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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 08/10/2026

@jordanmorris.bsky.social @jessethorn.bsky.social Don't worry, Guy Fieri's will be in the new Burbank airport terminal (opposite Gate 7).

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 08/10/2026

This is called "being a middle-aged man who owns a computer and a stereo."

Product Preferences: Likely building cable and adapter collection

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 07/10/2026

Wow, I knew he could sing, but I didn’t know he could judge, too!

The California ballot for the November 3rd election asks “Shall Associate Justice of the Supreme Court JOSHUA GROBAN be elected to the office for the term provided by law?”

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 06/10/2026

When your team is in the playoffs, they send you to the airport to delight and/or annoy people. When your team isn't, they send you to clean out your locker.

Raymond, the Rays mascot, high-fiving a girl at Tampa International Airport.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 03/10/2026

The department, or the chemical reaction?

Text message: "Hello, We need your valuable opinions regarding LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE"

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 27/09/2026

The movie theater where I saw TRON is now a church (I realize this is a fairly common theater reuse).

Google Street View of the Britton Radiant Church, in a strip mall

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 24/09/2026

Did Campbell's do market research where people kept saying "Yes, I'd like tomato soup with grilled cheese," and not follow up to where the people specified that what they wanted was a separate grilled cheese SANDWICH?

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 23/09/2026

Birthday cheesesteak and baseball!

Cheesesteak on a TV tray in the foreground, Tampa Bay Rays vs. New York Yankees on TV in the background

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 20/09/2026

I’m standing on the platform. It’s too late to plan ahead.

Los Angeles Metro departure time monitor with the rider alert: The "B" & "D" Lines are operating with delays in service due to track maintenance. Trains will share 1 track between Union Station and 7th/Metro Center. Please Plan Ahead.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/09/2026

Using my quarterly Hilton credit card credit to have dinner in a hotel that isn’t paying their bills.

TV in a hotel restaurant showing a car commercial. Overlaid is a graphic saying “To pay your bill or make an arrangement: directv.com/pay (203)”

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/09/2026

Job interview invitations sent from "job job" are definitely not a scam, sure.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 10/09/2026

Okay, there are 6 seasons, and you guys just added it on September 1st. Let's not get too antsy.

Email from Netflix telling me, "Don't forget to finish SCTV. Let's find out what happens next... keep watching."

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 23/08/2026

Oh, yeah, the lady they named the cookies after.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/08/2026

Suddenly, AI Peanuts characters are everywhere.

Restaurant is raising funds for Colombia earthquake relief using an AI image of Snoopy and Woodstock praying.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/08/2026

How do you answer your phone? (I try not to.)

"Far Side" cartoon in which two anthropomorphic cows sit on a sofa in a suburban living room, looking at a dial telephone on a small table with a "RINGGGGG" sound effect.

Caption: "Well, there it goes again.... And we just sit here without opposable thumbs."

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 05/08/2026

One of the streetcar lines goes to Cemeteries, too!

Streetcar waiting at the Cemeteries Transit Center in New Orleans

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 03/08/2026

Dannon hasn't been the same since the package looked like this.

1970s container of Dannon coffee yogurt, which just has a brown front panel with "DANNON Coffee LOWFAT YOGURT" in white.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 03/08/2026

On the other hand, the old-fashioned price tags are having issues as well.

Ice cream is $3.49 each, or, um, 2 for $7.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 03/08/2026

Those new digital shelf tags are working great!

Digital shelf tags working correctly for two varieties of yogurt, but another two varieties have paper price tags stuck over the digital tags.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 31/07/2026

Also, Snoopy is canonically a world-famous grocery clerk, so the other shoppers and staff members should be asking for autographs.

Snoopy standing on top of his doghouse wearing an apron moving his arms, thinking, "Butter... ninety-eight twice... bread... thirty-nine... Here's the world-famous grocery clerk working at the checkout counter... Eggs... fifty-nine... tea... seventy-nine... milk... Actually, there aren't more than a dozen world-famous grocery clerks..."

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 26/07/2026

It’s my friend Jenn’s birthday, and mainly thanks to her husband, this viewing is a tradition.

Watching the MST3K version of MITCHELL on a backyard screen. “An action hero named Mittens?”

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 26/07/2026

I love it when a meme comes true.

A chocolate birthday cake and a mango birthday cake.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 22/07/2026

Pinball league high score certificate!

*THIS AWARD GOES TO*
JIM ELLWANGER
FOR
Season 62 High Score: Tales of the Arabian Nights (20,546,460)
Presented by The LA Pinball League
Date 7/21/26

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 20/07/2026

The stamp they did 50 years later doesn't have a bull. 🙁

2017 Nebraska statehood stamp - a photograph of a flock of sandhill cranes above a river at sunset.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 20/07/2026

This one is good, too - I like the design.

"Nebraska Statehood 1867-1967" U.S. stamp (from back when stamps were 5 cents) depicting a bull in front of an ear of corn.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 20/07/2026

You already got an Andrew Wyeth painting!

A postage stamp of the Andrew Wyeth painting "Young Bull," depicting a bull standing next to a stone wall and gate downhill from a 3-story house

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 15/07/2026

Yesterday's @theonion.com headline, today's job posting.

"Politics: Kash Patel Calls For Public's Help Using Computer"

FBI job listing for Special Agent: Cybersecurity/Technology Expertise in Los Angeles, CA

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/07/2026

Have those anti-hazing people moved on to contacting every single craft brewery that makes a hazy IPA?

Screenshot from the Untappd app showing six different breweries with a hazy IPA named "Hazed and Confused" (scrolling down in the app, there are many, many, many, many more of these).

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 10/07/2026

(Didn't see Eduardo Perez in this game because he'd ruptured his Achilles tendon back in May and was out for the rest of the season.)

Ticket to a Yankees-Devil Rays game at Yankee Stadium on Thursday, July 8, 2004.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 02/07/2026

Fried Twinkie (photo from the Los Angeles County Fair a couple years ago).

Fried Twinkie, drizzled with jam and sprinkled with powdered sugar

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 02/07/2026

But it's not National Gorilla Suit Day (January 31).

As drawn by Don Martin, one man sitting at a table looking at a newspaper says to another man who's stirring coffee in a percolator, "It's so obvious that the gorilla-suit manufacturers invented this holiday just so they could sell more of their lousy products!!"

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 01/07/2026

I promise, finding a 1976 phone book in a time capsule was not necessary for this fact to be "revealed." Area code 407 was created in 1988. Ask a local Gen-Xer what their phone number was when they were a kid!

News story about a bicentennial time capsule being opened, with the sentence, "Additionally, the capsule included a phone book that revealed Orlando had the area code '305' in the mid-1970s."

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 23/06/2026

If you liked the picture I posted yesterday of me outside the #MST3K studio, here's another 1996 photo, this one of me at a slightly less well-known tourist attraction.