Geoff George
@geoffdgeorge.com
Chicagoan, dev, writer and former micro/macro editor of little consequence, compulsive movie/TV watcher, ever-recovering night owl, and bookworm. Opinions are mine. He/him. (Also posts at @[email protected].)
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Geoff George
@geoffdgeorge.com
· Dec 22
Attending to My Attention
Some thoughts on the year behind, and some blog-related resolutions for 2025
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Setting some intentions for 2025. I need to pay more attention to ... my attention.
Coming up with place names in Colonial America:
_____port
_____town
_____'s Ferry
_____ End
_____ Point
_____ Mill
_____'s Crossing
_____'s Ford
New _____
Little _____
Big _____
_____port
_____town
_____'s Ferry
_____ End
_____ Point
_____ Mill
_____'s Crossing
_____'s Ford
New _____
Little _____
Big _____
While I watch the second EP of Ken Burns's American Revolution doc.
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Coming up with place names in Colonial America:
_____port
_____town
_____'s Ferry
_____ End
_____ Point
_____ Mill
_____'s Crossing
_____'s Ford
New _____
Little _____
Big _____
_____port
_____town
_____'s Ferry
_____ End
_____ Point
_____ Mill
_____'s Crossing
_____'s Ford
New _____
Little _____
Big _____
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
If this is just an elaborate way to get me to go shopping for the complete series on Blu-ray, it's kinda working.
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If this is just an elaborate way to get me to go shopping for the complete series on Blu-ray, it's kinda working.
Woulda torn this place UP as a kid. Four rounds at a time.
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Woulda torn this place UP as a kid. Four rounds at a time.
Amelia got me a shortbread advent calendar. Hell yeah.
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Amelia got me a shortbread advent calendar. Hell yeah.
This is how I learn that the guy who played Smokey in "The Big Lebowski" has a multidecade music career.
While you have so many eyes on this, let me recommend this unearthly beauty from the mid ‘90s, Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s CD”Spinning Around the Sun”
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This is how I learn that the guy who played Smokey in "The Big Lebowski" has a multidecade music career.
There are portions of Joan Didion's "After Henry" that do this, and the whole time reading it, I wanted to shout, "WHAT STYLE GUIDE ARE YOU USING??"
I do occasionally want to say to my fellow Americans who insist that periods ever go outside quotation marks "Cool, show me that in a modern U.S. book or periodical," but I never say that.
This has nothing to do with the UK propensity to write something along the lines of:
I really love the song 'Yesterday'.
vs. the correct American
I really love the song "Yesterday."
I really love the song 'Yesterday'.
vs. the correct American
I really love the song "Yesterday."
November 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
There are portions of Joan Didion's "After Henry" that do this, and the whole time reading it, I wanted to shout, "WHAT STYLE GUIDE ARE YOU USING??"
I tell ya what, though, I've never felt more justified in making a purchase than I have tonight, walking around in the slosh with dry feet thanks to my pricey new boots.
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I tell ya what, though, I've never felt more justified in making a purchase than I have tonight, walking around in the slosh with dry feet thanks to my pricey new boots.
Lyfting home with a friend, and I'm here to say the dashboard displays of cars are getting absolutely batshit.
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Lyfting home with a friend, and I'm here to say the dashboard displays of cars are getting absolutely batshit.
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part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine
Gonna start keeping a log like an Arctic adventurer as I try to get from Rogers Park to Logan Square for a friend's birthday party tonight.
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Gonna start keeping a log like an Arctic adventurer as I try to get from Rogers Park to Logan Square for a friend's birthday party tonight.
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Got the theater all to myself for a late-night showing of "Hamnet." I'm the richest man in the world.
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Got the theater all to myself for a late-night showing of "Hamnet." I'm the richest man in the world.
It's wild how the revolutionaries are like, "We can either fight for our liberty or remain slaves to the crown," and they keep using the word "slavery" to describe staying under British rule, and there should've been a few more voices among them saying, "Uhhh, y'all hearing yourselves right now?"
While I watch the second EP of Ken Burns's American Revolution doc.
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
It's wild how the revolutionaries are like, "We can either fight for our liberty or remain slaves to the crown," and they keep using the word "slavery" to describe staying under British rule, and there should've been a few more voices among them saying, "Uhhh, y'all hearing yourselves right now?"
Bottom left.
tag yourself. which one is the correct amount of whipped cream
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Bottom left.
Thanksgiving tradition of meeting my sis and brother-in-law at the only bar in our Iowa hometown, where a generous whiskey pour is just $6.
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Thanksgiving tradition of meeting my sis and brother-in-law at the only bar in our Iowa hometown, where a generous whiskey pour is just $6.
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me: any chance i could have some of this ground?
groundhog: aNy cHancE i COulD HaVE soMe OF thIs grOuNd?
hell no
groundhog: aNy cHancE i COulD HaVE soMe OF thIs grOuNd?
hell no
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
me: any chance i could have some of this ground?
groundhog: aNy cHancE i COulD HaVE soMe OF thIs grOuNd?
hell no
groundhog: aNy cHancE i COulD HaVE soMe OF thIs grOuNd?
hell no
It's "Jay Kelly" night.
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It's "Jay Kelly" night.
Silent Hill-ass conditions.
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Silent Hill-ass conditions.
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That smells great
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
That smells great
Sometimes YouTube Music's radio algorithm is embarrassing. I don't use it intentionally, but I hit the end of a Dinosaur Jr. album, and the next thing chosen by the autoplay was ... Flogging Molly?
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sometimes YouTube Music's radio algorithm is embarrassing. I don't use it intentionally, but I hit the end of a Dinosaur Jr. album, and the next thing chosen by the autoplay was ... Flogging Molly?
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
When I use the phrase "speedrunning pitchforks," I purposely don't specify who's likely to carry them. If you lead with broad antagonism, you will breed antagonists from every corner.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When I use the phrase "speedrunning pitchforks," I purposely don't specify who's likely to carry them. If you lead with broad antagonism, you will breed antagonists from every corner.
Christ, they've basically rented out every last theater.
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Christ, they've basically rented out every last theater.
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They’re never gonna have another American pope. They’re gonna be like “the last one had raves”
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
They’re never gonna have another American pope. They’re gonna be like “the last one had raves”