I’m open to any and all ideas how to stop a head cold. I really don’t want to be sick this weekend.

Insane. This is the car my mother had when I was a wee lad. Hers didn’t have reverse so she had to go around the block to turn around.

It's been pretty striking how the national media who anoint "rising stars" never seem to notice the intensely charismatic Michelle Wu, who focuses on progressive policy instead of "are we too woke" handwringing.

Go Sox. This is a hell of a good one.

Judge Young then proposes that maybe Americans just don't care because there aren't many immigrant Palestinians among us and Gaza is far away. He then concludes this section with a robust defense of WHY people should care about what this admin is doing, which I'm reproducing in full. Read it all.

C'mon, give it up for Boston. Damn.

r/army already has some piquant responses.

Every Dem who agrees to this should never feel peace again in office.

I believe the Red Sox will win this wild card series

Pierre Bonnard, Nude Bending Down, 1923 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124042

Just thought of a new fun way for the fascists to spend their last days.

I've never seen a frame of Peaky Blinders. Why? Dunno. I haven't avoided it so much as I've never gotten around to it. Finally watched the pilot, and I'm in. I'm like one of those guys who never saw The Wire and won't shut up about it in 2025. I promise not to write a blog post.

Nostalgia is always poison. Always.

What I can hear outside my window right now in Newton MA, in ascending order of distraction. 1. Steady roar of the Pike 1a. The whine of a motorcycle engine spinning up. 2. Squirrel chatter. 3. Crickets, even at 9:30 am. 4. Blue Jay squawks. 5. Construction. 6. Pickleball, merciless pickleball.

#GunControlNOW #Enough #WeDeserveBetter #SethSmithdidntdeservetodieat19 #ChildLoss #Grief

I hadn't read anything by Kaleb Horton or knew his name until I learned of his sad passing here on Bluesky. @lukeoneil47.bsky.social and others mourned his passing so eloquently that I've started reading his work. It sucks I'm only now reading this terrific writer and it sucks worse he's gone.

Me, sitting down in front of my first nfl game this year: “Oh that was a sick run, maybe this will be good!” Me, twenty minutes, 76 commercials, and 3 interminable slo-mo delays waiting for refs to make a dumb call: “Fuck this shit.”

Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theater as a kid. This is the first movie I saw in my life.

Davis Field in Sudbury.

Angus crashed a lab party.

Turned off the world’s w 2 laps to go. It’d be a blast to be there in person but it’s dull as dishwater to watch.

Pog goes at 102k, and nobody’s surprised.

In Natick this is what commitment to the bit looks like.

I’m at the boy’s badminton lesson and these three dads are getting smoked by this coach. They’re encouraging each other but also complaining how tired they are and when is the water break. Badminton isn’t for the weak I guess.

Posed for me.

Boston r/brutalism

Another hellish day riding bikes west of Boston.

I don’t think it’s a top ten great movie but I laughed a lot and let out m a couple fuck yeahs, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Everybody’s great but Teyanna Taylor and Chase Infiniti are incredible. The very rare movie that I’d see again.

I take zero credit for tonight's playoff-clinching come-from-behind walk-off victory, but I did put this (clearly) handmade "LET'S RALLY" sign up on the big screen when the Sox were trailing 3-1 in the 7th, and then they scored one in the 7th, one in the 8th, and one in the 9th.

Time to celebrate

Dammit.

r/tragedeigh is where you go when you need to believe in the power of people again.

I don't know how Coolidge Corner managed to snag one of four VistaVision prints of One Battle After Another, but I'm psyched to see it in a couple hours.

@colbycheesie.bsky.social it’s still shorts weather up here.

Me, wondering if I care enough to go out and worry about James Comey.

Democrats across the country have seen a decline in support, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu reeled in a decisive primary election victory thanks to her progressive policies and a weak opponent. Naomi Bethune reports: trib.al/BKRZCPu

This is out of control.

Not only completely out of scale, but building a party palace while gutting the federal workforce sure is something. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/don...

Democrats across the country have seen a decline in support, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu reeled in a decisive primary election victory thanks to her progressive policies and a weak opponent. Naomi Bethune reports: trib.al/BbYhoad

Bro doesn’t fuck with rain.

Macabre And Mrs. Miller

Share your favorite b/w movie.

I hung out at the MFA today with a 90-year-old former English professor who doesn’t need reading glasses (!!), who’s as sharp and articulate and charming as anybody I know, and even even though she uses a walking stick she is faster than hell. She also lives on her own and has tons of energy. Whew.

Saw the Rachel Ruysch exhibit at the MFA with some older, wiser friends. What a remarkable talent and life. The second photo is one of her still lifes. Definitely worth seeing.

Can we skip ahead and go straight to the Vorbunker with these two?

There's no question AI is here to stay, but OpenAI? There's a very real chance all this will be on the auction block (or bought by NVIDIA) in a couple years when the impossibility of its business model becomes impossible to ignore. apnews.com/article/open...

My superpower is my ability to feel cocky about my kale and yogurt and protein powder smoothie while completely blocking out the slice of cold pizza I inhaled.