I'm sorry, this is very odd on many, many levels

Having to tell extremely online people not to hit themselves in the face repeatedly seems suboptimal

Also, what happened that everyone is now on "a journey"? I thought people were being sarcastic, telling me about their "knitting journey" or their "tea journey" or their "hockey romance journey" instead of saying "I decided to take up knitting" or whatever, but apparently they are quite serious

I have been alternately insanely busy and kind of hiding out away from electronic input for the last 3 months. Can someone please tell why in that time everyone apparently went mad for Dubai chocolates?

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I feel like not enough people recall the album Bombabacab

Holy cow

"Hunter" by Bjork or "Repent Walpurgis" by Procol Harum

I guess I am just really attuned to my circadian rhythms, because I am dreading the return to DST. Just fair warning that as insufferable as I am now, I will be exponentially moreso if they make DST permanent

American Beauty. I seethed through the whole thing, and it took me ages to be willing to watch another Sam Mendes film

Yes, here's to justice for ravens! I love all corvids, but especially ravens. One comes to visit me sometimes in my back yard. I call him Osgood.

you will have to pry my copy of Moby-Dick from my cold, dead hands, Threads clickfarmer

Oh, man. What a loss. Everyone has probably heard about Titicut Follies, but if you've never seen his films Welfare or Law and Order, you owe it to yourself. They're on Kanopy. RIP

For the mother's restless son Who is a witness to, who is a warrior Who denies his urge to break and run Who says: hard times? I'm used to them The speeding planet burns, I'm used to that My life's so common it disappears And sometimes even music Cannot substitute for tears

Everyone will go long on Apocalypse Now and the Godfather movies and such, but *gosh* he was terrific in quiet movies. I'm a big cheerleader for Tender Mercies (which -- if you haven't seen it, lucky you, you are in for a quiet, thoughtful treat) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu17...

I read the whole thread of the guy who says he and everyone around him does nothing bu work on having automated agents writing code for AI and where I am now on this is: 1. Yuck 2. If I were him, would be worried that no one not in the industry has any idea what the heck he's even talking about

One of my neighbors is playing music I don't like at all so I am now listening to Dr. John the Night Tripper's album Gris-Gris and the mixture is super weird

I just heard a minute of the KU/ISU play-by-play and my question is: is it somehow possible that Rosario Dawson is playing for the Jayhawks men's basketball team?

The next time someone tells me I have no understanding of Con Law* I am totally coming back with "I have searched the depths of legal arguments not yet articulated"

I cannot imagine a situation in which I would ever unironically use the term "looksmaxxing"

oh. Huh.

Nothing to see here, no problems at all

This seems extremely bad

True story: if you go to the grocery near my house right at 7:30 p.m., you can get whichever rotisserie chicken hasn't sold yet for $2.50. Yep, that's me, living the high life, WSJ

It is so completely weird to me to learn that so many people deep-down want to basically be the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

See, this is why you should hire people who took more than just cursory journalism classes. Best journalist I ever met majored in semiotics. Second best: Medieval History.

just saying: pitchers and catchers report on Tuesday

Um, how about NO

They have had that Boston cut cued up for a while

Still just kind of gobsmacked by the technical aspect of staging that HTS because that was just. So. Complex.

I really, really want the production and stage management teams to win some awards

This is definitely the most interesting staging I have seen in a halftime show...very creative use of space and maximizing cinematics

Not sure putting AI and Jesus in the same conversation is the way to go

What is going on with this Backstreet Boys renaissance

I don't watch much television anymore. Is it always this...bright? It feels kind of aggressively vivid

Every destination has a beginning? Um...what?

I will never not laugh at "the Superb Owl", no matter how many times it is mentioned, no matter how many years this lasts

I am a longtime resident of Lawrence, Kansas, which was burned to the ground in 1863, so: the phoenix is kind of our thing, and I embrace it

I have heard "Billie Jean" more in the past 4 days than I have in the last decade...was it in a tv show or something?

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "This happened six hours ago. Why are you just filing your piece now? You are aware the show is already underway?"

I was thinking about this the first time I heard the names-must-match proposal, oddly because I was thinking of President Bill Clinton.

Have none of these people figured out that the head of the Ponzi scheme is the one insisting that if you just give them a bit more $ it will all work out just great

Nick Offerman, Daniel Radcliffe, Tituss Burgess, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Colman, Kate McKinnon, Elizabeth Banks, Jon Hamm, Chiwetel Ojiafor

Amazon McGoof got rid of the WaPo BOOKS section? Man, if you didn't laugh, you'd cry

A Message of Avarice Rained Down and Carried Us Away into False Dreams of Endless Riches by Red Sparowes youtu.be/X3Gee3ntX-Q?...

The Great Escape

I am not watching the Grammys. I am listening to the wildly-underrated 1969 album Spooky Two by English psych-blues-rock band Spooky Tooth

I am working on a guide for visitors who come to Lawrence for the World Cup, and anyway I am having to find creative ways to say the equivalent of "okay, look, if you get hurt, you should go to the hospital, but it is going to cost you real money"

Nabisco Chocolate Wafers Pinwheels Oreo (original) Samoas/Caramel Delites Choco Leibniz