Yesterday’s lunch. Peak Cajun cuisine IYKYK

My Canadian wife, whispering to me emphatically at a BBQ back home in Louisiana: “Jonathan, there is *only meat* at this BBQ!” Me:

Bellicose manchild wants the Nobel Peace Prize? Fuck Trump.

My cousin weighs in on my IG post. It’s gonna be a great summer, back home and down South.

Trump doesn’t look like he’s enjoying his little birthday party.

🤣 This is on track to be my biggest post (which isn’t saying much, I know). But as much as I love Hamlet and how much Hamlet means to me, I can live with that.

POTUS claimed the Los Angeles riots led to “many deaths” Yet, more people have died because of Trump’s parade than have died in LA as part of the “riots.” I’ll leave y’all to determine who the real danger is.

We only recognize one kind of crown in Louisiana. We only throw parades for one kind of king in Louisiana. #NoKings Happy No Kings Day for all who celebrate.

Like… I want to see OKC win but when I’m watching the game, I end up pulling for Indiana. WTF is that?

Just stopped by a pasta place to pick up a lasagna for dinner tonight. Next door, there’s a paint store. There was a family of four, recent refugees, picking out paint for the girls’ new room. Seeing these two girls, probably 4 and 6, excited about their new room and house. F*ck the haters.

“Let the [protesters] play ‘Neck’!”

Throwback to this wonderful memory from this time of year. PhD graduation with our oldest (now 15! 😬) and UofT used this photo on their socials and coverage. I was flattered and excited but I also know it was 100000% because of her overwhelming adorableness.

What is the point of conservatives telling us to read 1984 and quoting from 1984 and then doing absolutely nothing when it’s unfolding right in front of them?

Seeing Logano, Bell, Larson, Elliott, and Blaney running Top 5 at the @nascar.com All-Star Race is a crazy good Top 5 to watch in this track. NASCAR got this one right.

I thought growing up a @neworleanssaints.bsky.social fan would’ve prepared me to be a #Leafs fan. I was wrong.

Dat’s my hometown team, y’all! McNeese and Lake Charles represent. #MarchMadness #NCAABasketball Let’s Geauxxxxx!

Just FYI… 🇺🇸 friends of mine in the building for the 🇺🇸 vs 🇨🇦 game are saying that a lot of Americans around them are singing along with the Canadian national anthem.

Something hit me today for the first time since becoming a dad. Growing up, I heard my mom say, “We have to wait until after payday” all the time. Even for necessities. All the time. I’ve never had to say that once to our kids. I’ve worked hard but even more fortunate. It hit me pretty hard.

I am not a huge golf fan, but I’m enjoying this TGL take on the sport. But Marty Smith and his bougie, coifed redneck schtick ruins every show he is on. How did that hack get the gig representing everyone south of the Mason Dixon on ESPN? He’s actively atrocious

I f*cking love Charles Barkley: “They are All-Stars not just because they play great offense but also because they play great defense.” Without missing a beat, Chuck wryly says: “Not all of ‘em.”

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Ricky Stenhouse, Jr ruins a @NASCAR race I saw it coming. You could see it a mile away. Told my wife the 47 is going to cause a wreck trying to block. Within two laps, it happened. Garbage driver.

The Daytona 500 is about to go green! So glad @nascar.com’s back! I can’t believe I’m saying this: I hope Kyle Busch takes the 🏁

I grew up about 20 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico, in the southwest corner of Louisiana. It will always be the Gulf of Mexico. FWIW, people back home - for the most part - are still calling it that, too. And think the “Gulf of America” is dumb and pointless.

Boo. This.

We’ve a combined household. I am 🇺🇸 and my wife is 🇨🇦, living in Canada. Three kids with dual citizenship. We’re tuned into this hockey game. I get the boos for the anthem. I do. I’m as down on the US right now as anyone, but My kids wondered why it was okay to boo one anthem and not the other. 🤷

In the scope of all things “tariffs” this is minuscule thing… but, place around here carries catfish from Louisiana and Mississippi. They haven’t these past few weeks because of tariffs and speculation, so they aren’t buying any. Which means I can’t get my catfish which is 100% trivial. Still…

Today at school, my wife had to barricade a door for an hour while a grade 3 girl screamed at them through the door, “fuck you!” And called her an “evil bitch!” and more. She and another girl threatened to “punch [her] fucking stomach!” and more. Superintendent was on campus and did nothing.

I am an 🇺🇸 living in 🇨🇦 It is absolutely insane that we are having to boycott 🇺🇸 products. An American boycotting American products because Trump has no clue how to govern. Only how to punish out of petulance. WTF.

Has there ever been a more Masai Ujiri-type player than Flory Bidunga of Kansas? #Raptors

Season 2 of ‘Severance’ delivers.

King Cake Season is upon us! Living in Toronto, there’s only one option: make my own. Here’s last year’s effort. I’m more cook than baker, but this one pleased me. And everyone else in the house.

Sam Darnold and Jared Goff are who we thought they were.

Pretty proud of this here roux. (Rendered beef tallow from the 4-bone Prime Rib Roast I did for Christmas. I’m going to use it for a meatball fricassee tomorrow, enough for 60 meatballs)

I know how I’ll be starting my English classes tomorrow…

POV: you're a Cajun cook

This game is drunk.

The Texas fans’ reactions in the crowd on that OSU TD are Renaissance paintings

Team USA back to the gold medal game at the World Juniors! 🇺🇸 🥅 🏒 🥇

Okay, so, Skeleton Crew is just Space Goonies?

My wife said this New Years Dinner was easily my best greens ever. It might be related to the bunch I grabbed. I’ve bought a lot of greens over the years, but never one with a stick in it. So I picked that one. With a sample of n=1, we’re at 100%

New Year's Day dinner is my single favorite meal of the year. Y'all can keep the rest - Ham glazed w/ Dr. Pepper reduction (w/ heat and citrus) - black-eyed peas (Hoppin' John, and yes I like it with rice) - collard greens (w/ potlikker and tasso) - homemade cornbread - cornbread dressing HNYy'!

I remember going to a skating rink, skating for hours, and lying down that night, in bed, still feeling like I was skating. Such an incredible feeling.

It’s been years now, and while I wouldn’t say I’ve perfected the popover, I’d say I’ve gotten within spittin’ distance.

Watching my son play Fortnite on the big TV. I am used to MMORPGs, so when he says he is “Level 103” I ask what’s max lvl He says “1,000” so I ask if a lvl 1000 character would one-shot his character. His reply: “Levels don’t work like that in Fortnite. Higher level just means you’re more sweaty”

White supremacist website wants everyone to know which of their 2024 Two Minutes Hate podcasts were the most racist.

This is quite the slate for the final Sunday of regular season NFL football, in the middle of the holidays. At least the Bengals and Broncos gave us cinema yesterday. We're gonna need it to last today, too. And Monday (Det vs. SF). This is just a sewer pipe.

He’s still at it. An incredible asset to the community, to humanity. Consider a donation that goes straight to helping people who can really use it.

Elon holds the controller. He hands Trump a child’s calculator and tells him he’s the one really playing the video game. And every now and then, Trump looks up to Elon, to see if Big Brother approves of his gameplay. Elon nods, breaks the fourth wall to say, “Fuck yourselves in your faces.”

Spent a day catching up over there. Mostly to revel in the mud-slinging wallowing of infighting as various leopards eat various faces. Of note, a professor said 75% of women liked being choked during sex based on a Twitter survey. 7% claimed to be women. He treated this as data. Dangerous stuff.