post a poster you used to have on your wall

It’s “One Fine Day” by the Chiffons

This is a totally normal attempt to add a bit of color to a lede about a dry topic, of a kind that should be familiar to anyone who reads stories in the NYT’s Business section; it’s not a “glitch” of any kind

What is your favorite way to move around a small room gathering your belongings? I would have to go with purposefully

Obviously what the good people of Lake Wobegon meant was that all the children in the town were above the national average

guy who is good at spelling and punctuation: Where’s Bessie and what’s she doing? other guy who, not so much:

I have listened to Robert Johnson for decades and this is like hearing his voice for the first time

BOOK FACTS! “On Immunity” author Eula Biss's name is short for End-User License Agreement Biss

Weirdly disrespectful to sound mixing and editing!

It’s funny how the people who make this show work really hard to make it a good show, but when the best thing ever to happen in the show’s history happened — accidentally giving the top award to the wrong movie — they were probably really sad

Welp, now everyone's going to call Barbra Streisand "Babs." When will she learn?

The person who did the screenwriting for that bit Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. just did does NOT deserve an award

If Kieran Culkin is going to accept the award for Sean Penn he should have to make a speech

Mira Nair? More like “near a mayor”!

Now do adults nymag.com/intelligence...

someone should do a profile of the one guy who left Geese right before they made this last record and, in so doing, became the internationally recognized saviors of rock & roll

This was my favorite comic when I was twelve and I suppose it still is

So, I see what you were going for with the phrase "compliment sandwich" — it's a cool name! I'm not sure it quite fits? Sandwiches are named for the filling, not the bread — it's "ham sandwich," not "rye sandwich.” Maybe "criticism sandwich" would work better? But you gave us a great starting point!

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This NYT story, absurdly, refers to Washington as “the gayest city in America.” If you click the link, the data actually shows that the District of Columbia is the gayest state or state-like entity in America. That's really different!

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Feels like the winning coalition for Democrats is “people who like Mamdani“ and “people who just really fucking hate Andrew Cuomo“

R.I.P. Brian Wilson, one of the 20th century’s great geniuses of writing funny inscriptions on records belonging to Don Henley

One of the happiest things to happen in my lifetime is that SMiLE — the masterpiece lost to madness, the perfect record trapped in a parallel universe, the unmet promise of ’60s pop — is now just a wonderful album that you can listen to whenever you like

"You Still Believe in Me" (isolated vocals): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXtf...

Brian Wilson was my friend and my brother in songwriting. We shared a similar sensibility, as evidenced by his 4 over 5 chord under “Aaaah!” in "Good Vibrations” and mine under "I’m into something good.” We once discussed who used it first, and in the end we decided it didn’t matter. (Continued)

Is there a more beautiful vision of love and compassion in all of pop music? open.spotify.com/track/1zWifA...

One of the most beautiful, most credible visions of utopia www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-1s...

You don’t actually look very much like Buddy Holly, you’re just wearing glasses

The thing where you have to avoid someone because you haven’t read their book yet, only it’s the seven-year-old next door and a four-page comic called LIVING LUNCH BOX ATACK!

there's a moment in smarter-than-average zombie movies where it becomes clear that the zombies are threatening but amoral, and that the real villains are the human beings who are responding to the situations created by the zombie outbreak in weak or reprehensible ways

If I were going to open a gastropub I would call it “Jumping Jack Flash It’s a Gas Gas Gastropub”

The dog just put his foot on my keyboard and turned off hiding on the Dock, complete user-experience nightmare over here

Homer, Euripides, and Charles Schulz would all disagree with you there, WordPress

A thing about not being on social media anymore is you sometimes have a thought that one million people have surely already expressed but it’s still new to you. Anyway: “POV” used to mean “Here’s a video from this POV” but now it just means “Here's a video of this thing from an external POV”

after every single transaction I get an email asking me for my feedback on the transaction

My 10yo claims to have invented a new variant of “step on a crack, break your mother’s back”: “Step on a stick, break your father’s dick”

New York Times crossword having a bit of fun there