Jon Hall
@hallcommajon.bsky.social
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I am a short man who enjoys reading funny things. Also singer and guitar player for the Big Cats of Austin, Texas. He/him
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hallcommajon.bsky.social
One of the perks of running D&D games is it gives me a way to actually use the goofy-ass names my brain is CONSTANTLY coming up with.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
The brain space we used to devote to phone numbers is now taken up by passwords.
bleary.off-the-records.com
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
hallcommajon.bsky.social
I like when the big boss bad guy tells an underling, “And don’t fuck this up,” because I bet right up until then, that guy was thinking, “I should fuck this up.”
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kristenimmoor.bsky.social
Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]
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noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
I worked at a Pizza Hut during the “5 minutes or it’s free” era. We had an 8-minute oven. Send this woman to Congress.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
I mean that REEKS of desperation. Truly grasping at straws.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
Just saw a car ad that tried to sell being stuck in traffic as quality family time. I’ve never felt more sure that we’re near the collapse of car culture.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
The small-town and rural South are not lily white. More Black people STILL live in the South than in any other region of the states, and a LOT live in the country. Not every Black person you see in Georgia has recently moved down from Boston, I promise you.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
“It’s the South. Everybody owns cows.” What the fuck?
hallcommajon.bsky.social
Finally decided to give Reacher a try, and it’s okay for what it is, I guess, but the levels of dipshittery about small towns and the South are off the charts.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
I hope we’ve all learned a lesson about the efficacy of simply waiting for the old guard to die off.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
I forgot to do a Friday favorite again. We’re adults here. We can do one on Saturday if we want. And I want.

This Friday’s favorite is “Tooting Bec Wreck”
By Hanoi Rocks.
Hanoi Rocks - Tooting Bec Wreck
YouTube video by Merryckha
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notalawyer.bsky.social
(watching a population vigorously oppose subsidizing the welfare state while also maintaining one of the world’s largest prison systems) these are people who love to be free
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bitterscriptreader.bsky.social
Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”
hallcommajon.bsky.social
Oh my God, we are gonna see so many of those frog costumes on Halloween.
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johnmoe.bsky.social
I’m old enough to remember when the Republicans would not want to put a Qatari air force facility in Idaho.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
You don’t fight fascism by protesting joyfully in a silly costume. You fight fascism by staying home and posting about how everyone needs to be serious.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
Do Republicans know that there’s a whole lot of porn—just worlds of it—that you can watch without logging into anything?
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
hallcommajon.bsky.social
Used the New Revised Standard in a graduate class and found it very solid. Get it as the New Oxford Annotated Bible if you can. Incredibly useful.
hallcommajon.bsky.social
I don’t think I care much for your tone, Your Honor.