Brent Shepherd (he/him)
@shepcatzero.bsky.social
Down these mean skeets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Casting my vote for Angelyne pink instead of Mary Kay pink.
September 20, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Casting my vote for Angelyne pink instead of Mary Kay pink.
The 437 area code serves Toronto, Ontario, so naturally I blame Trump’s ill-conceived trade war with our neighbors and traditional allies for this unprecedented instance of a Canadian phisher attempting to start shit from 1,000 miles away.
It’s alarming. They’re ordinarily so polite.
It’s alarming. They’re ordinarily so polite.
September 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The 437 area code serves Toronto, Ontario, so naturally I blame Trump’s ill-conceived trade war with our neighbors and traditional allies for this unprecedented instance of a Canadian phisher attempting to start shit from 1,000 miles away.
It’s alarming. They’re ordinarily so polite.
It’s alarming. They’re ordinarily so polite.
I'm presently making my way through the text of the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act, and I'm thinking this provision should be applicable to all American wage earners and not just student-athletes engaged in NIL agreements, particularly given the stagnation of the Federal minimum wage.
September 12, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I'm presently making my way through the text of the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act, and I'm thinking this provision should be applicable to all American wage earners and not just student-athletes engaged in NIL agreements, particularly given the stagnation of the Federal minimum wage.
You know, to match the decor.
September 12, 2026 at 4:21 PM
You know, to match the decor.
“Siri, show me two people I’ll never waste one minute of my one precious life on.”
September 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM
“Siri, show me two people I’ll never waste one minute of my one precious life on.”
It's raining here right now, and I was about to remark that rain in the 90s is such a waste of precipitation, but now I need someone to explain a 17-degree plummet followed by a 10-degree rise in temperature in the span of an hour. I took a meteorology course in college, but this wasn't covered.
September 6, 2026 at 11:42 PM
It's raining here right now, and I was about to remark that rain in the 90s is such a waste of precipitation, but now I need someone to explain a 17-degree plummet followed by a 10-degree rise in temperature in the span of an hour. I took a meteorology course in college, but this wasn't covered.
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
August 29, 2026 at 9:29 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
At some point the ‘k’ peeled off and went missing, and it was like that for a while until some absolute legend determined, correctly, that “orks” and “poons” made it at least 250% funnier and removed the ‘f’ and the ‘s’.
This is the only good thing that has ever happened in an employee breakroom.
This is the only good thing that has ever happened in an employee breakroom.
August 19, 2026 at 2:16 PM
At some point the ‘k’ peeled off and went missing, and it was like that for a while until some absolute legend determined, correctly, that “orks” and “poons” made it at least 250% funnier and removed the ‘f’ and the ‘s’.
This is the only good thing that has ever happened in an employee breakroom.
This is the only good thing that has ever happened in an employee breakroom.
I am bound contractually by a lease agreement that prohibits me from replacing any feature, fixture or appliance more permanent than a light bulb around here, but someone at Down-at-Heels got upgraded to a fancy new toilet today.
August 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I am bound contractually by a lease agreement that prohibits me from replacing any feature, fixture or appliance more permanent than a light bulb around here, but someone at Down-at-Heels got upgraded to a fancy new toilet today.
It also mirrors Roger's encounter with the farmer at Prairie Stop, Highway 41. #NorthByNorthwest #TCMParty
August 17, 2026 at 12:08 AM
It also mirrors Roger's encounter with the farmer at Prairie Stop, Highway 41. #NorthByNorthwest #TCMParty
Also this especially nasty bit of dialogue, which i wrote about in greater detail here: shepcat.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/h...
#HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
#HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
![[screencap of screenplay excerpt]
CLOSE SHOT McCUE AT PHONE
McCUE
(into phone)
McCue speaking. Mrs. Phoebe DeWolfe, eight-sixty-one and a half South State Street, colored, gave birth to a pickaninny in a patrol wagon with Sheriff Hartman's special Rifle Squad acting as nurses. Well -- Phoebe was walking along the street when all of a sudden she began -- that's right. So the police coaxed her into the patrol wagon and they started a race with the stork. When the pickaninny was born the Rifle Squad examined him carefully to see if it was Earl Williams who they knew was hiding somewhere.
MED. SHOT
Hildy is still pacing. McCue laughs at his own joke.
McCUE
(to Hildy)
Did you get that, Hildy?
HILDY
No -- what?
Hildy's phone rings. She answers.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cnlqtx4oukgw2sgvtefy2c6g/bafkreigxblupj5hzsd33oxfnquwzyremljmfvx6qqpmiozyr526qvncsqq)
August 16, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Also this especially nasty bit of dialogue, which i wrote about in greater detail here: shepcat.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/h...
#HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
#HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
This is actually rare for FedEx.
It's not that I absolutely, positively needed my package overnight, or even by the original delivery target of midday Friday. But there has been no update since it left the distribution center five days ago.
I believe one of their planes or trucks may be missing.
