Progress

Tried to cancel a dance class for a child who has made it clear she wants a break and the teacher more or less declined to let us. I’m charmed tbh.

Third adult library is going light on 20th century Europe and heavy on America and Freud. Also a lot of picture books.

Partied hard

Hideo Kojima, Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, and Salvador Dali. The Four Ogres.

What the HELL is going on in the Wyden Bass family?????

In a video meeting sort of zoned out and realized a few drops of coffee had dripped down the side of the cup, so I sort of took a wide open mouth approach to try to encompass the drips while I also took a drink, and I saw myself at last second on video looking like I was French kissing my mug.

I have become much less sentimental than I used to (as a father) but when you see this kind of thing it’s not sentimental to just feel lucky you get to see progress move forward atom by atom.

Local homeless man who always appears dressed to impress put on a tweed jacket to come in and check his private mailbox at the shipping outlet while I was there.

Not a fuddy duddy and not trying to “uphold standards” or whatever but this newish thing where 40 year olds describe movies or games as being “horny” in an of themselves is so fucking stupid. That doesn’t make any sense, and it’s a stupid word in the first place.

Something Zen about this

Is he gonna invade Cuba

Fantastic gardenscenery.net/p/meaningles...

Becoming a Lincoln guy probably ten years before that’s supposed to happen in a man’s life.

Kelsey Mitchell is going to win the championship.

Abraham Lincoln, American cryptid

HOW are there three Ks in the widow’s name !

Saying “Be careful with that big rock,” at the playground as though 1) my child with the big rock was in earshot, and 2) there were best practices for carrying around a big rock. Of course, none of this matters as I said it purely for the benefit of the other parents.

How is that possible. Why would a dog do this

Concerning

Seems like a low rating for this. Who rates this collection three or four starts out of five? How could it possibly not be what it says on the cover?

Just remembered like ten years ago when Mario Rubio kept repeating that canned line in a debate and if he said the same words now everyone would immediately recognize it as ChatGPTese. Only difference would be stenographic; Politico missed the obvious em dash.

All alone in the house, hunting a fly. No check on my violence. No voices to disturb us.

Something about Micah Parsons makes me suspect he might be diabolically intelligent. In a way that means it’s probably good he’s getting his money this way and not like building Leonardo da Vinci war machines for the highest bidder

Pictured: Robert Redford soliciting moral guidance and masculinity tips from unknown man.

Some kids look like flurry attackers.

This Aces Storm game is one of the best basketball games I’ve seen in years. Gabby Williams you are the most beautiful player in the league but YOU CANNOT SHOOT.

W playoffs have been insane. Unbelievable win by Fever too.

There is an inexhaustible supply of these kind of pictures from Yves Klein’s life. Women loved this man. I don’t know how and what form that love took. This is from 75 years ago! This is the kind of snapshot that you hold on to your whole life. He had a million.

One Christmas my father said that either 1) there were no native wild horses in North America or 2) there were native wild horses in North America and the entire rest of the family pounced on him and told him how wrong he was and he surrendered immediately and he was in fact completely correct.

The Nintendo press has covered a story this week about how a character on “Days of Our Lives” (still running???) last week invited a girl into his room by saying “want to coming and play Xenoblade on my Switch?” She consents.

Has anyone ever looked better

Sometimes see idea that decline in books will be canary in coal mine for some kind of vast secular sign of social dumbing, but since video games are most adjacent to dumbness I would think degradation in video game quality would be first indicator.

The only author who still gives me the thrill of being young and reading Nabokov and happily writing down in pencil new words to look up later (pellucid!) is Perry Anderson. Heteroclite! Perquisite! These are useful words!

New “Controversies” wiki sub hed

I cannot make the stitching on this sweater make physical sense. The boy is flush to the painter. That shoulder seems clearly… thrust forward. The arm though is behind the pants. Grant Wood you have been CANCELED

The way kids speed walk around the pool under the watchful eye of a lifeguard ready to blow her whistle if it crosses invisible line into “running”… really great.

New pope really does look goofy

This is one of the most euphonious headlines I’ve ever read.

When farmoids say “there’s always something to do on a farm… the work is seven days a week” it is, of course, a funny lie to gullible reporters, but it’s also funny to imagine the implication about the rest of us: yeah on weekends I just lock the kids in their rooms and I sleep til Monday.

John Lithgow playing Roald Dahl in a stage show. Ok. What if puke played barf. What would we learn from this?

Mystic Pizza is shot and paced exactly like a Miyazaki movie.

Five year old loves Kneecap. Only one she asks for in the car. “Which one?” “Umm. Anything by them.”

God damn that was a Great fight

When Ricky Hatton was still up and coming he had boxing gloves tattooed on his biceps. Loved that.

Saw a vintage (not in a aesthetic or hobbyist way) little camper van all beige and boxy and it had a license plate that said BAG END. Special.

Lol

I always neurotically revise any sentence so that it doesn’t have “that that” in it, but I just realized that Lincoln had a “that that” in the gettysburg address so that’s one neurosis down.

There’s a big Latino kid at this playground that looks and carries himself like Claude Rains like he’s the general manager of the playground. I want to be his friend.