They're doing what they've always done, playing to their own peanut gallery like there's nobody else in the world. It is not what a strong operation does. You have a headache or the rain hurts your knee, what the hell else are you going to do?

They're calling it the worst variety show ever

Growing up in the 1980s with the name RJ was rough because people would always be like, "Ha-ha, like J.R. Ewing." Also, I, too, was shot and the authorities took the entire summer to discover that it was by my scheming sister-in-law/mistress .

The @phillyinquirer ‘s first architecture quiz, courtesy of real estate editor @ericapalan www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it sick that those people put small rubber ducks on their dashboards to mark how many pedestrians they’ve struck with their Jeeps.

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it sick that those people put small rubber ducks on their dashboards to mark how many pedestrians they’ve struck with their Jeeps.

Just got the updated covid booster at an Acme in Philadelphia with no questions/complications. Give it a try if you’re interested.

I am not in for a night of Handing It To Karl Rove and Tucker Carlson

I wrote about the leveling and deranging effects of the Trumpist snitchscape, and the awful content creation imperatives governing this awful moment. defector.com/the-united-s...

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score. Less than 100 is a failure. Makes me sick. PORKY’S basically. Disgusting. Bile in my throat every time I watch the Criterion 4K. Only got it because I hate myself and like pain and had some sort of coupon.

I am very, VERY excited to visit this.

At a work function, making connections.

Tonight, I remembered who starred in the failed GEORGE AND LEO, but blanked on Meryl Streep in a reference so put me in a home for whatever that indicates.

One fun thing I’ve started doing is imagining the most mild-mannered presidents sending Trump’s tweets. Picture Jimmy Carter or Calvin Coolidge saying this shit lol

@wxpnfm.bsky.social just played “Honey White” on their90s show and it made me feel sad about Mark Sandman and Morphine a bit again.

A quote submitted to me by a Philadelphian: "I love my city, but it is also an easy city to hate."

Walking around at lunch, passed two young women, one was saying, "... okay, but one thing in RFK's favor, there *are* a lot of shots..." Yes, of course, it's the number that he takes issue with.

Yes, yes, an incredible amount of shocking news in the cycle today, but the Double-Decker Taco is back and I will likely be having one tonight for the first time in years. I will now take your questions.

I'm surprised they didn't pull this one from syndication.

Starting the day with a happy march* in my heart! *Irregular heartbeat and I have an emergency appointment with my cardiologist this afternoon she said the pills would fix this but now its hard to breathe and oh god what's wrong

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

Post a team you would send instead of Patel and Bongino

Something about that THE PAPER show? They’ve established the main guy as an Elmore Leonard freak, so that’s bought them a few more episodes from me.

Hi everyone let's talk about the Carlisle 52 series of cups, in particular the Carlisle 5216, a topic about which I am extremely normal. In my estimation, a triumph of thoughtful industrial design and is probably my favorite ever mass produced object. 🧵

Opened with “E’s and Wizz.” My god. That, with “This is Hardcore,” “Mis-Shapes,” and “Help the Aged,” I would have gone home very happy. But there was so much more.

And somehow, at age 50, dancing to Britpop and other music in the basement of the Divine Lorraine Hotel on a Tuesday late.

Got to the Pulp show. Our seats were right behind the soundboard which, sure. Knew that. A venue person came by. “Oh let’s move you.” ???? This works.

I wonder if the folks who are still very angry at the late Roger Ebert about video games and the people who are still very angry at the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE movies for changing things from the '60s tv show ever hang out.

Confused guy at tonight's Pulp concert, yelling "C'mon! 'Parklife!'" after every song, getting angrier and angrier.

Oh, so *now* we’re all fine with ascribing artistic intent? 😞

"Well, I'll login and-"

Mike Quatro. Briefly worked on a project of his in 2000. Writing for some direct market video repurposing footage from the Woodward Dream Cruise. It did not go well. Never met him. Only via speakerphone in his office in some old skyscraper in downtown Detroit. Weird almost-gig.

If I were to say some jazz song was "some one-season 70s sitcom taking place in Boston shit," you'd know what I mean, right?

My uncle owned a hardware store in the 1960s with an octopus buddy of his. Years later, pushed him from the business, bought it out from under him. He never recovered from that. Died in a hospital, penniless.

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This is the part where they used the footage of Uncle Phil throwing her out of the front door every week.

Tom Waits recording Bone Machine (1992)

It was odd being in college in the mid-90s, going to parties and people would play the whole PULP FICTION soundtrack CD. Drinking keg Busch Light while such party anthems as "If Love Is a Red Dress" and "Flowers on the Wall" blast out of a bookshelf stereo.

𝒮𝓅𝑜𝓇𝓉𝓈!

Coaxing feral Don Fagen down off the piano with a piece of cheese

Oh the book this is based on happened at Michigan State University and is a heck of a thing. THE DUNGEON MASTER by private investigator William Dear.

drop someone laughing

Tearfully admitting to the assembled crowd that this *is* my first rodeo. Babbling on about how I thought it somehow involved BBQ sauce? A special car? Clowns, somewhere? I'd never seen one, how would I know?