Wilson doesn’t know how to use a bed, part ???/???

Look, I hate him as much as the next guy, but Jance Dance Vance

Merry Mark E. Smithmas!

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

Slow whoop

Realized that the song London Calling gives a pretty good explanation of the hearsay rule: “London calling/Yes I was there too” Joe was there, so he can testify about what he saw and heard. Very good, likely admissible (as long as it’s relevant)

Once I was driving SB on College south of Kessler, and a group of motorcycles started passing me on the right, before reaching the cars parked in the far right lane. One biker cut it too close, and I saw him plow into a parked van. In my rear view, I saw his bike fly down the sidewalk without him

capybara listening to good music

The Phantom Menace opening night was up there, but A Serious Man might be it. Some dude in my row killed a bottle of white wine, got a second bottle and started drinking it, but threw up into the ice bucket and bounced. All before the previews ended.

Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences? Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.

It costs $0 to retweet this photo of Sy Ableman on the cover of Wife Magazine

Boilers fans: I respect you if you find a way to see beyond the rivalry and root for the Hoosiers and honor their historic achievement. I respect you even more if you hate them for it.

Hell yeah, happy for old Donnie

43 years ago old punk rock photos in color Probably the most famous photo of the Bad Brains, taken by the legendary Glen E. Friedman. HR with the Bad Brains, CBGB, December 1982. #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #hr #cbgb #history #punkrockhistory

II Menace II Society

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Charlie Brown

People who play videos on their phone speakers in public is a real pet peef of mine. One of my top ten pet peeves.

We don't really know how bicycles work.

I’ve seen this before: youtu.be/9f1mb76muDs?...

Dogs and dumps

Record collection reached 1000 (at least those that have been catalogued in Discogs, though it is likely that a handful escaped detection).

A Gooner at Gracie!

Bear is driving car. How can that be?!

Bones!

First time dressing up for Halloween in years. I’m going as a floor

Just realized how fucking lucky we are that Elizabeth Holmes was pure fraud and got caught. Imagine her pushing AI. Fucking nightmare

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

DENNIS

Never noticed it, but there’s a smiling volcano on the wall in the background. Interesting decor choice.

Let’s have more “pop corn” and less “cop porn”

(nodding) night corn

There’s a dog who pops up occasionally in my feed named Bruce who, in coloring and expression, looks like he just had a pie thrown at his face.

Greatly diminish a band: The Surviving Kennedy (Cuz it’s RFK Jr)

Me when the 2023 WNBA season ended: cool, my hometown team is getting the best prospect, adding to a roster that includes another recent #1 pick. This team will be fun to follow! Me now: the invention of basketball, nay, all sports—nay, human language, was a mistake.

Poptimism

The last two conversations I had with professors were either (1) at a Yo La Tengo concert or (2) about a Yo La Tengo concert

slipped multiple fall references into that first endless mode post

Gary Larson, Lump with Handle, 1982 @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social

Phish

I’m grateful to have gotten to talk with @mariannedhe.bsky.social for this story. In Illinois, the Protection and Advocacy agency was co-counsel on all 3 Olmstead cases, which compel the state to move people out of institutions and into communities. This is essential work--which Trump would gut.

In which the federal government cannot count to two and has to guess how many dogs it’s suing. My new favorite forfeiture caption.

According to sources, the Pacers still beat the Knicks last night after overcoming a 14 point deficit with 2:30 to go in the 4th quarter

My issue with British people saying zed isn’t that it’s different from what we do. It’s that it’s inconsistent. Should be bed, ced, ded, ed, etc.

Got to see some bands play loud guitar music last night. Kind of needed that.

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I hope the conclave didn’t pick Tyrese Halliburton. While that would be a tremendous accomplishment for him, it would make the remainder of the playoffs difficult for the Pacers

They shouldn’t let dogs get cancer. Just sayin

Murray Street (you might convince me on Rather Ripped) Real New Fall LP Bone Machine