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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 27/09/2026

Came across an old-timey coffee shop (closed) with counter seats that had a design similar to the one on Eh! Steve!'s body.

The Eh! Steve! character from Homestar Runner.

Counter seat with a design similar to that at the bottom of Eh! Steve!'s body.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 04/09/2026

I thought SF would make a stronger showing for me, but nope.

Map of the U.S. showing that my dialect is similar to that spoken in the northeast and not particularly aligned with that in California.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 04/09/2026

I thought my map would look similar to yours, but...nope.

Map showing that my dialect is most similar to that used in the northeast U.S. and only moderately like that used in California.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 10/07/2026

My God, the AI really is fixated on boxing gloves.

How To Play Vulfpeck Piano Arrangements While Wearing Heavy Boxing Gloves Tutorial

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 10/07/2026

I don't usually look at YouTube's AI-generated suggestions for videos I should make, but I took a peek tonight and there was this: Boxing Glove Ballads: How to play complex piano arrangements while dressed as Strong Bad

Boxing Glove Ballads: How to play complex piano arrangements while dressed as Strong Bad

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 14/06/2026

For reference, here's Homestar Runner on a drinking glass.

The no-longer-available official/licensed/sanctioned Homestar Runner drinking glass.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 05/01/2026

I don't have the pipes for that, so I did this stupid Toto vs. Strong Bad mashup excerpt instead.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 07/12/2025

The Wikipedia article for "The Christmas Song" has three images. One is of the Nat "King" Cole single, one is of Nat "King" Cole himself, and the third is...a random dude roasting chestnuts on an open fire. It is even captioned "Man roasting chestnuts on an open fire." Wikipedia is the best.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 07/12/2025

If you're wondering what post finally put me over the edge, it was this one demanding escalation for their ticket in a public forum. And I guarantee this is not a paying customer.

Public forum post reading: "URGENT: We need immediate escalation for Ticket ID 3943185.
We lost our NPM account access it is a hard blocker for this critical migration that must start now. As workload of Black Friday is finished We require this ticket resolved ASAP to unblock the migration of the Classic tokens."

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 19/10/2025

A few of the signs at No Kings in San Francisco today. I wish we didn’t need protests like this as badly as we do but here we are.

Imagine hating immigrants more than pedophiles. (The sign also includes photos of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.)

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 13/10/2025

The Sunday night homemade pizza traditionat the Trott house continues.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 12/10/2025

Downtown San Francisco yesterday morning.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 02/10/2025

Here's a short rendition of Vince Guaraldi's "Theme to Grace" that I posted a year-and-a-half ago. Recently, someone asked for a transcription, so I put that up on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/theme-...

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 27/07/2025

Tom Lehrer’s forward to Too Many Songs By Tom Lehrer.

FOREWORD
The songs in this book were written between World Wars II and III, and all but three of them are from the three LPs I recorded during that memorable period in history. Most of them were intended at the time of conception either as takeoffs on various song types of the day, particularly the more sentimental species, or as commentaries on current events, so that I regarded them as fugacious ephemera which by now should have been of artifactual interest only to scholars (although in what field I can't imagine). It is therefore a source of considerable delight to me that publication of this agglomeration should be warranted at all at this late date. Any royalties will naturally be a source of even greater delight.
Three of the songs are not from my three records. Two of them, 'Silent E' and "L-Y', were written in the early seventies for an American television series called The Electric Company, which was produced by the Children's Television Workshop in a desperate attempt to help young children to learn to read. An animated film accompanied each song. The third, '1 Got It from Agnes', is a recently revised version of a song I used to perform in night clubs in the fifties but did not record because it was what was called in those days a 'party song', i.e., a bit naughty. Today, of course, even though the revision made it naughtier, its innocence borders on naiveté.
The musical congeries that follows owes its existence in part to a rather curious event.
An intrepid but not entirely rational young British producer named Cameron Mackintosh took it into his head that what had previously been done to every songwriter from jacques Brel to Stephen Sondheim might be done to me, namely, a stage production embalming my old songs. The result was a revue entitled Tomfoolery, which opened in London in 1980 and has since been produced in various other cities throughout the world without any noticeable ill effects. All the songs used in that show are in this book, including c…

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 10/05/2025

(Thanks, Ethan! It continues to be the highpoint of my pianistic life that you had something kind to say about something I made!)

Ethan Iverson responding on November 7, 2023 on Twitter to my link to a Vince Guaraldi-ified Homestar Runner tune: "Omg. Color me impressed! You found something here and totally nailed it. *doffs cap*"

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 16/04/2025

The Homestar Runner email list is exceedingly low-volume, but they sent a message today.

Homestar Runner email list message announcing the "Back to a Website" toon.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 06/04/2025

Come on, ABC. He *disputed* it. He most emphatically did not *refute* it.

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 25/02/2025

Doing the Lord's work while I eat lunch.

Screenshot of a chat message reading "You inspired me to buy the whole puppet / plush line of homestar"

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 27/11/2024

Name a game with a 10/10 soundtrack. (Uh, I have an obvious conflict of interest.)

Album cover for Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate Original Point-and-Clickture Soundtrack

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 05/11/2024

It looks like you got added to a list by @lukeocodes.dev about 7 hours ago.

A list of the lists that @annthurium is on

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Good Ol’ Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 20/10/2024

I'm reading @natechinen.bsky.social's book Playing Changes and am compelled to listen to nearly every album he mentions. It means it's taking me a looooong time to get through the book (which would otherwise be a pretty quick read) but so worth it. I can't believe how much great stuff I've missed.

Book cover of "Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century" by Nate Chinen

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