My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues

Rei Momo erasure

If England had chosen a true britpop banger like Suede's Animal Nitrate as their anthem instead of a dirge like Wonderwall they would have won

“room temperature” well that really depends on the room doesn’t it

What a beautiful, beautiful team

wait this is an insane take

The Do the Right Thing guys are all at the game together 💙💙💙

I started writing my recap down 21 in the second quarter because I didn’t want to stay up late. I just kept typing. I have not gone back and read or edited it. It’s 3400 words. Also, my house lost power when Castle was at the line at the end. Read it here: knickerblogger.net/2026/06/2026...

you should listen to my podcast about reconstruction people.com/barack-obama...

I know we’ve all read 100 articles like this, but I do recommend this one, especially for the series of questions at the end about how universities (not individual instructors) could change our practice. I’d love to discuss those

The greatest radio sitcom of all time, CABIN PRESSURE, features a smoothie character played by Roger Allam, and halfway through they introduce Anthony Head as a rival who’s even smoother, and in s03e05 the two of them get into a vocal smooth-off, and it’s pure delight books.apple.com/us/audiobook...

The Department of Justice’s hollowed-out Civil Rights Division has a new focus: the Second Amendment.

Positivity, why not. I will have a go at this if anyone wants me to

One of the great ongoing conversations comes to an end, what a huge bummer

This is terrible news. If you’ve ever enjoyed Justin’s writing — on the media, on the Olympics, or on his own weird stunts — please help his family out

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!

💙 wyna 💙

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”