My son sent me a sweet YouTube video, with a totally awesome song in the background.

A new artist he likes, influenced by some of my favorite artists of all time…

Sometimes life is so beautiful in the simplest ways.

i don’t know if sky news is a great source

but i do know (for what it’s worth) i agree with these thoughts on why america would invade venezuela

www.youtube.com/watch

decided to get my 2026 bingo card post out before something else on it hits:

www.jakelacaze.com/whats-on-…

first creative act of 2026:

printing off the first ‘draft’ of my novel

haven’t touched it in 8 weeks

this baby ain’t gonna revise itself

a wonderful message for 2026 and beyond:

‘Embrace the absurdity, and stop making sense for long enough to actually sense what’s happening here.’

rushkoff.substack.com/p/cracks-…

is anyone familiar with grokipedia?

is it as bad as it sounds?

wondering how i should feel that i picked up a backlink from the site

now i can’t talk trash about where ai gets its information from

in the middle of negotiating an oil and gas lease for a personal connection, i asked myself:

would billy bob thorton be proud of me?

in which i ponder:

did you still win if you failed to reach your goal but instead reached a personal milestone?

www.jakelacaze.com/do-milest…

gonna reinstall bazzite on my rog ally

windows SUCKS in general, but especially for handheld systems

me when using windows: WHAT THE EFF, WINDOWS!

me when using mac: WHAT THE EFF, MAC!

me when using linux: WHAT THE EFF, LINUX!

what i should be saying: WHAT THE EFF, COMPUTER!

all i want for christmas is for that one mariah carey to drive straight off a cliff

we need a multi-pronged approach to fixing the male loneliness epidemic

one tactic i suggest–entertaining yourself via the random texters trying to scam everyone

ignoring them ain’t working, so you might as well have some fun

An unexpected revelation at 34,000 feet:

My individual legacy is mostly done. My legacy now goes through my family.

Homesickness and the cure on jakelacaze.com

recently started metal gear solid v: phantom pain

this might end up the best movie i’ve ever played

so many of us act as if the world stacked against us

as if it takes that much to hold us down

most of us can’t even conquer ourselves

when they say art can heal, this is what they mean

i rarely have all the answers

but i can always come up with a damn good question or two

who’s gonna mentor the next generation if we’re all walking around with main character energy?

the sky has been falling for at least as long as i’ve been alive

yet every morning, the sun tises again

y’all, my writer brain is ON-

one of last night’s silly sketches evolved into an idea for a children’s book, a genre i’ve shown no interest in

time to figure this thing out if for nothing more than the sake of neuroplasticity!