After taking some time to digest that blowout, I feel a lot less worried about the Canes than I did in any of the last 4 ECF. 2009, we all knew Cam Ward had us on his back and that the Pens were better. 2019, We were happy to be there against the Bruins. 2023 & 25, Florida broke our spirit. 1/3

I don't think it would be unfair to suggest that this was the worst game of Jaccob Slavin's career.

Well at least one of the teams is happy

I AM STAYING ON MY WALK!!! Go Canes

Just a reminder that game 1 against the Habs didn’t go well in 2006 either. One game isn’t the end of it all

Whatever spiritual presence I brought to this game is clearly not helping, so I'm off for a walk. Really, anything's better at the moment than that sick, frustrated feeling the Canes are giving me.

Woof.

If the Canes must indulge in the franchise tradition of sleepwalking through 10 minutes of the full 60, the good news is that it's happening at the start of the game. Sheesh.

Alright then. Game on.

introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live Slipknot Sevendust System of a Down Disturbed Fatboy Slim Hybrid Wynton Marsalis The NY Philharmonic Orchestra Taproot Trivium

Mickey Mantle. With modern sports medicine, there's a very good chance Mantle winds up in the Top 10 all-time in hits, home runs, and RBI.

"These people are different. I want to win for these people." Damn right.

Surely this won't be the perfect bulletin board material for a franchise that got its moniker because the Canadian hockey media decided to mouth off about them.

A travesty

Absolutely insane. Feels like after Southampton (who appear to have 100% found out), Hull City gets screwed over the most here. Even with the breaches in regulations, Middlesbrough still lost and now has a chance to be promoted if they beat a side that earned their spot. A tire fire, really.

i think this is just how it always is. the french revolution wouldn't have happened without spiraling bread prices. the protests that toppled caeusescu were in part because of shortages of cooking oil.

The irony is that Weiss is going to dine out on this for the rest of her life if she does lose her role. It's the perfect end result for her grift that began when she left the NY Times.

Nicholson: I was working Corman films at that time in my career, just cutting my teeth. And like clockwork, almost every shoot, I'd look at the call sheet, and Grogu would land a role. Interviewer: So he helped you? Nicholson: I'd go as far as to say I don't get the role in Easy Rider without him.

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The crazy thing is that I don't think Wemby even hit his highest gear.

Wemby has decided unilaterally that the Oklahoma City Thunder are no longer allowed to play basketball this evening.

The Spurs have truly perfected a next generation offense. Toss the ball to Wemby anywhere within 15 feet of the bucket; watch him somehow dunk it from that spot.

In all seriousness, an athlete like Wemby comes along once a generation if you're lucky. We should be talking about him the way we discuss Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps.

I BEG YOUR PARDON?

Habs it is.

The Sabres had the Habs hemmed into their own zone for 40 minutes. Overtime is a complete reset, but the ice has been tilted for a long time.

Boy this is some hockey game, huh?

Real Madrid puts another cat in the wall

Kind of amazing as an alumni to think about how I sat in that same lower level years ago and got a speech from Sonia Sotomayor, while the Class of 2026 got a babbling doofus whose main qualification is his function as an avatar of how NYU's admin really feels about their students.

Kingdom Hearts is just Full Metal Alchemist with more branding.

Well it might not have worked out for Xabi Alonso coaching Real Madrid, a team full of overpaid and self-absorbed stars with no real cohesion as a squad, but surely he'll do better at Chelsea, a team... full of overpaid.... *Reads further* Oh no.

Me You and Everyone We Know and Grogu

I thought I had silly reasons for being skeptical about The Odyssey, but my God did the dumbest people alive come out of the woodwork. Now I want it to be a comedy even more.

I've said this before, but while no one is ever going to let James Bond rest as an intellectual property, everything we've ever known as Bond ended with No Time To Die and the conclusion of Eon Productions' stewardship of the series. James Bond is dead, and that's okay.

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It's been my personal thesis on the energy transition that green tech would take off the moment petroleum presented an outsized cost and a scarcity risk. I just never thought it would happen so quickly as the result of a geopolitical shock to global petroleum supply.

Missed 15 minutes of Habs/Sabres, and apparently Jakub Dobes has been destroyed by controlled implosion.

TO-DAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY'RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU

2026 will be remembered as a flagship year in the transition to green energy in the sense that the decision-making process polities are undergoing is less about seeking potential future profits and more a judgment that the security risks raised by fossil fuels are disproportionate to the benefits.

My mayor is out here casually performing the Labors of Hercules

Just as an alum, this isn't even news from the perspective of tensions between the NYU student body and the school's administration. They've hated each other for a long, long time.

I must admit I do enjoy this one:

If you reach the point where you're openly wondering if your social media posts are net positive or negative for US political discourse, just stop for a second, laugh at yourself, and then go touch some grass.

Gotta go with: "Being checked out of the political process makes me smarter than everyone else"

Tapping this sign again: "People who discount movies because they are old are not worth your time."

Missed the NBA Draft Lottery yesterday, but my sense is that, if your team got a top 7 pick, you're going to be drafting a guy with a career floor of being a starter in the league. Despite no consensus superstars, the top of the class is extremely solid.

Seen some complaints about the animation style in the new Ghost in the Shell anime, and I'm just wondering how many of those complaining have seen the art style of the original manga. Because the original work is a lot more "cheeky" than it's various adaptations would have people believe. 1/2 🧵

Sightly increase a band Soundfield

Some Candidates: One More Time - Daft Punk American Idiot - Green Day Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz Bad Romance - Lady Gaga

A little Sunday morning reading for the enjoyment of #filmsky ! Haven't been able to get The Odyssey trailer out of my head, so I wrote something about it. Free to read & support as I get the platform fully set up :)