There’s a “Murder, She Wrote” episode in which Jessica has to solve a murder on the set of a popular sitcom called “Buds” (modeled after “Friends”).

Easy-split English muffins are not.

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Deplaned at LAX last night to the sight of two ICE agents literally doing nothing. Money well spent you guys.

Diane Arbus, House on a Hill, Hollywood, 1961

The mystery of how Pa Ingalls maintained his shag haircut still vexes me to this day.

Am I the only person who tries to clean her whole car with the squeegee at the gas station while pumping gas? #polishcarwash

Dancing Queen gets all the nostalgia, but this song is ABBA’s best, imo: youtu.be/cvChjHcABPA

Why is it hardcover and paperback? That makes it sound like there are books out there that satisfy both requirements.

Is this satire? I can’t tell anymore.

Writers working on their book comps:

I have decided, after 30 years, on the name of my band: College Radio. No one else take it, please.

When I lose internet connection suddenly, I think it’s the universe saying “do NOT fucking post that, Are you insane?”

I’m at that stage where it hurts more if I miss a workout than if I just go through with it. You?

Lindsay Graham only wishes he got blown the hell out of.

I really miss getting the newspaper on my doorstep in the morning and having the sense that a collective worked diligently, day in and day out, to ensure we received truthful reporting. But I guess I’m an old fart.

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Is there a person to whom we can describe a book we want to write or read and they give you comp titles, or do we still call that person a librarian?

If you’re not crazy, please vote today because the crazy people sure as hell are. #primaries #vote #bringbacksanity

Omg, they’re idiots. You voted for people who couldn’t manage a Popeye’s

Entirely unsurprising how fast the MAGA’s heads swiveled from no new wars to conflict with Iran. They would cheer obliterating their own existence if Trump was the one detonating the bomb.

I’m kind of torn whether I want to go to heaven or over the rainbow bridge. I mean, do I get a choice?

I feel like part of the marriage contract is that your partner should watch your IG reels within 24 hours of you sending them.

The hardest thing about being a writer is explaining to people who are not writers but want to be writers why an anecdote is not a story.

The transition from going out drinking on Friday nights to staying at home waiting for one of your Words With Friends partners to lay some tile is not as gradual as you think.

Is everyone’s day pretty much: 1. I’m really great at what I do. 2. I’m a terrible fraud. Repeat until bed?

Trying to learn up on my Bad Bunny before Sunday but this gummy is making me too sleepy. Bad gummy.

The things I’m most scared of at my age in exercise classes are not 1) whether I can go 60 whole minutes (I can) or 2) whether the weights are too heavy (they’re not) but whether I’ll poot or pee a little in the middle of a squat or jumping jack.

There was this couple from New Jersey, Nicki and Anthony, who were on the snorkeling trip we took last month. It was like they walked off the screen of Goodfellas, and I still think about them.

Sometimes people pass through your life to show you it’s not *you* who are broken.

I think if we’ve learned anything this week, it’s to be as warm, welcoming, funny, and kind as Catherine O’Hara. If any artist deserves her own Bible (besides Dolly Parton), it’s her.

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Catherine O’Hara died. I’m inconsolable.

The missus said “I’m looking for countertops on my phone” and I said, “I’ll help” and then I got on my phone and sent her a bunch of dog reels from Instagram. Teamwork makes the dream work.

Devastating: “Rady, the region’s only hospital dedicated solely to serving children and adolescents, cited recent federal pressure to end gender-affirming care or potentially lose access to all federal Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement.” www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/01/20/r...

1. Wilco 2. Belle & Sebastian 3. Sleater-Kinney 4. Sonic Youth 5. Patti Smith

Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks. One is rent. The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.

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Who knew Maya Rudolph was in an early iteration of that dog as their dummer? I bet @rahnealexander.com does!

I’ve taken 2 flights this year (one to DC, one to HI), and neither were full in at least one direction). This is the first time in years I haven’t been on overbooked flight, especially to 2 high-traffic airports.

We’re watching Trump radicalizing an entire generation in real time

MAGA has been great for my self-esteem all around. Where I used to be hesitant to do things like electrical or plumbing repairs, I think to myself, "A bunch of guys who fell for Donald Trump could do this without hurting themselves, I can."

Hell is a comments page on a Facebook news article,

Kristi Noem calling the victim’s actions “domestic terrorism” is propaganda. Full stop. I served as a White House homeland security advisor. I know what that designation means & when it’s misused. A U.S. citizen is dead. She was a mom. This is what ICE impunity looks like. It cannot be normalized.

Close analysis of video footage shows Renee Nicole Good attempting to drive away from ICE agents before one of them shoots her. But that doesn’t fit Trump, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance’s narrative.

This, exactly. And there was no reason even to do that. They told her to move!!

When someone introduces themselves and you forget their name not a second later.

Me checking the news every 5 minutes to see that John harbaugh has been fired

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Do not watch CBS "news." Seriously, don't watch. Let their ratings and their money TANK like it deserves. What was done to 60 minutes should have been the last straw for everyone.