And it begins. Some dullard on my block lighting fireworks at 1 AM on a Tuesday.

Last Year At Marienbad/This Month At The State Fair

How is it the power grid couldn’t handle electric cars but it will be fine with all these data centers?

Writing is one of the few places I can hear myself.

I'll stop making everything political if you stop making everything religious.

What they taught in school: GDP up = good. What they left out: The atmosphere has a limit Soil can die Water runs out 8 billion people need a living planet, not just a growing economy

I honestly think it was cool how for the Freedom 250 concert they symbolically had one attendee from every state

It's pretty cool that we live in a world where Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke are still alive.

Democratic socialists are not communists

@jamestalarico.bsky.social is what a politician should be.

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

Am I the only Deadhead who thinks Live/Dead sucks? I’m not sure that’s even legal.

Mamdani, please use your powers and get Sonic Youth to reunite. Only you can do this

Game show host Bert Convy was in the band The Cheers, who had the insane 1955 hit “Black Denim Trousers”?! WHAAAT?!?!

So the “Great American State Fair” was in Washington, DC, which isn’t a state but which the hosts’ mortal enemies want to make a state? Ok, stable geniuses

Astonishingly well done.

its crazy how one of the only jobs where you can openly espouse the most disgusting gutter racism on-the-clock is “person who makes laws and is in charge of everything”

Questlove’s documentary on Earth Wind & Fire is recommended if you’ve ever liked them even just a little bit.

Happy 100th Birthday to Mel Brooks, who produced David Lynch’s The Elephant Man when no one else would touch Lynch, thereby giving him a career. Then you have all of Brooks’s own films. What a wildman. The new doc The 99 Year Old Man is good; see it if you’re a fan.

This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗 So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old! @55SweetThing #globalmuseum #music #guitar #Stradivarius

Anyone who has ever had their garage floor or any floor epoxied knows that you are told not to walk on it, not to drive on it, not to park on it until it cures. When my neighbor had it done he parked outside for 2 weeks just to be sure. These morons are so stupid.

Remember when George W. Bush called for Al Gore to be jailed and when Ronald Reagan called for Jimmy Carter to be tried for treason and when Barack Obama called for John McCain to be put in front of a firing squad yah me neither because actual presidents don’t do that shit

I love having to read fifty “BREAKING NEWS” ramblings from randos on here per week about things that were confirmed and documented at length by real news sources six days ago.

Mamdani: “The old politics that got us into this mess are not going to get us out of it.” This just feels objectively true.

Action Comics #309, published February 1964

I was on hold yesterday and the music was literally Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird.”

It is vital you buy your small child (or the small child you know) that cheap, shitty watercolor set and that cheap, shitty colored pencil set and that cheap, shitty sketchbook Don't even wait for a reason, just bring it home one night That stuff is transformative in ways you've totally forgotten

At some point it’s time to stop asking them about the thing and start asking them about the lying itself

Antifa Is Armed And Dangerous

So which is it, dipshit, did a vandal do it this week or did Obama destroy it? It can’t be both. And if it was Obama, he is 3 Presidents away now. You had a full term since he left, and it ended five years ago. Why the fuck didn’t you fix it in 2017 then? Oh, because you’re a fucking lying idiot.

According to Sharia Law, within the first year of seizing power from the infidels, you must balance the budget and win an NBA Championship.

“A vandal cut the reflecting pool with a knife” is the dumbest shit I have ever heard in my life

Iran soccer fans react as they watch the FIFA World Cup 2026 match between Belgium and Iran at a cinema in Tehran, Iran, June 21, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

RIP music executive and champion of many greats, Clive Davis, aged 94.

If “someone unlocked this article for you” as a “gift” yet I still have to log in to read it, your website’s system is stupid.

How quickly will the Supreme Court find a way to "undo" their "Presidents have complete immunity" ruling after the '28 General election when the Dems win the WH?

After the Gold Rush was a chain discotheque that had a Denver outpost in the 80's.

it should be illegal to elect the stupidest motherfucker on the planet to the presidency

I was already an insomniac who hated going to bed for fun reasons, but every time I have a mobility injury, which is almost constant now, I dread bed because I have to lie in uncomfortable positions with umpteen support pillows and I know I’m gonna have to pee in three hours and why even bother.

It would be nice if one hour could elapse without a personal fiasco occurring

Happy Solstice.🌙🧚‍♂️

James Burrows 1940-2026 RIP

I know I’m harping on the pool, but it’s just so emblematic of the entire administration.

'The New American Gothic' Criselda Vasquez Oil on canvas 72” x 48"

The Trump Administration in six photographs, or, a photo essay about the Iran War

@theiowaguy.bsky.social If you speed-read library books and think you hit about 75-80% of the text would you put it on Goodreads?

I’m listening to a Nitzer Ebb album and the neighbor two houses down is doing some metal power-tool grinding in his garage; when the side ended I didn’t notice because I thought the grinding sounds were just part of the album.

Mamdani giving a speech at the Knicks victory parade and Obama giving a speech at the opening of his Presidential Library on the same day is the BARBENHEIMER of oratory, it's MAMBAMA

Imagine being a blundering chowderhead full-time & then even managing to fuck up THE REFLECTING POOL. A graceful thing that has been quietly maintained since its creation without overt fuss and the theatre of incompetence, that had no need for new hoopla. While a war is being mismanaged, no less.