Grateful to @defector.com for publishing a print version of my Replay Booth episode on a 61-year-old Mets mystery and for commissioning an illustration of Mr. Met with a pipe and magnifying glass defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

Richard Jeni Stuns In New Pics

We're doing this on Thursday night. Fun books, iconic bloggers, the type of German beers they serve in a big ceramic mug. Not a lot of sports, if we're being honest, but I'll ask Will about Jake Plummer or something.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

what if one of the strategies they settle on from this is "tormenting the actor michael rappaport"

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

I always got the best table at Elio’s at 5:30 sharp. Now I have to wait around like everyone else. Can’t even get decent food. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and got egg noodles and ketchup. I’m an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

I know it won't happen but a part of me I'm not proud of is absolutely fiending for stories of people who lived on the Upper East or Upper West Side of Manhattan, finally realized they were conservatives when Mamdani was elected, and now have to learn how to function in Jacksonville.

Lady you live in LA. I saw you at the rich people's grocery store here in the worst leather jacket I've ever seen

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

Enjoying an unhurried and delightful meal at The Table Of Success. My waiters keep bringing me off-menu amuse bouches "from the chef." Ah here comes another crudo. Sublime.

I'd vote against Cuomo a third time if I could

Every guy that did the Riyadh comedy festival: I personally thought everyone was gonna show up on a magic carpet and chop me in half but it turns out that they wear shirts

oh hey just gonna mention once more that @ryansimmons.bsky.social and I did a whole season of a podcast asking regular people about their experiences playing sports. It's subscriber-only, but we made the first episode with @jonbois.bsky.social available to everyone

Enthusiasm level update: the woman handing out Cuomo flyers on the corner said “you can just throw it away if you want”

my guy @joshuablevin.bsky.social has started a new sports history podcast and newsletter, Replay Booth, that i know is going to become my new obsession. If you loved the Slow Burn and One Year podcasts, just know that Josh was the head and heart of those series. www.replaybooth.show?r=bivu&utm_c...

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

a send-off: defector.com/dick-cheney-...

This doofus simply loves to say "guess what." Classic style of dumb guy.

"Hott—shockingly— answered 'No' when asked if he agreed 'agree that it's unconstitutional to arrest people for being opposed to Midway Blitz?' Similarly, Bovino testified that he has instructed his officers to arrest protesters who make hyperbolic comments in the heat of political demonstrations"

I wrote about what the Dodgers do and what makes great teams great. defector.com/the-dodgers-...

watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people this is my story about how they did it

It sounds like an exaggeration that I read most things John publishes immediately and say to myself "yet another banger," but that is what I actually do. You too can live in this glorious reality. Subscribe to Flaming Hydra.

We put up a post on Patreon for all $3 members and up to post suggestions about how to make a live show better, as well as a Discord server for Christmastown members. Drop by, give us an earful.

Just want to get on the record that I have not seen anybody of that name commit any sort of crime, felony or otherwise

Getting hit in the chest from point blank range with a footlong sub and an enormous Peckinpah-style squib of sweet onion teriyaki sauce explodes from my chest.

The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.

last blog of the baseball season is about Max Scherzer, who connects me to a version of myself I otherwise barely remember defector.com/living-and-d...

not that you can trust nomenclature (competitive balance tax, for example) all the time, but one way you know a salary cap's purpose isn't to level the playing field is because it's called a salary cap. it's purpose is to cap salaries.

Apart from anything else it's so funny to whine about other people having parasitical email jobs when you are the head of the think tank whose job is to develop the official Nazi Party platform

I find it immensely heartening that so many normal people are seeing and defying the obscenity of what ICE/CBP is trying to do in Chicago, but stories like this also make clear how much more disciplined those people are than the state violence worker guys. www.reuters.com/world/us/wer...

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

We live in the most evil country in the world.

"We have a great product that really works. Now to find a spokesman and aesthetic that's synonymous with 'feeling and being chill.'"

Recency bias notwithstanding, I feel like Vladito and Yamamoto are two of the most astonishing sustained postseason performances I've ever seen. I'm sure Madison Bumgarner has a case but I don't want care to think about him at this moment. I'd rather think about the cool guys.

addison barger is the name of a girl that bullied me in middle school

Norm might've spoken this into existence, it's his fault

Blake Treinen in the bullpen watching a six-hour YouTube video about chemtrails and who REALLY profits from weather modification on his phone. This is part of his process. He can't give up three straight doubles unless he's in the right mindset.

Hooting with delight every time the camera finds Max Scherzer in the dugout making one of the facial expressions that George C. Scott made in Dr. Strangelove at the maximum possible intensity.

Chris Bassitt turning into Andrew Miller is a fun development. No one has ever enjoyed being on the Mets less than him, and there is a lot of competition there. He spent a whole (mostly very good) year there looking like someone who just got terrible news about a beloved pet.

Reuploading a classic to Bluesky, Forgive me god.

Saw a good number of kids with what I can only describe as "suburb-grade" candy hauls out there. Big ol' trash bags full of stuff. New York City is back. (Also a kid on a skateboard who seemed to be dressed as Luigi, but that might just be how Gen Alpha dresses.)

Accidentally going as this guy for Halloween for the 22nd consecutive day. theonion.com/mr-autumn-ma...

I will be at this. It should be a good time despite that.

My cousin-in-law Lisa Bjorkman has a new book (“The Drama of Democracy”) and I saw her give a great talk on it today. Lovely, deep stuff. On how citizens read politics as a dramatic performance. Political science meets performance studies. manifold.umn.edu/projects/bjo...

insane reverb in here…..farts sounding like a shotgun

You’d never catch one of these coddled kids nowadays “working in the lab late one night.” And the only thing their eyes are beholding is their damn phone

I kept meaning to write a horror movie blog for October and didn't do it, but I will use Shout! Factory putting a crisp new cut of Exorcist III: Legion on YouTube as an excuse to recirculate this 2023 bit about that singular franchise, and my favorite installment of it. defector.com/all-this-ble...

BOO: @annamerlan.bsky.social walks the "cemetery belt" on the Brooklyn/Queens border. "For years, visitors flocked to Houdini’s grave by the thousands every Halloween to pay their respects" flaminghydra.com/issue-433/#c...