This is so true

Essentially the case I made against message test-maxxing, I think. It’s not inherently wrong or bad, but it’s myopic.

Maybe I’m missing something about the accounting here but I do not understand how borrowing money from someone who then has to be paid back more money later is “revenue.”

One of the best projects I ever participated in was sending reporters out to attempt to use every bathroom in the NYC subway system that was allegedly in service ~2005. The findings were grim.

This looks accurate tho

That's a guy who is very confident in how big his hands are

A Miami-Indiana final would be a major victory for having rocks in your head (in a good way)

That thin, wild Mercury poisoning sound

What I’m talking about for instance is that “Iron Man” isn’t just the one riff. There are four riffs, and they’re all well above the level of what’s being produced in the current economy.

Social progress-wise, plugs are all interchangeable again and I think we can feel good about that. It was an entirely self-inflicted problem that they weren’t, but baby steps and so forth.

Foreigner also did a great job at the Macy’s parade and people are noticing.

Messed it up already, actually 2027 will be my year.

Among many other losses to the fabric of society caused by the death of local media, I especially mourn the absence of the crank columnist, a person employed to just go off at 800 words a week asking g why some double of modern life is the way it is. Why ARE car lights like that now? In this piec-

Gwyneth calls him Martin Supreme

New levels (of grudgingly entering my credit card number online) unlocked

I have a lot of respect for the Knives Out movies just as an exercise in people making solid B+ level entertainment where everyone seems to be enjoying the experience without it needing it to win Oscar’s or make 3 billion dollars. It’s like going to a good steakhouse.

@byctom.bsky.social grabbed this for you

Spent last night toggling behind this analysis of “Africa” and present day photos of the Toto guys looking like the Ghosts of Guy Fieri Future. An almost unfathomable gap between “songwriting quality” and “having an aesthetic that appeals to me” resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2019-20/...

if i’d been the winter caretaker of the overlook hotel it wouldn’t have gone down like that

I've said this already in my many chats, but I think this is going to hinge on whether the first Portal Guy tweet is about "Michigan opening the checkbook" or "Bryce Underwood exploring his options"

I’m gonna say that if he can’t field a team for the next game he might not be the right choice for keeping the team together

Non-partisan comment: Ed Meese is alive?!???!!

You have to wonder what Clark Lea did to Michigan

50 Cent shifted the momentum

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,

Back to back 6s on the last two days to secure my trademark spot in the lower middle table just above relegation. IYKYK.

just found out this isn't a Bright Eyes cover. still really good

Very good gig! Can attest from experience jobs.lever.co/wealthsimple...

I’ve enjoyed all three Knives Out movies but I have to admit I don’t understand why they are all precisely 15 percent about right wing influencers

wrote about (eyes go black) SIX SSSEEEEVVVEEEENNNNNNNN www.theringer.com/2025/12/16/p...

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Target with one checkout lane open on Sunday, Dec. 14. Again I would like to know the identity of the efficiency consultant who came up with the “no cashiers” system for retail. Just to talk.

if the new yorker has got a story about paris, you know they're going to tell you what arrondissement they're in

You know things have gotten bad when you’re turning to Arizona State to help clean up your reputation as a hotspot for sordid sexual misbehavior

American sports thinks that the audience has to be constantly stimulated and assaulted from all senses. It’s really ridiculous going to sporting events and realizing that there’s not one moment where you’re not being overwhelmed by something.

those people … are parents

About to do it. The intro is Toccata and Fugue being played really loud.

Being told that the disgraced coach’s lawyer today is going to be a guy who regularly appears on the radio show hosted by one of the guys who does the “pregame broadcast from a big tent outside the stadium thing.”

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

The one thing I think non-Michigan people should know about times like this is that you can often get information before it's published elsewhere by following what a guy who goes by "Big Boutros" posts across multiple message boards

there is a culture problem with Michigan athletics but so many outsider perspectives do not cite cronyism or runaway profit motives, they mostly want Michigan to address how some of your dads friends are kind of annoying

“New Lizza post is up!” I shout from my room. The only reply is my own echo; this house has been empty for thirty-five years.

If you’re wondering “why isn’t there an adult in the room who could have done something about this?”

Actually, not as a bit, just remembered that Michigan said that my attending postgame press conferences in 2021 would create unacceptable risk to the program’s reputation

Clark Lea come home (it’s your vacation home)

Wow!

Philip Rivers is a finfluencer who understands the importance of human capital (willingness to get hit in the ribs by a truck-sized enemy) to life stage planning (having 100 children)

Saul Blart became Paul Blart in the mall of damascus