Ben McClellan
@benmcclellan.bsky.social
CPhT/essential employee, observational humorist, writer. Liberal. Detroit born, Chicago raised, Indiana (Evansville) resident. Button down mind. I'm still on Twitter, if it helps any.
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Fast food really isn't good for me (or anyone, for that matter), but I have to say that tonight, that deluxe double cheeseburger and fries from McDonald's really hit the spot.
December 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Fast food really isn't good for me (or anyone, for that matter), but I have to say that tonight, that deluxe double cheeseburger and fries from McDonald's really hit the spot.
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"What’s the worst surname you’ve ever heard?"
I'm just glad those answering this question are volunteering some genuinely funny or unfortunate names, and not listing off the last names of people who either bullied them, or broke their hearts.
There was one mention of Trump, though. Just one.
I'm just glad those answering this question are volunteering some genuinely funny or unfortunate names, and not listing off the last names of people who either bullied them, or broke their hearts.
There was one mention of Trump, though. Just one.
December 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"What’s the worst surname you’ve ever heard?"
I'm just glad those answering this question are volunteering some genuinely funny or unfortunate names, and not listing off the last names of people who either bullied them, or broke their hearts.
There was one mention of Trump, though. Just one.
I'm just glad those answering this question are volunteering some genuinely funny or unfortunate names, and not listing off the last names of people who either bullied them, or broke their hearts.
There was one mention of Trump, though. Just one.
Just heard about the existence of a musician named Walter Miller, who I presume is NOT the same person who wrote a pretty poorly spelled ongoing blog about how he had to take care of his cantankerous, crippled grandfather on top of working in a cubicle farm and being laughed at by his coworker.
December 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Just heard about the existence of a musician named Walter Miller, who I presume is NOT the same person who wrote a pretty poorly spelled ongoing blog about how he had to take care of his cantankerous, crippled grandfather on top of working in a cubicle farm and being laughed at by his coworker.
Amazing how I was actually thinking about this one before someone else posted it on Facebook today, right?
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing how I was actually thinking about this one before someone else posted it on Facebook today, right?
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Hello, Department of Justice? I'd like to report a violation of the law.
Who has violated the law, sir?
The Department of Justice.
*click*
Who has violated the law, sir?
The Department of Justice.
*click*
December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hello, Department of Justice? I'd like to report a violation of the law.
Who has violated the law, sir?
The Department of Justice.
*click*
Who has violated the law, sir?
The Department of Justice.
*click*
I'm hearing rumors on Threads that you know who was hospitalized yet again tonight.
Naturally, many people are literally hoping for his imminent demise.
Naturally, many people are literally hoping for his imminent demise.
December 19, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I'm hearing rumors on Threads that you know who was hospitalized yet again tonight.
Naturally, many people are literally hoping for his imminent demise.
Naturally, many people are literally hoping for his imminent demise.
Huh. I really have four Kings of Leon albums on an old iPod.
I must have really dug them back in the day.
I must have really dug them back in the day.
December 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Huh. I really have four Kings of Leon albums on an old iPod.
I must have really dug them back in the day.
I must have really dug them back in the day.
Let's see...the last time that "Christmas Wrapping" came up on shuffle mode for me was...
March 18th, 2024.
Come to think of it, probably none of the Christmas themed songs in my library have ever played during the appropriate time.
March 18th, 2024.
Come to think of it, probably none of the Christmas themed songs in my library have ever played during the appropriate time.
December 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Let's see...the last time that "Christmas Wrapping" came up on shuffle mode for me was...
March 18th, 2024.
Come to think of it, probably none of the Christmas themed songs in my library have ever played during the appropriate time.
March 18th, 2024.
Come to think of it, probably none of the Christmas themed songs in my library have ever played during the appropriate time.
No road trip Saturday. I've been sick since late Wednesday afternoon and had to call out today. I wish I could recover quickly here.
December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No road trip Saturday. I've been sick since late Wednesday afternoon and had to call out today. I wish I could recover quickly here.
Might be headed down to Nashville on Saturday morning.
On the last weekend before Christmas. In a city where traffic is already an obstacle in and of itself.
I may be crazy, too.
On the last weekend before Christmas. In a city where traffic is already an obstacle in and of itself.
I may be crazy, too.
December 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Might be headed down to Nashville on Saturday morning.
On the last weekend before Christmas. In a city where traffic is already an obstacle in and of itself.
I may be crazy, too.
On the last weekend before Christmas. In a city where traffic is already an obstacle in and of itself.
I may be crazy, too.
"What makes some people choose to be a loner?"
No idea. I can only remember one clear time in my life where I consciously chose to be this way: the ninth grade. Otherwise, I was already wired like this for much of my life.
That isn't to say that I don't get lonely sometimes. Yes, I do.
No idea. I can only remember one clear time in my life where I consciously chose to be this way: the ninth grade. Otherwise, I was already wired like this for much of my life.
That isn't to say that I don't get lonely sometimes. Yes, I do.
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"What makes some people choose to be a loner?"
No idea. I can only remember one clear time in my life where I consciously chose to be this way: the ninth grade. Otherwise, I was already wired like this for much of my life.
That isn't to say that I don't get lonely sometimes. Yes, I do.
No idea. I can only remember one clear time in my life where I consciously chose to be this way: the ninth grade. Otherwise, I was already wired like this for much of my life.
