one thing about this Chris Fleming profile I forgot to mention: it contains an embedded out-of-focus video of an iPod playing a recording of his high school jazz band drum solo, which he convinced a band teacher to let him do despite never before playing drums www.vulture.com/article/chri...

spent an afternoon with bridgerton's yerin ha www.vulture.com/article/brid...

This is a terrific read on one of the most original voices in comedy right now. If we mourn WBD getting swallowed up into a sweaty conglomerate for freaks, we may as well celebrate that Fleming has an HBO special

i profiled comedian chris fleming whose new special is out tomorrow and who is a real delight to attempt to describe www.vulture.com/article/chri...

am catching up on Outlander bad news, claire invented ether and now she's addicted to ether

i profiled comedian chris fleming whose new special is out tomorrow and who is a real delight to attempt to describe www.vulture.com/article/chri...

arrived at the office today locked and loaded to derail everyone else's work day (discussion of which pokemon would be on the epstein list)

imagining several weeks of detailed focus groups on consumer sentiment but instead of politics or the economy it’s just asking people from Dec until now how they feel about hockey

concerned that I have looked inside myself to look for despair about the new snow, but instead have found yawning void sure, we live in the forever winter now, that tracks

I understand that the most inane form of conversation is “oh that reminds me of a tiktok” but I saw a TikTok yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it IS THE DOWNBEAT AT THE BEGINNING OR NOT (surely it’s a pickup!?!?) www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xraqr6/

I HAVE COORDINATED THE ENTIRE SUMMER'S WORTH OF VARIOUS INTERLOCKING CAMP SCHEDULES KNEEL BEFORE ME

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have received the snow cancellation call again, i bear responsibility for this and i pledge to do better

I would like to apologize to the ny metro area about the snow storm this week I typed “well at least there’ll be a full week of school” into a work DM I am sorry

have had a nice time playing this game which is allegedly a kid-friendly detection game however in the case we just did we ended up interviewing a raven who snarkily noted that there are 13 ways to look at a blackbird, and I think the 10+ age rating may be ambitious iellogames.com/games/animal...

after a canceled train and much frustration, the commuter’s dream has come true for me a teen sitting directly behind me has declared to her friend that a third teen, not present, “was being SO extra at the audition” nj transit giveth, nj transit taketh away

suddenly insulted by the AI autocomplete suggestion that just popped up in this google doc asshole, what about the last several thousand words made you think that this was the sort of thing that would now start a paragraph with "In conclusion..."

always love doing WGA panels; do need to note that someone in the audience began a q&a question by saying that i looked "bobbed and dangerous" and it was one of the most thrilling moments of my life

do I need to learn what clavicular is

11yo, exasperated while looking over my shoulder in the orthodontist waiting room, has seized my laptop and begun organizing my tabs into groups

epstein email story went from horror to disgust to exhaustion to how did this man even carve out the time for the horrible crimes in between correspondence

A SCOURGE

how your email finds me

not sure if I will update this when part 2 drops but let me tell you, there are things that I could add

my current form of short form video self soothing is watching puppy temperament testing just nice people rolling balls around for a puppy and then making careful notes like “good prey drive” and “less food motivated than rest of litter”

a lesson i will never learn is if you complain enough in your work slack about how ridiculous it is for a regency era character to shuffle through a stack of miniature portraits like a collection of pokemon cards, eventually someone will make you blog www.vulture.com/article/brid...

now that Bowen is gone who will be a bad bunny grass performer on SNL

thrilling discovery that both members of the US mixed doubles curling team are named Cory/Korey

suspect that this large note i have in my outline for bluey book edits is actually a note a made for a different project entirely but ... honestly not sure? (note reads: LORNE MICHAELS)

yes I do have a problem where I buy sayers editions whenever I see them and yes the cover of one of these does sort of spoil the mystery, and I love mass market paperbacks so much 😭

8yo, watching Lindsay Vonn announce that she will compete despite tearing her ACL: what is up with injuries this week! I got two paper cuts and a fifth grader is on CRUTCHES

Olympic presenters will be like, and of course this skater no longer has feeling in her leg and her calf muscles do not work but she’s here today! and we all know she won’t medal obviously

Strong linear opening for Disney's THE MUPPET SHOW. It was Wednesday's No. 1 show among A18-49 (0.52)/A25-54 (0.69) across broadcast and cable, tripling the final installment of THE GOLDEN BACHELOR in the slot last fall. It averaged 3.1M same-day viewers, improving on ABBOTT (2.8M) lead-in

let me take you on an incredible voyage 1) there is an upcoming peacock show in which elizabeth banks is matthew macfadyen's wife 2) but ... she's tiny, whoops, he's a scientist who accidentally made her tiny 3) it's called the miniature wife 4) there is a penultimate flashback episode

oh my god OH MY GOD

the direct, self-deprecating desperation of ending the new Muppet Show special (designed to be a fingers-crossed pilot for future continued production) with a big group number to "Don't Stop Me Now" that's EXACTLY THE MUPPETS, BABY

the office "they're the same picture" dot jpg

“it’s okay to relapse when things are stressful and journalism is collapsing around you,” i tell myself as i hit play on an episode of The Bulwark. “you can start fresh again tomorrow”

Team resources is why worker-owned media collectives are so important. It's not gonna fix everything, especially the problem of readers only having so much cash, but everyone can't go it alone.

“the feeling in the newsroom is that the way they’ve handled this is like some kind of sick psychological warfare," a washington post reporter tells cjr. www.cjr.org/news/layoffs...

the orthodontist has a tv in the waiting room that apparently only plays obscure sporting events so far this month (yes my kids are at the orthodontist a lot) we’ve had: cliff diving, long distance biking, a snowboarding event, and today, the qatar airlines premier padel ball finals in barcelona

the suburban nj equivalent of this is an already congested school drop off loop that now seems completely plausible as the soon-to-be setting for a crime procedural cold open

me: how was your day? 8yo: we had a sub today but he was really nice and it’s NOT HIS FAULT that he looks like Sonic the Hedgehog’s enemy

i'm sorry, i understand a country that relies on puxatawny phil has no leg to stand on here but SHUBENACADIE SAM?

okay wait the US groundhog says more winter but the canadian groundhog said early spring is this like a polymarket groundhog situation

do other countries have holidays where they haul some unsuspecting feral animal out of its burrow and use it to predict the future or is that just an us thing

this is so much like a bluesky chotiner meme interview that i honestly thought it was fake for a minute

have spent all day muttering “thanks for joining us for this hour of bug music”

public radio needs to always exist because otherwise how will you turn on your car radio after dropping your friend off at the train at 11:56pm and hear 3 minutes of droning atonal music, followed by a smooth-voiced announcer saying “thanks for joining us for this hour of bug music”

very fast, very sad thoughts about a legend ❤️ www.vulture.com/article/cath...