The following is a Beowulf joke, not necessarily a good one: Make Denmark Geat again 🇩🇰

“You can finish writing your novel later.”

I’m honored, @calllmenadira.net ❤️

Impeachment at the absolute fucking bare minimum

Sleepy doggo

Snow day

I only like these fixed NFL games when the Eagles benefit

Any chance the Danish army is recruiting middle-aged fat guys?

Hurry up, chicken bone

As far as titles go, “Conan the Slob” would’ve been much more kind.

Winter is a magical time of year here in Philly

Compared to the last election, a farcical aquatic ceremony sounds pretty good right now

If you asked someone what to expect from their journalistic outlet and they said, "I love America," you would be talking to News CEO Ralph Wiggum.

I too am invigorated to welcome in the Mamdanocene.

Discipline AND punish? In this economy?

the sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold —Nick Virgilio (1967)

Merry New Year.

When I tell you the bo ssam we made this week was epic, I mean it in the strictest Bakhtinian sense.

Roland searched the continent for the man who done him in He found him in Mombasa, in a barroom drinking gin

Habari gani?

Name that show? (And let all the poison that lurks in the mud hatch out.)

‘twas we have a mouse running buck wild tonight in our Philly rowhouse

Happy Jólabókaflóð to those who celebrate.

This is one happy doggo

You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf. Well here’s Werner on the Burner.

Much love to my friendos celebrating Hanukkah. Thinking of you.

Such majestic creatures

“I have had no piece of mind since we lost America.” -Alan Bennett, “The Madness of George III” (1991)

I live in a 2026 World Cup city. If I wanted to go to a match, I’d need to put my rowhouse on Air B&B for a bunch of money and sleep in a tent in the backyard with the dog.

It’s nutso to me that Eagles fans are doubting Jalen Hurts. I can count our Super MVP winners on my thumbs. He’s already a legend in this city. It’s almost as if there’s another factor that makes people so critical of him? 🦅

People in my neighborhood Discord are fighting over what songs they will sing while Christmas carrolling and it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

The MLB players who used steroids took money out of the hands of other players who didn’t cheat. I don’t want to see them benefit even further from being the Hall of Fame during their lifetimes.

Wait what? Jeff Kent got into the Hall of Fame but not Dale Murphy or Fernando Valenzuela? That’s crazy talk.

If you happen to meet Yellowman, please tell him I love him and buy him a sandwich. I’ll pay you back.

Another day, another Watergate

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I’ve just heard this part of the semester referred to as “Dead Grandmother Season.”

Only the even numbered Bartók string quartets, like Star Trek movies, are any good.

Let’s get one thing clear / The bait's over there, the brew's right here

Happy beginning of Whamageddon! for those who celebrate it.

I recently reviewed Aja Gabel’s excellent novel LIGHTBREAKERS for the Washington Post. “Egotistical billionaires and their outlandish, eschatological pet projects make for easy literary targets…” Today, the Texarkana Gazette ran it without a paywall. www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2025/no...

I’m confident that we Philadelphians will retain our usual demure, silent-but-proud dignity over the next few days and week. 🦅

Planes, Trains *and* Automobiles? In this economy??

I really miss Gabe Hudson

This is Oberon

anyway. go read a short story or a chunk of a novel today. enjoy a piece of art. maybe even buy a drawing or painting! reach out and tell an artist how much something they made meant to you.

Omfg Dalesandro’s just got a Michelin “Bib Gourmand” prize.

Before they supposedly release the Trump/Epstein files, keep in mind chapters 5-7 of Tacitus’s ANNALS. And 18.5 minutes of tape from Nixon’s June 20, 1972 conversation with Haldeman.

There’s a 30th anniversary edition of INFINITE JEST and I’ll just be over here turning to dust and being dispersed by the winds

We have an extra #PAXUnplugged badge for Saturday if you hear of someone looking for one.