Sometimes I‘ll see a middle aged man who’s made a real Hair Choice and it makes me feel like baldness is basically harm reduction

Nobody knows what capers are, and If they tell you they do they’re lying

Looking back, it's kind of wild that a big part of being in any kind of high school activity or club involved talking the club's female members into wearing bikinis and holding "car wash" signs out by the road. Not great!

Before internet crowdfunding, the only way to save a beloved small business was a sexy car wash

could honestly watch a feature-length film of just the audience shots

and coming up next at the national prayer breakfast we have this golden calf that we’re all worshiping now, lets get those hands in the air for the golden calf everybody

I don’t know, I think the world may have been better when people had to work harder to find things, and by “things” I mean underground music and films but also racist conspiracy theories

You know what? I'm dropping Bezos from the Bald Guys Club. If I see him in the street, or on a hike somewhere, I'm not giving him the nod. He's out!

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

I don’t know, I think the world may have been better when people had to work harder to find things, and by “things” I mean underground music and films but also racist conspiracy theories

if i was thrown into a volcano, i’d simply drink all the lava

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

I think everybody should get a second run-through of their own life. Not even to improve, necessarily, but just to notice more things. Like when you re-read a novel, or re-watch a movie, and you're not so focused on how the plot will work out

Oh, you don’t think the ultra wealthy are good at running publications? Sounds like someone needs an adjustment to their Perception Box™️

Honestly I would just like to go back to posting my stupid little bits and having seasonal depression.

don’t open those, they’re my scream jars

Just googled "do post-it notes go bad," I think there's a very good chance my brain isn't going to make it till the end of the semester

Remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas in which the Grinch's heart grows three sizes too large, then four, then five, then bursts, and the final scene is a 45-minute, roving single shot of Whoville's fevered partying: ecstatic dancing, drum circles, close-ups of rapturous faces, no dialogue

when I spend a long time intricately planning out the details of a class, it feels wrong somehow that I still have to actually teach it

It's good to get out of the Bluesky bubble every now and then and see what folks are up to in the neighborhood facebook groups

Me signing up for the Criterion Channel: This is going to be my master class in film, nothing but art-house cinema for me in 2026 Me five minutes after signing up for the Criterion Channel: Ooh, they have Sleepless in Seattle!

Do you think god ever regrets letting us have opinions

Realizing that my teaching philosophy is basically just Dalton from Road House: "Be nice, until it's time to not be nice."

I didn't know Dan McQuade (@dhm.bsky.social) as well as a lot of you, but for the last several months we'd been getting together to talk about a book he was working on for @barrelhouse.bsky.social, about malls and mall culture, and man I was really looking forward to that book existing in the world

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

I wish this chatbot on chess.com had a different line of dialogue for when it starts to lose

All those "don't tread on me" stickers make more sense when you realize the "me" refers to the truck itself

Some of the most fun episodes of Book Fight that @mikeingram.bsky.social and I recorded were with Dan McQuade. This one, where we discussed the novelization of Rocky II, is one of my favs in the 14 years we did the show bookfightpod.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/e...

Here's a thread of some Dan McQuade blogs that we really loved 🦅 The Garden State Parkway’s Jon Bon Jovi rest stop is playing fast and loose with famous quotes: defector.com/the-garden-s...

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

One thing we learned accidentally, when we started Barrelhouse, was that it's fun to have a name you can use as both a noun and a verb

One benefit to reading the news, rather than watching it, is I can go right on pronouncing that man's name "dookie pill" and I'll never have to learn if I'm wrong

Love to get some practical home-decor tips from my good friends at the new york times

When I played high school tennis, before a match we’d all pile into this kid Marty’s hand-me-down Volvo and listen to our “pump up music,” which was usually either LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” or “Piano Man” by Billy Joel

More money for training? I'm sorry, are they re-releasing Birth of a Nation in IMAX or something?

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

lol, Bari tapping out very early in the game. Maybe next week will be a "salute to fireworks"

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

I will be another voice to say, I have watched the video and you do not need to watch it unless you doubt what is being said. There is no ambiguity. Agents dogpile a person, he is on the ground, one of them starts clubbing with a pistol and then fires repeatedly. Even after the body is still.

In a more just world, Greg Bovino would be a mouthy little guy who owns a Cross Fit gym where he's very fussy about locker etiquette and then one day he suffers a prolapsed anus after trying to deadlift too much on a dare

The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t

"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.

People will lecture you about learning the lessons of history but forget one of its most obvious lessons: that the people in charge (at every level of "in charge") are almost always slow to act against evil and injustice, and tend to do so only after "regular" people make their inaction untenable

Feel like I've entered a weird zone, teaching-wise, where I'm not young enough to be cool, but not old enough to be adorable

I bet the pony-tailed Harvard guy in Good Will Hunting replayed that conversation thousands of times. How could you not? If he’d just said “no, I don’t really care for apples.” Or “what a weird question.” Literally any answer other than “yes.” His whole life could’ve been different.

Unpopular Mechanics

Really? You wanna hacky-sack right now? With everything going on, you wanna stand in a sunny park and kick a little bag back and forth? Unbelievable.

Saw that Whit Stillman's METROPOLITAN was having a revival showing later this month here in Philly and thought, "Finally, a movie I could cosplay for"

It's kind of amazing to me that none of those NY Times "we talked to eight conservatives in a truck stop bathroom" stories have turned out to be Jayson Blair-style inventions, because so many of them read like bad novel drafts