Baritown Steely Don thinks CBS was too Deacon blue, but night fly Bari’s shift to MAGA pretzel logic and a quack Dr. Wu isn’t exactly reeling in the viewers. How long till kid Dokoupil gets the news, drinks his Big Black Cow, and gets out of here? by Maureen Dowd

The Friday Flop:

biosolids are the dewatered sewage sludge removed from wastewater. known as cake, even these dewatered biosolids are still 70% water. cake is incinerated safely and efficiently, producing heat and steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity, and ALL the ash is beneficially reused locally.

What are your biggest "I saw that in the first run cinema" flexes? The Godfather This Is Spinal Tap Blue Velvet The Black Stallion Sorcerer Bram Stoker's Dracula FM (hey, win some lose some)

Always and forever 💙 Wishing a very happy birthday to the singular Laura Dern.

100 years ago this month, a new word entered dictionaries: smog A portmanteau between "smoke" and "fog," the Weather Bureau used it to describe conditions in the Midwest. Smog wasn't invoked in LA much till the '40s. But even in the '20s "smoke & fog" was a common phrase here.

When you read Kid Rock's lyrics your ass is gonna WISH that shit was in a foreign language.

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

Just your regular PSA that actor Vincent Price was cool as f*ck: Here he reads Native American student’s poetry in 1967 at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Price established the Vincent Price Awards in Creative Writing for Native students, a stipend that was in place

NARRATOR: They were not, in fact, vitamin pills.

in 2025 we treated more than 85 billion gallons of water, averaging about 85,000 gallons every 30 seconds. based on our estimated operating expenses last year, the cost of service to manage 30 seconds of flow is about $244 and some change. actual investment. actually interesting.

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Share this one if you've got more followers than me. I have 500 of them I gotta get rid of. → nobodyssweetheart.bigcartel.com

game tokens made for a #MadMen board game: two Peggys, two Petes, Don, Joan, Betty and Roger I've never made a 360 turnaround of these Mad Men characters, since they're meant to be "flat." I wonder if I could even do it #illustration

Trump has this condescending tic of overenunciating when he pushes a particularly big lie, as if he's telling a story to children and trying to hold their attention. He does it a lot in this clip.

Shirley Povich writing in 1962, with the most immaculate burn conceivable of the Redskins awful, vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo.

Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing. This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum. They formed over the last 1 million years. (📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)

Seed packet cabinet. 1940s instagram.com/p/CoXsT4II18S/

In the department of incredible pissiness -- the City has decided to invoice the church for an "inspection" carried out at our property the day after they cleared the encampment in October.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Catherine O'Hara as Lucille Ball and Martin Short as the kid from Deliverance.

Catherine O'Hara in 'I'll Die Loving', an episode of the short lived Twilight-Zone-y anthology series, Really Weird Tales. Starts at 30:00. With the great John Hemphill as Murvis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4QL...

RIP Catherine O'Hara. www.youtube.com/watch?v=liOt...

✊ Koyaanisqatsi: "crazy life", "life in turmoil", "life out of balance", "life disintegrating", "a state of life that calls for another way of living"

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Alex Pretti's former colleague remembers him for his empathy and enthusiasm for being in healthcare.

Tell me your great three album runs

Comics in the news.

If you press that button Francis Coppola drives to your home to watch with you.

Trump as Roomba is a beautiful analogy.

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

...how a fascist got into my pajamas I'll never know...

"I'm not letting you go to my 12-year-old birthday party, the one you said you weren't going to because your mean mom said to avoid me. SO THERE!!! Jokes on you, loser!!! Uninvited!!!!"

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Strike Walsenburg, CO

Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers Joni Mitchell Mary Margaret O'Hara Luscious Jackson Phoebe Snow Cibo Mato

Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers Blonde Redhead Pram Sharon Van Etten The Breeders Tanya Tagaq

yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Just a gorgeous sequence of moviemaking: The Girl Can't Help It ~ 1956 D: Frank Tashlin #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAq...

So many singers I respect raved about what a great singer she is and I never really got it (likely the register). Then I stumbled on Nine To Five slow and low and the lightbulb went off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfZ...