Carolina looks BA-RUTAL! #AllezHabsAllez

this story should have mentioned the time when Will Sloan was banned from Twitter for saying he hopes Baby Yoda dies--a story that itself made international headlines!

In the @thestar.com, I have weighed in on an issue of grave national--and international--importance: the bad-tasting coffee wars brewing between august Canadian institution Tim Hortons, and Yankee upstart "Dunkin." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Damn, Ottawa got served

Between the bread settlement money and my $5.35 CRA refund windfall, I may treat myself to a submarine sandwich for lunch!

A very interesting story to report: a new ad campaign tried to shame ICE agents. Will it work? And can ICE be shamed? for the @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I am growing tired of roaming around a sports bar with my head in my hands, grieving an annoying loss. Oh well! More to life than sports….but what….

Sabres win. free blue cheese.

‘A mask can’t hide you from God’: can you shame an ICE agent into quitting? Written by @johnsemley3000.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A very interesting story to report: a new ad campaign tried to shame ICE agents. Will it work? And can ICE be shamed? for the @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

bobsday 85! this tuesday 5/19 on @wfmu.bsky.social, 9pm-12am ET, the frow show's annual cornucopia of live tapes, covers, outtakes, novelties, answer songs, & other dylanological pleasures, filling in for @kendraplex.bsky.social. get your tape decks ready.

Allegedly, the X-Men cartoon theme was ripped off from Linda, a Hungarian show that ran from 1984 to 1991. The composer filed a lawsuit that was settled out of court. To me, the similarities sound a little too close to be a coincidence. Either way, this Linda intro absolutely rules.

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

The Flyers need to steal a game, or preferably four.

Wrote about Robert Coover's weird, mind-bending, vital 1968 novel about fantasy baseball, "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.," newly reprinted by NYRB Classics. for @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

MAMMAL BULLYING A REPTILE: Nice body temperature dude. Did the sun pick it out for you

Tired: it's not you, it's me. Inspired: it's a broader systemic issue, of which I am a mere symptom.

I’m old enough to remember when Sidney Crosby looked like this. Hell, we all did!

For @defector.com I rolled out to the big Rob Schneider comedy concert, and collected some thoughts on freedom, laughter, professional and political embitterment, and the weird arena of MAGA entertainment safe spaces. defector.com/a-rob-schnei...

Kimmel is sort of the perfect Trump nemesis, if only in the sense that both are bulletproof.

Did Akon ever find the words to describe that girl without being disrespectful? Or was that rhetorical.

For @defector.com I rolled out to the big Rob Schneider comedy concert, and collected some thoughts on freedom, laughter, professional and political embitterment, and the weird arena of MAGA entertainment safe spaces. defector.com/a-rob-schnei...

Can’t win em all. Still a great night with my father who, like his father before him, bequeathed me this sickness. #LetsGoBuffalo

Time…goddamn man…

YOUR Buffalo Sabres! #LetsGoBuffalo

Following the trail of breadcrumbs…

The third season of cringe-core meta-comedy “The Comeback” has returned to television with all of its nasty backstage satire intact. And as @johnsemley3000.bsky.social argues, it’s got plenty of material to pull from.

In @thestar.com today, I weigh in on the most pressing issue of the day: TDS. That is, Trudeau Derangement Syndrome. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Don't watch enough ball to have a take, but nevertheless, sort of tired of this "Steph Curry" business. Predictable. It's like when you get into the third act of a Mission: Impossible movie and the chips are down and then someone turns the table by peeling off a mask. Boring.

I would throw myself into a wood chipper for Valerie Cherish.

My GOAT. ❤️❤️❤️

It is very funny to advertise yourself as a “No BS” pop culture podcast. Yeah absolutely, there’s no room for bullshit when you talk about the Super Mario Galaxy movie on a podcast, that time is sacred. Just give me the damn facts!

I got a bunch of pitches last year about how Geese cracked the algorithm—well, surprise, it was a "narrative" marketing campaign. @johnsemley3000.bsky.social with the goods: www.wired.com/story/geese-...

Burner accounts, trend simulation, manufactured discourse: music marketers are embracing new online tools to get ears on new music. Is it just business as usual? And ARE Geese an industry plant? I investigate music's dirty little secret, for @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/geese-...

In 5 short months my confidence in the Buffalo Sabres has gone from “they will lose any game I tune in to watch” to “they will win automatically because it’s Rasmus Dahlin’s birthday.”

Do I know anyone who would talk on record about—deep breath—the mental health risks assumed by ICE/DHS agents? Trying to gauge how “moral injury” will affect ICE and other border patrol officers, particularly those ones deployed in “highly kinetic” “theaters of operation”….

Nappigg to The Masters is GOATed when snoozing your head off is the vibe.

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

Every word of this!

I will always think of that football-style inbounds play Michigan just ran as The Dan McQuade Play. It's one of my favorite college basketball blogs of his, and Greg Kampe is a great character. defector.com/greg-kampes-...

Every day, more and more, I worry that the coveted “FIFA Peace Prize” is little more than a gaudy trinket…

The most important article I—or anyone?—will ever write. For @thestar.com , I urge Leafs fans, poor, long-suffering Leafs fans, to consider the Sabres. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The commercials literally tell you to use it to create a business plan that will revive your flagging pizzeria.

Idea! The Big Four sports leagues need to create streaming packages prices by team: I want to watch every game by these X teams…sell me that. I shouldn’t need to upgrade a service I already barely use to watch a team I’m currently WEARING THE JERSEY OF.

The glorious Buffalo Sabres have SNAPPED the curse. Thanks to, many are saying, my annoying phone background I’ve been praying to daily.

“The dreaded ‘gap between imagination & creation’ is not some inefficiency that can be ironed out by a computer program. It is where creativity itself emerges.” So well expressed. Bravo @johnsemley3000.bsky.social Huge props to @wired.com @katie-drummond.bsky.social for your coverage of this space

Tonight is all about one special dance: youtu.be/gqg3l3r_DRI?...

I went to a generative AI summit where Hollywood/tech insiders compared gen-AI to the film camera, the printing press and…the harnessing of flame by man. But don’t worry: they’re NOT being “hyperbolic.” Some thoughts for @wired.com

this sounds like hell to me, but @johnsemley3000.bsky.social confronted his brain rot at a nearly 8-hour screening of a movie about a failed farming collective in post-Soviet Hungary. Apparently it's selling out! www.wired.com/story/watchi...