cause he's gonna knock off fort knox

Just taking this opportunity to reflect on one of my favorites: the escrow skit

Dude who looks just like Stephen King at the local House of Pies joyfully digging into the Friday special pecan pie fudge sunday

When Trump finally puts 100% tariff on those Texas-shaped waffle makers, he's done!

An excellent essay by Brandy Jensen on Melvyn Bragg. Exactly my sentiments. The first short story I published was an extemporaneous reaction to hearing In Our Time ep. on Holbein and the Tudor Court

Woody Guthrie’s guitar has been taken in for questioning

Saw this morning that Melvyn Bragg was retiring from In Our Time. Really can't express how much joy and fascination Mr. Bragg and In Our Time has brought to my life. I hope he has a long fruitful retirement. Really the end of an era.

History buffs ignoring the unsubstantiated glee by arguing about the particulars of George "Snapping Turtle" Meade's pursuit of the enemy after Gettysburg of something

In that Jeffries clip, the fact that the distraction isn’t from another thing the president is doing but instead simply from his general unpopularity is impossible to wrap my head around. Don’t focus on the unpopular things Trump does, Jeffries opines, but only his ambient a priori unpopularity!

These bastards are such poseurs. Real heads drive across state to eat cube steak at Piccadilly’s

Not sure I've ever seen an actual barbie up close, but now I have a daughter and so some family member has given her a barbie. My first response to her inhuman body proportions was that she'd be a terror in the lane. I've been dunking on other dolls all day. Grabbing rebounds. Et cetera.

Great @griersonleitch.bsky.social ep out this Sunday. The agonized fugue of Tim Grierson's review of Highest 2 Lowest, and the fact that somehow they wished the Weekend at Bernie's vacation sequel they theorized in a 2016 ep into existence with Nobody 2

Tech guys: I’m gonna chop me and my friends heads off and upload is to the cloud Scientists: We’ve got this drug that cures a bunch of diseases Tech guys: Don’t need it! We’ve got it all under control!

Something just occurred to me: although I can name a lot of single-author compendiums of movie reviews, is there a scholarly anthology of movie reviews over the sweep of cinema history?

The root of all knowledge is language acquisition, the most noble pursuit is that of foreign tongues, & one of the most difficult for adults; I tend to be suspicious of people who believe otherwise; the root of the conservative attack on education is (& has always been) an attack on multi-linguality

Have missed a few "now reading" posts, so making it up

BREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott (R) just asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove Rep. Gene Wu (D) from office by Thursday — for joining a walkout to block the GOP’s redistricting power grab. If Abbott succeeds, no Democratic lawmaker is safe for protesting. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

*me greeting the morning sun* the sun: Cody, today's NOT a good day to form an opinion online

As a cis guy my opinion of ("liberal") cis folks talking ("abstractly") about ("the politics of") trans kids in sports on here is that (usually) they are doing exactly (or only slightly obliquely) what they do in the right wing media sphere, creating more hysteria and validating hateful rhetoric.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

Whilom Dafoe

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Love Discovery 5.8 "Labyrinths" just going ahead and doing Borges' "The Library of Babel"

Now reading, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Confucius's Analects, from the library

Sometimes I fantasize going back to Michigan to open a restaurant named "Texas Stuff", that sells items they didn't have a lot of in Kalamazoo, kolaches in the morning, barbacoa tacos in the afternoon, chicken fried steak and spatzle and potato salad in the evenings (also vegan options)

Maybe the most bizarre reference to Texas in all of Borges I've seen so far (P.901 of his complete works) is him calling The Battle of the Alamo "that other Thermopylae".

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas" our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

conspiracy theory (factual)

When I make a funny reply but no one likes it, I hear my father saying: "No one wants to take your guff, Cody!"

I remember my father was a Texas lobbyist for a Summer, which he said "opened [his] eyes", then he tried to work for the IRS which "further opened [his] eyes" and now he builds fences

My daughter injecting her dolls with a play syringe: "Here is your medicine, Lucy." "Here is your medicine, Lindsey." Coming to the doll she calls "daddy doll": "Here is your coffee, daddy."

This paragraph about the Soviet Union in the 80s is reminding me of something...

A federal judge is keeping this man in jail to protect him from the federal government.

When I log on, then immediately log off

One thing that folks imply but don't really often say is that Zohran Mamdani has must have ice in his veins, straight up sangfroid, freaking Jean-Luc Picard temperament

[whispers provocatively] the 1850 fugitive slave act is the model: reactionaries have the right to extend their authority across state lines, and their opponents have to actively assist them

I don’t need the Times ranking system because only two movies deserve to be on it: Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios, 2014) & The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, also 2014)

Me, stopped by cops on the pretextual basis of jaywalking near the park: let me take you gentlemen back to the 10th century AD when some apothecaries were searching for a way to turn base metal to gold

Posting this because I like Will Leitch, and agree with the general sentiment (and am curious to see how it works out for my hometown team), but, I think Durant is a peculiar player age-wise (that is he's deteriorating slowly)

I like the new Discovery season because for all the dutifully verbalizing of "this is a POWER the MAGNATUDE of which WE'VE NEVER ENCOUNTERED" everybody knows (and accordingly behaves like) the Progenitors/Preservers stuff is canonically weak sauce

Sadly, Mahmoud Khalil will likely not be able to sue and win any money, thanks to the Supreme Court mostly killing any implied cause of action. When state and local cops violate your right, you can sue under a specific law. But no such specific law exists for federal civil rights violations.

"Part of this funding increase would go to hiring 10,000 new ICE agents, and more than 8,000 new Customs and Border Patrol agents. That would give ICE more agents than the FBI has in the field," writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/building-t...

Mike D’Antoni’s revolution lives on in Indiana, but the Pacers aren’t just the 2004 Suns reincarnated. They’re playing at an even higher level, says D’Antoni. Latest from me, at The Ringer:

🚨 BREAKING: Trump admin refuses to release Mahmoud Khalil, despite judge's order

I know the world is on fire but am I the only guy googling "Sen Padilla height"

PADILLA: "If this is how this admin responds to a senator with a question, if this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, cooks, day laborers in California and the rest of the country. We will hold this administration accountable."

Stephen Miller’s first day in hell being faced with his HS sophomore Spanish teacher conducting public oral exams

I'll say it: El Batallón de San Patricio should have smoked Zachary Taylor early