I’m pretty sure I left a few things out of that last Coffee Time video that I’d wanted to talk about, so I’ll try to get to them here.
J. Michael Shearer's Passing Thoughts
The random passing thoughts and weird ideas of Jesse Shearer. Content will range from essays to observations to art, and just about anything one can think of to put in a blog.
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
MiSTing: Yellow Submarine
So, here’s something I haven’t done it awhile. I’m reposting an old MiSTing I found in the archived files from Web Site Number Nine. Unfortunately, it’s not the Digimon stuff I’d been doing before, but it is one I could have sworn I had put up here before. Thought I had it in my other files, but I guess not.
I think this may have been one of the ones that inspired me to start using a partner character for my own main, as well as the “bandwidth wasters” theme based on the Turner Classic Movies One Reel Wonders theme. This was a short one trying to “sell” supposedly legal alternatives to various sorts of uppers without saying what exactly they were selling, instead relying more on stoner lingo and slang than anything to make sales.
The host segments were meant as something of a parody of a parody of the commercials for International Correspondence School that Sally Struthers was famous for in the mid- to late 1980s. It’s one of those things that stuck with those of us who saw them as kids and teens back then.
I’m doing this as one big piece because it’s too short to break up.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Coming Back Around
Now that I’ve got a few things more or less sorted out and squared away in some sense, I should really start trying to figure out what to do from here.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Welcome To 2026
Already eight days into the new year and I haven’t said anything about it yet.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Happy New Years, I Guess…
So, here we are at the end of 2025.
Monday, December 29, 2025
Text Play: Lufia and the Fortress of Doom (Taito, 1993, SNES) Issue #011: How It Always Seems To End
Bad news, folks. I’m going to have to officially abandon another run of this game, much as I would rather not.
Monday, December 15, 2025
A Little Messing About: December 15, 2025
Not sure how long I’ll leave this up.