A fun MapTap today, featuring Newark Ohio’s own Jerrie Mock, the first woman to fly around the world. www.maptap.gg April 17 99🎯 99🎯 98🎯 98🔥 94🏅 Final score: 970

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

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there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

While cooking dinner I listened to a podcast about Henry VIII and how right up until Pope Clement VII officially refused to annul his marriage no one thought the split would actually happen. Didn’t expect to feel so relevant when I logged back on here just now.

Rydström’s clearly getting desperate

Good, there’s plenty of options. He’s not needed or wanted.

One thing that I really appreciate with the Artemis mission is it looked and felt like a NASA mission. The capsule was a NASA capsule and not designed to look cool to a billionaire. Even the splashdown with the striped parachutes is NASA heritage.

Obviously she’s a terrible person for a laundry list of reasons but the First Lady is also a genuine weirdo (value neutral). She consistently makes such bizarre choices on everything. Who else would even think of those Christmas decorations?

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

At least it’s poppy season

Don’t want to alarm anyone but I just saw some sort of rough beast slouching down the road. Not sure where it’s headed. It’s probably fine?

If you need something to watch today you could do a lot worse than the Rick Steves Iran episode. It’s free on YouTube (as are almost all of his shows) “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” Mark Twain

I’ve watched a ton of Apollo mission documentaries and they all talk about how a lot of people felt ambivalence if not hostility to the missions. I totally get it now. I haven’t felt as excited as I should and that clip of Trump talking to the Artemis astronauts isn’t helping.

Who said journalism is dead?

Racking up parent points by taking the first born to see Mitski at Hollywood High School tonight. Feel like there’s a decent chance I’m the oldest person there.

I’m always unclear what I, a Bluesky user is supposed to be doing to “fix” Bluesky. I’m sure users are down, but the only solution these guys ever posit is “stop being mean to Atlantic writers” and I refuse to do that on principle.

It’s Good Friday, remembering the time years ago we drove past a big cross on a hill and the youngest (about 5 at the time) asked “what is a cross for? Is it…” We could tell she had a guess but was hesitating so we encouraged her to just say it. “Is it…to keep… vampires away?”

Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz

You’re smart, maybe even a little nerdy. People are always asking “how did you know that?” and say, “you should be on Jeopardy!” Finally you try out and make it, you tell your friends and family. Then you run into a buzzsaw named Jamie and get absolutely smoked. That’s a tough flight home.

Become an astronaut, they said. Experience the romance of space flight, they said

Look, I’m no fan and I’ve had my criticisms of him in the past but I have to hand it to trump, he laid out a coherent and long term strategy on Iran tonight. You can tell he really has a grasp on the issues. I’m sure this will all be over by Easter.

This attempt at stripping birthright citizenship from the plain text of the 14th amendment is of course racist and a perversion of this country’s history and ideals. But it’s also really fucking stupid. These morons don’t have a leg to stand on and they’re literally making it up as they go. Fuck ‘em

I know I know, but seriously, we needed this rain. It’s been weeks.

With 3 games left until the World Cup a couple quick questions for the USMNT… What’s the formation? Who is the starting GK? Starting CB pair/trio? Is lack defensive urgency from attitude or confusion? Who takes set pieces? Our best midfield? Why is Balo so isolated? But these are quibbles

Dolores Huerta Day has been an official city holiday in Burbank since 2023. It’s pretty cool and I hope it spreads, especially now.

Really enjoying Filmspotting Madness 2026 and their 1940s movie bracket. Some impossible decisions in Round 2 even as I vote to bust my own prediction bracket. www.filmspotting.net/madness32

Saw an older guy with a “BRING BACK THE GUILLOTINE” sign this afternoon at ours.

I’m not complaining, lineup makes sense but I find it hilarious the USMNT had to hire an expensive big name coach just to play a 4-2-3-1 in 2026. Innovative

Having now heard 30 seconds of it I gotta say, the Jelly Roll World Cup song is great. Perfectly captures the rancid vibes of this half assed cash grab. Can’t wait to slowly lose my mind hearing it during every commercial break this summer.

Obviously they should just fly into Denver or Salt Lake, but 90 across SD is underrated, you get the Corn Palace, Badlands, Wall Drug, Rushmore, see Devil’s Tower in WY, then take 191 down from MT. If they cut out NM, they could take 70 back. Not that crazy.

Memorial Day 2002, at 1 in the morning a buddy and I decided to drive the 5 hours to watch a Cubs double header. Walked up to the ticket booth and got front row seats behind the on deck circle for like $30. In game 2 Wood struck out 8 and hit a HR. That was a great day.

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.” Ernest Hemingway Happy Opening Day

We were talking about a movie and I said “Last time I watched it, Netflix mailed me the dvd” and my sciatica immediately started acting up.

Watched The Mastermind tonight. A Vietnam War set art heist, where things start to go awry from the start. People keep telling JB (Josh O’Connor) “you haven’t thought this through” and they’re right! Feels very timely with the Vietnam parallels. O’Connor is fantastic, what a year for him.

Have you made a plan for when it happens? Have you designated someone in a different time zone to call if it happens in the middle of the night? Have you googled “bars open late near me?” Have a bottle of bubbly in the fridge? If you stay ready you don’t have to get ready.

My dad’s never been one for directly doling out lots of advice, but “never brag about something you ‘almost’ did” is one of the few pieces that’s stuck with me. There’s always a reason not to speak up or out, you don’t get credit for deciding to chicken out.

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“A vast and legless trunk of stone Stands in the desert. . . . My name is Zuckerberg, look on my works and despair”

We’re taking a little spring break trip to Joshua Tree and I don’t think I ever want to leave this Airbnb

Successful trip to my favorite bookstore, The Iliad. If your bookstore doesn’t have stepladders and rickety sliding ladders, what are you even doing?

Why has the fake Wings song from Role Models been stuck in my head. I’m not so much annoyed as confused.

Maybe it should matter that the President of the United States threatened the lives of the Iranian soccer team, who can say

"Over its two seasons, PATRIOT traces a meteoric descent with a humanist’s touch, turning international espionage into quotidian drama and grounding the global politics of nuclear armament in the mundane specifics of industrial piping workplaces and father-son dynamics."

So is Farsi almost back or is one of the kids really impressing Rydström? Cause I’m not seeing much wingback depth otherwise. Brown and Presthus were unused subs Saturday. (my #Crew96 hot take is Farsi’s injury has been underrated as the cause of the backline’s issues)

watching a random movie on netflix: unpleasant, disappointing watching a random movie on tubi: extraordinary, a blessing

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

Honestly doesn’t look that different from his usual plays.