The proper theme song for rebooting The Rockford Files is a banging remix from at least 10 years ago: youtu.be/9Z66G9QPOeU?...

It’s actually just using a minor fourth chord (or I-iv progression) in any slow pop song:

If you had "Charles Leclerc for Pokemon" on your Super Bowl ad bingo card, you are at a bingo hall in hell and need to find a way back to the surface.

Sure, be appalled that Phil Collins licensed "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" for an ad with singing toilets, but just think about how much Alamo memorabilia he's going to be able to buy with that money.

There are men of a certain age who will see that Guy Fieri ad and think “maybe I could pull off bleached tips.”

A local Italian place used this image to advertise Super Bowl specials from its ghost kitchen. I’m good, thanks:

Have been delighted with my subscription to @thebaltimorebanner.com - they're doing good work for local journalism on the Maryland side of DC:

Suburban DC has taken this winter storm warning seriously:

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

Does no one actually teach The Streisand Effect? Feels like there’s easily a semester’s worth of lecture material available.

Hands-off, eyes-on highway driving systems will become standard equipment on new cars in much of the world quickly — some news from us today: www.mobileye.com/news/mobiley...

My last take for this year is that Miley Cyrus had the best NYE show.

youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg Shameful how many times I’ve danced like this

PR people like me used to fret about which reporters/outlets have the biggest reach. Then came SEO. Then came AI summaries which scrambled everything again. Now we see which reporters/outlets are getting the most interest from AI summaries. And…? muckrack.com/blog/journal...

Nothing says love this holiday season like giving your music mate a Seinfeld-themed, homemade custom guitar. Needs dancin’ Elaine to complete the set: www.facebook.com/share/17mpfr...

You were all having a good day and I am here to ruin it: All of the birds given as gifts in “12 days of Christmas” are edible birds, and I am not sure why so many of you believe they were all intended to be kept as pets for years after receipt.

Hey let’s test how Spotify links load here, just picking a random song… open.spotify.com/track/6uxySZ...

www.facebook.com/share/1G9hJE... The Beetle R never made it to the U.S., but there was one Beetle R-Line put together on these shores and now it’s a FB Marketplace special:

Age yourself with gaming

Lucky to have been part of the AP just long enough to meet some links to history: apnews.com/article/edmu...

The White Stripes likely won’t play the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame show tonight, but I can vouch firsthand that the DIA Diego Rivera mural room show from 24 years ago is them at redline: youtu.be/jbSrRma4zgY?...

Baseball Bluesky is the best Bluesky yet.

People worried about Halloween edibles when there's this introduction to an expensive addiction out there? Sure, a $25 plastic fuzz box seems innocent enough, but just wait till they need to expand their sound further and discover the world of boutique multi-delays and ambient reverbs!

it is funny how much studio executives dislike making money

This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef

Computer, show me a video that feels 20 years old, but isn't:

These are the kinds of stories I loved writing in the old days at Jalopnik, and @mistymotors.net does it justice:

Every sports marketing manager in America just had an idea:

Can report that the semi-viral listing for a house in the deep Maryland woods full of raccoons and feral cats is under contract. A buyer for everything, eventually: www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

I have something to tell you about fear and democracy, politics and ultimate reality. I hope you'll stick with me, because it starts in a rather inobvious place.

Proud of my former employer's focus on local news:

The latest frontier in retail: quantum superposition.

Was just thinking about Local Motors last week and now this...

Well I get to add “on a flight turned around and sent back due to weather” to my travel punch card.

I had an early ride in VW/MOIA's robotaxi that Uber will roll-out in Los Angeles later this year. It did well at avoiding pedestrians and even nudged over for a cyclist darting in from behind. www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Some #autonomousvehicle news: meet the production Volkswagen ID.Buzz AD, a factory-built robotaxi from MOIA Mobility powered by Mobileye Drive autonomous driving tech. Built for rapidly scaling AV services, toward driverless operations in 2026:

This was in my zone: Cardle 1/5 Streak 1🔥 Total Score 186 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

I will always remember stumbling on a collection of Murray Kempton columns in college, and being dumbstruck at how much potential words on disposable paper could have. "Nothing decays like progress, and nothing preserves like neglect."

Doesn’t happen everyday: Cardle 1/5 Streak 1🔥 Total Score 15 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

The Spanish police once got excited about pulling over the brand-new Jaguar F-Type I was test driving, until I showed them a $15 piece of paper from my local AAA office that took 5 minutes to get.

It. Is Time. The most prestigious race of the weekend. The Toyota Prius PHEV race from Yeongam. 🏎️

Steve Kornacki could have a field day with #Eurovision voting

The Venn diagram of "living popes" and "people who know what Malört tastes like" may finally overlap.

purple smoke means the pope is burning oil *and* coolant

American innovation never sleeps:

The Slate truck looks neat, and reminds me of the last time a Detroit automaker tried to build an ultra-low cost vehicle: the 1997 Chrysler CCV. Color-molded composite body panels were its main calling card, and Chrysler worked on that idea for years before setting it aside.

Glad to be going along for this ride with @volkswagenusa.bsky.social, Uber and MOIA. The ID.Buzz makes for a lovely robotaxi:

Live long enough around the auto business and you get to see the first production vehicle reveal you covered as a reporter in this state:

I liked April Fool's Day better when I wasn't questioning sourcing or accuracy on nearly everything I read 364 other days of the year.