Bill Childs
@billchilds.bsky.social
Not a real doctor; real worm. I've done radio for kids for a weirdly long time. Not your lawyer, but maybe your amusement park law prof. SpareTheRock.com. Wrote a book: RecreationAndRisk.com (Carolina Academic Press). He/him; my views only here.
St. Paul.
St. Paul.
Sometimes a photo captures your kid and their beloved in such a perfect way that it might make you cry every day.
(This is by the incomparable Lisa: lisajane-photography.com)
(This is by the incomparable Lisa: lisajane-photography.com)
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Sometimes a photo captures your kid and their beloved in such a perfect way that it might make you cry every day.
(This is by the incomparable Lisa: lisajane-photography.com)
(This is by the incomparable Lisa: lisajane-photography.com)
This means it is also thirty years since the weekend before my first law school exams. The morning show on Austin’s K-NACK (from whom I won the tickets and lodging) made fun of me for skipping studying.
December 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This means it is also thirty years since the weekend before my first law school exams. The morning show on Austin’s K-NACK (from whom I won the tickets and lodging) made fun of me for skipping studying.
This remains, a decade later, my favorite Yelp engagement from what was an excellent but rapidly closed food truck.
December 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This remains, a decade later, my favorite Yelp engagement from what was an excellent but rapidly closed food truck.
I get fun emails from former students.
![Last night was my Advanced Legal Analysis final, covering CivPro, Contracts, and Torts. Wouldn't you know, the Torts issue-spotter essay involved a boy on a Ferris Wheel who was injured when two other children fell from another car.
[redacted] was in the same final, and during our celebratory drink afterward we shared a toast to you and
Rec & Risk for helping to guide us.
Happy holidays to you and your family.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ujskn26eiwlxpsuemgbv5km2/bafkreigvzwahhhappbklgkhbaq6lr6vua7447zgld2qz24eyp4jrow2xji@jpeg)
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I get fun emails from former students.
This is the only kind of masculine leadership I want to return
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is the only kind of masculine leadership I want to return
This shit is so embarrassing.
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This shit is so embarrassing.
Richest guy in town.
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Richest guy in town.
I am staying at a place with the toilet in the shower and it is >$400 per night
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I am staying at a place with the toilet in the shower and it is >$400 per night
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The toilet really is inside the shower.
December 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The toilet really is inside the shower.
I am one of, I’m told, 72 people to have attended every year of The Hold Steady’s ten Massive Nights runs of shows at Brooklyn Bowl. I’ve missed I think three individual shows. I started this week thinking it might be my last year going.
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I am one of, I’m told, 72 people to have attended every year of The Hold Steady’s ten Massive Nights runs of shows at Brooklyn Bowl. I’ve missed I think three individual shows. I started this week thinking it might be my last year going.
We moved from Northampton in 2012 and still get occasional communications about snow emergencies
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We moved from Northampton in 2012 and still get occasional communications about snow emergencies
Apparently AI just sucks at making gavels
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Apparently AI just sucks at making gavels
When (a) you left the iPad playing the Thanksgiving background music, a Beausoleil essentials playlist, after turning off the stereo, and (b) your kid uses the same login
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When (a) you left the iPad playing the Thanksgiving background music, a Beausoleil essentials playlist, after turning off the stereo, and (b) your kid uses the same login
Looks like they were able to switch back to something other than I Heart’s AC feed a couple hours after all of it and fully functional an hour and a half later. They have not yet played that song again.
December 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Looks like they were able to switch back to something other than I Heart’s AC feed a couple hours after all of it and fully functional an hour and a half later. They have not yet played that song again.
I think he is in fact local (and probably live for mornings), but he’s also pretty busy on other stations
December 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I think he is in fact local (and probably live for mornings), but he’s also pretty busy on other stations
It was that night that the Cities 97’s DJ fell asleep
Her name was Shawny or Maddie or Lonnie or Smitty
She said she was from Minneapolis but she was really from Arvada
Her name was Shawny or Maddie or Lonnie or Smitty
She said she was from Minneapolis but she was really from Arvada
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It was that night that the Cities 97’s DJ fell asleep
Her name was Shawny or Maddie or Lonnie or Smitty
She said she was from Minneapolis but she was really from Arvada
Her name was Shawny or Maddie or Lonnie or Smitty
She said she was from Minneapolis but she was really from Arvada
But wait there’s more
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
But wait there’s more
“Smitty” is a DJ on at least a half dozen different stations, god only knows where she lives
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“Smitty” is a DJ on at least a half dozen different stations, god only knows where she lives
Smitty is very busy, y’all
December 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Smitty is very busy, y’all
December 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Watched a dumb holiday movie for How Did This Get Made? purposes, and the director has two and exactly two genres in which he works, and they are not two you’d expect to go together:
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Watched a dumb holiday movie for How Did This Get Made? purposes, and the director has two and exactly two genres in which he works, and they are not two you’d expect to go together:
Love to see a dot matrix printer in the wild
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Love to see a dot matrix printer in the wild
I was in Midland, Texas, during what is known as the Landman Spring Break and resisted grabbing one of these shirts. Sure were a lot of short beards and big hats
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I was in Midland, Texas, during what is known as the Landman Spring Break and resisted grabbing one of these shirts. Sure were a lot of short beards and big hats