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Today’s Affirmation
It’s The Hypocrisy, Stupid!
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Why Did An Inveterate Disco Dolly Like Myself NOT Have These In My Collection?
Yeah, I have them on vinyl (of course), but while I thought I had replaced most of my collection of late 70s Cerrone goodness on CD, I went to play Cerrone’s Paradise the other day and realized that I had not. Sure, I had his seminal work, Love in C-Minor, and even a couple of his later releases (Supernature Symphony and Disco Symphony) on CD, but these two (along with The Golden Touch and Cerrone V) were absent. I opted to replace these two now and wait on the others.
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Is He Making This [Shit] Up As He Goes Along? “Obviously.”
From Greg Fallis;
As you almost certainly know, Comrade Trump was recently asked how much thought he was giving to the financial situation of Americans in his negotiations with Iran. His answer:
“Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran—they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing—we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.”
For the moment, let’s just ignore the fact that Iran has NO nuclear weapons and currently lacks the capacity to create them. Let’s just focus on that statement and the reaction to it. Obviously, a LOT of US citizens were offended and angered by it. But what about Trump’s base? Specifically, let’s see what the Trump-loving ‘patriots’ at FreeRepublic had to say about it.
You may be surprised (well, I was surprised) to find Freepers were almost evenly divided about Trump’s comments (and his ‘excursion’ in Iran in general). I expected the majority to be maximally Trump-brained, and some most certainly were.
You can always count on CBS to slice out a piece of a Trump statement to make it sound as bad as possible. Keeping the nukes out is well worth the price but the Trump haters have no vision beyond that hatred.
by gibsonguyNothing would destroy the USA financial well-being like an Iranian nuke going off in a major city.
by ProtectOurFreedomAmerica first means doing what it takes to remove the Iran nuclear threat. How is this so hard to understand? I would gladly pay $7 at the pump if that’s what it takes.
by KleonWhy aren’t Liberals mad at Iran for the high gas prices and general disorder in the mid east?
by Az JoeAs the leader of the free world you need to lead by example and through the strength that you possess to do the right thing and stand up for other democracies… Israel is the only Democratic country in the Middle East. By standing with them you instill discipline within the world community, and establish your credentials as the leader of the free world. Imagine if you will, letting Israel flounder and allowing it to be nuked by Iran… That would be a terrible example and other countries would start losing respect for America. The United States must lead… Sitting on your arse is not an option.
by jerodTerrorist muslims bent on death to America with a nuclear weapon is the GREATEST threat to our national security that I can think of.
Trump is not doing this because he wants to but because he cares more about America than those who preceded him office and likely cares more than those who will likely succeed him.
by Biblebelter
That’s pretty much what I was expecting to find. But hold on to your keffiyehs, friends, because a surprising number of Freepers are angry and disgusted with Trump and his war against Iran. Who’d a thunk it?
I watched that video and proves Trump is out of touch with the average American but he is more worried about his Stock Market pals… He will pay a steep price for being out of touch. Wonder what happened to America First!
by dpetty121263Americans who don’t watch CBS, who voted for Trump, are also economically hurting right now.
by CondoleezzaProtegeIf Trump is dead set with Iran not having nuclear weapons then he needs to put troops on the ground instead of doing it all by air right now. He also would not be negotiating.
He is making things worse by negotiating. This is his screw up. The economy is going to crap. Republicans will lose big. Either pull out or go all the way in.
Obiviously he is making it up as he is going along and this adventure was poorly planned.
by moviefan8Tucker says Iran is no where close to having a nuke. Tucker has intelligence that is so much better than Trump’s. Trump just wanted to go to war because, well because, er well…cause Epstein.
by Sir Bangaz CrackaWhat most likely happened was Trump believed he was going to replay his grand Venezuelan victory out in Tehran. It blew up in his face, and now we all have to pretend that we were going to get incinerated at any moment if Trump had not blundered into this stupid war
by hcmama
There you are. Trump, being Trump, naturally had to double down on his comment. When asked about it after his return from China, he said, “It’s a perfect statement. I’ll make it again. Everybody agrees.”

