My grandfather died in 2014, about a month shy of his 99th birthday, and looked *dramatically* younger than Emil Bove. Gonna go out on a limb and say that he probably still does.

[feels pretty all right about how aging’s going so far]

LOL

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Timeline synchronicity, etc. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social, @katewagner.wehwalt.net

The internet is real silly, etc., etc., but on the other hand it is really fun to watch @bwecht.bsky.social and my younger kid trade weird minimalist/doom/drone stuff

Impaler is just out here hoping Raichik notices them

Sure would be cool to be able to just keep on riding on the Midtown Greenway right across the river here

Seems notable! Perhaps concerning!

It is weird how much I miss being a marching band dad

I will simply observe that I am not qualified to be the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and I am more qualified to be the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

This is the part of "Abundance" that I think we urgently need: our bureaucratic agencies/systems are not up to the task. They end up being small c conservative. And I think progressive mayors/govs/etc seem unwilling to think about what it would be like to explicitly reshape bureaucracy.

My honorary lesbian moms back in WI (about an hour and a half from Minneapolis) are searching their property for their 22 year old son & I'm trying to contact drone pilots who might volunteer to help.

I wonder how much David Brooks’s $87 lunch at Newark would cost today

This isn’t a university.

This talk was super fun. I’m more of a rides guy than a themes guy but hearing this discussion might change me. I would *love* to hear about how the creative team gets involved with the warnings aspects of rides, too (assuming they do).

Can’t wait to see what the Hooters social team does for the Rapture

Receiving the journal of the National Amusement Park Historical Association leads to some fun discoveries.

Remember when Norm F’in’ Coleman pretended to be offended when people at the funeral of Paul Wellstone talked about progressive politics?

Dammit, I missed National Guacamole Day. But it's not too late to monster mash up some Guacamole Boris Karloff!

It’s grape pie season MFers

The woke media won’t tell you this, but we are just under two weeks away from the 41st anniversary of the release of The Replacements’ “Let It Be.”

On a completely different subject, imagine having the guts to sequence “Can’t Hardly Wait” at the end of side two of Pleased to Meet Me

That is a very large verdict in a very sad case with a whole lot of fault. I don’t know if there are caps. The park had a plausible waiver defense and I assume they’re hoping for success on that on appeal. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Saw a teenager wearing a shirt for the band Boston and respectfully sir it is 2025

Once again, Charlie Kirk’s most rabid fans seem to be old white men.

Minnesota is a really great place but sometimes it’s also hypothermia Florida.

🚨 Bald eagle at the Macalester stadium 🚨 #heymac @macalestercollege.bsky.social

Median Minnesota Republican

Every word builds to a fascinating conclusion.

YouTube was, indeed, wise to put the Jon Stewart TDS special up top on the app for me youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?...

13 years ago today, Dena was at O’Hare and posted this: "I think I just passed a real clown at the airport, not one of those people pretending to be a clown."

Saint Paul: Double rainbow!

I’d pay for a service to block every signer of that on every social platform that ever exists

verily i have blogged it, as @jaywillis.net would say ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics... bsky.app/profile/audr...

Ah, autumn starts on Thursday, so let’s all look forward to seasonal delights: - pumpkin spice - local cider - leaves changing - hay rides - wool socks - suggestions that people would for some reason put expensive drugs in children’s Halloween baskets

I have ordered sufficient grapes to make I believe four pie fillings for this year.

So there is a line for him. A fascinatingly drawn line, but a line.

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I had forgotten that Jason Mendoza on The Good Place uses his rankings of the Fast & Furious movies as the best way to get to know him. (He is correct that #5 is #1.)

The count is up to four people letting me know about this incident, which I appreciate. I have no idea how one gets fatal blunt force injuries on this coaster. It has pretty normal restraints (rcdb.com/20549.htm#p=...). eu.floridatoday.com/story/news/2...

Heathrow Express is indefinitely delayed so I’m in a cab, so on the one hand I get to see the varied and delightful London neighborhoods and on the other my god how does anyone drive here and not get in twenty accidents per day

"In the crescendo of orgasm I have sometimes been known to shout out the incumbent Pope's name" I have been back on the apps literally one minute. This is from the second profile I have looked at since reactivating. I am doomed

Just got invited to speak at an event in August 2027 and that just sounds wholly fictional

blood used to be cool and looked awesome on movies, but now it looks realistic and boring, due to woke

My occasional reminder that (a) 3M once made fake blood for stage and screen, (b) it was non-staining and wildly successful, and (c) it was called, for some reason, Nextel. www.theringer.com/movies/2020/...

Could: do any number of amazing things in London on my last night now that my work is done Am: watching the new Taskmaster on plain old television because it is simply on television here

It’s pretty, pretty good that the Onion is independent again

@davidjroth.bsky.social re: this week’s Distraction, apparently every small liberal arts college got its own weird Black Eyed Peas show? (This was part of a weird/symptomatic project where I tried to document every band to play Mac’s Springfest over 50 years) bsky.app/profile/bill...