It is unclear to me why the bagel shop proprietor was weirded out that all I wanted was a couple of bagels

“The human element is inescapable. Should be inescapable.” Damn this is good.

Woody Allen

Absolute gem of a film. Slice-of-life story that leaves an indelible impression

Excellent piece, mostly about basketball, but also thoughtfully more. “Where does that leave us?” is perhaps the question of our time.

“People should be talking more about…” is one of my least favorite tweet genres. Everyone is talking about everything all the fucking time if you’re paying attention

Value capture, measurement creep, life choices, and more. Fascinating conversation.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

A good goal in life is to smell like an REI

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

My perhaps overly simplistic conclusion is that there’s only one group of people who can stop this madness: Congressional Republicans. Unless and until they grow a spine we’re in for any number of tragic consequences

Petition to unseat any democrat who uses the word “forthwith”

Give me that folded over chip every time

Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!

Tomorrow morning's coffee can't get here fast enough ☕

The best feature of my new phone is how the voicemail doesn’t work

Where’s my medal for watching the most cooking shows without making any of the dishes

The ideal work conversation

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Important life hack

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn't matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns." This book is sending me to all sorts of unexpected places. 💙

This is nice

Bought a new pair of running shoes last week at the Black Friday Preview price only to discover they’re now $10 cheaper at the Early Access Black Friday price. Dynamic pricing can go to hell.

Nauseating

Well, these are a goddamn delight

I do think this is a real distinction

Govt shutdown going as expected, I see

people often confuse sentimentality with kindness. being sentimental is easy and common. being kind is hard and rare

I’d take even half the joy of people eating sour cream in a tv commercial

Early morning October sky

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

Not just YES, HELL YES

Unexpectedly heartwarming bond formed at Trader Joe’s this morning over a mutual obsession with banana selection 🍌💛 #bananalove

Lunch time stroll followed by pork belly quesadilla = good day

🎯

Yup, everyone

“We are also a poem.” 💙

From an @annelamott.bsky.social guest essay in The New York Times:

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

The thing about the Cracker Barrel uproar is that it’s a perfect illustration of how these people are in charge of everything, they’re running the entire country and diminishing Dem power at every turn and they are STILL UNHAPPY. Their entire brand is “angry and oppressed” and it always will be.

Eh probably nothing

Looking back on the past couple of horrible years I do greatly appreciate the simple moral clarity of Bill Burr when he had that infuriating sit down with Bill Maher and they talked about the campus Gaza war protests and Burr simply said “I’m on the side of the kids.” He didn’t need to …

Find someone who loves you as much as cooking show hosts love pasta water

Selfishness for their party, selfishness for their states, selfishness for themselves.

it’s just a canvas on which to project current fears & desires

Free advice for all grocery stores: Post instructions on how to pick each type of melon! 🍉🍈🍉🍈 Instant improvement in your sales and my quality of life.

Spot on