Sally Draper taught me the way to pronounce “Tagalog”

Yeah man @apdirtybird.bsky.social

Pitcher of milk in a board meeting would send me over the edge.

Paul Verhoeven:

"Whopper" means the pain of an old wound

“The most eloquent I've ever heard you is when you were blubbering like a little girl about your Whopperless childhood."

If I’ve got the spotlight right now off my last post then let’s just all go Morbin’ Time youtu.be/6JDL9GAjgeE?...

Paused MAD MEN while Ted Chaough’s partner was in the hospital and the HBO Max interstitial ad made it look like his dying wish was for a Whopper.

John McPhee, you have to do something. www.wlrn.org/business/202...

Shark hive, we ride at dawn

A big part of Mad Men’s appeal is convincing viewers that in another time they’d be Don or Roger instead of more realistically Freddy or Duck.

Mail person gave me two issues of the latest @nybooks.com—one for me, one for my neighbor by mistake—so I walked it one block over to their house, and being nosy I googled the guy to discover he’s a famous enough mathematician to have his own Wikipedia pages for both him and his theorems.

PLAY PEPAS!

Don’t pick us 🙌

3 hours til tip off.

I’ve now listened to Geese and Goose and it’s striking how much worse both are than Swans.

As a lifelong Santa Clara fan* that one hurt *thought they were in LA until I googled it a minute ago

Heartened to see my “always pick against Ohio State regardless of sport” system worked flawlessly once again.

KEXP is to Tiny Desk what the LRB is to NYRB. This post is for an audience of like six people but it matters for taste definition, and drawing lines in the sand.

This movie is all about how NYC needs to stop throwing garbage all over and instead use dumpsters like a modern city.

🎬 courtesy of @beyondvideo.bsky.social

"I'd give up every computer to bring the Irish mob back."

"If the academic job did not work out, New Orleans, a city where a morning scotch is the moral equivalent of an oat milk latte, sure did." www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/177...

Who gets punched in the face more frequently per episode, Ryan in The OC season 1, or Pete in Mad Men season 5?

Is my English teacher dad writing graffiti in Baltimore?

Particularly rich because of how frequently LLM answers cite years old Reddit comments: "In 2021, loosely speaking, 'Reddit' caused stock rallies; in 2026 maybe the chatbots are doing it."

Everyone knows Avenues, Lanes, Ways, and Drives. But what do you know about Garths?

This week’s @beyondvideo.bsky.social pulls

I fear my brain has been permanently broken because I'm reading an emotional and intense GQ feature about a foundational midwest emo band and I am driven to youtube slop distraction by this choice of words

One of these hangs right above where I'm typing this, lol

Anyone can make red beans and rice but do you have the courage to make white beans and rice?

"Chickens are now the most populous terrestrial vertebrate. At any one time, about 26 billion chickens occupy the planet."

"Just think of those spooks whispering about pinkos over their cups of tea an arm’s length from an expensive old book about Satan."

Sorry, can't make any Wednesday AWP readings. I've got plans.

They’re ready for AWP in east Baltimore.

Baltimore

Introduced my daughter to McDonald’s fries from the drive-thru window today, like giving the flame to cavemen. I’ve changed history.

Stopping at the Tocacco shop… anyone need anything?

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Time is a flat circle.

"One of every 15 residents in Dublin’s trendy Grand Canal Dock district was born in the U.S., according to realtors, higher than the percentage of Americans born in Ireland during the 19th-century influx following the Potato Famine."

"The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there."

Baltimore

Lindsay Turner in the NYRB

People coming to AWP in Baltimore next month can ask me nicely to point them to the city’s best bars, but only I will know if the recommendation is sincere or not.

Strawberry My mother 🤝 Never gonna understand

"All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it."

Logo holds weight 🙌