The Embodiment of RED @thraeryn@thraeryn.net

I don't think I'll come up with any real japes today, but that dream was like a weird-ass jape from my subconscious to the rest of me? It is not good at joke

My dream included:
✅ being mean to my dad
✅ my getting a parakeet like my son's
✅ going to a Showbiz Pizza where the owner reskinned the band to look like an R&B group and they sang Boyz II Men
✅ acquiring three dodos
✅ acquiring three goats
✅ one of the goats sang a half-bar of David Bowie's "Starman" so I'd recognize it
✅ petting said goat a bunch

. . . 🤷🏼‍♂️

With pranks especially: the joke should be on YOU, on the thought and time and effort you put into it. You can do something unexpected and make someone laugh, but you have a responsibility to clean up the physical mess and to make damned sure there's no emotional mess.

NOW: see if you can tell a joke.

Hey, April foolers.

The best jokes don't punch down and don't make people feel bad afterwards.

If you can't get through the joke without making someone sad or pissed or upset, you don't know what humor is.

Having teens in my house to enjoy silliness, play games, help with various tasks, and generally be additional faces instead of only my own in every mirror?

It's good.

(I wouldn't be alone anyway, but right now? Six people in the house is nice. NGL.)

Oh, never mind, new Deathworlders chapter. I'm good.

I'm bored.

That's a little weird.

@ebeth

I would scream and start following cross-country

Monday: Being The Elite, roll your eyes that they're still putting on RAW
Tuesday: AEW Dark
Wednesday: AEW Dynamite, then maybe five overrun minutes of NXT
Thursday: it's fine, do other stuff
Friday: ugh, Smackdown

wrestling shows keeping time moving in a straight line

@guerrillarain

Yeah, they release the first half of the bracket for the TNT tournament on AEW Dark tonight, and the second half on Dynamite tomorrow

There's a baby in the window

Huh. Power blinked for a moment.

Really unexpected, given how nice a day it is. We're using less energy on a/c and lights and such.

🤷🏼‍♂️

I feel like this is an incredibly #Houston meal

OH, MY DROOGS

We worry, rightly.

The world itself continues.

@thegibson @djsundog

T_G, @RussSharek & @Avalon asserted last night that YOU HAVE A HUMAN HEAD! Which they SAW!

My shock was palpable!

@sydneyfalk

As a dad, raising my child well is one of my primary purposes

Coming up with "jokes" like these is a strong secondary imperative