Still counting down

45
I am not much for new year's but I do like seeing the progress of this countdown.

It could happen to any of us
Discovering that a picture of you as a child has been used as a meme for years. The meme-ing itself is not nearly as funny to me as this man's a) picture as a child before othodontia work and b) deadpan reaction to the discovery. I laughed until I sobbed. I hope you find something to make you laugh that hard. It was a release. 

Season's pop greetings
My favorite way to enjoy Mariah's timeless holiday paean is this surprisingly adorable video from the wild wild chatroulette days: Yay beardy!

Dark!
I am wrassling with my reptile brain. (A new imaginary form of gator wrasslin'!) It says that it is dark at 5pm and so I should sit on the couch and eat all the things. But as much as I like couch+snacks I don't find much satisfaction in that. I am trying to get outside in the middle of the day (I missed today - whoops) and also do the exercising thing when I can bear to. My physical body needs to get out of this house and move the large muscles and if that doesn't happen I start feeling like Everything is Stupid. I am making an effort to remember that the light is longer by the end of January. I can find a path through the next dark weeks.

Dork!
I recommend Jackie Kashian's stand up. But in addition she is a podcast powerhouse who has been producing the Dork Forest episodes for a long time. She interviews others (usually comics, sometimes family members, occasionally actual experts) about their enthusiasms, the things they get excited about. Here's the homepage The Dork Forest with the latest eps on top. I haven't even heard most of these, need to cue them up for my reluctant exercise sessions. Jackie is notably ignorant about pop music (of any era) and many other topics which makes her the ideal blank canvas for others to inform about their  fave areas of expertise.