That isn't to say that I don't get lonely sometimes. Yes, I do.
"If you won the $1 billion lottery, how would you epically quit your job!?"
I probably wouldn't quit. I need something to do four to five days a week. I can't really sit around the house, you know?'
Weird, I know, but I do need some form of structure week to week.
I probably wouldn't quit. I need something to do four to five days a week. I can't really sit around the house, you know?'
Weird, I know, but I do need some form of structure week to week.
December 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"If you won the $1 billion lottery, how would you epically quit your job!?"
I probably wouldn't quit. I need something to do four to five days a week. I can't really sit around the house, you know?'
Weird, I know, but I do need some form of structure week to week.
I probably wouldn't quit. I need something to do four to five days a week. I can't really sit around the house, you know?'
Weird, I know, but I do need some form of structure week to week.
That moment when you put in a Christmas card written for your sister and brother-in-law into the envelope addressed to your parents, then realize it a little too late.
Yeah, I wondered why I had a stamped, but empty envelope made out to my sister and family when I finished writing cards... 😳
Yeah, I wondered why I had a stamped, but empty envelope made out to my sister and family when I finished writing cards... 😳
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
That moment when you put in a Christmas card written for your sister and brother-in-law into the envelope addressed to your parents, then realize it a little too late.
Yeah, I wondered why I had a stamped, but empty envelope made out to my sister and family when I finished writing cards... 😳
Yeah, I wondered why I had a stamped, but empty envelope made out to my sister and family when I finished writing cards... 😳
They've gone from releasing classic films to manufacturing classic appliances, it looks like. 🤣
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
They've gone from releasing classic films to manufacturing classic appliances, it looks like. 🤣
That moment when I, as an American, start correcting a YouTuber's pronunciations of certain Australian cities (Canberra and Melbourne).
CAN-bra. MEL-bin.
Not as they're spelled.
CAN-bra. MEL-bin.
Not as they're spelled.
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
That moment when I, as an American, start correcting a YouTuber's pronunciations of certain Australian cities (Canberra and Melbourne).
CAN-bra. MEL-bin.
Not as they're spelled.
CAN-bra. MEL-bin.
Not as they're spelled.
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It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
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I interviewed Rob Reiner as one of the bonuses for the @criterion.bsky.social BluRay of SPINAL TAP. We talked for an hour about the movie and his career and then they shut off the cameras and we talked about movies for another hour. A delightful, unhurried genius.
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I interviewed Rob Reiner as one of the bonuses for the @criterion.bsky.social BluRay of SPINAL TAP. We talked for an hour about the movie and his career and then they shut off the cameras and we talked about movies for another hour. A delightful, unhurried genius.
"What is the weirdest way you got ghosted?"
The woman I was most recently involved with earlier this year also happens to be good friends with another woman who ghosted me towards the end of 2022.
I can't say for certain if they talked about me, but I'm now really starting to wonder if they did.
The woman I was most recently involved with earlier this year also happens to be good friends with another woman who ghosted me towards the end of 2022.
I can't say for certain if they talked about me, but I'm now really starting to wonder if they did.
December 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"What is the weirdest way you got ghosted?"
The woman I was most recently involved with earlier this year also happens to be good friends with another woman who ghosted me towards the end of 2022.
I can't say for certain if they talked about me, but I'm now really starting to wonder if they did.
The woman I was most recently involved with earlier this year also happens to be good friends with another woman who ghosted me towards the end of 2022.
I can't say for certain if they talked about me, but I'm now really starting to wonder if they did.
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Its Criterion reissue in September is utterly essential. It is a truly complete official presentation, pulling together the in and out-of-character commentaries, all the ancillary stuff, all looking great, with even more outtakes than ever. You need it. Just get it. Honor the man and the work.
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Its Criterion reissue in September is utterly essential. It is a truly complete official presentation, pulling together the in and out-of-character commentaries, all the ancillary stuff, all looking great, with even more outtakes than ever. You need it. Just get it. Honor the man and the work.
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There’s a real poignance in Rob Reiner’s directorial career being bookended by This Is Spinal Tap and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.
December 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
There’s a real poignance in Rob Reiner’s directorial career being bookended by This Is Spinal Tap and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.
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Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Division detectives have been assigned to the case.
Paramedics had been called to the home at around 3:30pm.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Paramedics had been called to the home at around 3:30pm.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
December 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Division detectives have been assigned to the case.
Paramedics had been called to the home at around 3:30pm.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Paramedics had been called to the home at around 3:30pm.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Eight degrees here in southern Indiana this morning.
Mid fifties predicted for later in the week.
How appropriate.
Mid fifties predicted for later in the week.
How appropriate.
December 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Eight degrees here in southern Indiana this morning.
Mid fifties predicted for later in the week.
How appropriate.
Mid fifties predicted for later in the week.
How appropriate.
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Zoe Weissman - survivor of 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL
Mia Tretta - survivor of 2019 Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, CA
Both are now students at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Mia Tretta - survivor of 2019 Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, CA
Both are now students at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Zoe Weissman, a sophomore at Brown University, joins us to discuss the shooting on Brown's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. She was in middle school in Parkland, Florida during the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. She is now an advocate for gun control and gun violence prevention.
December 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Zoe Weissman - survivor of 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL
Mia Tretta - survivor of 2019 Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, CA
Both are now students at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Mia Tretta - survivor of 2019 Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, CA
Both are now students at Brown University in Providence, RI.