Says Theo to Vincent:

Fun stuff!

Slightly increase a band: The Ramoner

Beautiful. Absurd. Macron.

All good picks, but I’m afraid the correct answer is “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”

Wizards!!!

Gotta say, those last two possessions were very embarrassing for Brunson.

Dude's a genius. Succession music, chef's kiss

Gagnante du “Loft” en 2001, Loana Petrucciani a été retrouvée morte chez elle à Nice ce 25 mars 2026. Après son succès dans l’émission, elle avait vite été dépossédée de son image et fait les choux gras de la presse à scandale, avant de sombrer dans la dépression. Elle avait 48 ans.

Poor Loana. It’s been a harsh and bitter week for someone whose current understanding of France was shaped over a formative, five-year period stretching from 1997-2002.

At this point I kinda wanna see Timothee win just so he can spend his entire speech doubling down on his point about ballet and opera

Time your travel right and you might even avoid that fourth installment.

It would demonstrate that people left of center's judgment is poor as well. That they are not to be taken seriously. I think it is good to send the message that nazi tattoos are a disqualifying factor in American leadership. In fact this was a baseline understanding up until only... well... now.

Tl;dr: Americans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. He is part of the broad wave of far right parties/politicians since 2008 across rich democracies. Our institutions just suck more. Europeans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. See above.

Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.

Athens people! Buvez! and Hendershots shuttering within a few months of each other—what is happening here? It’s gonna be all Chipotles from here on out.

An experience, huh? Explains why he can stop bombing people.

Alice & Martin Provensen - from The Iliad & the Odyssey (1956). #wardsmorguefile #moreartlessdoom

You win, America! This evening has been pretty cathartic.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

I had no idea that my gneeration's greatest use would come in being able to tell people on the internet who Ricky Martin is

Draft Kings is evil and should not be given such a prominent role in this our national holiday.

Liliana Cavani’s When Harry Met Sally?

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

With alt-text

"Bluesky c'est nul, il n'y a personne là-bas, à part tout juste quelques punks à chats". Argument entendu dans un cabinet ministériel. Fier d'être punk à chat !

OMG. “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”

Fine. I’ll do it. Whatever.

2026 is coming in like

I know I’m doing something right as a parent when I hop into the liquor store on New Year’s Eve, and the manager there asks how my daughter is enjoying her new wheelchair.

Funny Face is still such a weird premise-to-casting fit.

This is so true. And I’m here for it.

Turned out to be a little closer than I thought, but Gisler did indeed pull off the upset.

I swear I’d be very upset if someone started calling me “Tony Orlando” out of the blue.

It’s Wemby time! C’est l’heure de Wemby!

So, this puts us at roughly one percentage point off from regime change territory, right?

Do you remember?

People should be more up front with you about the degree of trauma involved in witnessing one’s country execute a textbook slide into authoritarianism.

This is a few months old but it illustrates why Philly is the best sandwich town in the world. The addition of Cooper Sharp to the John's menu was worthy of a report on the nightly news.

1. Coffee 2. Manti 3. A cat exposing its belly 4. Chinese Rocks 5. Richard Hell not getting credited for Chinese Rocks

I wish I hadn’t canceled my subscription last month, so I could cancel it over this. Some folks are really taking seriously Newsom’s injunction to carry on his work.

Joséphine, 32 ans, cantatrice #Jobdanimaux

Okay, I was trying to just sit with this, but we are getting very close to a “George W Bush is MY Commander-in-Chief” moment here.

Just noting right here that “the pods” in French are “capsules.” Not sure what to make of it quite yet, but it’s something.

“Europe’s inaction will go down not only as among its gravest moral failings in recent memory, but as an immense disservice to Israelis themselves.” www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

They didn’t just shut down USAID. They liquidated it. No roll call. No floor speech. Just silence— and rotting rice where mercy used to be. They killed the idea that America could care. Read the eulogy no one gave: thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com/p/the-eulogy...

I feel this in my soul

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.