Hello from Haddon Heights, New Jersey.

Selected “In the Bleak Midwinter” for this Sunday months ago. Tomorrow’s forecast: 3-6” of snow. So much winning! And don’t @ me about singing Christmas carols in Advent. I block liturgical Nazis.

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I’m old enough to remember when a ‘remote conference’ just meant a conference where all the participants were aloof, mentally disengaged or emotionally repressed

Drop a lawyer

The #Eagles can’t put together a complete game. Last night they ran the ball well, despite O-line injuries, pressured the QB, forced turnovers, but Jalen, Elliott & the WRs more than made up for it. Everybody has their scapegoat, but at this point I chalk it up to a collective Super Bowl hangover.

A lot of carols get really doctrinal around verse 4. It’s like: v1 Jesus was born in winter v2 Which makes us happy v3 Because he reconciles us to God v4 By uniting the divine and human natures in his person, without division and without confusion

My Ballot: 1. Notre Dame 2. Lane Kiffin 3. Jordan Hudson 4. UMass 5. #GoACC 6. Penn State 7. SEC refs 8. Florida 9. Skip Bayless 10. Hard Rock Stadium

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Notre Dame rn: y.yarn.co/5d6cd197-428...

Gen-X didn't do the work of interrogating Donner and problematizing his toxic masculinity that's why we made kids cry at little league

Despite the headline, this article doesn’t shed much light on whether Graham Platner can win, much less on how he’d represent Maine. But it is a fascinating portrait of a guy who’s just wired very differently than I am: apple.news/AjN2Xe_TbRaC...

While y’all frantically throwing Christmas Eve services together somebody is already locked and loaded for Trinity Sunday.

Ok, Pluribus finally advanced the plot tonight.

“Buffoonery” is trying to have it both ways with voters by demanding your party fund a popular program you and your party claim to hate. apple.news/A60CPd70ORDy...

The good news of a God who judges? Come hear more this Sunday at 10 AM at St. John's Park Slope 💒 substack.com/home/post/p-...

A #songbird singing for #BirdOfTheDay: Male lazuli bunting in Oregon. 📷🌿🪶

Should have fired him (and her) five days ago, but Sunk-Cost Fallacy and whatnot.

For a change, I got a Dadvent calendar this year. I just opened the first window and it said "can you shut that before it messes with the thermostat".

Slightly diminish a band: The B-29s Duran A Pair of Seagulls Samsara (think grunge) Audio Indentured Servant Princes of Leon Blink-181 (sorry; I got carried away)

Will bet cash money someone has already written a dissertation arguing this

Why it matters

Think along with him. The last post in this 🧵 is one for the ages:

For singing, my favorite is “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” and for listening, my favorite is “Coventry Carol.” My favorite secular song is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” the John Denver and Ralph the Dog version: youtu.be/8tvvNV3geqQ?...

The Philadelphia #Eagles will not be on TV today. I have put them in time out and told them to think about what they have done.

Brady wasn’t a System QB. Bill was a System Coach. (The Brady System)

Just like the coach.

It was a great Thanksgiving. Safe travel. Delicious food. Old and new faces around the table. Little talk of politics or religion, even among the like-minded. If anyone was drunk, it wasn’t evident.

Chicago man, shamed by @radiofreetom.bsky.social, ditches backwards White Sox cap (but not the bat) for a flight to Rome.

Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character …wrong answers only.

Thanksgiving 2025 License Plate Results (vehicles must be in motion and no tractor trailers). It's not a great haul compared to a summer trip on I-95--a New Brunswick or PEI is not an unreasonable expectation then--but I'm very pleased with the sighting of two different Alaska plates!

Eagles are cooked.

‘When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”’

Orthodox Thanksgiving falls on December 4 this year.

Children are psychos is why I’m a Calvinist

America won’t be great again until we storm Normandy’s beaches with undercooked turkeys teeming with salmonella and VHS tapes of Wayne Fontes.

Bob dylan cant sing why would i listen to songs by a man who literally coulfnt carry a tune in a bucket i dont care if hes a poet I read poetry, I dont listen to it, is what i said to blow up Thanksgiving dinner w/ppl who agree w/me politically what did u do

When you see this skeet a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health

#Pies, ranked: 1. Strawberry rhubarb 2. Cheesecake (see earlier post) 3. Pecan 4. Key lime 5. Apple 6. Turtle 7. Pumpkin 8. Sweet Potato 9. Cranberry Apple Crumb 10. Quiche (gotta have at least one savory pie on the list)

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

not only is #cheesecake pie, it is The Best #pie & someone with more followers than I needs to make this case and cause Bluesky 2 melt dn

Thanksgiving 2025 License Plate At-the-Half Report: 28 plates 26 states 1 district (of Columbia) 1 province (Je me souviens!) Had hoped for more provinces, but in the bright side, we saw 2 different cars with Alaska plates!

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

Call for a Thanksgiving weekend boycott of Target, Amazon, and Home Depot:

If the Chiefs make the playoffs I’m totally taking them against the field in the AFC.

The green bean casserole was invented by a member of my congregation, so can I eliminate all but number seven? whyy.org/articles/dor...

Hey y’all, it’s the feast day of St. Columbanus, Irish pilgrim, monastic founder, and bear tamer! If you find yourself in an argument with a theology bro, you can always clap back with these lines of his:

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. When the kids come home and are welcomed by grandparents beaming with pride—why, it just warms my heart!

@mandy-matney.com Dr. Joel Fleischman isn’t bringing that Big Creighton Energy, but other than that, this has been an outstanding series!