Ice dancing is such a wild display of strength and beauty and grace and then they like just stop in the middle and do some really goofy dance moves and then go right back to the crazy strength and beauty and grace.

Watching women's downhill moguls and these have gotta be the coolest looking business leaders I've ever seen.

I never watched Dawson's Creek, but man it bums me out to see that James Van Der Beek has died. I was working in TV when Dawson's started airing; that cast became so famous so fast... it feels not long ago at all and also so very long ago. Dude was only 48. That ain't old. Fuck cancer, y'all.

Tower Records forever.

While I am glad that some of this snow/ice is finally melting, I do think the loud, intermittent crashing noises as giant sheets of it slide off my roof are a bit distracting.

How many Caps are on the USA hockey team? Zero. How many Caps are on the Canadian hockey team? Two. Love cheering on Team USA, but I will be rooting for Tom Wilson and Logan Thompson to get themselves some gold medals and I don't feel bad about that at all. (hey, go Slovakia while we're at it.)

Someone I only barely knew a long time ago emailed me about something for a mutual friend and then told me they always think fondly about the time we did a thing we didn't do at a program I didn't attend. My response: "Wonderful! Always good to be remembered for something. :)"

The problem is that no amount of marijuana is enough to help anyone deal with all the shit happening in America.

The "Holy shit yes" to "ah man that's not happening here" mood swing on this one.

I like the bit in ice skating where they spin around a lot.

Not a great Super Bowl by any means, but I enjoyed seeing Seattle get a measure of revenge on New England, I enjoyed New England *not* winning a record-breaking 7th Super Bowl, and I enjoyed Bad Bunny pissing off red America. So not a bad night, endless AI ads aside.

Bad Bunny covered more yards than either teams' offenses.

Awesome halftime show. I hope every Republican watching that proud and joyous celebration of Puerto Rican *American* culture shat themselves in their apoplectic stupor.

Bad Bunny's making me wanna skip the second half of this game to watch In the Heights.

oh look, a commercial for butts.

oh yeah, let's just throw up some horror movie previews at the very start of the Super Bowl when people's little kids are still awake and watching.

Gonna be kind of a bummer when this Green Day concert gets cut short for a football game.

Buffalo chicken dip is ready and Led Zeppelin is on. Time to make some chili.

It's absurd that tech companies create ways for parents to set restrictions on their children's use of technology but make them so complicated they are almost impossible for them to use and actually hilarious that they call the things mostly stopping parents from using them "Parental Controls."

Is there an actual word for this leather stick-shift scrotum thing?

R.I.P. Greg Brown, the original guitarist for Cake and the guy who wrote this banger of a song. youtu.be/F_HoMkkRHv8?...

This is like if Mount Vesuvius resigned the day after leveling Pompeii.

why

Ya think when the Dead were recording "The Music Never Stopped," they were like "find us the tinniest, tootiest, clenched-cheek-fartiest sounding sax player in the land"?

Olympic sledding is funny as hell.

For the past decade, the word "apes" appearing in your social media or news feed has basically never been a good thing.

I find myself thinking about how much time, thought, and care I put into the farewell email I sent out when I left the law firm that I worked at after law school as I spend barely a passing glance looking at the farewell emails people are sending out at the law firm I work at now.

Olympic Cornhole Team.

These guys announcing the snowboard Big Air are all like "that's a sweet spam musubi 980 into a double patty melt" and maybe I'm just hungry

"Olympic cock rings" is a phrase that just unfortunately ski jumped into my head.

Guy Who Answers The Phones At The Only Curling Place In Town is the easiest job in the world for ~1440 days and the worst job in the world for a period of about a 20 days straight every four years.

Just going by smells on the Metro, a whole lot of Washingtonians have chosen to wake and bake today.

No one has ever truly captured the vibe of teenage dread and flop sweat like the Violent Femmes and they only managed to do it the once.

The Washington Wizards have effectively traded literal flotsam and jetsam for two actual (if deeply flawed) all-stars and I would be legit excited to read the local newspaper's sports section's take on that if they hadn't all just been fired.

Passed like 16 different dudes who looked like the Sickos guy wearing Knicks gear and one dude in a Wizards jersey headed onto the Metro so I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Knicks are in town tonight.

The Patriots being back in the Super Bowl has a real "please God, anybody but the Chiefs or Eagles" monkey's paw feel to it.

Wow, line-up for Burnt Fest looks amazing! Rib Tips, Hot Beans, Slaw, Meat Two Way, Corn Puddin'.... oh wait this is a flyer for a BBQ place.

Ugh, Dumpsinundies Don saw his shadow, gonna be three more years of fascists.

Might as well close it now - he's already made it so no one of any true artistic bent is willing to perform or see a show there. wapo.st/4a3L10Z

What is this Ren Fest horror show. youtu.be/2T1lkUKyHLk?...

When Sartre said that hell is other people he hadn't even heard Imagine Dragons.

Kids' piano recital is doing nothing to convince me that we all shouldn't be hibernating right now.

5 Classes I took in College: 1) Metallurgy and the Art of Forging Relics 2) Lasers! What the Fuck? 3) Tightropes and You: Don't Look! 4) Butterscotch and Other Shit That Ain't Liquor But Sound Like They Should Be 5) Rabelaisian Titters: 500 Years of Hyperbolic Boredom in Comedy

Turns out wearing long underwear under your jeans is good for staying really warm outside in cold weather, sweating like crazy from an otherwise normal walkabout, and falling asleep on the sofa immediately after getting home.

Caught up watching the Australian Open men's semis and daaaaaaaaaaaamn those were crazy good matches. *Very* disconcerting to find myself enjoying seeing Djokovic beat Sinner. Hope Alcaraz can take his final missing major, but if not... what a run for the extremely good (super douche-y) Belorussian.

Y'all aren't gonna believe this, but it turns out that turning all multi-lane roads into one-lane roads surrounded by ice canyons is, uh, bad.

We have reached Spin Doctor hat level cold.

Might stick my head in the fridge for a bit to warm up.

This is the backstory I needed today.

Everything else sucks so you might as well take some small pleasure in knowing that you were right about how bad stuff was gonna get and that all the "that's ridiculous - that'll never happen" people were the idiots you thought they were.