Me: Hey, wanna hear something you’ll think is the craziest song ever? 9yo daughter: Craziest though? I bet it won’t be the *craziest*. Tom Waits: WELL THE MOON IS BROKEN AND THE SKY IS CRACKED 9yo daughter: You win.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Wake Up Dead Man review: •Easily the most emotionally satisfying Benoit Blanc mystery •Johnson remains not great at writing alt-right boogeymen •Beautifully shot in subtle, and when needed very unsubtle, ways •Flawless, inspired choice of outro/end credits music.

Well that’s bleak as hell.

The Google app notifications are misleading clickbait at the best of times, but this one (from 5 minutes ago!) really takes the cake.

6yo’s are terrible witnesses, but the first grader reports that a car caught fire at school yesterday—his teacher’s Tesla.

Wait so you *are* allowed to fire a sex pest coach? (Asking for UF men’s basketball.)

Oh, this is Gattaca, not adoption. Is that more horrifying or less?

It’s amazing how quickly the world changes. The 6yo is playing Madden and just said, “I’m going to play against the good teams—the Jaguars, the Bills, the Lions.”

God dammit Jalen Hurts.

Hey referees,

I thought an 8-team playoff would've been enough, I don't support going past 12, but one way or another, now that we're to a place where undefeated teams do not get left out, the only answer to any playoff 'snub' whining is "damn, you probably should've just won all your games"

Professor Myles Garrett, the Hakeem Olajuwon Chair for “Being So Good No One Questions That You Were Drafted Above an All-Time Great” Studies.

I continue to believe you don’t really have *that big* a gripe when we’re talking sneaking into the playoff at #10. But maaaaaaan they mucked it up this year.

Holy shit I can’t believe they did that. Never ever release mid season rankings ever again.

Hahahahahaha congrats to me and the 12 other people in the target audience for this week’s Elsbeth, a riff on Bill Belichick / Jordan Hudson at INC.

I much prefer the 12-team playoff, but this season would have had one of the clearest 4-team playoff fields we’ve seen (sorry, Oregon).

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaa

Virginia has to start on the 40? That’s a thing? I would have bet a bunch of money it wasn’t.

Everyone tuning into the ACC game now.

Is this what it was like when Steve Spurrier took the sport by storm with freaking *Florida* in the early 90s?

This is the greatest coaching accomplishment in North American sports this century.

Holy fucking shit. Hell yeah.

Do the freaking thing.

We’re watching the top 2 seeds tomorrow right now, aren’t we? Georgia 3, Tech 4.

Do it Hoosier. Do the thing.

Duke football to the ACC

The tickets were paid for, okay.

If the same school gets blown off the court by a 16 seed as the overall number 1, then loses to Duke in *football* to choke away a playoff bid, they are required to immediately disband the athletic department, right?

Hoosiers you will have lost the Mandate of Heaven if you punt here.

In the annals of lame 4th down tries, that was all-timer.

Even if they make it look close by the end, this remains a Jim-McElwain-at-UF level SECCG performance.

For the love of God please keep this team out of my playoff.

Excited for Alabama to make the playoff tomorrow on the justification that Georgia’s 30-point win in the SECCG makes Alabama’s 3-point win over Georgia in September even more impressive.

The football is good. And that is a touchdown. What a freaking catch.

What am I missing? How is Miami alive for the playoff? They’d have to jump ND or Alabama, and they won’t jump either in any universe?

Oh shut, the next episode of Pluribus is already out? Guess that means it’s bedtime for the kids.

I am listening to the Andy Serkis Lord of the Rings audiobook and it is a whole entire work of genius. The man is operating on another level. I could barely breathe during the Bridge of Khazad-Dum chapter, especially the end.

Why does he look like a cross between David Duchovny and Peyton Manning?

LOL. Our 9yo uses Adele’s 30 as lullaby music. I need music without lyrics to concentrate at work. And our kids went through a HUGE Imagine Dragons phase this year.

Is Pluribus a metaphor for internet hive mind? (Yes I am very dim so it took me like 5 episodes to start thinking about this)

Another update on the Andy Serkis LOTR audiobook. It’s beyond fantastic. Bridge of Khazad-Dum is a tour de force. A virtuoso in complete command of his instrument.

This hurts, Bill.

Julianne Moore gets me Children of Men, a Spielberg Jurassic Park movie, the best Coen bros movie, and 3 years of a top shelf soap.

I would say Mariota makes a super human effort to get the ball in the air on a game ending play so something could possibly happen—and the defender obliged by tackling the receiver before the ball got there.

Also starring the 2025 Broncos as the 2024 Chiefs.

Mariota is legitimately one of my 10 favorite NFL players.