#lastfourwatched before I go watch a slate of Looney Tunes tomorrow morning Hara Kiri is really an all-time stunner.

I was dying at the post a while back after the USMNT lost 4-1 where someone said “Mamdani really saw the US performance and mandated 24 hour soccer” lol

Issue 20 of my newsletter, This, Not That, will mail later today. It’s a commonplace book issue on vagueness, obscurity, uncertainty, wandering in a fog. (Influenced, perhaps, by the hideous obscuring smoke covering my city.) Sign up and look out for it in your email soon!

Operation Fourthmeal

Was unaware Royal Farms sold cheese fries. This changes everything

One of my favorite audiobook narrators now! She also lost a job on Fuller House because she once made fun of Kirk Cameron for being a bigot. Wins all around.

The Life of David Gale, by a country mile

Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer.

Once I asked a student if they had heard of it, I think they said something like “oh yeah, I think old people are on it?” I just told them not to worry about it 👍

I think a #BringThemBack campaign would be successful (and morally correct)

Important: Thick plume of smoke expected to reach DC area by Friday, with probable CODE RED, unhealthy air quality. Folks vulnerable to particle pollution should limit time outside, wear N95 mask. Best bet stay inside w/ windows closed, AC running. Details: www.capitalweather.com/wildfire-smo...

To me, any Democrat who runs for President and doesn't begin by promising to fire everyone at ICE on week 1, cannot be taken seriously about anything else.

like running in a greenhouse

“‘Critical moments always show you who your friends are,’ the old man piped, with a handshake that felt like a live sardine.” - what an amazing simile, Cortázar lol

I woke up early to go on a longer run and the heat index is 80 degrees at 6am.l

Damn — no joke, I’ve already spent a good bit of this summer listening to the 120 Minutes archive on TIDAL. Such a perfect zeitgeist.

when she’s right, she’s right

I’ve been thinking of doing a replay of Kentucky Route Zero, a game that haunts you. It’s time to reify my bluesky handle

Literally just got a Double Gulp of Diet Coke, for free with my gold membership. That’s a dollar and a pound bargain

Cover by Sam Savitt. #WesternComicsMonth

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways

📍 The Dark Pit ⭐⭐⭐ Busier than it usually is at this time of day. People usually spend less than 5 minutes here.

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Oh no, I love Sam Neill. Wonderful actor and just a superb dude. I loved his social media updates from his farm. RIP you beautiful man.

Actor Sam Neill had that idea when he played an Australian astronaut in the film "Event Horizon" (1997) set in 2047. He asked for that design, saying he thought by 2047 Australia would celebrate its Indigenous history. #InvasionDay

Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

I always love the immediate draft takes from Royals-fans-who-hate-the-Royals, some variation of "Aside from Bobby Witt Jr. who has this front office ever drafted?!" Aside from the generational talent some think is our best player since George Brett, sure. Leave him out of the conversation.

one I think easy-to-add feature @bsky.app should add is a way to toggle "people you follow" when you do a search. It was like one of the extremely few cool things about Twitter

david lynch’s daughter jennifer says a criterion box set “will soon exist” www.reddit.com/r/criterion/...

I feel like they dull the crowd noise too much on these Fox broadcasts

Getting the full Royals experience at our annual OPACY pilgrimage

Inventing a conspiracy theory that the royals are waiting to fire Q so they can replace him with Salvy

I really like the phrase “a reality to be supported,” I feel like it would be healthy if we thought of more things that way.

RIP. An early-'70s crush with one of the all-time great names in TV. And yes, it was real. His actual name was Randy Mantooth, which is...just...impossible. I wonder if he ever got my fan letter. www.tvinsider.com/1274911/rand...

Genuinely evil. “Abolish” is the absolute floor.

It’s heartening to see representation of your full self in the media

Samuel L. Jackson : the snakes in Snakes on a Plane :: our cat Freddy : the birds at our bird feeder

When I worked as a traveling admissions counselor in Kansas and Nebraska in the early oughts, the prevailing wisdom was “Usually the high school is on the north side of town, you’ll be fine.” Still I had a binder full of printed Mapquest routes.

Is there any actual way to get democratic campaign text messages to stop?

It's interesting that the recent Atlantic article on how little America reads didn't even consider the recent Pew research on the topic, which says that 75% of Americans read a book last year. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

“18 years old; his first World Cup — yeah that adds up

Wow that was a heck of a save there by the Moroccan goalkeeper

When Fred Astaire sang a bit of verse to Ginger and then reached out his hand and whirled her into the dance, that dance and their whole series of dances together were the most exquisite courtship rites the screen has ever known. (1969)

'Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Bizzy Bone, Flesh-n-Bone and Wish Bone from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony pose on their newly unveiled star during their Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony'

think we could get 60 new paid subscribers in the next 60 minutes? 👀 thehandbasket.co/upgrade

Me Too did not go far enough.

Huge turnout tonight for a protest over ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday Magnolia Park, Houston. Video is from my colleague Macy Meinhardt, who is not on Bluesky but is on the scene.