What a neat project. Can’t say I agree with the editorial decisions that led to me having more bylines since 2000 than titans like George Vecsey and John Branch, but I’m pretty proud of this output for someone who has always had duties that primarily weren’t writing tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

I can’t believe this is still up three days later. I either watched it happen live, buddy, or my school thought it would be hilarious to show a snuff film and watch a bunch of kids cry.

Things can get pretty bleak, but taking an unused area of a high school and turning it into an outdoor classroom, with older scouts teaching younger scouts to use power tools and everyone enjoying the t-shirt weather and talking about the future was pretty dang great.

The mall from the county where I went to college is nearly empty and is being auctioned off. Trying to figure out how to subtly let my family know it would be a cool Father’s Day gift. lostcoastoutpost.com/2026/apr/1/l...

Just got an $83 check for an NBA Top Shot court case of some sort. I think I spent $9 on the Top Shot that got me included. Am I the world’s most successful NFT investor?

Long before 9-9-9, me and some friends made a deal at a day game at old Yankee Stadium where we’d each get a beer and a dog every time a vendor came by. The vendors figured this out. Did we do >9 of each? I assume. And that, my friends, is how I ended up with a cow head ice cream scoop.

I remember calling a bunch of NYT Sports people over to my desk to watch his first major league at-bat and having him promptly hit a 470-foot dinger. What’s disturbing is the fact that it feels like that was just a few years ago.

Really wild the percentage of newsroom space that was dedicated just to monitors in the late 90s/early 00s

Not generally one to suggest that random AI finance apps being pushed on social media should be more ambitious with their promises, but it's hard to see people getting too excited about a ... 2.56 percent return on their $100K investment.

This @tylerkepner.bsky.social piece on .300 hitters gets at the heart of the issue where, yes, pitching is way better. But also, the game doesn't pay for average. If Luis Arraez got a $100 million deal, instead of a 1-year deal, maybe guys would adjust their approach. www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

I’ve seen this before but really looked at the house this time and … man, as a homeowner Al was doing well. Roof and driveway are solid. Lawn is cut, hedges are fairly tidy. The actual house, which is in the suburbs, is estimated at $650k. But in their world it was Chicago proper so … $1.5 million?

If I had a nickel for every Atlantic article published recently that was about stuff that did not actually happen and left me wondering “why does this article exist?” I’d have two nickels

The answer to this problem, it turns out, was not building a product that no one wanted

I realize not everyone grew up in a union household in a liberal town in California in the 1980s, but as someone who did ... holy shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

I just got an email from FourSquare saying I haven’t checked in this week. Which is true, but was also true of every other week since like 2010?

Not sure that I could put five in an order I was happy with, but I’d put Punch-Drunk Love a lot higher than most do and Magnolia a lot lower

search your camera roll for hell*

I bet when Creed Bratton was drunkenly quitting the Grass Roots after a show at the Fillmore bombed in 1969 he was thinking “I’ll probably be in some AT&T commercials with my sitcom friends in 2026 … hopefully during a basketball tournament”

I know it’s not the point but I really like that DOGE kid’s sweater

People talking about the loss of antiques or how these engines could have been utilized in other ways are really getting away from the fact that this absolutely rips

My view on gambling (games of chance as well as sports betting) has always been that I'm paying to be entertained. If I lose $100 on a night of craps I paid $20 an hour to have fun. So my view on the Atlantic story is they said they'd cover $10K and he lost almost exactly that much. Nailed it!

How has it been six years? But also, how has it been only six years?

Bam should have left the game after notching his 34th point, to avoid surpassing Boris Diaw's career high, in my opinion

I know you probably think you're biased toward your favorite team and favorite players, but my reaction to Bam Adebayo's 83-point game was "I wonder how many points Klay would have had if he'd taken 86 combined shots and free-throws on the night he had 60 in 29 minutes." So my bias is stronger.

In “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” a white character in the 1950s wears a KC Monarchs hat. I absolutely love the hat but this feels like the least realistic aspect of a show in which Godzilla and King Kong are characters.

The accusations are true. Scouting did go "woke." They even added a phrase to the Scout Oath that made being "mentally awake" one of the core tenets of the organization. It's hard to believe President Taft didn't step in to stop them (since, you know, that happened in 1911).

