they should invent a year that's better than the one before it

Rest in peace to Mike F, one of the all-time greats

One of the more quietly shitty developments of this decade is society's acceptance of streamers as celebrities

At this point the most surefire sign that a movie is good is Ben Shapiro dedicating a YouTube video to saying why it is bad

I had a premonition of Hollywood making a movie about an ICE agent that violently deports innocent people, but feels bad about it. I'm giving it three years before the movie is real and in theaters.

Jim-E Stack is quietly having one of the best music production years ever

It's so fucking cool how everyone just accepts that nothing good will happen on the macro level ever again

I have been developing my own philosophical principle, a la Occam's/Hitchens'/Alder's razor, and have arrived at the following: No matter what the outcome is, it will be exceptionally stupid.

Yesterday marked the 12 year anniversary of the Denny's Grand Slam

Being from Chicago, there is a non-zero chance that the new Pope is the first pope to ever try a Chicago-style hot dog.

This rules

Currently watching The Mars Volta open for Deftones and I am reminded that they are masters at making very impressive technical music that exactly 0 people are interested in listening to.

I've been reading a biography on Eugene V. Debs and it goes into a lot of the corruption and inequality of the Gilded Age and it occurred to me that a lot of what is discussed sounds like an improvement over the current state of affairs.

A common exercise in my law school was to come up with government actions and determine whether they would violate any constitutional restrictions. I'm pretty sure my constitutional law professor would've laughed at me if I had come up with a prior restraint AND compelled speech scenario

The most reasonable take for why DOGE is made up of a bunch of college age kids is that college age kids have the most immediate access to shit like ketamine and this guy needs a plug

Feeling better than ever about the absurd amount of Costco hot dogs I eat each week

Matthew Stafford you will always be QB1 in the NFC to me

Rapid fire of my favorite stuff from 2024: Album: In Waves by Jaime xx Movie: Dune: Part 2 Game: Astrobot Show: Arcane (season 2) Book: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson Concert: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard at The Forum

Can't wait for USPS to start charging me a monthly fee to receive spam in the mail

It's insanely funny that Fetterman had a stroke and then basically became a Republican

There's nothing that is jarring and generally disappointing in the same way as watching a YouTube video on cool future theoretical technologies and the amazing things that could be in humanity's future, only to be interrupted by a Mint Mobile ad

Ten years ago, I got stoned with my buddy and saw Interstellar in IMAX during the holiday season. Last night, I got stoned with my wife and saw Interstellar in IMAX during the holiday season. That's poetry, baby.

I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever

There is a cat named Pumpkin that lives in my neighborhood that has recently taken to coming into my home to hang out whenever she is walking by

"Have some respect. This is a funeral" *slowly removes giant sombrero revealing smaller yet still pretty big sombrero*

I just know that UMG's lawyers are laughing hysterically, knowing that they can just pull up Drake's own lyrics as basically lawsuit-defeating evidence.

My initial reaction to seeing Wicked last night is that it is immediately the best musical movie I have ever seen

Was thinking that something sounded missing from this new Kendrick album, and it all made sense once I saw that Jack Antonoff produced it

So did anyone think about this one when plans were being made?

Dystopian business idea #1: operate a company that purchases the legal rights to people's bodies upon their deaths. Distribute the bodies as the company sees fit. In practice, monopolize and privatize organ donations.

Starting off my Bluesky career with hot takes on the best sitcoms, for posterity