ENDNOTE: Just to be clear, at present Iran has neither the material nor the capacity to make any nuclear weapons. The CIA has confirmed it would take at least one year to create a nuclear weapon IF they had the technologies necessary to produce enough fissile material and to design and implement a delivery system with a proper detonation system. And they don’t have that. Obiviously.
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How. Much. Longer?!
Just push the damn button already, and put us out of this never-ending misery!
as another stupid week comes to a close here in America, let’s look back at the dumbest fucking shit that happened.
monday: Biggus Dickus has a wife, you know
where the fuck does Donny find these people?
CNN’s KFILE reveals the man leading the hantavirus response in the U.S. is a specialist in penile implants with little public health experience and hosted a podcast called “Erection Connection.”
wait, what? I understand what all of those words mean, but when you put them together in that order, I’m mystified.
so you’re telling me that the guy Dear Leader picked to deal with a potential hantavirus crisis is a crackpot who doesn’t believe in vaccinesand has no fucking clue how to handle a public health emergency — but if you need a homey to biggify your pantsmonster, he’s your man?
Uncle Tim Walz was right, these people are all weirdos — and not just weirdos, but dick-obsessed weirdos.
need proof? let’s start with Donny’s former Acting Attorney General and current US Representative to NATO. dude sold toilets specially engineered for super-endowed bros who were tired of having their massive wieners go plunking in the water when they sat down to do their business.
then there’s Dear Leader himself, who can’t stop waxing rhapsodic about the enormity of Arnold Palmer’s 9-iron.
Lady Space Laser was absolutely smitten with Hunter Biden’s freakishly ginormous trouser trout.
don’t even get me started on six-time international lap-hockey champion Handy Oakley.
and if you want to get penis-adjacent, there’s always roasted ball-sack aficionado Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, who believes that microwaving the family jewels is the True Way Forward.
these freaks and oddballs need to all get a grip. no, wait — what am I saying?
MAGA, when it comes to your weens, don’t get a grip. keep your fucking hands where I can see them.
tuesday: just a perfectly normal dude, doing perfectly normal stuff
the morbidly wealthy, they’re so relatable, am I right?
the Space Nazi was part of the gaggle of gazillionaires who accompanied Donny to China this week, and — well, who among us hasn’t been at a state dinner at the exact moment the ketamine kicks in?
This is what happens when you eat Ketamine for dessert pic.twitter.com/AnPFtx9aJQ
— Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) May 14, 2026
what the fuck was that? we need to gif that shit, pronto.
now, I’ve never experienced the wonders of ketamine, so can someone please tell me — does it affect your gait?
Why does he walk like this pic.twitter.com/STsdveIuxq
— Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 (@EthanLevins2) May 14, 2026
why does the Space Nazi jerk his right arm like that? what the fuck is he staring at up on the ceiling?
again, another prime giffable moment.
if I had a trillion dollars, I’d def hire someone to give me walking lessons.
I’ll say this about the Chinese — at least they had the good sense to keep the silverware out of harm’s way.
wednesday: shut the fuck up
stand back, everyone. Fox News found object Jesse Watters has been doing his own research.
“I did some research on ‘the blacks.’ blacks, for 150 years, have only represented 10% to 15% of the American population. okay? that’s not that much. so if they wanna have more seats, they gotta get in between the sheets.”
how awesome. in one short soundbite, Jesse manages to be racist, paternalistic, condescending and crude. he’s won the Fucknut Quadfecta.
Republicans have spent the last two weeks working overtime to disenfranchise black voters by gerrymandering their districts out of existence — and this is the smirking buffoon’s sage advice? to get busy fuckin’?
they say that a gif is worth a thousand words, so here you go, Jesse, this one’s for you.
thursday: verily, she doth spew bullshit unto you
oh look, it’s transdimensional-traveler-obsessed goofus and noted biblical scholar An Appalling Lunatic, here to give us an extremely fucked-up lesson in religion.
Anna Paulina Luna: “and so it’s interesting because you have, you know, the evolution of the King James Bible, as we all know that story. he wanted to get remarried, they re-wrote it. it’s what happened.”
Representative Lunatic is so fucking dumb, and all simpering meathead Joe Rogan can do is sit there with a stupid grin on his face and go ‘right,’ because he’s as big an ignoramus as Appalling Ann.
