Brendan M. Allen

@saintamish.bsky.social

Senior Editor at Comicon.com. Catch him on The Collectors' Desk podcast. Talks about comics and cystic fibrosis and monsters a lot. The "M" stands for aMish.

I would rock the shit out of a pair of golf trews. This haircut, though. The reunion committee really didn’t need to do me like that.

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Sierk@sierkulator.monster · last yr.

#TellMeAboutYou | 7 What's one trend or fashion style you rocked that hasn't aged well? In the mid 80's someone brainwashed me and convinced me to buy a pair of green/blue plaid golf pants. Another person got me to buy white shoes. The evil magic spell only lasted a few days and I survived intact.

The uproar over the "Hail Satan" prayer is hilarious. "Freedom of Religion" isn't "Freedom of MY Religion." This is why separation of church and state is supposed to be a real thing. It isn't a clever loophole to exclude non-approved religions. It's meant to exclude ALL religion, full stop.

The stuff I ordered while I was still loopy in post-op has started arriving. If they won’t bring you a quad oat milk latte immediately after surgery, I guess you order the machine to make it yourself. Well played, sick me.

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Turns out 48 year olds act exactly like the 18 year olds they used to be when you get them all together and feed them booze and tacos. Reunions are dumb. I did have a good time, though. But I also hated it.

Kids are sick, which means I'm now going solo to that damned reunion. They sent out a list of the names of all the expected attendees. I do not recognize any of these names. TBI is a hell of a drug. Should be interesting.

The first day of school, I didn’t have time to change out of my gym clothes, so I was there dropping off my kids in my hoochie daddy shorts and my ‘Maybe Steroids’ shirt. Went to volunteer orientation yesterday and found that they wrote new dress code rules just for me. #winning

Built a 3 foot tall Asogian. Currently building a 1:6 scale '89 Batmobile and a 1:2 scale Darth Vader. I probably don't need this 3 1/2 foot tall Sauron. Except, I kind of need this 3 1/2 foot tall Sauron.

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Did I ever tell you how ROM broke my sister’s red ten speed in the 80’s? Hear me out. I was reading a ROM floppy while riding sister’s bike, hands free. Parked mail truck pops up out of nowhere, smashes entire front end of bike. Would have seen it, but ROM. ROM broke my sister’s bike. She blamed me.

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If there was ever an example of a super rich-o who used their influence and wealth to make the world a better place, it was Dolly Parton. Imagination Library, The Buddy Program, My People Fund, COVID research seed money... she gave away more than half her lifetime earnings with no strings attached.

Opened up a package to realize some of the expected goods were missing. Reached a very nice person in customer service who promised a prompt remedy if I could just take a pic of the missing items. This was the best I could do.

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