For once, I'd love for the Mets to make it into the playoffs without any need for late-season heroics, but that's simply not the world we live in

I made tomato soup from scratch tonight with fresh tomatoes, and I'm mad I ever ate anything that came out of a can

Chris Collinsworth: "You get the Pythagorean theorem in there, you know, maybe the triangle, the whole thing."

Not sure how sustainable the strategy of “give up tons of yards and then get a turnover” will be all season, but it seems to be working in this game

“Is the Steelers’ defense good or bad?” is one of those unanswerable questions, like “Can Dak Prescott win a playoff game?” or “Is Tom Brady still technically considered a human being?”

I see the Steelers defense has decided to clock in for the season

It's a beautiful day to be out on the Chicago river, seeing history get made. The third photo was the first finisher!

Worth all $765 million, let’s go Mets babyyyyyyyy

The soy that china is not buying is feed grade soy. The soy you make tofu with is food grade soy. They aren't the same.

There are many good storytellers in the world, but few true masters of the art like the Heavyweight team

I’ve been trying to figure out why art went from emotive to argumentative, from Guernica to the neon signs in the Whitney lobby that merely reprint political slogans This trend started long before AIM, but the point here (in Nicholas Carr’s incredible SUPERBLOOM) seems relevant

If movie theaters want me to come out to the cinema, they’re gonna need to be showing a remake of My Cousin Vinny with Linda Belcher as Marisa Tomei

"People with more money than God are already fighting to keep you on your phone. Why do you feel so compelled to help them?"

For like 5 years now, the Steelers have been trying to win football games with like one wide receiver, no running backs, and the memory of Troy Polamalu’s 2005 season

Important reminder

Archival photo: Mets front office in Spring 2025, asking Juan Soto to get hot

I am willing to accept a little more public displays of Wonderwall for the good of society

Internet-heavy AI content for social media about how life was so much better before internet-heavy AI content and social media is one way of trying to find meaning in the discontented zeitgeist -- but a better way is to just log off

The end-of-season Braves game last year was a new kind of vibe-shift for the Mets -- suddenly, the vibes were good. Pete hit that homer against Milwaukee, they beat the Phillies, they signed Soto, they looked incredible in the spring. Now the vibes, once again, can only be described as "The Mets"

There really needs to be another term for the "documentaries" that fill streaming services like Netflix now -- there's no way MAN ON WIRE and a multi-part series about something known as the "poop cruise" exist in the same genre

In the Fourth Republic, we're going to resurrect the Postal Service with postal banking, public email accounts, and neighborhood post offices that provide constituency services and free legal advice. It's going to be so good.

Everyone said the Lions were due for a backslide and the Packers were favored to win big, and at least one of those things seems destined to true, yikes

Called it

Once again the Steelers have touted themselves as a run-heavy offense without having any proven running stars

Steelers not looking the winners of this QB swap, Fields is killing it

Chris Boswell is gonna single-handedly carry this team into a Wild Card game again, huh?

Obligatory “Go Steelers” — let’s go babyyyyy

I’ve been trying to think of what to say about Chicago — and at heart, it’s the idea that this is one of the few places in the country that still feels real, where people and communities organically connect with each other, and a good life full of art and culture and meaning is possible

Watching Too Much on Netflix, and Lena Dunham is truly a master of exaggerating the affects of modern life for comedic effect

The Mets nearly pulled a Mets on that one

Alcaraz hasn't dropped a single set all tournament, Sinner has dropped just one and looks like he's cruising to the finals too – gonna be some must-watch tennis this weekend, folks

Can’t decide if it’s a positive or negative development that I recently have found a desire to join a drum circle

There’s football on TV, baseball is heating up, the US Open is still kicking, and it’s no longer 88° every day — it’s just that magical time of year

*slams down glass of beer* MORE

Everyone is dunking on this writer for, apparently, not knowing the novel — but the review literally goes on to say “This may well be a far more faithful interpretation of the novel than most of its predecessors” and nothing below implies the movie is bad *because of* that faithfulness

Venus Williams!

I just finished @andreawulf.bsky.social ‘s INVENTION OF NATURE — and have to share her call for us all to be more Humboldtian, more interdisciplinary, more enamored with the Earth and the dignity of everyone who inhabits it

Cash in a potato chip bag is like one step down from pulling a big sack with a dollar sign on it from behind your back a la Bugs Bunny

This Konnor Griffin fella seems like the real deal -- but can someone with more knowledge than me weigh in on how likely it is that the Pittsburgh Pirates screw up his development? (Or trade him for a handful of mid-tier prospects, but I'm well aware of how likely that is.)

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Another said his boss tells him every day that the heat makes him “Texas tough.”"

The new King of the Hill has somehow cracked the code on talking about the current zeitgeist without being hacky, preachy, or cringy -- it should be studied in screenwriting classes

Lord, grant me the strength not to spend my money collecting all of the commemorative belt buckles of the yearly Anchorage, Alaska fur rendezvous. They may be emblazoned with puffins, musk ox, and orcas, but I am stronger than the pull of such charismatic Arctic wildlife.

In 2023, I saw reps from the Biden administration speak about the climate bill at the AAAS conference -- who seemed like they expected nothing less than rousing applause from the scientists present. They were less than thrilled when I started asking about the bill's gaps and what came next.

"Eyes"

In the world of capital appreciation, art, culture, science, ideas, accountability, and independence are distractions, even roadblocks, on the road to more capital appreciation

The Cheez-Its in the Costco double-wide box taste different — not bad, just less toasty — than the Cheez-Its in the regular, family size box. It’s consistent across batches. Any editors want to hire me to launch an investigation into this? This is journalism the public needs.

Would love a version of Bluesky where I can learn new things, engage on the topics of my professional career, and post about sports without a sea of self-satisfied virtue posting. Maybe it’s just who I follow but the choir preaching has gotten out of hand.

These are dope, and “Chicago’s Native Lizards” sounds like a band that should have made it big around 2011 but never broke out