King James didn’t want to get remarried. that’s not what the King James Version of the Bible is all about. the British king who wanted to get remarried was Henry VIII, the jamoke famous for prancing about with a haunch of meat in each fist.
and Eighth Hank didn’t rewrite any Bible. what he did was he form the Church of England and put himself in charge of it, so he could get busy offing an endless series of spouses. remember, the merry fucking wives of Windsor?
(don’t even ask me what this is all about. I googled ‘merry wives of windsor gif’ and google gave me Batman. hey, everyone — I’m as good as doing my own research as Jesse Watters!)
but I digress. here’s my point:
it must be nice to be a wingnut and go on podcasts like Meathead Rogan’s and just be eternally wrong from dawn until dusk — because none of these shitwits knows dick about anything, and no one ever corrects you.
it’s a fucking oroboros of stupid.
oh look, you actually get something useful if you google ‘oroboros gif.’
friday: the further adventures of Some Fucking Idiot™
on Friday, some fucking idiot made exactly two public appearances. the first was when he deigned to talk to reporters aboard Fuckface Force One as it flew home from Beijing.
math, how does it even work?
what is the fucking idiot even saying? it’s just meaningless gibberish.
oh, and speaking of gibberish—
the fucking idiot is so monumentally stupid. someone told him that Dem candidate James Talerico identifies as ‘cisgender’ and the fucking idiot heard it as ‘six genders,’ and now he repeats it all day long.
and no press appearance would be complete without the fucking idiot accusing a reporter of treason.
the fucking idiot’s second appearance was in a pre-taped interview with Bret Baier, where he threw yet another of our close allies under the bus.
how wonderful. the fucking idiot has one meeting in China, where he’s too dumb to realize he’s being disrespected by Xi — and now, all of a sudden, Taiwan needs to ‘cool it a little bit.’
he’s such an easily-played moron.
then, to top it all off, the fucking idiot doubled down on his dumb-ass statement that he ‘doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation.’
yeah, keep on reminding voters that you couldn’t give less of a shit about them. let’s see how that works out for you in the midterms.
and, despite all the dumbfuckery going on right in front of their faces, neither Bret Baier nor any of the reporters aboard Fuckface Force One stood up to ask ‘what the fuck is wrong with you?’
how fucking idiotic is that?
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
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365 Days Of UNF: May 16th
Caption This
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I Rather Like It. What Say You?
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The Real Reason Apple Stopped Development On The Apple Car
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I’m Going To Hell
Who Remembers?
Tonight’s Soundtrack
Released 39 Years Ago
“Dolly…Dolly…you’ve got a willie!”
My favorite film of all time, Personal Services (1987)
Trailer 1:
Trailer 2:
The Germans were obviously more liberal in what they showed in their trailers:
Some clips:
An interview with the filmmakers:
As I’ve told people over the years, if you can appreciate this film, you’ll understand my sense of humor.
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Spring 1986
Almost period-appropriate for the player this morning.
I remember the drummer Enrique “Kiki” Garcia always give me the tingles down there. It’s funny how I realize now that for the most part, all of the actors and musicians who had such a profound effect on me in my 20s and 30s were my peers in age.
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Today’s Affirmation
Why Do They All Look Like Blow-up Dolls?
So. Many. Daddy. Issues.
he striking thing about the Donnyverse is how everyone in it totally fucking sucks.
at the top, you’ve got evil shit-kazoos like the piss-drunk Christofascist warmonger, the whale-head-chainsawing maniac who swims in raw sewage, and of course, the One Stinky Diaperload to Rule Them All.
but wait, there’s more: orbiting these fascist fucknuts are hundreds of fanatical cultists who will do anything to please Dear Leader.
here’s one of them. folks, I want you to meet Natalie Harp.
you know those infantile, fucked-up memes that will show up by the dozenson Donny’s crappy app in the middle of the night? that’s the creepy hand of Natalie Harp at work.
Most nights, the president fires off dozens of posts attacking his political enemies, amplifying conspiracy theories, spreading AI-slop videos and images, and boosting offensive content from obscure MAGA accounts on X and his own Truth Social platform.
But despite the odd hours, Trump isn’t doing it all alone, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.
