after yesterday, things are suddenly delightfully messy at the top in bucharest. round 8 starts very soon: www.youtube.com/live/U7v6v7m...

In 2017, we traveled to Brooklyn to do a show at BAM, and our guest dropped out at the last minute. We called Stephen Colbert and he agreed to fill in *but only if we asked him the questions we had prepped for the original guest, without telling him who it was.* www.npr.org/programs/wai...

days wo official statements counter tentatively set to 1 www.youtube.com/live/O6X99wO...

more news from bucharest incoming. also round 6 www.youtube.com/live/NcZMUTx...

correction, it's 92(36). almost 600 runs this season at SR 225. will probably beat the universe boss' record of sixes in a single session. he's barely 15. what the hell

a blink of an eye ago the kid was on 5(9) and looking woefully out of touch. now he's on 57(25)

you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

round 5 live - with a bit of a twist www.youtube.com/live/4nbSQ9x...

Incredible scenes at Bristol yesterday, as Gloucestershire opened with two nightwatchmen to protect Ben Charlesworth, who was on a king pair Both of them got out and Charlesworth completed his king pair anyway

round 4 show is already live www.youtube.com/live/nArfLwP...

pragg vs keymer and more fun for the whole family www.youtube.com/live/f5c-vED...

bucharest classic round 2 starting soon www.youtube.com/live/UZLFp63...

this the shit I been up to

... which reminds me of this story that Barry Cryer told about Willie Rushton:

Korchnoi would have been 70 at the time. Just out there playing games and making enemies for the love of it all. Great story

I know the law

i told this tale on air at some point, i'm sure, but maybe it's worth retelling. still one of my most favorite viktor stories of all time 1/n

harlem shuffle by @colsonwhitehead.com, @marthawells.com platform decay queued up next

very cute

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

Emilio Gay further presses his case for inclusion with another century. This one off 136 balls and in front of the England skipper. @thetimes.com

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

the hedgehog season is officially open. it was safely evacuated outside the fence soon afterwards. boyo had to have needles removed from his mouth, which he didn't enjoy, but something tells me he'll try again given half a chance, he's very excited about the concept of wildlife

Wrens are usually solitary birds but when it’s cold they will sometimes huddle together for warmth. Some people call this a ‘herd’ but technically it’s known as a ‘scene’. That’s because chilled wren should be ‘scene’ and not ‘herd’.

generally i´m in favour of foakes doing more of anything, preferrably for england (no, i don´t know how to fit him into the team that should have both smith and rew in it, why do you ask) - but maybe not this?

A being that is 99% man, 1% horse. A percentaur.

not that anyone asked but: here are anagrams for player names on the Toronto Blue Jays roster

it´s morbin´ time again. i looked away for a sec and the boy is 30(10). correction, 36(12). how am i supposed to go walk the boyo in these conditions

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

My favorite picture of Terry Pratchett

turned a kid onto Pratchett by explaining that basically he is doing exactly what you watch stand up comic s for- observational humour about the world you live in based ona wholly outlandish series of circumstances being told to you via a compelling story

murali and sangakkara are now just the most lovable Random Uncs <3 more of that energy please

chasing 265 with an over to spare, eh? think i'll go back to watching jimmy bowl instead

Happy Perfect Date Day, everyone

yes. yes it does

had a very enjoyable convo with greg mustreader before the candidates, so it's excellent 'look at the absolute state of modern punditry' content by now. decent in other ways too, though youtu.be/qVpKE0mTVsI?...

This is sooooo sweet. Donkey is just a big dog ❤️❤️ TT: thewalkingdonkey Jordan and Donkey

who do they think they are - duolingo owl?

Great film ;)

I did it, I beat that motherfucker Pingu eatf.art/webby #nootnoot #webbys

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

i understand this is div2 cricket etc but sir jimmy is on 21 wickets, avg 12.09, after the first 3 matches. i don't have a point here, i just miss him

ok take 2 the reason i appear to care - i was there when it was written etc etc, i was part of team grischuk in kazan 2011 (together with bacrot and riazantsev) so i had a front row seat to it

admittedly i haven't seen that many live, but this was a unbelievable leg side stumping by jurel

welppppp I just had my trusted Seattle dogsitter cancel last-minute before I leave town for 9.5 days starting Saturday. this is a Seattle SOS for anyone who has a trusted or favorite dogsitter they know who has last-minute availability for this incredibly sweet doodle mix

how very dare you. also - he didn't? oO

r14 mini-thread congratulations to vaishali for surviving the svidler jinx (i singled her out in the pre-tournament video, that would have sunk a lesser human). very happy for her, she would sit in with us occasionally during pre-toronto camps and was very impressive, calm and clear-headed 1/n