Fake Burger King is an important part of the Yinzer Legendarium.

My husband planned our 3,000 mile car ride around this.

Mountain Standard Time: the Mr. Pibb of time zones.

Entering the amber waves of grain

Kansas City: perfectly cromulent.

Driving ‘cross the country.

Excellent Pynchon character name.

On a whim I started this at 7 pm on a Friday and finished it in one sitting around 4 am.

Judge Jerry Smith also did this a few years ago www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Me: Not sure I can keep going times are tough for real *eats lunch* Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege

Work is meh but gym seems good.

The notwithstanding clause would make an American’s head explode* if they learned about it. *yes, yes, Canada still is freer, etc. let us have this one slam.

GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour

Well… he’s good at the twist!

Inclusionary zoning is not just terrible policy. It’s also extremely neoliberal policy that outsources a key state function—providing subsidized housing for poor people—to private, market-based actors and shifts the financial burden for the subsidies from wealthy homeowners to middle class renters.

We’re rewatching Star Trek: The Original Series and funny that the second episode is all about how not to be a creep to women

The 5pm Friday associate law library requester is here and we all love her.

The Art of Destruction: The Vienna Action Group In Film, Performance & Revolt; and a copy of GIGANTIC ASSES.

I am a sinner and absolutely want to read the Nuzzi article.

The irony* that the same people pushing this type of thing are also the ones talking about the Western canon, the most prominent theme of which is probably “death and loss are a fundamental part of the human condition.” *not really.

Free fridge at work is offering new things but doing so at the expense of 50% of the previous Coke Zero space where do I report this hate crime hello Hague

Bartleby the Scrivener’s plan worked for a while I just gotta plan it right.

35 years old that’s herstory.

Wikipedia knows how I like to freak it

Fell ass backward into life on easy mode (no kids + Pittsburgh).

Wow if only there were a longstanding fan theory that the generic name “James Bond” was also a code name for agents.

It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. - Kurt V

I think a lot about paltering these days with social media. Notably, none of those engagement farmers seemed to include lines like “there is no way for the Supreme Court to not ‘officially consider’ a filed writ petition like Davis’s.”

Downtown Pittsburgh smells like hundreds of heating systems burning off their summer grime.

A reminder that Americans have historically preferred governors over senators for President.

Thomas Pynchon sitting down to watch The Chair Company

congress is a russian nesting doll of counter-majoritarian structures. seems to me that there's no need for a supermajority rule on top of that!

A woman asked to share the lane with me and then proceeded to kick me in the head multiple times 10/10 would recommend.

Perhaps this was the plan for today maybe?

Proud Beaverian newrepublic.com/post/202821/...

“Vanguard Financial Services Hotline how can I assist?” “Yes, can you direct me to your PUSSPUSS97 targeted index funds?” “One moment, when I connect you you’ll have to confirm you are an aging gay man, the line is going through now.”

When you get to page 20ish of Shadow Ticket and see that, yes, there are still songs.

This song doesn’t make sense anymore cuz of NIMBYs

Juries! Important enough to be found in three of the first ten amendments!

Mile before work!!

Alternate universe where the divergence point is “let’s color that new Susan B. Anthony coin a goldish color so people don’t confuse them for quarters.”

Erie County, the ultimate swing county in Pennsylvania, just punted their incumbent Republican County Executive into the sun.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania will stay 5-2 liberal for at least another two years! Also all the other good stuff!!

kylie minogue

Last chance PA!!

Thinking about long-in-storage mp3 Radio 1 rips and remembering: 1) Zane Lowe telling Annie Mac the track wasn’t over in Phantom Pt. II (Soulwax Mix) 2) Erlend Øye introducing “Rubiconnnnnnnn” for tennish seconds.

My husband sous-vided corned beef for eight hours and it’s perfect.

There should be a law that when a show mentions a made up website the show has to also create that fake website for funsies.

Can observe this completely stress free because I am a Pirates fan and have already accepted the obliteration of the self.