His executive assistant Natalie Harp is the driving force behind some of his most incendiary content, including a racist video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus Christ, both of which Trump later took down.
that’s right, all those racist and misogynistic memes, all the Q-Anon batshit, all the Donny-as-Jesus AI slop — it’s Natalie who finds that twaddle and shows it to the big guy, because that’s her job: to keep Dear Leader stupid and happy.
Harp’s official title is Executive Assistant, but her unofficial title is The Human Printer, because she walks around — I shit you not — with a wireless printer, which she’ll use at a moment’s notice to show Donny all the dumb-ass shit she’s found on the internet.
any time Dear Leader is sundowning, or rage-spiraling, or just drooling uncontrollably while staring off into to space, it’s Natalie who hands him a printout of Barack the Ape, at which point Donny goes ‘hrr hrr hrr’ and his mood brightens. he finds that shit hilarious, and it calms him down.
once again, it’s just so eternally embarrassing. can you think of any other country on the planet whose leader is such a colicky toddler that they need to be rage-managed with internet-sourced dumbfuckery?
no, of course you can’t. only in America. we’re number one — when it comes to certifiably insane heads of state.
where does Donny find these people? well in, Natalie’s case, she’s been by Dear Leader’s side for years — ever since 2019, when he saw her on Fox News (because of course he did), where she was making a speech in which she claimed Donny cured her cancer.
it’s at this point that I should probably mention that Natalie Harp is every bit as bugfuck nuts as Donny is.
I did warn you that everyone in the Donnyverse totally fucking sucks.
Harp flew under our radar for years, but back in April 2024, when Donny was on trial for being a fraudulent fuck-knuckle, reporters noticed a woman — toting that famous portable printer — who was following him around.
that, my friends, was our first introduction to Natalie Harp.
Her name is Natalie Harp, a former One America News anchor who joined Trump’s communications team in March 2022. According to reporting that year by the Washington Post, Harp would even accompany the former reality TV host on golf trips in a cart “equipped with a laptop and sometimes a printer to show him uplifting news articles, online posts, or other materials.”
oh my god, she even follows Donny around the golf course — in her own specially-outfitted happy-printout cart.
so, that’s a perfectly normal thing, right? seriously, how fucking broken-inside do you have to be to require that kind of nonstop positive affirmation? this big, strong woman, tears in her eyes, actually travels with Donny while he’s cheating at golf, and goes ‘sir! sir! look at the nice thing catturd said about you on twitter! sir!’
Donny’s handlers are royally pissed off at Harp right now, because she’s fucking up their shit. her job may be to mollify Dear Leader, but theirjob is to hide his crazypants dementia from the world — and that’s a thing that gets harder and harder to do when she’s out here helping Donny to post fifty or more batshit memes in the middle of the night. oh, did I mention that Donny’s given her access to his Truth Social login? perfectly normal stuff.
the only thing all that late-night crazypants posting accomplishes is to remind the entire world that Donny is an out-of-control lunatic with no filters — but Natalie’s brain is too MAGA-pickled to realize she’s doing him no favors.
it also doesn’t help that Harp is apparently just as racist as Donny — nor does it help when half the shit she shows him can be traced by to Nazi accounts on twitter.
Donny’s inner circle has been begging Natalie to at least run this stuff by them before she and Donny put it all online, but she’s all ‘nuh-uh, I can do whatever I want, because Donny says I’m special.’
The frustration lies partly in the perceived chain of command: Harp does not share her drafts with anyone else in the White House but the president, claiming that she works for him and only him, reported the Journal.
Donny’s minders want this woman outta here, but don’t expect Dear Leader to shitcan her any time soon, because — trigger warning: be prepared to be nauseated.
Mr. Trump has dismissed concerns about Ms. Harp, whom he calls “sweetie” and treats like a daughter, according to people close to him.
first of all, ew.
and second of all, ewwwwwww.
does ‘treats like a daughter’ mean that Donny wants to quote-unquote ‘date’her — if that’s what we’re charitably calling it — and is constantly trying to grope her?
now get ready to crank the ‘ewww’ dial so far past 11 that it snaps off in your hand — because honestly, Natalie sounds like a creepy fucking stalker.
In 2023, Ms. Harp sent a series of letters to Mr. Trump that unnerved people around him, according to a half-dozen people with knowledge of them.
“You are all that matters to me,” she wrote in one of the letters, which were seen by The New York Times. The letters’ authenticity was confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of them.
