In the early 90s someone told me I didn't know the "real Rockapella" if I was only familiar with their Carmen Sandiego-related work

in a democratic republic (and really in all times and places) the slavish hunger to be in the thrall of a strongman or a king is the ultimate moral degeneracy.

The usual Irish reasons on my mom's side, the usual Jewish reasons on my dad's

I need to know who this is

17 years ago today. #MetsSky

This is the funniest gif I have ever seen

so, let me get this straight: [complex issue, but rendered into the most simplistic and morally stark choice, with my preference being the OBvious answer], did i get that right?

when your mom says "We have Matthew McConaughey at home"

yeahhhh that checks out

It's the stupidity and the evil working in harmony that throws people off. It's like how light has properties of being both a wave and a particle.

we will not be discussing That Episode of "Too Close for Comfort"

WHAT THE FOCK

If a member of the 1986 #Mets put his World Series ring up for sale and I bought it, it wouldn’t make me a member of the 1986 Mets.

I'm not Jewish but I attended Kol Nidre services here in 2005. What a tragedy

Oops, All Mets

They’re trying to treat this like a NFL call, as if what’s at dispute was whether the ball touched the ground or if it was a completed pass, rather than what we all saw, some masked goon choosing to execute someone in broad daylight

I still have my box of this (I took the cereal out)

My theory on why society got so much worse after COVID was that 2020 marked the point where normal people did the majority of their social interaction online and when they went out into the real world in 2021, all those anti-social impulses were now a part of their real world personality.

oh man The Mummers' Dance by Loreena McKennitt, that's a song I haven't thought about in a few decades

this was their biggest, most important album, the one that changed everything, and Side 1 Track 1 is the worst song they ever did

The last four words are also important here. The USAID cuts should primarily be seen as a eugenicist project. Elon Musk and the far right, generally, believe that foreign aid is a part of the Great Replacement.

Oasis is the only band I can think of that’s overrated and underrated at the same time

"I did not hit her, I did NAHT. Oh hi Grimace!"

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown

I REMEMBER THIS SHOW. He works at a piano bar in Washington DC. In the first episode a scandal-plagued Congressman (think Epstein Files) is drunk and rowdy so Dudley plays the Supremes' "Baby Love" to shame him

hmmm

hell yes

There's a moment where she asks "Is it safe?" and ...

Every day we stray further from God's light

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

NYC has both Dr Brown's Cel-Ray *and* Manhattan Special bc we are the coolest. Maybe upstate has weird shit too, I have no idea

Bryce Harley Jarvis is the most aggressive baby I've ever seen

behold

bobblehead is officially OFF THE SHELF

You will be visited by 3 spirits

This is what will never stop killing me: we’re destroying the American system and state to hand unprecedented power to THIS GUY, the most manifestly lawless, corrupt, unfit President in history.

The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.

a prized possession, from 1997

I can get even dorkier: 1. They Might Be Giants 2. Fountains of Wayne 3. Bob Dylan 4. Ben Folds 5. Oasis

The last of the original Garbage Pail Kids has died in custody

these two. singing into the same mic, looking into each other's eyes, harmonizing, occasionally forgetting the lyrics. In an extremely heterosexual way, ofc www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAYh...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

this f**kin guy

The beatles purposefully wrote catchy songs to generate interest in their band