RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 20 (2025)

[jumbach]

My father was the black sheep of his family. He had 5 sisters that married 5 brothers and they all had a bunch of kids. One sister and one brother passed away and the widows married each other. My father was the youngest and I was his youngest child. I was closest in age to the children of my cousins (making us 1st cousins once removed). When I was 18 I was at a friend’s house and there was a guy there in his early 20s. He was looking at a magazine and I saw the name on the magazine postage label. I asked if it was his, he said yeah. I said who are your grandparents and he says X&Y. I start laughing and he says what’s so funny? I tell him we’re cousins and his dad is my cousin. He was like damn my dad is like old and you are

I never met any of them, but famous alumni of my alma mater (Sacramento State) include Tom Hanks, Ted Kaczynski, and Joan London. I did briefly talk to Lester Holt once since I minored in journalism, before a class for about 30 seconds. We didn’t know each other or have anything more than that brief exchange about something trivial.

 

[Wannaplan?]

briefly talk

In 2007, I chatted with Michael Moore at a dinner party after a Sicko premiere in northern lower Michigan.