“I don’t ever want to let you down,” Ms. Harp wrote, thanking Mr. Trump for being her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”
In another letter, she told Mr. Trump that she wanted to get back to “that synergy” she used to have with him, where “we’d talk about everything and nothing.”
“I want to bring you joy,” she wrote, “to feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk ‘work.’”
what. in the. actual. fuck. no wonder Donny’s handlers want her gone. how many red flags did you find in that excerpt? if someone wrote letters like that to you, you’d be taking out a restraining order, not giving them a job.
Natalie Harp is just as fucking nuts as Donny, and she’s making him look every bit as deranged as he actually is. none of this helps Donny one bit.so why does he keep allowing this to happen? because she reminds him of Ivanka.
ew.
as I sit here writing this, Donny is aboard Fuckface Force One, jetting back home to America after a two-day visit to Beijing that accomplished exactly jack shit — but at least Donny did get to embarrass himself in front of the world, so there’s that.
Trump: “Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast foods in the United States all combined. That’s a pretty big statement.” pic.twitter.com/iUTfalRu56
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2026
“just as many Chinese now love— basketball and blue jeans. Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains— in the United States, all combined. that’s a pretty big state.”
who wrote this drek, Natalie Harp?
Donny really is the Ugliest American. he knows nothing about the world. he knows nothing about foreign cultures — and he doesn’t want to know.
Donny’s bragging because we eat a lot of beef chow mein here in the US. so fucking what?
Donny’s impressed because the Chinese like baseball and jeans? what is this, 1983? China is eating our lunch, and leading the world in things like electric cars and renewable energy. China is so far ahead of us in the health and technology sectors that it isn’t funny — but do prattle on about food, Donny. way to focus on what’s important, you ginormous doughy pantload.
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
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Living With A G-Tube, 9 Months On, aka Fuck Cancer
It’s now been 9 months since I was last able to swallow everything normally. While I initially balked at the thought of a g-tube when it was presented to me before my surgery last August, I reluctantly agreed “just in case.” (Actually, my surgeon said, “This is going to happen.”)
I’m glad it was done. My swallowing hasn’t been ideal for years from late-stage complications of the scar tissue (something no one ever warns you about) stemming from the radiation treatments for my other cancer back in 2004. I was occasionally aspirating, but also managing it well enough that during all that time I had only one incident of pneumonia that required a hospital stay. I’ve had two in the last 2 months, both times stemming from occasions when I actually did try to eat and swallow. I think I’ve learned my lesson.
My swallow therapist has been wonderful, but after deciding to give it one more try after an agreed-upon break for a few months, I think I’m ready to throw in the towel. Considering that last week some of a single bite of food that I chewed (to get the direct taste) and spit out, still managed to find its way down my windpipe—and this tells me it’s time to give up trying. The situation isn’t improving, isn’t ideal, but as Ben says, “It is what it is.”
I have learned several things over the past few months in the event that—the gods forbid—any of you find yourself in a similar situation. I’ll probably be adding to this list during the day as things come to me, but at least I can pass on my initial tips and tricks.
One thing no one really prepares you for is the utter lifestyle change that tube feeding brings. You don’t realize how much eating is part of the social fabric of our society, and being tied to a g-tube negates all that socializing (unless you’re willing and happy to just sit at a table and watch everyone else eat and drink; I am not). Weekend lunches out together and nightly dinners were a source of joy and one of the few times that Ben and I could just sit together and unwind from the day, sharing thoughts, experiences, and frustrations. Ben can still cook for us both (something he loves to do), but mine needs to be pureed so it will go through the tube. We still eat at the same time, but since the g-tube can be messy with “real” food, it’s best done standing at the kitchen counter while Ben sits at the dining room table. Not exactly conducive to sharing. We still occasionally go out to eat, but I always get my meal to go so I can take it home and puree the fuck out of it (see below).
Now, some tips, in no particular order:
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- If you’re stuck with the tube for more than a short period, get a Ninja. It will allow you to reintroduce “real” food to your diet unless you’re happy with the same Nestle Isosource formula day in and day out.
- I supplement the prescribed formula with Premier Protein and Boost High Calorie energy shakes.
