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Hey, remember that game show I tried out for? You know, the one that accepted me into their contestant pool and then never called for a year? Well, they called. They called at the beginning of July, in fact. I was too nervous to tell anyone because I didn’t want to jinx myself. Lame? Of [...]

Sunday Photo - Happy Face

Welcome to a new feature of THOMnottom.com - The Sunday Photo. Considering the tens of thousands of photos I’ve taken over the years, I have not posted nearly enough - and you’ve all let me know that. So, as I work on full galleries to put up, I’m going to start posting at least one [...]

Eater of Babies

So, you know that caption at the top? You mean you’ve never bothered to look? I’m so disappointed in you. Then again, it sucks. “Back in black… and white”? What the hell does that mean? I started using it way back when I disappeared for most of a month and somehow never came up with [...]

Battles - Atlas

File under “music The Woman will absolutely hate me becoming obsessed with”. I was already starting to get into Battles - what can I say, the concept of math rock sets off every geek sensor in my body. But nothing prepared me for their first single off their new album:

And the awesomeness continues - that’s [...]

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

A few years back I was having a musical discussion with one of my old bar mates, as I was wont to do. The above-named Police song was playing in the background. I just paused and said something to the effect of, “These lyrics are so simple and nonsensical, and yet they have more feeling [...]

D’OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHME!

I made yet another rare appearance at an honest-to-god movie theater along with The Woman and a couple of friends. What film could possibly drag me into such overpriced entertainment again? Why The Simpsons Movie, of course. And the verdict? Holy crap, they pulled it off. I laughed almost nonstop for most of the movie. [...]

Greatest blog post ever

Seriously, it’s sublime…