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Mike Westfalalalala-lalalala
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Your dorky, embarrassing dad.
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“What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?”

Pinkerton came out right on my 16th birthday.
“Pinkerton” by Weezer — album cover
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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You! (a hyper-intelligent beagle)

And me! (a lawn chair)

This Thanksgiving!

At Survivor Series!
Snoopy squares up against an anthropomorphic lawn chair in “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Les Lye of “You Can’t Do That on Television” fame was born on this day 101 years ago.
Les Lye’s various characters on “You Can’t Do That on Television,” including Ross the show director, a doctor resembling Groucho Marx, the dad — whose name was Senator Lance Prevert — and El Capitano the executioner.
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Haven’t seen anyone else bring up that movie Zelda’s outfit has a Triforce pattern.
Close-up of a still from filming the upcoming Legend of Zelda movie showing Princess Zelda’s outfit has a repeating Triforce pattern in its stitching, consisting of three equilateral triangles stacked in a larger equilateral triangle.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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On this podcast I mention learning about Weird Al’s “Christmas at Ground Zero” in Nintendo Power’s Mario Paint guide.

A guy made an entire music video for the song in Mario Paint! The only evidence it ever existed is this screenshot. I always wished we could see it.

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Screenshot of a fanmade music video for the “Weird Al” Yankovic song “Christmas at Ground Zero” made by Steve Miller in the Super Nintendo game Mario Paint in 1992. Steve drew Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer staring, terrified at a missile rocketing toward him high above the ground in the night sky.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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don’t encourage them.
Neil deGrasse Tyson on “Celebrity Jeopardy” reveals his wrong and misspelled answer to a Final Jeopardy question about The Muppets: “Who is… Snufalufagus?” It’s spelled S-N-U-F-F-L-E-U-P-A-G-U-S. Also, the question to the Final Jeopardy answer: “3 crates are shipped abroad in 1981’s ‘The Great Muppet Caper’: ‘Frog’ holds Kermit, ‘Bear’ holds Fozzie, & ‘Whatever’ holds this Muppet,” is “Who is Gonzo?” Whew. Thanks for reading my alt text.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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The wall next to a desk decorated with fall leaves and pumpkins that read, “Give Thanks” and “Be Thanful.” Also Kermit the Frog is here. And some Lego minifigs of the Muppets, some Marvel Super Heroes, Princess Zelda, and several Links.
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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this guy.
In the Nintendo game “Zelda II: The Adventure of Link,” Link battles a blue-armored Iron Knuckle, a knight who throws beams from his sword. This battle is happening in a hallway with a low ceiling, making jumping to dodge the beams more difficult. I had to learn rely on blocking with Link’s shield and studying the Iron Knuckle’s timing. Well, thanks for reading my alt text!
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Remember the meme of a dude checking out a hot lady while walking with his girlfriend, who just stares at him, disgusted? It’s that, but Jack Skellington from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” checking out the Christmas Town portal tree while walking with the Halloween Town portal tree.
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Watched a bunch of old commercials starring comic strip characters with @bitterkarella.bsky.social and @teeaitchare.bsky.social. Listen to me react in real time to Charlie Brown handing out chocolate cigars to his friends AND HIS DOG!

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Charlie Brown offers Linus a chocolate cigar because Ford made a car. Don’t try to make sense of it. Popeye the Sailor flexes his biceps after eating a bowl of Instant Quaker Oatmeal. Garfield and his creator, Jim Davis, in an American Express card commercial. Andy Capp eating a Kit-Kat bar.
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Mr. Woodchuck from Full House.
October 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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the life of a showgirl
The titular Witch from Witch’s Night Out.
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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One of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten because of a podcast is this drawing of @horrormoviebbq.bsky.social and me from the co-creator of one of my favorite Halloween specials, “Witch’s Night Out.”
Drawing of me (left) and Chad as characters in the style of Witch’s Night Out from the co-creator.
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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it’s gonna be october.
September 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Post a you from a different era.

I believe this was late enough in 2002 that I’m 22 here.

You tiny little doofus.
Selfie of… myself… at age 22 in late 2002. I have bleached blond, let’s call it pixie cut length hair that’s past my ears but not quite to my chin. I think this the last time my hair was that long. Well, thanks for reading the alt text.
September 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I just realized that was 21 years ago.
Mario dressed as a hamburger Halloween costume.
September 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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It has been brought to my attention that I share a birthday with Cookie Puss.
Cookie Puss ice cream cake by Carvel.
September 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Modified scene from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game, with Donatello declaring, “Fall is here!” while surrounded by colorful autumn foliage.
September 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Years ago I set this reminder as a dumb joke to my future self.

Thanks, past me. Dork.
Reminder notification on my iPhone that simply reads — in all caps, which I won’t do here — “the 21st night of September.”
September 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Oh, good tidings: My copy of @aduralde.bsky.social’s Revised & Updated edition of “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas” is here!

Get your own: preorder-movie-little-christmas.carrd.co
Me flipping through the new Revised & Updated 2nd edition of Alonso Duralde’s book, “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas.”
September 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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The only Phillies Karen I want to hear about for the rest of time.
Me and my wife at a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game in 2009 on the day after our wedding. We’re wearing bride and groom Phillies caps.
September 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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It was to be Robert Redford’s obituary but… The Muppets are back.
Cover of a September 1977 issue of “TV Times” magazine with a large portrait of Robert Redford surrounded by cutouts of characters from “The Muppet Show.” The caption reads: “It was to be Robert Redford’s cover but… The Muppets are back.” This cover is from Muppet Wiki: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Redford
September 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Mario and Luigi scream, “Wait ’til I get my hands on that Friendly Floyd!!” after the Floyd in question sold them a Yoshi Language Series translation guide, only to learn every word a Yoshi says sounds like “Yoshi.”
September 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Scene from “The Wonder Years” of Gym Coach Cutlip drawing a hilariously crude chalkboard diagram of a woman and a uterus, labeled “Female Reproductive System.”
September 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM