Billy Parker

I don’t know if I’m ready for this year’s darkness

Seat neighbor on the flight to Cabo is watching 12 Years a Slave. Ok!

Beach Boys at Riot Fest. I’d throw no shade if they had the Wilsons via AI up there.

6yo today heard Daft Punk’s “One More Time” on the radio: “Can we change it? The singer’s WiFi isn’t working so good.”

6yo wakes up and comes down to me listening to Cat Power. “I feel like I’m still asleep.”

I love when there’s men in your family and their only email is their work email

There is no energy like a group of people starting to become friends and making jokes with each other for the first time

Can we get something with Aimee Lou Wood and Sally Hawkins in the works?

How many other people walking past me also have the Yellowjackets theme playing in their head on a loop

Whenever my wife comes home from a work trip, she reacts to me like Mrs. McAllister reuniting with Kevin. “But then who put that laundry away?”

Reading the new R.E.M. book to fill in the gaps left from Unseen Power of the Picket Fence

Find myself thinking about the waves goodbye on snl but it’s just the intro to Baby I’m Amazed

When is Paris 2024 apparel likely to be on clearance? #Paris2024

Day Two of getting home delivery and the cover is…Bratmobile. The algorithm is deeper than I realized.

First day of home delivery. The lead story is that the printing press has not been able to print the paper properly all week.

Cloudy early Saturday morning outside Party City, person after person exiting carrying their massive balloon bouquets

That winter when Cat Power’s Sea of Love cover would come on at dinner parties and you’d well up thinking about Juno

Can’t tell the difference between beards and tats

Asked my 5yo what he thought of a Sonic Youth song that was on. “There’s no music.”

No parent at preschool dropoff gets a friendlier hello than the one who sent the passive aggressive thank you note for gifting her daughter Legos.