Today's sad sight: this 20-year-old banner for the 2006 MLB All-Star Game, which is still up for some reason.

Why is it reporters never walk into an urban diner and ask them questions about country folk?

What a strange thing to bump into on your way into the office.

Three hours to set up an environment to replicate and test an issue, fifteen minutes to actually fix it. Ain't computers great.

I don't know if going to protests does any good in the long run. Sometimes it seems like I'm just howling into the void, or at least into an echo chamber.

As someone who watches a lot of British panel shows, let me tell you, hearing the name "Jonathan Ross" all the time in a very different context is giving me a lot of tonal whiplash.

You know, I am not really a religious person but lately I find myself hoping that there is a god, if only so I can go to sleep at night knowing every goose-stepping functionary of the Trump administration will eventually burn in hell.

My local gelato guy has a fresh batch for sale, which means this week is already looking good.

In 1897 "the Reverend Electrolycist" Prescott Ford Jernegan claimed he could extract gold from seawater for pennies on the dollar. It was a classic something for nothing scam... So why did so many people fall for it? order-of-the-jackalope.com/theres-gold-...

There's a special place in hell for electrical engineers who design plugs that don't fit neatly into a standard power strip.

"Delmot"? Not sure I can trust an institution of higher learning that can't even bother to spell their location correctly...

Remember, your drawing skills stopped where you last attempted to draw. That might be seven years old. Embrace it. It's fun to be a kid again. Ed Emberley drawing books will give you important dragon drawing skills (and help break you of the notion that you *can't* draw.)

I used this to kick off my 2024 Christmas playlist and I honestly can't say my attitude has improved much in the intervening year. youtu.be/WETT6oPznq4?...

I had almost forgotten how weird my wedding ephemera was.

WINE BOYFRIEND GRINDR Uh-oh.

Pro Tip: If an op-ed writer has contributed to the Epoch Times, you can safely ignore anything they have to say.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Here's hoping I don't have to post this every Christmas for the foreseeable future. Happy Merry everyone! youtu.be/2yGpoZeqRTg?...

Look, I know you heretics are just trying to cram in your promos and sales in by EOY, but the 12 Days of Christmas are December 25 (Christmas) through January 6 (Epiphany). Not December 20 through December 31.

I don't know why people have trouble seeing it but the "problem with the MCU" is that ENDGAME was, y'know, an ending. A really satisfying ending. The sort that does not leave the audience wanting more.

On the contrary. Tiny Tim (who did NOT die) lives on yet, a wizened, hunched thing of dried skin and withered sinew, milky-eyed and toothless. His every human contact is long severed by the merciless jaws of Time that refuse only him, and he curses the name of Scrooge every night. Merry Christmas!

Seriously. Why would anyone air this live instead of on a huge delay. He has said three new things in this giant bloviating mess. And it's all crap he should have saved for the State of the Union.

"Reverse migration" is also "population decline."

Okay, so he's bribing the troops. Great. Really reassuring stuff.

Look, I realize the whole point of this speech is to get everyone to tune out so he can quietly drop the bullshit big news in the middle but JFC get to the point already. This is a campaign speech. Networks should be refusing to carry these lies live.

It sure would be great to have a president who could string a coherent paragraph together. And who didn't lie constantly.

great blog post including some classic examples of games handling violence well.

On House to Astonish, Daredevil Villains #65: Micah Synn.

One would not expect a story of political intrigue featuring Niccolo Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia to be the most Christmassy story in a collection of Christmas stories... but that is exactly the case.

Strange Stories, Amazing Facts.

Damn those movers were brutally efficient. It was a small move but I still expected it would take them the whole three hour window

Part of me cynically thinks that the Pentagon has been slowly shifting to the term "warfighter" so they can make the semantic argument that they are not bound by rules covering "soldiers."

I love it when it's the end of the month and advertisihng companies start shoveling random ads everywhere. just to burn off views. Hulu becomes convinced I speak Spanish. Netflix starts showing me Korean car commercials. Podcasts feature ads for vape shops a thousand miles away.

Uketsu has done it again - a masterpiece of modern horror!

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Really not digging that DeviantArt's AI content settings are not "don't show me AI" but "show me less AI." And even with it set to the latter the home page is still mostly AI.

Dear Doordash: The story of a poor lower-class delivery guy who doesn't make a living wage and has to work on a holidays delivering presents for a rich family's tantrum-prone brat is maybe not as heartwarming as your marketing department thinks it is.

I made a conscious decision to start unsubscribing from mailing lists this week and it is astounding to see how many people assume I have a near-daily need to buy art supplies, cookie cutters, candles, and mattresses.

can't wait for Hollywood to learn what literature already knows, which is that Oz is actually the Land of Diminishing Returns

"If you keep Orshansky’s logic—if you maintain her principle that poverty could be defined by the inverse of food’s budget share—but update the food share to reflect today’s reality, the multiplier is no longer three. "It becomes sixteen."

I wish there was an Eisner for "best caption" because here's the obvious winner.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

babe, listen, I need you to bring me $15,000 cash and my passport. I out-pizza’d the hut and they are after me

Weird to think that the character of Thanos basically didn't exist before THANOS QUEST and INFINITY GAUNTLET. Sure, there's a character called Thanos running around two decades earlier but the differences are so profound that they are basically two separate characters.

White House Press Secretary may have once been an important role, but these days the job boils down to, "Lie to the press until they trap you in a contradiction and force you to resign in disgrace." Who would willingly sign up for that job? Why would the press think this farce was worth covering?

I think Dichen Lachman is a good actor... but why would anyone think, oh, I should buy a Toyota because she endorsed it?

Reading through a CAPTAIN MARVEL collection and it includes an essay by Roy Thomas stating that the appeal of the character is that he is a blank slate that can be dropped into any story. Except who wants to read a story with a main character with less personality than a warm bowl of tapioca?