Bro I turn on spurs game for a moment and Wemby just makes one of the more subtly insane plays I’ve ever seen. He’s the goat.

Tennis is insufferable. I really cannot believe people follow this sport and these athletes.

David Foster Wallace’s latest for Esquire on Indiana’s improbable national title and the celebrations in Bloomington: “Everywhere you looked, humans were being human.”

Who wants some bacon I burned the morning I left town for several days so I left it outside for like a week. ONE PIECE PER PERSON

Watching the old Bernie goetz police interview and he looks, sound, and moves like a sober Elon musk.

Was not aware mcsweeneys still existed and still does the lists things. I want to see mutuals dominate this thing. Submit!

Obama in 17th century England would be in pamphlets caricatured as what happens when dignity itself becomes a pathology.

Food blogger

Does anyone have any experience w outdoor sauna. I think I need one. Headaches?

Driving the PCH of Iowa.

Spectacular

Fascinated by this Parker Brothers board game from the 70s that features significant game pieces by Delacroix and Hans Hoffmann.

Drove through a town of ~8,000 ppl yesterday in eastern Iowa, freezing temps, and there were 50 protestors at the Main Street crossroad w signs about Renee and ICE and due process.

Found the last good Airbnb

Ponyo: *does some psychopathic shit* Sosuke: Honestly, work

I don’t know how to say this without sounding like a freak, but I just had dinner at a rural abbey in Wisconsin and our server was a… I’m sorry to say… shockingly beautiful and gentle French nun. Life is rich pageant.

Found the last good Airbnb

Maybe my favorite all time NYT obituary. None of the glitz and goofiness. Just a perfect life. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/t...

Not Harvard, not Stanford, no. It is UVA which is the most annoying and self-obsessed school in the country.

Will there be more or fewer countries in 2035.

WOKE GLOBALIST CAR!!!!!! (1985 Toleman TG185/Hart Inline 4 Turbo.)

Spelling counts as math.

Lot of unpleasant faces in the news.

I like when a child starts talking like the son of Sam dog out of nowhere. “Blue king. Blue queen. Red king. Golden king. Silver king. Yellow king. Golden Queen… I’ll help you remember.” Ok thank you.

I wonder if it would be possible to start an Ultimate Fundraiser to collect a large enough reward for someone to do something left definitively unspecified, but everyone collectively knew what it was for, and the purpose of the reward was good, and the purpose was decisive.

Probably the biggest thing bluesky is missing is grok. Let's get grok in here!

Gosh I wonder who was behind it all

Every time I draw or paint something it looks to me like something I’ve never done before snd it also looks familiar. The is the most banal way to put it, because any other way sounds mystical.

It is incredible that the richest person in history and the biggest child pornographer in history is the same guy.

Wife told me I should clear out some of the “many knives” in the child-accessible kitchen miscellany drawer and I was indignant until I went and actually looked.

User hotel reviews for places like NYC are useful since management is constantly (silently) changing so reviews are early detection but they have simply got to find a way to filter out ppl who ding hotels for “bad service” cuz they’re from fucking Iowa and don’t know what a maitre’d is or whatever.

Elon Musk considers Children of Men to be the ultimate dystopia because it’s a world where pedophilia is no longer possible.

Is anything more beautiful than a mixed ice bath.

Replacing “best,” with “like and subscribe,” as my sign-off on work emails.

I’m having come corduroys delivered tomorrow, so I’ll be away from my desk from 10am - 4pm.

“AAV ballpark” as a term in a headline in a sport that also verbally encompasses “AAA ballpark” which means something completely different (with a more established meaning) is a CRIME AGAINST COPY EDITING.

Met up with @sillydingdong.bsky.social tonight at the classic local tavern, George’s. Here’s a candid shot of him!

Roasting hot dogs in a fire pit yesterday, one doggie kept falling off the stick and into the ash, thus becoming Father’s Dog, but I kept having to then sort of grip and rub the biggest ash particles off without gripping too hard, and needed to crouch to see in the flickering firelight. Here you go:

Do tweens and teens still do the thing where they draw w their fingers on someone else’s back to see if they can guess what they’re drawing. What a deeply lovely little flirtation method.

Why did Zach Galifinakis get to steal the Jiminy Glick format and character for “between two ferns”?

These are all racing each other.

Best new picture book I’ve read in YEARS. The accolades are accurate. GET IT.

There should always be two sponges in the sink. Q: is one reserved for certain things? No. Both are in rotation, for all things. However, on sponge will make itself known as the “varsity” sponge and the other, JV. Q: by performance, or use, or what exactly? Listen to your sponges.

Monsignor made us run laps for ordinary time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, or someone of that sort of deal, swinging on a swing set, legs pumping, but arms folded and back & torso ramrod straight.

Got hit w a “and what’s your number, love” by the elderly tailor today ❤️

Child in the house is reading bits of Midsummer and she has no problem w words like “eglantine”(!) but she wonderfully and confidently does call them “Tina” and “O’Brien” so it sounds like some trashy southie couple arguing over child custody.

That thing dogs do with their tongues to blast water up into their mouths where they have to catch it—that counts as cooking. Dogs cook their water.