Michael Cook

Michael Cook

@michaelcook.bsky.social

Me: Liberal. Likes: Democracy, Dallas Cowboys, Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins, San Jose Sharks, Beatles, Bangles, R.E.M., Natalie Merchant The Beatles came to America in February 1964. I was born 9 months later. Obviously, Paul McCartney is my real dad

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Relaxing by the Pacific and getting terribly pissed off reading John Grisham and Jim McCloskey’s ‘Framed’. I might just go jump in with the Great Whites. Might be more civil down there….

Three more days of work and then…..vacation! I’ve got 2 San Jose Sharks games 3 Books (My Boss is a Moron, Framed by John Grisham and Network Effect by Martha Wells) and a beach with my name on it (ok, not literally). If anybody needs me, leave a message with Aquaman….

There will never be a cooler name than Puka Nacua. It works for an athlete. It would work as one of Scout’s neighbors in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Works as Jedi Puka Nacua Works as a planet destroyed by the Death Star, “Puka Nacua was there, but is there no more!” #nfl #larams

Drove to work early one morning back in the 90s and when I arrived, noticed I had a voicemail on my cellphone. Checked it and it was a recording of me singing along with the radio on my way to work. “Is someone secretly recording me so they can blackmail me?!? Is this the CIA?!?”

After working in the backyard, I needed to run to the store. Hopped in the car and got about 2 miles down the road when I looked at the steering wheel, which was covered in blood. “Who put blood all over my steering wheel?!?” Because that was a thing, apparently, a gang of street toughs would…

break into cars to smear blood all over the steering wheel. A completely rational conclusion. P.S. It was me, unbeknownst to me, my hand was bleeding. But, keep an eye out for those street toughs…

Back in the 90’s, my co-workers and I all became fixated on true crime books. I began reading “Zodiac” by Robert Graysmith. Late one night after work (so, 12:30am-ish) as I was house sitting for my Dad, I was reading the book in his backroom. Everything turned off except the one reading light.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the backyard and my brain immediately jumped into action, “It’s the Zodiac, he knows I’m reading this book!” Yep, the guy who hadn’t been heard from in 20 years, obviously with ESP was right on my tail. P.S. it was the wind

I’m a little upset now that it took Travis Kelce this long to propose. If nothing else, the world needed to see the reaction videos from Swifties. The wholesomeness is inspiring #TaylorsWedding

An elderly man just walked down the bread aisle and asked, simply- “Honey?”, to which I instantly replied, “Yes, Dear?” and…..nothing. This might be the greatest disappointment of my life

Just saw Mission Impossible- The Final Reckoning. I’ve seen every installment of M:I in the theaters since it began in 1996 and on my way back, my iPhone decided to play- Through the Years by Kenny Rogers & The Long Goodbye by Bruce Springsteen Oddly perfect.

As I wrapped up my own private tour of Donner Lake/Donner Summit, I became keenly aware that at the same point I was saying, “This is so cool, this bit of history is almost 180 years old”, someone in Europe was saying, “This Church here was built with the bones of a recently deceased Brontosaurus..”

I like to believe that I do not scare easily, but I will admit, as I lay here in my car in Donner Memorial State Park, a couple hundred yards from the Breen Camp, I realize that if a woman dressed as a bloody ghost and scratched at my window at 2am, I would probably shit someone else’s pants

Every Trump supporter that is sloooowly coming to the realization that we, in fact, pay for tariffs, should be asking themselves, “What else is he wrong about?” Everything. The answer is everything.

Years ago, I took an online Longevity test. You’d get + points for working out, -10 for smoking, -25 if you’d ever even considered going to Africa, etc. America is the new -25. Good job, RFK Jr.