- Soups are good for enteral feeding and a good gateway back into “real” food. They’ll still need to be pureed but the first time that tomato bisque hit my stomach it was a little slice of heaven.
- That got me thinking. If I can do soups, why not other food? Over the past nine months I’ve learned that pretty much anything can be pureed for tube feeding. I’ve done everything from fish ‘n chips to cheeseburgers and fries to steak ‘n shrimp to chicken Caesar salad. The key is to making this work is to use enough water to thin down the mixture to a consistency where it will easily go through the tube—often dramatically increasing the volume you’ll ask your stomach to hold. (Try to push pizza through a 3mm hole and you get the idea.) I’ve learned that starchy foods (potatoes, bread, pasta, rice)—no matter the consistency—can still be problematic and will destroy your syringe after one meal.
- Flush, flush, flush. Cleanliness is next to godliness as they say. After you inject, always follow with at least one syringe of clear water to clear everything out of the tube and prevent any blockages at the connection to the mic-key. There’s apparently a valve inside there that prevents stomach contents from coming out when the tube is disconnected that needs to remain clean to function correctly.
- There are many brands of enteral syringes available, so if you can, get the ones that can be cleaned and reused multiple times. Unfortunately, the company that supplies mine only carries the Vesco brand, which are cheap and good for maybe two or three uses (even with thorough cleaning) before they become unusable. When I was in the hospital I noticed they use the Monoject brand that keeps going, and going, and going, but unfortunately, my supplier doesn’t carry them nor can they be purchased through Amazon (unlike the Vesco brand).
- Verify that all your medications are crushable. If they aren’t, ask your doctor for crushable or liquid versions. I haven’t had to deal with requesting crushable prescription meds since everything I’m on can be crushed, but OTC items required a bit of sleuthing. Most OTC meds are available in various formats. If they aren’t carried at your local pharmacy, Amazon comes to the rescue again.
- Along those lines, after struggling for days after coming home from my initial surgery in August with a manual, plastic twisty-type pill crusher, I said, “Fuck it. There’s got to be a better way.” That’s when I discovered an electric pill crusher that makes short order of pulverizing my meds. It’s just a repurposed coffee grinder, and frankly if you’d rather use one of those it would work just as well. (If my pill crusher ever gives out I’ll just get the coffee grinder; they’re about the same cost and the coffee grinder is better looking.)
- Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. One thing that’s often overlooked is keeping properly hydrated. To this day I still struggle because it’s just not something I think about, and I don’t get thirsty (or hungry, for that matter) the way I used to. My morning routine consists of 16 oz. of filtered tap water followed by another 12 oz. or so of iced vanilla latte. (You didn’t seriously think I’d give up coffee, did you?!) I follow that up throughout the day with another 16 oz. of water every few hours.
- Developing reflux, or GERD is a definite possibility if you’re on tube feeding for an extended period. I’ve had issues with reflux since the late 90s (I’ve been on Prilosec for years) so this isn’t new for me, but it’s gotten worse since I’ve had the tube and it seems to be volume-related. I’m now acutely aware now of how much liquid goes in my stomach, and since it’s shrunk since I’ve been on this liquid diet, I can’t stuff myself the way I used to prior to my surgery or it will back up—which is not a pleasant sensation when you can’t swallow anything to flush it back down.
Now, about that taste thing. Theoretically you shouldn’t be able to taste anything that goes directly into your stomach via a g-tube, but I’ve found (and this has been corroborated by my nutritionist who’s heard the same from other patients) that oftentimes you do get a hint of taste from things. See: coffee (thank the gods).
I guess that’s about it for now. If I can think of anything else to pass on, I’ll add it.
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Released 48 Years Ago Today
Alan Parsons Project: Pyramid (1978)
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365 Days Of UNF: May 15th
If Only…
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Vomiting It All Up









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At The Very Least…
Shapiro should volunteer to go out with a roofing crew in FL this July to help them out for a few days to get an introduction to reality. Or work the overnight shift in a hospital emergency room. Or teach 8th graders.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) May 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
He wouldn’t last four hours.
Who Wants Cake?
Released 55 Years Ago Today
Carpenters: Carpenters (1971)
Damn, I’m old.
This was the first Carpenters album I bought, and in many ways is still my favorite.
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