Sitemap - 2025 - Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

"It’s all highly embarrassing for those of us who are still embarassable...."

"The world is cruel and dumb. I don’t like it much anymore. But the hummingbirds are nice....."

"It was like having a nightmare, but I was wide awake and directing it myself....."

"This Americana ying and yang...."

George and Ethel

"This is where they live. It is not where we live....."

"The man doesn’t just have thin skin, he sometimes appears to have no skin at all....."

The Lash

World War III and golden cell phones

The love and mercy of Brian Wilson

The Glory of Sly Stone

Kayfabe

"The cruelty is of the Snidely Whiplash variety..."

TACO

The withering view....

"...riches trump idiocy...."

"We don’t know these men...."

"Accepting a $400 million dollar porno-palace-plane from the home of the 9/11 hijackers was something I did not have on my Trump bingo card..."

The Pope and the White Sox and the loaves and the fishes....

Department of Priorities

National security, the Hanson Brothers, and putting goalies in charge....

Bits and Pieces 5/2/2025

"Honestly, satire loses its sting when it needs to be googled...."

“Assassination Trading Cards”

Pope Francis and the Beatitudes

The Graves

“I took a cognitive test. And, I don't know what to tell you other than I got every answer right...."

"cavorting with the enemy...."

Elvis Presley in America

"The game of ball is glorious..."

Brain/Mind/Head/Soul

“Petrifyingly Stupid Dipshits”

"Can you imagine being alone in the same room with Pete Hegseth and NOT being the smartest person there?....."

It’s getting weirder and weirder out there....

Farewell Jack

Guys get a bad rap when they are sick. Or, “sick”, as women might term it....

O Canada....

Transgender mice and the "Dawg Pound"...

Be nice....until it’s time to not be nice....

Not noticing the chainsaw....

Gigs. From finish to start.

"...if you were to build a man who fit perfectly inside the wheel-house of the Trump lizard brain, you’d build a Vladimir Putin...."

Becoming Led Zeppelin

"I do keep checking to make sure that Google doesn’t jump the gun and re-draw the Canadian border....."

"Super Bowl Sunday is the one day a year Americans put all their other differences aside and argue exclusively about the halftime show....."

Democratic lawmakers are meekly walking to the back of the bus...

"How exactly this does NOT meet the definition of a coup d'état is something maybe the editors of the New York Times or the Washington Post can explain to a worried nation?"

"Even bodies still in the river did not trigger the high road...."

“He gets some of his best work done on the golf course....”

"It used to hurt. Now it just pisses me off...."

What about Greenland?

Bob Uecker in heaven....

The ones calling me “woke” today are the descendants of the ones who called my father a communist....

"Trump is the guy who shows up after the battle, shoots all the wounded, and then calls a press conference to announce that he won the war all by himself..."

The Songs - Abandoned Love

"Is the curtain now up, and we’re waiting for it to come down? Or is it down, and we’re waiting for it to come up?"