Tag: YouTube

• Route 66, Hotels, and Donkeys – Thoughts from September 15 and 16, 2024

  

  September 15, 2024 Today is not only Patti’s birthday, but it is the beginning of our Route 66 trip. We’re driving to various locations in Arizona and New Mexico. After we hit Roswell, we head back to California. We finished packing last night. I’m not sure I have enough clothes for the return trip, but…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 19, 2025

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  2024, American diet, Arizona, birthday, Brooklyn 99, California, complimentary breakfast, donkey food, donkey-related merchandise, donkeys by name, earplugs, eating out of your hand, eye mask, free-roaming donkeys, gas prices, giant guitar, Glenn Frey, hand sanitizer, Holbrook, homemade hummus, Lake Havasu, loud air conditioner, Netflix, New Mexico, normal breakfast, Oatman Arizona, old western town, on the corner, Patti, podcasts, pushy donkeys, regular metal key, Roswell, Route 66, Route 66 memorabilia, Route 66 trip, small hotel room, Take It Easy by the Eagles, taking pictures, tepee-shaped hotel, thoughts, TV volume, vacation breakfast, Winslow Arizona, YouTube

• Windshields, Pig Men, and Random Clams – Thoughts from July 16 and 17, 2024

  

  July 16, 2024 I would like to talk about an issue that is of great importance to me. You may already know what I’m going to talk about. Yes, the thing that disturbs me most when I’m driving is having a dirty windshield. We’ve all been there. Bugs die, birds poop, and dirt gathers on…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 10, 2025

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  2024, bitch-fest, caring about other people, caring about women, Cartoon Network, Chartreuse!, dirty windshields, eating raw vegetables, Emilio Estevez, fart after eating, fart jokes, farting while sleeping, horrible traditions, how to be men, invisible windshield, issues, literary reference, Martin Sheen, men are pigs, Patti, random clam, random things!, restroom, seeting the toilet seat up, self-deprecating humor, summer of our discontent, teach men to be good people, thoughts, vegan diet, weird animation, windshield washer fluid, windshield wipers, yoga, YouTube

• Doctors, Dining, and Anniversaring – Thoughts from June 16, 2024

  

  Today, I will start by going back in time. It’s June 14 and we’re out of the house before noon. The main reason that Patti and I are walking around outside in the morning was because Patti wanted to go out to breakfast for our anniversary. Before we did that, I needed to go to…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 6, 2025

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  2024, Amazon lady, Anniversaring, audiobooks, BBC shows, breakfast at noon, Brian and Patti’s Anniversary, coffee, day of debauchery, doctor’s office, drinking water, drug testing, exchanging gifts, fasting, getting blood taken, going to breakfast, June 14, lab testing, leaving urine sample, my bad ear side, my regular breakfast, non-workday, not understanding basic things, parking away from the sun, Patti, Redlands, Richard Ayoade, Super Sushi, sushi, taking blood, The IT Crowd, thoughts, waiting room, wedding anniversary, wireless over ear headphones, YouTube

• Water Damage, Tree Removal, and Video Issues – Thoughts from July 8, 2023

  

  The other day, Patti and I noticed wet spots on our carpet in the den. We had problems with water leaking before, so we knew something was leaking. It’s the only time in my life when I wished it was a cat urinating. I checked the water heater and, sure enough, it was leaking and…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 25, 2024

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  2023, blurring license plates, blurring video, caring about other people, cat, chopped Trees, dashcam, dropping leaves, DVD holder, DVDs, editing video, grounding a stump, I like trees, leaking water heater, mildew, modern encyclopedia, no more tree, no nostalgia for those days, not sleeping all night, Patti, reading user manuals, ruined plumbing, South Park, streaming, suffering for your art, syncing videos, thoughts, tree removal, Video Questions, water damage, working on a film set, YouTube

• Mythical New Year and Crying Babies – Thoughts from January 2, 2023

  

  Here we are in 2023. This is my first entry of the new year so you know it’s going to be good. I can say that because you’ll probably forget I said it by the end of reading this paper. As always, I’m going to live in the past for the first part. I was…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 7, 2024

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  2023, absurd circumstances, Amazon money, animated version, Beatrix, beliefs, birthday party for one year olds, Catholic school, cats, chips, dips, disappointing knowledge, entertainment, fireworks, Good Mythical Morning, guacamole, illogical, illogical rules, live in the past, love of money, Luna, marathon watching, memoirs, movies when I was seven, New Year’s Eve, no special features, normalizing religion and sports, Patti, pop culture references, Quest, raining, religious, religious experiences, scientific truths, Scout, sparkling wine, The Hobbit from 1977, thoughts, unnatural events, weirdness, Willow, wine, YouTube

• Beatniks – Thoughts from November 19 and 20, 2022

  

  November 19, 2022 I started publishing my Thoughts from Life papers on November 1st. Originally, I was going to publish them once a week, but decided to bump it up to two times on Tuesday and Thursday. I, of course, got the domain name for thoughtsfromlife.com first. It’s what I do. I scheduled them into…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 30, 2024

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  1996, 2022, 50s, audio recording, Beat My Necks sketch, beatnik, Beatrix, belief, beliefs are bad, beliefs are bad for your health, cat centipede, cats, cats in bed with me, comic genius, feedback, gain weight on days off, gaining weight, going to church tired, humor, illogical, interpretations of reality, knowledge is good, laughing, Lifetime Achievement Award for Denial of All Realities, line?, losing weight, Luna, not a group joiner, old documents, old hard drive, others interpreting reality, Patti, podcast, publishing, realities, scale makes fun of me, Scout, seperating myself from others, skipping church, sleepy, smelling buts, The Human Centipede, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts papers, thoughtsfromlife.com, video recording, Willow, WordPress ad, writing, writing community, YouTube

• Brian Explains Television – Thoughts from January 7, 2011

  

  Brian Explains: Television The subject of my article this week is something near and dear to my heart. To this day, it is the friend who helps me wake me up in the morning and the companion that puts me to bed at night. It comforts me when I am sick and even helps me…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 1, 2023

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  2011, Alice, American Choppers, animation, baseball, basketball, behind-the-scenes, Blu-ray, boring, boxing, Brady Bunch, cable, comedies, commercials for beer, computer, death and murder, documentaries, DVD, DVR, earplugs, eye mask, football, Forensic Files, halftime show, humor, L.A. Ink, marriage is compromise, Marx Brothers, motorcycles, nerd, Netflix, Oprah, psychic, satellite, Simpsons, SpongeBob SquarePants, sports, Streaming services, streaming videos, Superbowl commercials, tatoos, television, tennis, thoughts, TiVo, TruTV, TV, unethical sports, VCR, video on demand, video rentals, violent sports, YouTube