Technologically advance a band: Led Blimp

Technologically advance a band: Buddy Holly and the Cricket Wireless

LET RUSS COOK, but he's going molecular gastronomy before a fanbase which just wants a well-cooked steak.

A joyous Earth, Wind & Fire Day to all who celebrate.

📺 Notable cast additions on several NBC series on this date (September 21): George Clooney on "The Facts of Life" in 1985; Sandy Duncan on "Valerie's Family" (formerly called "Valerie" and later "The Hogan Family") in 1987; Sam Waterston on "Law & Order" in 1994.

Eagles drafted two Georgia DTs in the first round and they each singlehandedly ended the last two games versus the Rams

LAUGHED SO HARD ALMOST THREW UP

Eagles getting crushed on erev Erev Rosh Hashanah by a team with shofars on their helmets.

The Eagles just had LeGarrette Blount and Star of HBO's TASK Mark Ruffalo lead fans in the Eagles Fight Song. One of them seemed unfamiliar with the assignment.

Quite the intro for CBS's The NFL Today, celebrating its 50th anniversary.

95-Across in the Sunday NYT Crossword is "'The Silence of the Lambs' villain" (6 letters) and I assume that "SEXISM" is going to fit because "JAME GUMB" is too long and anything else reflects a simplistic understanding of the film even though, ok, those TN prison guards were just doing their jobs.

A joyous Earth, Wind & Fire Day to all who celebrate.

95-Across in the Sunday NYT Crossword is "'The Silence of the Lambs' villain" (6 letters) and I assume that "SEXISM" is going to fit because "JAME GUMB" is too long and anything else reflects a simplistic understanding of the film even though, ok, those TN prison guards were just doing their jobs.

I now have to wonder if he chose to do the Bill Maher show last night as his last window to have a generally friendly interview before he could no longer avoid this story. (I wonder how long ago he booked it.)

Went to @ddayen.bsky.social's favorite theatre (Neshaminy!) to revisit ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN tonight. Every minute is a Great Shot, Gordo! Award, and the screenplay is just an amazing lesson in how thrilling a movie can be without ever feeling exaggerated or phony.

Kudos to AMC Theatres for putting ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THE NATURAL back on the big screen this week in celebration of Robert Redford's legacy. Great use of multiplex capacity to allow us to see these films as intended. www.amctheatres.com/movies/all-t... www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-n...

“Kahn repeated the phrase ‘win this election for Paul Wellstone’ a dozen times. Gov. Jesse Ventura walked out of the service … and said he was ‘disgusted’ that the memorial was being used as a political rally.” Oh my stars & garters, the absolute horror! I’m sure we’ll hear nothing as foul today.

I had missed that PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF had won the Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special amid an impressive field of nominees including WILL & HARPER and SLY LIVES! You should watch it; it's personal, insightful, and complicated, and the archival footage is great.

The absence of evidence will not persuade those inclined to see a national network of violent transgender activism. As with phony claims of voter fraud, it will merely lead them to insist that the conspiracy is so vast and effective as to be incapable of detection.

The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia investigating Letitia James and James Comey resigned under pressure on Friday after Trump called for his ouster due to his unwillingness to pursue bullshit cases and IT'S A LONG DRIVE TO DEEP LEFT FIELD, HOME RUN #250 BY NICK CASTELLANOS.

I don't think we talk enough as a culture about how awesome the very first moment of SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT is, as the Paramount mountain logo is replaced by a matching animated mountain and the opening bars of "Mountain Town" play.

She lived, she learned.

Can I be totally honest here? (We're among friends, right?) That is a kick-ass font he's using in the letterhead, and I think we can concede that while otherwise pillorying Patel.

Nerdy legal writing question of the day: when you finish a brief and it turns out your signature block breaks onto a second page, do you (a) let it go, (b) insert a page break before the conclusion or elsewhere to keep it all on one page, or (c) depends how long the brief is?

A GWHB-nominated judge has bounced the Trump vs NYT defamation complaint without requiring the NYT to respond. As @kenwhite.bsky.social and others more versed in 1st Amdt law will confirm, this is an atypical response, confirming just how loony the suit was. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEWS President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York Attorney General Letitia James. Full Story: bit.ly/46t35zI

Donald Trump, Mosinee, WI, Sept. 7, 2024: "I will sign an executive order banning any federal employee from colluding to limit speech, and we will fire every federal bureaucrat who is engaged in domestic censorship under the Harris regime. We will do that." 👀 www.rev.com/transcripts/...

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

As such, Bad Bunny will become only the second pro wrestler to host SNL more than once. (Dwayne Johnson is a five-timer; Hogan, Mr. T, Cena, and Rousey 1x each. Andy Kaufman never hosted.)

You know what's also messed up? @rollingstone.com fired their tv critic on Monday, someone who could have given valuable perspective on this.

Nerdy legal writing question of the day: when you finish a brief and it turns out your signature block breaks onto a second page, do you (a) let it go, (b) insert a page break before the conclusion or elsewhere to keep it all on one page, or (c) depends how long the brief is?

“The only way out is through, and we have to get through it together. We have to get through it with our Constitution in mind, but more importantly, with the people in mind. We have to defy the notion that people lack power." - @skyeperryman.bsky.social @democracyforward.org

TFW you're trying to finish up a long brief and you do the find-and-replace-all to make sure all your straight quotes are styled as smart quotes (i.e., from " " to “ ”) and you're praying there's an even number of changes made because, otherwise, there's a stray quotation mark out there to find.

Free idea that literally every Democrat in Congress could and should get behind today: Impeach Brendan Carr.

INBOX: The ACLU announced $500k campaign to inform voters about the potential impacts on civil rights and liberties in Pennsylvania's judicial retention races in Nov.

there are times the internet still sparks joy.

Yes, everyone's right, and yes it's weird to say this: you should read Karl Rove's WSJ op-ed standing athwart the Trumpian push for collective responsibility for Charlie Kirk's assassination. www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

So tomorrow's going to be the most-listened Ringer Gambling Show with Cousin Sal ever, I guess?

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count the touchdown. the explosion didn't interfere with his return, everybody who died had no angle on Hines Ward

Folks are having critically important discourse in the fantasy football Reddit

Current NYT Games sequence: ➡️Crossword (night before, after it drops at 10pm) ➡️Spelling Bee: find pangram(s)? ➡️Wordle ➡️Connections ➡️wander back into the Bee ➡️Pips when I need a break ➡️Strands if it's late in the day and I'm just looking for another thing to do, but not compiling any streak.

Oh, no. And I've always liked Peter Woolsey's restaurants. "To turn out 350 to 500-plus meals a day, a pace this newcomer is already hitting on weekends, requires a level of consistency I’ve yet to see, not to mention basic familiarity with the cuisine." Oof. (And oeuf.)

If Trump's military has been properly instructed on only targeting actual narcotraffickers, and they're only going to strike boats they are sure are engaged in criminal activity (leaving to the side whether this is a lawful tactic), why would innocent fishers have anything to worry about?

Attaboy

Happy Constitution Day, everyone. (Let's make sure it's not the last.) Since 2009 when I met Bill Clinton backstage at Netroots, I've been collecting autographed pocket Constitutions. This was one was signed by Joe Biden in 2014: "Adam— Keep the faith. This is what holds America together."

This has been an miserable week in America. As a temporary balm, I will share that even though you may have thought you saw Gordon Sumner banging on the counter, on the sofa, in the shower, *and* on camera .... it wasn't Sting.

Happy 3²/4²/5² Day to all.

I want every single person who’s ever argued passionately that we need a law criminalizing hate speech to sit with this interview, and think about what this administration could accomplish with it.