This reminds me of a thing Bill James wrote forever ago about Yogi Berra having the ideal body type for base ball.

Please note that our screening of Frankenhooker at The Community Theater is on Saturday and is not to be confused with the Pre-K Matinee on Sunday. Any one of pre-k age who tries to get into Frankenhooker will be turned away. We are sorry for the inconvenience. 😉

I heard that Beltran has asked if he can be inducted as a Dodger.

Either (1) William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops, or (2) Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports.

Feel asleep listening to music and got woken up by my own dancing because of how sick the bounce to this is. open.spotify.com/track/5A2r83...

Wife got mandated at the hospital. I get the kids solo an extra 5 hours. She gets to try to keep folks alive until 11:30, then cross her fingers that she stays awake the whole drive home. This is definitely better than just hiring more nurses.

“We’re gonna run the country” invites a great many questions, but at least they have the rest of the weekend to work that bit out.

Perhaps it would be best if a different country hosted the United Nations.

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The podcast will start again early 2026! Our first guest will be my colleague David Wallace.

I have a friend who's a leftcath from upstate New York and his review of Wake Up Dead Man was literally just 'I've met both of these priests in real life just in the diocese of Albany'

So deep in the Dungeon Crawler Carl hive that I have 7 books I’ve reread more times this year than 57% of Americans have read books

Related: Empathy as a Core Competency in the Finnish Classroom

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

I’m listening to an interview Reiner did with Ted Danson in September, telling a story about how he met his wife, Michelle, while making When Harry Met Sally. His meeting her so affected him that he changed the ending of movie to have Harry and Sally wind up together. He believed in love again.

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Funny thing about Section 31 is that, for as poorly thought out and executed as it was, I think that by the time they get where they were going in the end, I probably would have watched the series it was originally supposed to be a pilot for.

Automatic retweet for any Tuvix reference

If I didn’t have kids, I would probably still go to at least 25+ movies a year. I had been assuming movies would be a thing I would return to as my kids got older, but they have no interest whatsoever.

I made a rare Target appearance yesterday, scrambling to replace a pair of Toddler mittens before the snow. I had the shelf location from the website, but their apparel layout is so messed up, nobody I asked could find them. I’m not sure how AI is going to fix what’s wrong with them.

Spotify wrapped did not survive waiting until spring to make my kids their own account.

I had just finished watching Zoey Deutch in Nouvelle Vague, so I started this thinking I would watch maybe 10 minutes and go to bed, but I was just utterly charmed by this. And I think the final needle drop may have seeded a Joy Division kick that’s going to last me the rest of the year.

I live an hour an a half away from campus. There is 6-10” of snow predicted for Albany tomorrow on the University’s own website. Just got an email from the school letting everyone know that classes will be proceeding as scheduled tomorrow.

Can anyone with better access than me or my library hook me up with this paper? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41307611/

Your annual reminder that this is a Thanksgiving film

Plainsong One Hundred Years Out of This World Open Want

Until he passed, my answer to this was always Lynch’s One Saliva Bubble, but now I think I would love to see someone do Ashman and Menken’s musical adaptation of Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater musical

Fun headline undermined by the point in the article that it’s the businesses and individuals in the state that actually pay the taxes, so there isn’t really any state spigot to shut off.

Can someone lend me somewhere north of $8000 for this bust of Aristotle from A Muppet Christmas Carol? www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/207...

This looks great. I picked up a copy of Lucky I’ve been meaning to get to for a while, and this might be the nudge I need.

White House defense is going to end up being that Gianmarco Soresi joke about R Kelly

Seems harsh but we can’t have people losing faith in a critical American institution like gambling.

Among other things, this is a pretty great paper on the idea that Smith’s Wealth of Nations is the worlds longest footnote to The Theory of Moral Sentiments. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I love The Hip Pocket’s format. Since the guest curates the three deep cuts to talk about, it’s fundamentally geared towards impassioned recommendations. But, as these are deep cuts, you’re often also getting fresh first watch reactions from the hosts. A perfect mix for discovering new favorites

Off their phones and into the streets www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

All else aside, I feel like I’ve gotten a brief respite to set down a heavy weight that I had gotten used to carrying since last year’s election.

BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate! In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.

“Cause everyone’s my friend/ in New York City” youtu.be/erXAq5iTLAw

Waited 5 minutes to call it just to be sure

Waited 5 minutes to call it just to be sure

A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative. (Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)

I democracied

Woke up today to the news