It's not that I absolutely, positively needed my package overnight, or even by the original delivery target of midday Friday. But there has been no update since it left the distribution center five days ago.
I believe one of their planes or trucks may be missing.
August 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This is actually rare for FedEx.
It's not that I absolutely, positively needed my package overnight, or even by the original delivery target of midday Friday. But there has been no update since it left the distribution center five days ago.
I believe one of their planes or trucks may be missing.
It's not that I absolutely, positively needed my package overnight, or even by the original delivery target of midday Friday. But there has been no update since it left the distribution center five days ago.
I believe one of their planes or trucks may be missing.
In which one’s imagination is enthralled by the notion of Curtis LeMay — the inspiration for Gen. Jack D. Ripper in DR. STRANGELOVE and for whom a dear friend of mine, now 96, worked as a secretary at the Pentagon — serving as the commissioner of baseball.
August 16, 2026 at 4:28 PM
In which one’s imagination is enthralled by the notion of Curtis LeMay — the inspiration for Gen. Jack D. Ripper in DR. STRANGELOVE and for whom a dear friend of mine, now 96, worked as a secretary at the Pentagon — serving as the commissioner of baseball.
Which phrase, we should all be aware now after Hot ODYSSEY Summer, traces its origin to someone, fittingly in this instance, named Homer.
August 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Which phrase, we should all be aware now after Hot ODYSSEY Summer, traces its origin to someone, fittingly in this instance, named Homer.
Gee, I dunno, Jon. D'ya think you brought enough guys?
August 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Gee, I dunno, Jon. D'ya think you brought enough guys?
There are any number of reasons why Rep. Andy Ogles just got primaried in the Tennessee 5th.
One could be that he’s a homophobic bigot.
Another could be that he’s too stupid to know the difference between a nuclear family and a semiautomatic family, which his clearly is.
One could be that he’s a homophobic bigot.
Another could be that he’s too stupid to know the difference between a nuclear family and a semiautomatic family, which his clearly is.
August 7, 2026 at 3:49 PM
There are any number of reasons why Rep. Andy Ogles just got primaried in the Tennessee 5th.
One could be that he’s a homophobic bigot.
Another could be that he’s too stupid to know the difference between a nuclear family and a semiautomatic family, which his clearly is.
One could be that he’s a homophobic bigot.
Another could be that he’s too stupid to know the difference between a nuclear family and a semiautomatic family, which his clearly is.
... or Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
August 6, 2026 at 4:35 AM
... or Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
Loni Anderson died 20 years before she was born? ALSO BLOCKED.
August 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Loni Anderson died 20 years before she was born? ALSO BLOCKED.
Anytime stuff like this pops up in my feed — e.g., a post about Martin Sheen that includes a photo of Cliff Robertson and one of what looks like a Skarsgård brother drawn from memory — I block that account with extreme prejudice. AND YOU SHOULD TOO.
Lazy shit like this is why the world sucks now.
Lazy shit like this is why the world sucks now.
August 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Anytime stuff like this pops up in my feed — e.g., a post about Martin Sheen that includes a photo of Cliff Robertson and one of what looks like a Skarsgård brother drawn from memory — I block that account with extreme prejudice. AND YOU SHOULD TOO.
Lazy shit like this is why the world sucks now.
Lazy shit like this is why the world sucks now.
The detective novel I happened to start reading just this morning, with a timely shout-out to Robert Pattinson’s character in THE ODYSSEY.
July 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The detective novel I happened to start reading just this morning, with a timely shout-out to Robert Pattinson’s character in THE ODYSSEY.
Anyway, my contribution to the zeitgeist. 5/5 #HATM #HighFidelity
July 20, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Anyway, my contribution to the zeitgeist. 5/5 #HATM #HighFidelity
To wit: I overslept a bit one morning, texted my supervisor I was running behind but was on my way, and clocked in 17 minutes late. Even though I fully intended to make up those 17 minutes and work my full eight for the day, my supervisor had to adjust my time so it wouldn't be charged against me.
![[above a medium close-up of Mitch McConnell, shot from below and framing his head against a rotunda whose rays make it appear that a nimbus encircles his head — imagery that is at once blasphemous and wistful, becaause maybe the racist son of a bitch really is dead]
Mitch McConnell's hospitalization got me thinking.
If a U.S. senator is hospitalized for months and can't vote or represent the people who elected them, why is there no process to determine whether they're still able to serve?
Most Americans have to justify missing a single day of work.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cnlqtx4oukgw2sgvtefy2c6g/bafkreiaocmy5rz6lbfi2ydkicsrq7a3meol7w34dd5l7ye2xa32zffe36m)
July 18, 2026 at 8:17 PM
To wit: I overslept a bit one morning, texted my supervisor I was running behind but was on my way, and clocked in 17 minutes late. Even though I fully intended to make up those 17 minutes and work my full eight for the day, my supervisor had to adjust my time so it wouldn't be charged against me.