CUUUUURRRRRRRLIIIINNGGGGG!!!

I have to admit that for me, these Olympics have been a curling tournament and some other stuff.

Ah yes, “nothing has been the same since they replaced that person whose name I will now get wrong,” one of my favorite laments (This is not about my show)

CUUUURRRRRRLLIIIIIIIINNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!! That one was *something*.

Can’t remember if I mentioned this already, but in IS THIS THING ON? (a movie I heartily disliked), the very first time Will Arnett goes on stage outside of an open mic—the very first time he is put on stage intentionally—he goes on between Sam Jay and Dave Attell. It is *wild*, as a man’s fantasy.

Reading this, especially the guy saying “I don’t know if I do or not,” makes me wonder if this is not about cheating (on purpose, for advantage) but about people knowing there are curlers who aren’t careful about this rule who can be strategically caught. George Brett with the pine tar, if you will.

Curling is like soccer if you could have a fairly easy shot on goal where if you miss, then instead of you getting a point your opponent gets four points.

Figure skater after falling in most important moment of career: despondent, miserable, suffering Freestyle skier after falling in most important moment of career: THAT’S OKAY DUDES WOOOOOOOOOOO

CUUURRRRRLINGGGGG!! I assume the thinking behind that concession is that getting three is impossible if the other team can just let you get two?

She calls this “creative nonfiction”; it is not. And the fact that not every reader even understood it was fictional means something in the presentation of it went horribly wrong.

I don’t think it’s who Castellanos is, but I feel like there’s an opportunity for a very good Presidente beer commercial. You know. “Worth risking everything.”

I don’t know whether what happened to Malinin is rightly filed under yips (…yet, unfortunately), but I suspect the same is true of a one-off like this that’s true of the yips in general: It remains very mysterious why exactly this happens. Yes, pressure, sure. But!

MPR is full of so many great Minnesotans that I get to be proud of them twice.

I am not always on board with complaints that something in a headline should have been put this way instead of that way, but “their story falls apart” is much too soft for me in this case. One’s story does not gently fall apart like a popsicle stick house. And that’s not what gets you suspended.

I do think the decision to skate to yourself talking is … curious. I like the kid! But that particular thing plays a little Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping for me.

Obviously that’s a huge upset, but I wish we could have gotten a little more of the winning part and not had it treated like a funeral.

The way the Olympics works is exactly like this: one of the worst days of one kid’s life is one of the best days of somebody else’s.

Soooooooo … gold medal to the guy who was just planting seeds for the next Olympic cycle?

A book coming this week that I really liked: MURDER AT 30,000 FEET, by Susan Walter. I love a locked-room murder mystery, and a murder on a plane in flight totally works. Fun, lively, plays fair with clues and rules.

It is I, the Emerald Fennell liker! (I loved this conversation with Glen, Soraya and Barrie; it’s the kind that makes me still love doing the show after so many years.)

“Hmm, I’m looking to make a heavily gendered snotty comment about a female captain; maybe I should invoke a different female captain for cover!” Whether it’s actresses who play captains, or it’s lawyers or doctors or moms or writers or athletes, I can assure you: Women know this trick, dude.

Yay Banner!

This also came up in very similar language in the now-famous “this job sucks, please find me in contempt so I can sleep” hearing. The judge was kind of like, “When you say it’s a lot of work to follow due process, you realize I kind of don’t care, yes?” But said it nicer.

I really would be interested to see somebody try to statistically wrap their arms around the scope of this current losing streak compared to how the federal government usually fares in court. It seems like it’s kind of snowballing.

I had honestly not thought about one of the angles in this (very good) postmortem: Some of the guys may have been frustrated he wasn’t benched *more*, which they read as giving in to him being a baby about it.

Man, what?

So this was him being just as foolish as everybody figured. I hope he has a good run wherever he goes next. It was time to bring all this to a close.

We’ll always have this.

I’m sure it’s not true that if you’re the guy on the bottom you just kind of hold your breath and hope the guy who can see doesn’t crash the sled, but I feeeeeel like it is

There are quite a few exclamation points in this opinion, including: (1) “Horsefeathers!” and (2) “Please! That is not the law.” Yes, that is a “please” as in “puh-leeze.” Strange times we’re living in.

❤️🤞🏻Minnesota 🤞🏻❤️ 🧤🧣🧦 💪

I joined Morning Edition this morning to talk about James Van Der Beek.

On top of everything else I find impressive about Olympic curlers, I’m consistently amazed by their ability to sweep and maneuver and slide around without bumping the rocks. Quite a lot of quick feet and balance.

If it's political to honor war dead, presumably there's an opposing political position, which I suppose is that they do not deserve to be remembered? So if you die in a war rather than some other way, to mourn you is controversial? I really hate this.

Oh MAN, the Monday forecast says 47 degrees and raining, BRING IT ON! Eat it, snowcrete! You are about to be vanquished entirely!

It’s the absolute tiniest credit he has but we once asked him to record a tiny little joke for us about a fake podcast he hosted with John, and he was not only game and charming, and not only acted the shit out of it, he came up with the tag at the end. (At 3:30) youtu.be/5xnZ_CeTqyM

I forgot to say it earlier today, so: CUUUURRRRRRLIIIIIINNGGGGGGG!!

You can also find him on YouTube, where he does stuff like evaluate accents in movies. He’s very cool to listen to.

Well, I’m officially the person at least some people want to tell when they read that a Phillies pitcher had a rib removed and is keeping it in his closet. So I’m doing something right.

🎶 Let him goooooooo Let him gooooooo 🎶 I think Nick can still do good work for somebody. But this limbo situation needs to end for everybody.

Unsurprisingly, this from Dave is lovely.

“Everything I offer of value is present in this boring clip” is not something I would eagerly admit.

Using AI on Notepad is like … I don’t know, carpeting the room your water heater is in. You do not need to do it, and all you do is create more opportunities for something bad to happen.

This is well-said. The Beek is part of why there was TWoP, and that’s a big part of why I have the career I have and a bunch of my friends. And if he grew tired of the “Dawson was annoying” part of his legacy, to his credit, he never showed it. He made jokes about it. And that’s all you can ask.

Okay I didn’t know there were ten ends in these matches, that was a rude awakening.

And, like a lot of unexpected actors, creepy as hell on SVU. Too young.

Gaaaaaaaah

He … he kept the rib? Like kept it? Kept it kept it? What … for?

As someone who one sat through a lot of legislative hearings at the state level, I cannot overstate how absolutely bizarre it is that she speaks to House members at a House hearing in this way.