Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 22/06/2025The late great Norm Macdonald on being alive: "Man, it's the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny's, wear a hat, whatever you want to do" 020
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025That hat has never floated the river (but the show looks dope) 100
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 31/03/2025'I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters' Mitch Hedberg would have been 57 today. What a unique comedic talent. And I love that if you gather comedians and ask them for their favorite joke of all times (Esquire did), Mitch shows up often 110
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 13/03/2025To all the SXSW-attending folks digging chamber of commerce skies, free booze and free shows, who in turn move here…looking forward to your ‘how it’s going’ skeets in August 010
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 06/03/2025This is perhaps your most Escher drawing skeet 010
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025...but I do remember getting a kick out of a call with one of the most delightfully absurd characters on TV. At one point, Adam West came up, & without missing a beat...George/SG shot back "what...is there a car show in town?" The man had timing 051
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I saw where George Lowe passed and this isn't a story fragment I share very often, but in the wee days of the internet—for about a minute—I ran an entertainment site, and managed to dig up his management. A few days later, he called me....as Space Ghost. I don't recall all of that conversation 141
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025If you're in Austin for SXSW on Thursday March 6th, and up for hanging a bit with some borderline affable folks, might I suggest joining us for an east side cocktail? partiful.com/e/4rStpf5bfN... 020
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 04/03/2025(*US leadership, in case that part wasn't clear) 000
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Of course he had little idea at the time that comically punitive leadership would make the Canada feuding thing real 100
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Unless you’re looking for cucumbers at the grocery store, where we veer into Mad Max territory 000
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 03/02/2025It is for the moment (I think for the week?) super gorgeous here and everyone has whatever the opposite of seasonal effective disorder or Stockholm syndrome is 100
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Now that we’re past it, seems it should be well established that a hippopotamus for Christmas is, at best, ill advised 120
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Happy Thanksgiving, people of Bluesky, for the reminder that sanity is still a thing 000
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Consider that post a preemptive backhanded apology 010
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 17/11/2024One of the great things about Bluesky is it feels like walking into a party with people who haven’t heard my regular rotation of bits yet. Pardon if we play the hits 120
Reposted by Kevin NewsumAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 26/09/2024Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton are bragging about having “scrubbed” the voter rolls—and the deadline to (re)register is Oct. 7. CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION TODAY. teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.doteamrv-mvp.sos.texas.govMy Voter Portal 11691676
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 22/01/2024I learned today that apparently Canada has its own Family Feud and I can’t shake the idea that that country seems way too polite to feud 100
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 14/01/2024I have a friend who used to work with a lady who he said showed up to work every day looking ‘like she got dressed by standing in front of a fashion shotgun’ and I think about her every time it freezes and Austinites get into our coat closets 010
Kevin Newsum @tornadomagnet.bsky.social · 15/10/2023As someone with a soft spot for community stuff and a certain degree of shitposting and a weakness for observational anecdotes, let me just say that this year’s Austin City Limits fest is kind of all of that 000
