Nuns on the Running Man

Dan Quixote

Some dudes simply born to have Peter Sarsgaard play them as a venal shitbag in a cable movie.

Found a tiny, tiny bug checking out my hand and I thought: What ELSE don’t I know?

The way I say “nope!” out loud and close the tab when one of these announces itself as “read by an automated voice.”

Best money I’ve spent today.

Bus looks good for 79.

I turned 54 today. This week, I had a productive psychologist appointment and started an antidepressant for the first time in 20 years. The news is tidal wave after tidal wave of shit. Terrifying moment to be a parent, a person. But I would just as soon stick around and see what I can do about it.

What if the “Bluesky growth problem” is that a lot of users post less because we’re not only neither nazis nor bots but also really fucking depressed and anxious.

This is harrowing.

What if the threat isn’t injunctions or their lack but rather the plain fact that this court supermajority is brazenly and spectacularly lawless?

Got it, great, thanks. What's the second-best option?

Nobody Atlantics harder than the Atlantic.

Just letting unread messages from various opt-in subscriptions and vendors I've failed to mark as spam (just in case the next email has the end-all-be-all coupon, I guess) grow like kudzu over my Gmail accounts as a pre-summer treat.

I love dashes so much that I can get around writer's block just by reminding myself that I'll be able to em it up all I want. (OK, not really, but it's a nice thought.) When dummies start suggesting that using the en dash correctly is an AI tell is when I'll get *really* mad.

Did a thing yesterday (my 12th Hospital Hill and 20th half-marathon).

Five favorite black-and-white movies A Hard Day’s Night Notorious Sunset Boulevard The Philadelphia Story The Apartment

The Rules of the Gamer

Love the uniquely 21st-century indignity of cutting my own auto insurance "card" out of a tissue-thin piece of printer paper after almost 40 years of same-company patronage.

The paradox of seeing more beauty in the world because I have a 5-year-old daughter but feeling more fear about the world because I have a 5-year-old daughter. Maybe parents of every moment have dealt (better?) with this.

Thanks to Costco, I am really leveling up my wellbeing with these.

Dudes were really playing the long game.

I hate Microsoft so much.

Thanks, NYT, for this smug, patronizing headline.

Cheap Truck

This is so cool and so deserved!

I don’t know when or understand why I became a “thanks so much” sayer, but it’s ineluctable now and so I try to really mean it.

Have been pretty content to boycott the past couple of months, and this is good encouragement to stay away longer.

If my head were as full of antimatter as Douthat's, I would object to this dipshit headline. Said fullness would also, I hope, prevent me from being seen to wear these enormous, rube-ifying headphones.

Someone on my Goodreads timeline posted an appreciation of Henry Felsen's teen classic Hot Rod, and it turns out the man looked like if Daniel Craig played Mr. Roper.

As has been widely and correctly noted, this is heinous and infuriating. I just want to add that Banks looks quite wee but also seems to have a weird wide butt.

The White Boy Bob of the Trump administration

Sadly, Savant is the platform/software, not the descriptor — however appropriate — of Salvy’s plate technique.

Wish I could like this post 100 times.

Me most places: It is vital that no one see my middle-aged body. Me on or near an ocean beach: Fuck it, I am Hemingway, no shirt.

No one "left" the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "for dead." It was murdered.

Imaginary constituents are great because they don't leave voice mails or send emails or go demonstrate anywhere.

April fools?

JFC, can't you pick just one metaphor/substance for your latest jaunty headline about authoritarianism?

Hope these shameful cowards are primaried into oblivion.

I got my first after-school job at 13, a few months before the minimum wage hit $3.05. I, too, would prefer that my 40 years of contributions not get wiped out by one dipshit sociopath.

Blocked, self-flagellating, inspiration-challenged early Sesame Street figure Don Music has always been the Muppet for me.

Some of us remember THE BLACK HOLE.

I grew up on Robert Flack's first three records, which my late mom played pretty constantly. I treasure them for that reason but also on the merits. They're extraordinary.

A wife who loves you doesn’t let you leave the house like this.

I, an idiot, have improvised pasta e ceci with what was on hand.

Envisioning a 2025 remake of THE PALM BEACH STORY in which the remarriage plot is updated so that the husband and wife aren't broke but resolve to find new spouses in Europe to get citizenship abroad.

Nothing makes my usage-snob Hulk out more than the way no one younger than, like, 40 seems to know anything about appositives and the commas they require.

I have the book that goes with this. It’s powerful.

Luckily the first thing I always look for in an online calendar is scalability.