on an amtrak pulling into union station just before the snow starts and they’ve instructed everyone trying to go further than DC to meet in the cafe car for what I can only assume is the announcement that agatha christie is their new conductor

what I would like to know is how the preexisting Mr. and Mrs. Met ended up leaving at the same time. were they fired and what for

this is great

UCL just sent out a round of invites for upcoming alumni events in the US and uhh ummm uhhhhhhhh I am not sure that is the photo of Boston I would have chosen here

the facebook birder group giveth; the facebook birder group taketh

(to the tune of "feliz navidad") denis villeneuve

just going to put it out there that I am scared for everyone (attendees, children, pets, the world generally) about what Gritty is going to do at the Fourth Wing/Flyers event www.gofevo.com/group/Flyers...

two words: RODDY. HO. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

wrote about two shows that made me cover my eyes (only one of which featured evanescence, tragically) (?) www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

JOURNALISM HACK: imply that major event was staged. follow up by specifying that actually you have no idea but maybe someone else knows??? stop being so nosy losers

canonically lizza rhymes with pizza

please, science, resurrect the tasty sea cow www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

mike white is right. in fact I DO need to hear the white lotus theme rendered on accordion

loved Flesh. weird and sad and terrific. read Flesh!!!

wrote about PATRIOT, a double great show, over at @rollingstone.com for its anniversary, with thoughts from Steven Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, and Kurtwood Smith: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

wrote about PATRIOT, a double great show, over at @rollingstone.com for its anniversary, with thoughts from Steven Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, and Kurtwood Smith: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

well this should be a good Home Town episode www.nola.com/news/aggress...

a billion years ago I went to a Jane Goodall Institute camp and she announced her arrival by walking into the dining hall and doing a deafening and extremely long chimpanzee HOOT HOOT HOOT as we the starstruck dorks looked on in amazement. RIP to a legend

isaac chotiner and dracula have showed up at your house. you have to let one of them in

🚨 kansascity.craigslist.org/zip/d/kansas...

Saved you a click: they beheaded a horse

an unmarked van full of national guard was just parked on my block, a fact I learned when I heard a neighbor banging a pot and blasting an air horn directly outside their passenger window and shouting GO HOME NO ONE WANTS YOU HERE

happy Jeopardy! season premiere day to all who celebrate! here’s me in @slate.com on the 2011 battle royale with Watson, with thoughts from Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and many more: slate.com/culture/2025...

happy Jeopardy! season premiere day to all who celebrate! here’s me in @slate.com on the 2011 battle royale with Watson, with thoughts from Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and many more: slate.com/culture/2025...

the xenomorph is canonically a cat. in this essay I will

(casting one of the most charismatic actors alive) okay so what you’re gonna want to do is not make any facial expressions

it’s finally time for colbert to realize his full potential: as host of a nouveau PBS Masterpiece style suite that is entirely unspeakably bleak british detective shows

come for David Duchovny's zany bathroom wallpaper; stay for David Duchovny's zany Willie Mays bathroom tribute robbreport.com/shelter/cele...

Ed, the pet zebra that broke free and was running loose in Tennessee, has been captured and air-lifted to safety. Oh buddy, how you enjoyed it while you could.

time for an unfortunate media rite of passage: after 9 years at The Ringer, I was laid off this week. I’m gutted to leave, but grateful for my time there, the many wonderful folks I worked with over the years, and all the stories I got to tell

shoutout to when we had a "going away party" for Four Loko original recipe in college lol

help I'm obsessed with the warring mother robins who unhappily share a nest

did you know there are people out there still holding onto caches of original-recipe Four Loko? there sure are, and I spoke to a few (some with more ominous results than others): theringer.com/2025/05/09/p...

Chicago Pope's here

when you smell absolutely delicious

lisa ann walter just surprised lisa ann walter superfan drew goins at the live jeopardy event in DC

do what you love, they said. you'll never work a day, they said. unfortunately you will also never again consume television or books that don't make you think about work www.tvinsider.com/1182587/luke...

sam rockwell’s agent profusely sweating and refreshing social media

Harvey Silikovitz tried 10 times to get on Jeopardy! over 24 years and finally made it. (And won!) “He’s pretty sure he has made history as the first Jeopardy! contestant to play with Parkinson’s.” [theringer.com]

I talked to Harvey about his long, long path to last night's spectacular win on Jeopardy! (the highest Coryat score of the season so far!): www.theringer.com/2025/03/11/t...

if you read my Jeopardy! book, you might remember Harvey Silikovitz, aka the H-Bomb, who got the invite to go on Jeopardy! in 2019 after his 8th audition...only to miss the call and land back in the contestant pool waiting game. WELL: some 24 years after his first audition, today is finally the day:

today I met a majestic owl and now we are best friends (you can tell by his hateful stare)

My illegal Pinkerton is driving me to my illegal hotel while the hallucination machine in my phone summarizes the emails my coworkers wrote using their hallucination machines. My burrito travels separately in its own limo. This is innovation and normal.

were we aware that ANOTHER new season of squid game is coming in june... what a special time we live in...

with the Big Game out of the way, you know what that means: behold this year's contestant field for the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, or as I like to call it, the Biggest Game

In the WK discord, a bunch of people kept talking about which Pokémon they wanted to fuck, so a mod locked them all in a quarantine zone and they can’t get out until they finish a tier list of the Pokémon they want to fuck the most and I’ve been cry laughing all night watching them

not sure if this is damning or high praise for Severance but either way: hell yeah brother www.reddit.com/r/SiloSeries...

brain worms birder achievement unlocked: a majestic peregrine falcon landed outside my window and I am now hopping mad that he scared all my usual bird visitors away. if he eats one I stg...