This blog is brought to you by the name “Preston,” and all of the “Prestons” I can name 😆

I recently met a new supervisor at my workplace. His first name is Preston, and his last name is…

I’m not sharing that here out of respect for his privacy. However – I will say that he shares his last name with the lead singer of a grunge band that I really like. From Seattle. Who is dead. Narrows it down, doesn’t it? 😂

Because I’m…well, me – I pointed this fact about his last name out to him when I met him for the first time. He kind of indicated that he was aware (even dresses a bit “grunge”). To make things even weirder, when I went back to my work area and turned on my mp3 player, a song by this band came on! My music player is always on shuffle, So I didn’t make that happen!

I also recently started watching a new Taylor Sheridan miniseries called The Madison, which stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell.

It’s your basic fish out of water premise. City girl moves to the wilds of Montana with her family. City bad, country good (we get it, Taylor Sheridan)! Outhouse jokes aplenty! Hey girl, be glad that you have an outhouse and don’t have to shit into a cathole that you dug with your own trowel!

But big picture? The miniseries, like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album, is about…death and the insanity it causes.

Guess which first name belongs to Russell’s character? If your guess was the same as the first name of the innovative automaker last named Tucker – you’d be correct!

Have you ever played “The Dude Abides” game? I’m guessing that you haven’t, because I made it up!

It goes like this – you name a Jeff Bridges movie, and start off by giving a description of the movie by saying “The Dude Abides in a movie about an automaker and his dream that wound up getting squashed by the SEC.” The other person has to guess the movie, so the goal is to pick a not-so-popular Jeff Bridges film that everyone would know.

That last movie I described was the plot of Tucker, the Man and his Dream.

Here’s a harder one:

“The Dude Abides with his brother in an 80s movie where Michelle Pfeiffer sings and lolls about seductively on a piano that they play.”

That…is “Fabulous Baker Boys.”

If you were to do True Grit, you’d say “The Dude Abides as an aging drunken bounty hunter who redeems himself by helping a young girl hunt down the man who killed her father.”

You probably shouldn’t use The Big Lebowski as the movie 😂

I honestly can’t name any other Prestons right now, besides actress Kelly Preston, who was married to John Travolta, last I knew.

Is Preston becoming a trending name? How many more Prestons am I going to run into IRL and in pop culture? Will Preston become a popular baby name in the Social Security Index? I guess it *could* be considered gender neutral?

Pardon me while I hustle $3 million so I can bid on someone’s 1948 Tucker Torpedo on eBay! 😂 🚗