Might ask for dispensation for Pig’s Eye

So many. Spicer Pelican Rapids Walker Northome Greenbush

With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.

MINNESOTA LOCALITIES THAT SOUND LIKE THEY COULD HAVE BEEN NAMED BY HOBBITS:

Guess we’re gonna see what it’s like to shovel snow at age 51

Foggy Frozen Mississippi River

Another oddity found while unpacking: a 1968 Pogo for President button. Being 1968, it's a Vietnam-related slogan: "Up the down escalation!"

Mannnnnnnn, the Lexington

wait when did that become the basic duty of a public artist

If you've never heard the 1993 album "Friday Night Is Killing Me" by Bash & Pop, Tommy Stinson's post-Replacements band, here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WeU...

man i bet the interior of matt taibbi's brain is a fun and wholesome place

DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin! DORIAN: Can I hide it? DEVIL: Well, yes, but— DORIAN: And there are no other consequences? DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul! DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.

you will not find a more guarded coast anywhere

By all accounts, a great retrospective of Kerry James Marshall's work. From London, it moves on to Zurich and Paris, but apparently not Chicago, his home city. There is a catalogue, though. wapo.st/4sgCyji

Britain: oh crap are we really going to have to do a nuclear war plan against the Americans France: oh yay we get to dust off our nuclear war plans against the Americans

man, *these* Wilco shows are what I think of when I think of seeing them live; that was a great period

Here’s to 2026

late to the party, but that Dyani White Hawk show at the Walker is even better than its reputation

Funny and cool to me that Pendleton leans into this

there's a thing that's been true since Day 1 of the Podcasting Era: the best stuff, maybe the only stuff worth your time, is always going to be DIY shows put on by independent people pursuing their interests. And those people aren't pivoting to video.

yes

True story

-posted 35 kraken busters updates -played the best sequence of rock shows in my life -hatched a pretty cool new band concept that should start cooking soon -made a crazy baked rigatoni thing

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Purple Haze in Armatage.

One of the greatest NBA players was drafted during a friggin Taco Bell commercial and he still making joaks abt it. #Legend

spent a while looking at genealogy stuff, seeing once again that I must be related to like everyone in northwest Germany

Birthday gifts: sort of a reverse tontine, if you think about it

at 50 years old (for about 6 more hours), I recognize that our bodies change with age and that's ok and the sane thing is to make your peace with it and try to live well with your body as it is at your age

Maybe it’s just that I have a cold, but I feel like I’m getting a much bigger than usual instance of thinking “what the fuck are you talking about?” when I see some Noted Things Knower’s multistage thread about How Things Are Now today

Virtually everybody involved in American politics accepts the implicit premise that that Republican voters are owed deference while Democratic voters exist on sufferance.

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/

Pair of cars just shot up Wentworth doing at least 70, that’s fun

Theory: CVS and Walgreens are the punishment afterlives of two different but closely related religions

2 threads of discourse I've seen recently: 1. dipshits saying that military history is the only subtype that matters, and that there's no need for soft, femme-coded cultural history 2. dipshits saying America doesn't need immigrants because it produced Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and that's enough

New mini art project: to get back into ink on paper and recapture my old cartoon-y style, I’ll draw some Deadwood characters. First up: Dan Dority

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

One thing I know already: this is not a pedal you play chords through

In one of my standard states, trying to figure out if an idea is brilliant or terrible

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

folks, it's core season

OK! for a holiday thing I need to have a bunch of youtube-accessible fun/funny videos. Don't have to involve animals but that never hurts. If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears

a genre can be well-established and still generate masterpieces

Look if everyone is going to talk about a K-shaped economy, I feel like that should benefit me somehow

When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.

oh no the spheres are back

"I did not hit her, I did NAHT. Oh hi Grimace!"

I wonder if Luthen and Kleia decorate the shop for Life Day

The Princess Bride: as good as it was in 87

Bet the reflected light on the lake looks stupendous in person