who called him Jeff Bezos and not Lex Loser

In other news, coffee grinders make terrible teachers and your ottoman makes a lousy tennis coach.

Has new jack swing ever had a comeback? If not, seems like it's overdue. Someone with influence get Teddy Riley on the horn.

The phrase that keeps floating up for me after watching the Bad Bunny performance: “I, too, sing America” —Langston Hughes

"I can't understand Bad Bunny's lyrics" yeah well Rage Against The Machine's lyrics are in english and apparently you can't understand those either

Well I guess it turns out I have never heard Kenneth Walker speak until now.

Jesus would tell you to stay on the hiking trail and not ruin the local vegetation, hoss.

Macbeth: SHIT

Announcers should only reference halftime show landmarks now. "Walker is open in the sugarcane fueld, tackled near the domino table and it's second down"

Benito said "God Bless America," and then proceeded to name every country in South and North America. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny

[googles "football"]

Highlight of the Super Bowl for my kids by far at this point is Adam Sandler in the crowd.

Anyway thanks to the 3 of you who aren't AI "ladies" searching for a lonely man or whatever. Sheesh there's a lot of them.

We’re coming up on episode 8 of the @inthreepoems.bsky.social poetry podcast. If you haven’t listened yet, here’s a flashback to sixty seconds of episode 2 with @mitchnobis.bsky.social

Making the rounds this week among Christian progressives: new poem by Rob Hardy, poet laureate, Northfield, MN. Yes, the protests and all the work being done to throw sand in the gears and provide aid to those at home and being released from Whipple are a kind of liturgy — “work of the people.” ⚓️

Everybody chuck wang tonight.

The groupchat has expressed concern over this excellent Detroit Pistons team having only 1-2 top-notch nicknames. Beef Stew is of course great & Big Dawg for JD suffices, but we need more. Might need a very special episode of @oobh.bsky.social to address this.

If I were a billionaire yes I would occasionally swim in my money, but I would also spend most of my time going on adventures with my grandnephews and my below-average IQ pilot

For whatever reason, I have a lot of new followers, at least 3 of whom might not be booty bots, so if you're wondering why I talk so much about writing and basketball, it's because that's kinda what I do lately. Basketball novel coming...someday?

Guys, my 11yo took to this like he was born for the task.

DETROIT

Fight fascism and make lit mags with your friends!

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

DEEETROIT!

I know nothing about crocheting or how long it takes or the personal history of Mr. Nipples here, but I'm in love with the idea of his creator feverishly making him the second the mods posted they're taking a week off. I need the movie montage scene of that.

Just like last year, I'm not only Not at AWP, I might have so many kids' events that I'm Not Even Not at AWP.

Just a head's up: I won't be at AWP next month even though I love Baltimore and poetry and readings. So, as per usual, I'm NOT at AWP, which is to say @notatawp.bsky.social. @mitchnobis.bsky.social and I will be holding our annual pity party poetry and prose reading virtually. Stay tuned for dates

My detailed NBA trade deadline analysis: Pistons in 6 in '26.

I ate a carrot & turkey sandwich for lunch and somehow the inside of my mouth got lacerated. I can't figure out which one assaulted my palate, but I will have my justice.

Yep, it was a MAJOR source for students in high school.

It brings me no joy to admit that I airballed a 3 at rec league tonight, but it does bring me joy to let you know my teammate turned it into a bucket. Now we wait until the stats come out to find out if I got an assist for it.

Oh my stars and garters, they're losing the wrestling crowd. LFG.

Maaaannnnn, he was super cool to my kids at a couple of Cruise games. Shout-out to Isaac Jones.

If and when my basketball novel gets published and you get to the part about the coach hosting remarkable dinners for the team, that's totally my idea and an original thought and absolutely not lifted straight from Popp lore. Totally. Really. Yep.

Re: Romeo not Detroit: Amen, for real, 100% Re: The other performers: Are we sure that isn't a skit from Key & Peele or something like that about made up white people names? Like, are we SURE sure?

America's littler sweethearts the Motor City Cruise couldn't pull out the win today, but we had fun seats.

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

Look, I'm really quite cynical, especially about the rich & powerful, but even I didn't predict the Right, conservatives, Republicans, et al. would be actually defending pedophilia by 2026. I admit, this one took me by surprise. That's my fault. That's on me. I gotta up my game.

A week ago I was part of an in-person reading at Road Less Traveled Books, and someone asked what poet we're each reading right now. I'm so enamored with Louise Erdrich's writing that I said this novel and not even a book of poetry.

Check out the new issue of Bracken! Issue XIV's cover features this image by Claudio Cambon: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/main. See more of his step well photos within the issue: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/cl...

Is literally everything the Right says projecting? They've been shouting about an elite cabal running the world while it was their little conservative pedophile gang all along?

Can we get a new Lilith Fair but with Bully and Fontine headlining?

Look, I want my team to win, but I have to admit watching a dude who's only 13 years younger than me and still in the league and grew up something like 15 miles from where I did jam a put-back for Golden State is pretty cool. Now let's all feel good about that, Al, and go let the Pistons win by 30.

Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes

Tom Morello live in Minneapolis

For Liam.

Party game for the weekend: Try to come up with a historical presidential scandal that Trump didn't top (either with new actions or breaking news about old/continuing actions) *this week*. Watergate? Iran/Contra? Any sex scandal? Self-dealing? Accepting bribes? Got all those. *This week*.

You all are already saying and sharing great Catherine O'Hara stuff, so I'll just add, shout-out to whatever weirdo at NBC or wherever I first saw SCTV as a kid in Michigan for getting that across the border to us. You made a real difference, bud.