Landed in Denver last night. I'd forgotten how quickly I mummify at altitude.

Maybe used up all my air travel luck on my European vacation. Spent ~45 minutes on the tarmac in Nashville before a maintenance issue was determined to be severe enough to make us deplane. This is after the flight was already delayed over an hour. Will our hero ever get to Denver? Stay tuned!

swedish fish hate to see me coming

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but live music in the Nashville airport is unpleasant. I don't need some joker (derogatory) doing an acoustic Skynyrd cover to add to the chaos and din and general dehumanizing oppression of modern air travel.

when i'm running a script overnight and windows auto reboots to bring me the latest microsoft copilot updates

maybe it's just the afterglow of a lovely trip to Europe and a little microburst of positive news stories but I'm feeling optimistic about things this morning

I just think the Danube is a neat river

Absolutely in love with Vienna

compared to in The Third Man, it looks very different in color, at night, in 2025

One of the things about the 1990’s is that they could have made a Bill Maher erotic thriller and they never did. Say what you want about that time period but they didn’t do that.

ok, this is shockingly good for hotel bar food

Also not helping- it's the Feast of the Immaculate Conception today and that's a full public holiday in Austria, so all kinds of things aren't open. That said, huge shout out to the front desk staff at the Hilton Vienna Waterfront for being kind and helpful to an idiot abroad.

Vienna- pretty nice so far, even if I totally made my hotel reservation for NEXT Monday and not today.

I'm generally a bit of a Scrooge/Grinch/Heat Miser/Dr. Bill Harford when it comes to getting into the Christmas spirit, but the whole Advent in Zagreb Christmas market thing was pretty neat.

so good, but it really should be subtitled "actually a Black Hat prequel"

went to the Krapina Neanderthal Museum and it was nice to see someone who reminded me of my dad

German pressing of Randy Newman's Born Again from 1979. The guy at the New Wave & Rock Music Museum gave it to me for €9

Video Game History Museum in Zagreb. Kinda strange to see your childhood as a museum exhibit

in case anyone was wondering, you are not allowed to throw up in the bathroom sink in my sister's apartment in Zagreb

The cuisines in Brazil/Morocco/Haiti/Scotland

I highly recommend watching the World Cup draw at a hipster Croatian beer bar/bottle shop

greetings from scenic Zagreb

early verdict on the Balkans: pretty neat

Are these two characters who would be immediately recognized by German children, or are they instead just sort of weird generic figures meant to evoke some mythic vision of German airports?

Germany really looks like Germany. Who knew?

peak middle-aged man on an airplane behavior

has there been a sitcom set in a big airport? seems like there should be (if you read this and you make one you have to credit me and give me a guest spot and also some money)

this is going to be so easy, such a lay up

Here's Portugal The Man with @alyankovic.bsky.social and Jorma Taccone covering Killing in the Name just like we all imagined happening one day. www.threads.com/@wonderboymu...

on a related note, I'd love any recommendations for Zagreb (less necessary, thanks to my hosts), Graz, or Vienna. Also I guess for breakfast at the Munich airport.

a cool thing is thinking that you've lost your passport the night before a big international trip also cool- convincing yourself that your flight is actually tonight and not tomorrow coolest? finding your passport and confirming that your flight is actually tomorrow, like you thought

Tim Robinson cadence

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Heaven Can’t Wait

/Sean Connery voice "Zane Gonzalez of the Atlanta Falcons."

honestly it's nice to not be the divisional embarrassment in a primetime slot this week, even if we ended up losing last night

they're calling it one of the hottest browns anyone has ever seen

honorable, but frustrating

odds of a defensive penalty here to force a replay of the down?

refs remembering their jobs?

You know what? Shoutout to Terry for calling these refs out tonight. Turning on his own kind for the greater good.

washington getting absolutely jobbed by the refs these last two possessions

this is the worst officiated football game I have seen in a very long time

what the fuck is going on with the officiating

The three greatest catches of all time coming in one day (Puka, Bowers, Burks) seems a little excessive

Star Trek: TOS episodes so far: s1e1- what if there was a lady alien? e2- what if a teen had god powers? e3- what if two adults had god powers? e4- what if everybody got drunk? e5- what if there was a good captain and a bad captain? e6- what if there was sex trafficking in space?

watching The Pink Panther (1963) for the first time in a long time and it certainly isn't the strongest of the series, but Claudia Cardinale! Capucine! hubba-hubba! awoooga! other cartoon wolf noises! Also Peter Sellers getting cucked by David Niven is pretty funny.

tfw everyone loves your tariffs, your shutdown, your war crimes, your looting of the federal government, your friendship with late financiers, etc. thank you for your attention to this matter

Really, really enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man (2025), but making a movie that taps into the Catholicism of my upbringing and uses a Tom Waits song is sort of like using a cheat code.