Stopped by the former Wendy’s restaurant here in Columbus that briefly served as “Holy Chicken” for Morgan Spurlock’s 2017 sequel to Super Size Me. Over seven years later, it’s still looking for a tenant (and still has the green paint he added to give it a deceptively “healthy” look).

Currently reading: Growing Up Brady by Barry Williams 📚 What can I say? I have a soft spot for The Brady Bunch.

Playing with Apple’s Image Playground app using photos of ourselves. The animation-style images of my wife are actually quite good (even she thinks so!) Our dogs came out cute but not great likenesses. The ones of me are horrifying.

Fitting. “Too Cold In The Winter” by Cry of Love 🎵

Celebrating Gotcha Day with a favorite pastime.

Forcing myself to go on a photo walk in this balmy 18-degree weather. It has taken me so long to use the roll of film in this camera that it begins with summery views of Santa Monica Beach during our last trip and ends with this.

In today’s Columbus Dispatch: “From arsenal to education: Fort Hayes students work to preserve military complex’s history”. Always love hearing about the activities of students at my high school alma mater (which was an active military facility from the Civil War until 2009). Love visiting, too!

The amount of panic these days over a few inches of snow is just hilarious to me. No ice, no subzero wind chills, just a few inches of snow. School and business closings galore.

Finished reading: Letterman by Jason Zinoman 📚 A bit of a slog to get through this. A very detailed deconstruction of Letterman’s career, although it went a little too deep into the jockeying and infighting among his writing staff. It did remind me of something I loved about Late Night: Dave flinging blue cards through the fake window behind him.

I remember watching the first live episode of the ‘90s sitcom Roc, but I had forgotten that they did the entire second season live, too. The cast is so good, it’s hard to believe those episodes were all done in one take.

Currently reading: The Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. Ballard 📚

Weekend vibes: Black Mags by The Cool Kids 🎵

Hanging out.

A Good Samaritan (or bored kid) created a front porch for whatever is living in this tree.

Sending off 2024 in characteristically gloomy and rainy fashion — so much rain that the annual submerging of the trails, typically an early-spring phenomenon, has already begun.

Currently reading: Letterman by Jason Zinoman 📚

Finished reading: Keep Moving by Dick Van Dyke 📚

Lighting the way.

Currently reading: Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin 📚

Currently reading: Keep Moving by Dick Van Dyke 📚