For what it’s worth, I roll with “Modern Noir” as my @tweetbot icon, because @tapbot_paul once referred to that look as the “murder bird” and I find that amusing.

With its five first-round #NFLDraft2020 picks, @LSUfootball had more players taken than the entire Pac-12 did (3).

And the entire ACC (3).

And as many as the entire Big 12.

And as many as the entire B1G.

A different type of tiger stripes in @Joe_Burrow10’s future. Way to geaux, Joe! Congrats! #NFLDraft2020

Grief, as it turns out, is one of the dominant features of our having been engulfed by the events of our time, weaving its way in and around our anxiety and anger, inflaming our hearts and weighing down our lives along the way.”

— Curt Thompson

Tonight at Chez Turner, we tried out a new sous chef.

Please. Allow me to play you the song of my people.

This weekend I’ve been revisiting the greatness of @Evanescence’s Fallen. I continue to marvel at @AmyLeeEV’s vocals.

A sobering thought today: Tom Cruise’s first Mission Impossible film and John Frankenheimer’s Ronin are now the sort of espionage thrillers my teenage son looks at the way I looked at the Cold War spy movies of the 1960s when I was his age.

Time to watch the (second) series finale of #StrikeBack.

Unbidden, and with no input from me, my middle child asked if he and his younger brother could watch “the last #StarWars movie” (Rise of Skywalker), and now this #GeekDad is on the couch a little verklempt.