Friday night cooking: orecchiette with peas and sausage (at the request of the 4.75 YO, who really wanted peas, helped me cook, and then ate like two bites)

Ok, but also: I’m not saying Hegseth is a drunk, but I haven’t seen someone get so fucked up by bad Burgundy since Louis, Duc D’Orléans

Can’t say I love the system whereby I have to vote for judges every couple of years so that my state can have some semblance of representative government, but here we are so here I am

Hard to imagine an older gentleman getting sick from eating soggy Chik-Fil-A

Did they just sent Rod because he's Serbian?

Hey, it's me, I also dislike the Democratic party and still vastly prefer them

The 7YO has gotten very into @themountaingoats.bsky.social's "Woke Up New" and I hope that in many years when she has her first breakup she still likes it www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSd...

As an aside on this, I don't want to downplay how absolutely incredible Emmylou Harris' own music is, but has anyone ever been a better harmonist than her? From Gram Parsons to Bright Eyes, with *way* more in between.

Today in “being 38”: a Bright Eyes song autoplayed on Apple Music, I said “oh, I love this song!” And then the 7YO and her carpool friend both yelled “no!!” youtu.be/fs30ZGH1cS4?...

Ok but now I’m picturing it with “Nebraska,” and all the Nazis are nervously looking around asking each other what the fuck is going on

The time between both the Meiji Restoration and German unification and the end of WWII is less than the time between the end of WWII and now

Shoutout to the tulips and the cherry blossoms at the Missouri Botanical Gardens

Shoutout to the tulips and the cherry blossoms at the Missouri Botanical Gardens

Any time I meet someone who I think might know who Gerry Adams is I show them this. Sometimes I explain who Gerry Adams is to people who don’t know just to show them this.

Which NBA team has the worst people sitting in courtside seats, on average? I’m inclined to say the Warriors, but Miami and Dallas have to be up there.

I recently came across this picture of the cast of the Broadway musical 1776 standing extremely awkwardly with Richard Nixon following a White House performance. Nixon pioneered much about our current moment, but "evil politician who can't really mimic how normal people stand" is on the list.

Ok I wasn’t ready for Sugar Ray, that shit rocked

I’m not going to spend the time to play this out fully, but I *feel* like each of the conservative Supreme Court justices is destined for a distinct level of Dante’s hell, for distinct reasons, and I think that’s neat

*Minor Top Chef spoilers* This week somebody pulled off a “make dessert” and “cook something the judges say they don’t like” twofer of my unofficial Top Chef rules

Writing a Bill Simmons style extremely long and self indulgent post to explain my theory that if you pull off a dessert of Top Chef you will win

What’s ironic here is that, while of course he’s hilariously wrong about Vietnam, the actual result of us losing was almost certainly better not just for the world but, selfishly, for the US than indefinitely propping up a corrupt and unpopular client state.

Not my district thankfully but Derrick can Orden losing would be extremely satisfying to me, personally

You can divide America between red and blue or you can just go with “political trajectories of the two white rappers from the Detroit area who were popular in my suburban Minnesota middle school circa 2000”

My hope, following Noem being taken to the gravel pit, and the knives coming out for Pete, is that the Administration decides that Miller and Vance are their best public faces

"As I reflect back on my Appalachian childhood, and the sound of church music ringing through the hollers, I realize now why I lost my faith. We lacked the discipline and self-will provided by my good friends in Opus Dei."

What did Vampire Weekend know and when did they know it?

We got some buds on the tree by our patio, hell yeah spring

Quiz show where we determine whether Jokic can name more basketball players or Serbian harness racing horses

Checking in on today’s levels of dad: I’ve started quoting the “slow is smooth, smooth is fast” thing from “the Pitt” to my kids when they’re doing things like putting on shoes

I saw a BMW convertible with a “Youth for Goldwater” bumper sticker, I didn’t realize @rickperlstein.bsky.social was in Madison

This is a great piece, and I think she’s absolutely right about the information we have being a major difference. But I also think this is - that the Nazis actually did deliver really quality of life improvements for many Germans. That our lot only wants to brutalize and profit is an opportunity.

We saw a production of MacBeth tonight. It really is one of Shakespeare’s stranger and more fantastical works, in its portrayal of people driven to murder by ambition and contempt for others, who then actually face consequences.

They’re selling World Cup caps next to the blankets at CVS, the excitement is palpable

“Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand is older now than Gavrilo Princip was when he took out Franz Ferdinand

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

1) large ditches 2) explosives that stick to the treads 3) armor piercing shells www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

50 degree temperature drop from yesterday, but lovely sunset and ice covered tree gets Erie up a few notches

Was “Leaving on a Jet Plane” set during the time when John Denver lived in Edina? Because if so it’s fun to think about the predawn taxi blowing his horn pissing off a bunch of cake eaters. This is the sort of Minnesota music thing that @chrissteller.bsky.social might know.

The Comintern has taken over the grocery store

A history of European painting from Impressionism to Expressionism, as demonstrated in the art projects our kids did with grandma and grandpa

The problem with this post (this is not David’s fault) is not that it made me feel old, it’s that the 1790s reference made me really mad that nobody has made an extremely high budget version of Mantel’s “A Place of Greater Safety”

I didn’t love One Battle After Another, but it’s impossible to read this headline, every part, and not conclude that we’re fully living in Paul Thomas Anderson’s world people.com/jeff-webb-de...

In Cleveland visiting some folks for the second half of spring break and the cool thing about the Great Lakes is that even the Inferior ones are a solid 3.5 or 4 outta 5, as far as lakes go

All the Vampire Weekend in “Shrinking” is both wonderful for and an attack on me, personally

I have this framed behind my desk. It’s the port facility in Lisbon where my in-laws escaped Europe in 1940.

Burgundian noble posting this shortly before Sultan Bayezid has his head put on a big pile at Nicopolis

History nerd here, this sort of thing is generally a good sign

Kristen is great as Top Chef host, and also she wears cool watches (as opposed to Tom, who’s wearing a goddamn Apple Watch this week)

A British man living in a very fancy Nashville suburb who owns a MAGA hat and gets semi-famous for getting his ass kicked by his large tv star neighbor, the American Dream is alive and well baby

The extremely weak 1945 Nazi plan of fighting long enough to negotiate a separate peace with the western allies absolutely would've worked on Trump. As soon as news of the bunker hit the wires, he'd have been talking about how Dönitz was a guy you can do business with.