watching a 2008 episode of sesame street with my kids. jack black in a threadless t-shirt not even being particularly over the top... feist doing a silly parody of 1234 about counting... telly still a featured muppet... grainy early digital travelogue video... we have to go back. WE HAVE TO GO BACK

how it feels to chew 5 gum

i wonder if an entrepreneurial spirit could just pull a defector and build an incredibly baller book review site-slash-bespoke, high-quality quarterly with the wapo book section refugees. can you imagine?

i am calling for a complete and total shutdown of anyone ever talking about lindsey vonn ever again. yes lady, we get it, you tragically get shot out of a cannon every four years or whatever, your story is no longer compelling

Whoever the Democratic nominee is should take a card from Trump and pick some small societal annoyance to ramble about but probably not actually solve. Some freebies: - Too many dogs everywhere now - Why can't you smoke at a ballgame? - Dress sneakers look dumb with suits, get rid of them

Lauren Jortberg was an important character from Italian folk literature. Most Italian songs are, either directly or indirectly, about her.

Look, it is your job as a person and consumer to make AI do stuff so embarrassing and weird that it ceases to be a usable product, and as such it pains me to say that I'm going to make AI JT Realmuto join Boko Haram

That SNL sketch broke containment and has escaped into reality

From the former Poet Laureate of #Northfield #Minnesota (reportedly).

I'm sorry, but it's crazy that the Philadelphia Museum of Art didn't shovel the steps. Like I can't believe it's still not done

The fact that so many media companies are covering this credulously and not picking up on the fact that they just did GoodRx is a really good tell that there is almost zero class diversity in the journalism market.

One thing I find about mushy conservatives who are really sensitive about having voted for Trump is that they couch all of their decisions in the idea that "Obama divided the country," and when you press them on what that means it's either the Trayvon Martin comment or just being Black

One of the reasons I get queasy about our near term political future is that I truly don't think most white liberals have any, like, actual relationships with people of color, and as a result have this HR notion in their head of what interacting with people of color is like that doesn't exist irl

Bro I fucking called it lmao

15 white people called me white tonight. An aircraft carrier's worth of people went into histrionics because I said corporate inclusion training can come off as cheap and cynical. Someone angrily suggested that James Baldwin (!) would be a staunch advocate for said trainings. 2021 forever baby

Let's see... I'm a practicing Catholic and I find it tremendously insulting to the very notion of God when athletes thank him after ball games

Probably a good time to let off some psycho sports takes, so I'll just say Jimmy Rollins isn't in the Hall of Fame because the voters are racists who consistently undervalue Black players

Really? You've never had revealing conversations with your friends that you learned from?

I mean... yeah, that is sort of what happened. Not to be funny, but there was an immense optimism in the late 2010s that was followed by this sort of slimy financialization and non-profit gold rush. It was a very organic movement that was eventually completely neutralized by savvy corporations.

Alright fine I do kind of want to define "Late Woke." Do you remember like the run from 2016 2020-ish where there seems to be a lot of momentum for social change, but then around 2021-2023 the whole thing started to get noticeably corporate and inorganic? That's Late Woke to me

I mean... My point here is kind of that there could have been if the movement hadn't been economized and mostly moved into corporate training models. There was a very good trajectory until like very early Biden

I had no idea how deeply you all felt about corporate training. I will do better.

...what is going on here

What a remarkably insulting thing to say about someone you don't know.

Man it really is still 2021 here. I sort of missed it

I'm pretty sure I'm right. Most folks learn about other people's struggles through organic dialogue entered into willingly and with trust, and are quite fairly distrustful and offended when their bosses demand such vulnerability at work -- doubly so when they farm it out to contract lecturers

It is critically fucking important to get that people hated that stuff - and the general business Maoism shift of Late Woke - because of how incredibly insulting and demeaning it is to be lectured about your personal culpability in inequality by your evil corporate overlords. That's what sucked

You're telling me someone paid money for that? American dollars

I agree but it is sort of funny that the people who want to bring back shame were very much the "ban shame" people from like 2016-2024.

Oh my god, it literally has two of the Pick Me TV buzzwords in the name

Baller

I kind of think manga is to kids now what lead paint was to them 60 years ago. Not ideal that this is where libraries are headed

Every time I think about writing something sappy about growing up with brothers I think back to the time a tree fell on me while we were clearing brush and branches on my uncle's farm and my brother just laughed and took a picture of me

@mrpussy.xyz can you Photoshop David Byrne in the big suit between LeBron and Carmelo

I'm sorry but this is much more insane than I could have imagined

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everything is pretty horrible and i didn't even take a second to appreciate that we're getting another met in the hall of fame -- and one who was a pretty integral part of my young fanhood.

This is an insult Lowly Worm

I don't think anything has been so ruined for me as Walk Hard has ruined movie biopics. I'm sorry. I won't be able to get through this thanks to John C Reilly

Nice moment of silence for Dan McQuade during intros at tonight’s Sixers game.

Yes, Woke sucked, but it only sucked because for roughly five years the average liberal was just barely as much of a blubbering shitty misery-guts as literally any politically active conservative

One thing that's hard to communicate to people who don't have conservative relatives is how miserable and whiny they are all the time. Eveeeery siiiingle thiiiiing is woke or gay or lib and they don't want it or they can't have it or it's not for them or it's why the world is bad. It's relentless

God he hates us all so much

He just did the "How's the environment" but from Flight of the Conchords but in real life

“Without Dan’s voice, Philly Mag wouldn’t be Philly Mag. And, I’d argue, Philadelphia wouldn’t quite be Philadelphia.” Dan’s editor here, Brian Howard, on what our friend meant to this magazine and, more importantly, this city.

What a wonderful person Dan McQuade was. Much will be said about him by people who knew him much better than me, but I would like to say that his writing influenced an entire generation of sports writers in Philly and far beyond. Such amazing things he did in his time here!

True story: my high school/college girlfriend loved musicals and we actually saw this in previews. I shit you not: multiple Spider-Mans got stuck up in the rafters during the show and they had to fish them down. The next day one of the Spider-Mans almost fell to his death. It was magical.

This, and also they have a deep psychological need for their cultural opponents to be fake, because otherwise it becomes clear that the gay libs are 1000 times braver and tougher and willing to stand up against the feds than they, with their unlimited firepower and constant threats, ever could be