I can’t help but remember that an attempted regime change in Tehran was like the fantasy position of the fringiest group in Dick Cheney’s Circle 20 years ago

Crystal observation: 2 regimes where women and girls are disposable, trading pieces at best

Possum’s good, too, and usually free.

This is how you do it. Plus, run don’t walk to hear Ethan Leinwand play! Plus, check out that photo!

I'm flying out of town tmrw afternoon, which has triggered the calendar Tetris effect through today and up to the minute I leave for the airport.

Would be perfect symmetry to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s freedom from an addled king by freeing ourselves from another addled king.

Must read: you will see nothing funnier and more hopeful today, reassurance that the world still contains creative, hilarious, collaborative, whimsical people.

First Valentine from my first grandchild. Meteor, space debris, lightning, whatever, could take me out right now—wouldn’t matter.

Almost exact same math in MI. Over the year, of 263K people that ICE had detained for at least 24 hours, one one hundredth of one percent had felony convictions, half of those were violent felonies—about 12 people. Detroit News did a piece on it a few weeks ago.

I’m going to see @missmargoprice.bsky.social in Chicago next weekend!

Train Dreams is a fantastic film, but I implore you to read Denis Johnson's novella which is not just fantastic but exquisite. Couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks after I read it the first time.

My granddaughter getting a tow to Dragon Pizza which appears to be one a few places open in Somerville, MA tonight. Dragon has a pretty sweet Patrick Swayze shrine.

Can’t tell you how unjealous I am of the big snow they’re getting out East. This is how far I’ve strayed from my Michigan youth and dissolute Utah ski bum early adulthood.

Just unbelievable, naked corruption

First clue was the children’s book title, Daddy Had It Coming.

People my age will recognize this setup as belonging to a few of your buddies' dads who picked it up in Japan on their way back from Vietnam.

It’s the “No Regerts!” route.

I REPEAT:

Don’t like they there are extra sticks on the slalom course. Provokes a lot of sympathetic anxiety for me.

One of my favorite costumes.

I know this is ignorant, but my first thought was, I guess you could go for a walk instead of surveiling your neighbor or interacting with your smart toaster.

Straight heat from Hamilton Nolan: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Once again reminding you that you don’t need AI to generate names for your baby. You need 5 or 6 lineup cards from college baseball.

Learned the hard way that I got some over-achieving Serrano chilies on my last shopping trip.

Kids these days will never get to experience the wonder of the Comus floats hitting 30mph by Milan St.

My dog does not chew a rawhide bone, rather his preferred activity is to drop it onto a hardwood floor from the highest points in the house that he can reach, in a random frequency that makes you jump out of your skin every time.

Don’t sleep on 7 as your meth team.

Duvall as Boo Radley

So, I’m reading Wuthering Heights because I never have before. And I have been surprised to discover the extent to which the book is just gawking at a pair of sociopaths as they make horrible decisions that will ruin the emotional lives of everyone involved, while their servants tell them not to

There are 3 wolves inside of you.

I don’t know if Thoth actually aggressively threw beads at ICE but if it’s true congratulations on the one thing Minneapolis didn’t think of

Washed down my protein pasta with prebiotic Pepsi, and that’s how I won an Olympic gold medal.

Gym was slammin’ on a miserable Feb. day that has nap written all over it. Nice work, y’all.

Tune in WWOZ —now playing a 1994 Mardi Gras show DJed by Dr. John

Kids today don’t believe TV networks once signed off the air around midnight, bc they had no more worthwhile content. They still don’t, nor do the other media that have proliferated since.

Surveillance tech is there to scoop up the handful of things we don’t rush to confess on social media.

IRL Michigan guy

Snowmageddon defeated the last 3 or 4 days of dry January so I’m paying it back this week, and Guinness 0 is once again making me so happy.

In 2001, we moved to Chicago from New Orleans and on Mardi Gras Day, I turned up at work with king cakes while my colleagues showed up with boxes of paczki, and we all tried to figure out what the hell was going on.

Snaps to all of you for icing trolls, engagement farmers, hobbyhorse riders, and chronic red ass posters. Feels like people are recognizing disingenuous and tiresome posting earlier and killing it with silence.

I’ll up the ante with cinema location: The Big Chill—1983, Ann Arbor Moonstruck—1988, Park City, Sundance Film Festival RoboCop—1987, Detroit

Revisiting the scene of my pandemic shame when my baking obsession led me to buy flour in 44 lbs bags.

Stop

post a banger that's not in English

Bad Bunny halftime show: best part of telecast so far. This program somehow slipped through the MAGA brain-rot, obey-in-advance sensors.

Have already checked off the “really shitty AI slop” on my Super Bowl ad spot bingo card.

Trappist monks have been the ferments guys to track, for the last 500 years.

Pulitzer prize winning, WaPo climate reporter, Chris Mooney, on the demise of newspapers.

NBC really hitting it out of the park with 5 hrs of talking head, pregame Super Bowl coverage and an interview with Dear Leader instead of, say, the Winter Olympics.