grow apart from the tree. - Start hugging other trees. - Divorce the tree. - Die alone.