It's such a huge relief. A rational human being with some authority listened and did not believe the constant b.s. and propaganda. The entire city has been gaslit and traumatized, and it's a relief when we are believed and the actual reality we've witnessed is validated.

My enjoyment of this show comes partly from how much my kids are into it, but I just straight-up like it. It’s fun. If you’re gonna watch a series about a kid discovering he’s not what he thought he was, let it be this one.

Betteridge’s law applies to this Guardian headline, because this is recency bias at work. The world at large has forgotten truckloads of truly terrible TV, but I bet any critic could reel off half a dozen contenders. I’d start with “Work It,” “Skin” & “Baby Bob,” just from this century.

Extremely niche complaint: I cannot stand the way the ESPN app is now displaying basketball box scores. Put the shooting stats back in front!

Say what now?

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

“The Lowdown” was great and had a great finale. Creator Sterlin Harjo also has an excellent story about the feed store painkiller scene.

And here is that interview. Come for Harjo's thoughtful comments on the finale, stay for Robert Plant story midway through the Q&A.

More like Losesome Earle-Sears amirite.

Other takes for this: -[Turns chair around and sits] Let me tell you about another Biblical Stud … - All right, let’s get out there and take it to Rice in Jesus’ name! Not you, Biblical Wimps.

I don’t care how devout or how big a stud you are, playing one on five is just not gonna work out.

I have an interview with Sterlin Harjo comíng later for “The Lowdown” finale that features him telling a truly fantastic story about the inspiration for one particular scene. I can share it about 100 minutes from now, and I’m very excited for y’all to read it.

TIL that barely touching a guy who’s catching a ball, before he hits the ground, is a “tackle” in the NFL.

On to game 9!

Ernie Clement is the Reggie Jackson of David Ecksteins.

Straight up “papers please” harassment of people doing their jobs and assault and brutalizing of people who tied to intervene. Abolish DHS.

Halloween skies

SUPPORT MANNY'S IF YOU ARE IN CHICAGO.

My scary Halloween costume is “Isaac Chotiner calling to interview you”

If I know anything about the 1860s, it’s that everyone definitely had indoor plumbing and that people were crazy for marble.

BREAKING: MTV Cancels Half Its Schedule*^ (*one show that it runs 10-12 hours a day, sometimes more) (^reruns will still be airing when the sun explodes)

Hope these kids kick ass at the state meet.

Steadfast in my belief that Noem be first on the “resign or get impeached” list of cabinet secretaries if somehow a power shift happens in Congress after next year. Kennedy & Hegseth remain in a (brain)dead heat for second; all are first order ghouls.

Because I no longer pore over the backs of sports cards, my stat-nerd tendencies have fallen to TV ratings, and it’s because of that that I can tell you that a 120-week run for “Grey’s Anatomy” in the Nielsen streaming ratings has ended.

[Peggy Hill voice] Hoo yeah!

Change one letter, ruin a candy Soul Patch Kids

I talked with “Slow Horses” author Mick Herron about the Apple series based on his first novel “Down Cemetery Road,” and he has maybe the chillest attitude possible about adaptations of his work (that they’ve turned out well so far helps, I’m sure).

Local government at work.

I know the point of the NYPost story was fear-mongering, but jesus. I literally have no biological aunts/uncles/cousins (both my parents were only children) and grew up in a WASPy house where we didn’t use those descriptors. And yet! I know that tons of people do! Fuck off with this shit!

Ways that my transcription bot interpreted “Morwenna” (Banks, the lead writer on “Down Cemetery Road”) in an interview I’m now going through: Marana Moreno my winner

The eeeeeeaaaaggggglllllle will land on Feb. 25 (also no “Bachelor” this winter/spring, but a “Bachelorette” season instead).

As far as I know there’s not a British-ism for “building” so there’s not a joke there, but anyway “Only Murders in the Building” is renewed and will be set in London for season 6.

As a mostly* neutral this game has had pretty much everything I’d want. This is fun as heck. (*I’ll be happy for my numerous Dodger fan friends if they win.)

“Gilded Age”-ass facial hair on this new Dodgers pitcher. .5 stars

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

For me it’s the bit from about 45-55 seconds in where, when the character swings off what looks like a hanging pool noodle, a dumpster suddenly appears, then when he turns to his left a chained gate appears in front of a very different streetscape than what was visible before the pool noodle jump.

NBC’s NBA ratings will almost certainly not be this good every week, but a 15-year high for opening night (minus the Christmas day start to the lockout 2011-12 season) is a very fine start. Also I will make no apologies for this headline.

Rethinking my standard “if I had it to do over again” answer with the last descriptor in that list.

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“I Saw the TV Glow” writer-director Jane Schoenbrun is doing a series at Netflix based on Charles Burns’ “Black Hole” comics (which also have a long on-off history with movie adaptations). Details here.

Jamal Crawford is really remembering some guys tonight.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

This video has a Know Your Rights segment that begins around minute 47 & several Chicago orgs that are helping immigrant groups are mentioned, including @icirr.bsky.social which has been a crucial resource for Chicago communities. I learned a lot & recommend!

OK but Cones of Dunshire movie when? (story from @jameshibberd.bsky.social)

IT'S BACK!!! John Tesh performs "Roundball Rock" live on TV 🥹

Probably the best reporting on the feds in my neighborhood Sunday came from community paper The Journal & Topics (other local media had decent coverage too). Note the highlighted portion below - they told folks VERY different things about why they were there. www.journal-topics.com/articles/ice...

The official word (via some local media) is that they were in my neighborhood b/c someone escaped from custody and was seen running thru a yard while still handcuffed. So IF that’s true, the best version of the story is they’re bad at the job.

ICIRR.org Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

In the moment I didn’t notice front seat dude’s not very opaque face cover but yeah. All the plates on their vehicles I took pics of were out of state - Florida, Maryland, Minnesota.