I’m not sure if this is how the law works, but if I went to a Live show and it was the other guys and not Ed I’d be like “this is crap, where is the bald guy?” and if I went to one with Ed and a different group of musicians … I wouldn’t notice www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Jerry Seinfeld, meanwhile, is 71. Just two years short of how old Hume Cronyn was when the film was released.

Doubting that Jazz Chisholm can get 50-50 is reasonable but Jose Canseco’s career highs were 33 and 15 when he promised a 40-40 season. Setting outrageous goals is cool. Delivering on them is even cooler.

Repeatedly playing the ad about the doctor who got Lindsey Vonn back skiing when she proceeded to tear her ACL and then immediately had a horrific crash and a career ending injury is some big “Dan vs Dave” energy. Surely they could swap in some psoriatic arthritis ads instead.

I know it’s not factored into the ratings but Bad Bunny’s halftime show was a rare crossover hit between the 7th grade boys and 9th grade girls in Connecticut. Benito built a bridge no one thought was possible.

I saw Green Day for the first time as a preteen and just watched them play the Super Bowl with my 12 year old son. A great moment punctuated by my 14 year old daughter saying “Aren’t they older than you? Why are they still doing this?”

You know what would have been a better summation of the Bay than an outsider talking about bands and poets from 50 years ago? Marshawn Lynch just saying we don’t have to explain ourselves to you and then the video cutting out.

I’m a vegetarian so I cancel this out. Me and Bobby = 1 omnivore.

I never actually extricated myself from the Super Bowl after the sports department disbanded, because there was plenty of Styles stuff to do. But barring something happening that touches on election analytics, I’ll be watching the game strictly as a fan for the first time since 1999. SO WEIRD.

Twenty one years ago I posted a questionable Seth Cohen take on the internet and it led directly to me meeting the girl of my dreams, getting married and having kids. The lesson here: Never stop posting your takes, no matter how bad they are. The girl who calls you an a-hole might be the one.

Wrote this before the vote where he got 7.3 percent. Felt just as good about it then as I do now that he’s a HOFer www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/s...

I usually say my commute doesn’t feel long even if it takes a while. It turns out that doesn’t apply when Verizon is entirely out of service and I didn’t bring a book with me.

Season 2 of The Pitt opens with Dr Robby, an ER doc who has probably seen a thousand head injuries, riding a motorcycle with no helmet (but carrying a helmet) and wearing a fairly thick jacket on July 4 in Pittsburgh. What in the world?

Some personal news! This week I started a new role as deputy editor of Election Analytics. The quote Sam Sifton gave for the announcement summed up my career well: “Ben is at the very top of the short list of Times journalists who could move seamlessly from Sports to Styles to Election Analytics.”

Found out today that McDonald’s in Italy has Celiac-safe gluten-free cheeseburgers that come in a cross-contamination proof bag. Which is even better than Canada where the fries are usually safe. In summation: F you, American McDonald’s.

Same in CT. Chance of snow is 0. Precipitation is 0. Yet I have what looks like an hour of shoveling ahead of me if we want access to both cars tomorrow. I don’t blame @mccanner.bsky.social entirely but weather IS her thing, so …

Not sure what this is going on about, she was in Mallrats and after you’ve hit that peak it’s kinda downhill no matter what

Not going to Macy’s to see Santa for the first time since Obama’s first term was one thing, but I got a reality check on life with kids well into tween-teen hood when they told me what time I should make sure they’re awake by on Christmas. So I’ll check in with them at 9:45 I guess?

In all the time it took to set up that promo on the Sphere why didn’t Timmy think of something better to say?

It kinda looks like Iggy has drained the life force out of Jack White to power himself for another 20 years

Post you from a different era

I think Hamilton is the ultimate proof that social media is not real life. Everyone hates it. It’s cringe. So much backlash. Can’t say good things about it or else. Also it’s been making millions on Broadway for a decade, tours nationally and LMM became like the default musical guy.

Not saying Yamamoto isn’t in the conversation but putting that stat line out as evidence is hilarious since Madison Bumgarner was better in each of those categories in the 2014 postseason. 7g, 5-1 with 1 save, 1.03 ERA, 52.2 IP, 45 strikeouts, 0.65 WHIP

More day games, cheaper beer