A favorite shaggy dog story ends in “The beer that made Mel Famy walk us”. Alas.

Become ungovernable.

Slightly increase a band. Medium Feat

That's the nap siren: time for your nap

@evelynjlamb.bsky.social if he’s gonna solve 50+ years of cursed hockey he’s gonna have to learn how to spell his name correctly first

@hollyanderson.bsky.social I’m probably the umpteenth person to tag you on this but more Tom Lehrer lore for us to gawk at

@normcharlatan.bsky.social makes me and apparently others proud to live here

Team Matt wins again

Good morning from the Iowa All-Day Singing in Des Moines www.sacredharpiowa.org

My 4th PTKU #CharitibundiBowl donation to edsbscharitybowl.com is in honor of the 2016 CWRU squad, with QB coach Dave DiCarlo, one of my favorite teachers at Heights High. CWRU beat WashU with 435 rushing yards because if you’re the QB coach, you run the ball. obits.cleveland.com/us/obituarie...

Our third PTKU #CharitibundiBowl donation is in honor of the undefeated 1984 CWRU team, quarterbacked by Fred DiSanto, who lettered in 3 sports all 4 years. The team was not invited to the NCAA Division III playoffs, despite beating qualifier Washington & Jefferson 34-16 on the road in October.

Keep up the good work Team Matt #Mattiverse

Time to get our act together, folks

Proud to live in the state of Norm

@jonmarthaler.com www.azcentral.com/story/news/l... cricket in the news

My second PTKU #CharitibundiBowl donation is in honor of the CWRU victory over CMU in Oct 74 22-15 resulting in the headline of the Observer of “Spartans Slice Mellon”. newspapers.case.edu?a=d&d=OBS197... CWRU beat CMU only 2x in the 70s, and went winless after this game for almost two years.

Team Matt in the lead at the #CharitibundiBowl let’s keep up the good work

Iowa friends: see you Saturday at the sacredharpiowa.org all day singing in Des Moines

My first PTKU #charitibundibowl donation is for $28.14 in honor of WRU defeating Case on 11/15/69, 28-14, two years after the schools merged to form CWRU, eading the student paper to write this story “How Can You Lose When You Play With Yourself?" newspapers.case.edu?a=d&d=OBS196... Go Team Matt!

Tony Kornheiser raved about Jeni’s Key Lime Pie ice cream on his podcast this week; my local Whole Foods stocks 11 other kinds of Jeni’s but not that one. If you see it, ping me.

Schadenfreude: forked over a quarter so i could read the Dallas Morning News coverage of tonight’s Wild game.

Team Matt is preparing

@realfollowers.bsky.social whatever

GenX, pour one out for one of the architects of our childhood www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

@randballsstu.bsky.social tell the @thesportive.com fact checking crew and @jonmarthaler.com that it was not Lake Erie that burned, it was the Cuyahoga River m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVNu...

Nap siren in Ramsey County, reminding you it’s time for your nap

Concert report: JD Simo and Luther Dickinson at the Dakota were a lot of fun, and the short rib ravioli was scrumptious

Berlin is close to the top of my Sacred Harp bucket list. I got to sing with quite a few of those folks in Bremen a few years ago.

Ig Nobel prize winning dairy scientist. Dr Ely in 2024 for Biology. www.newscientist.com/article/2447...

Cleveland Heights!

I’ve rooted against Hilary Knight every time Boston (and now Seattle) has visited Minnesota. But I am the biggest Hilary Knight fan ever.

My hometown, my home neighborhood… I grew up a ten minute walk from the restaurant, and went to the junior high school adjacent to Laila’s elementary school. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Over its 50+ year run, Doonesbury has almost never been funny, but it is occasionally prescient. This strip from 1970 shows how long we've expected too much from AI.

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS!

NIMBY, but make it antifascist

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS!!! apologies to @normcharlatan.bsky.social for stealing his bit

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We’re singing in St Paul

We are shape note singing this weekend, 930 to 3 on Saturday in St Paul. Pop in for a bit and join us… we have loaner books. mnfasola.org?page_id=170

Elizabeth Cook, Rhett Miller, Courtney Barnett

Subscription recommendation: Midwest Excellence by @randballsstu.bsky.social cogent, funny, and heartfelt words about life here. And dumb sports stuff. midwest-excellence.ghost.io/midwest-exce...

We are shape note singing this weekend, 930 to 3 on Saturday in St Paul. Pop in for a bit and join us… we have loaner books. mnfasola.org?page_id=170

G. Love and Special Sauce maybe 1997?

I’ve been eating at Tommy’s since it opened, and visit at least twice whenever I’m back in Cleveland Heights. And when a 99 year old friend asked for me to procure a milkshake for my visit an hour away on a 90 degree day, they cheerfully packed it up for me. www.foodandwine.com/cleveland-re...

1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, "Ohio." 2026, Bruce Springsteen, "Streets of Minneapolis." This is true patriotism.

Board game weekend deep in the Wisconsin woods. This year’s “new game” is from 1962: “Squatter” about sheep ranching in the outback

"To clear up any confusion: YES, I’m real, YES, you’re getting paid, NO, this isn’t a hastily written humor bit. The president confirmed it, and there is no greater source of truth and reason than him."

It’s real that struggling businesses are taking the hit today for expressing solidarity with the victims of ICE slavecatchers. So for those with means, I declare the weekend Spent That Shit Saturday and Sunday at their shops and eateries to provide them some instant payback. #spendthatshit

today in the reformer — you really can't overstate how ubiquitous anti-ICE actions are in the twin cities right now