🎶 It's the story of a man named Jacob who was busy with fastballs of his own 🎶

Alamo Drafthouse used to be a shrine of cinema. Then it did something so unthinkable that even its most die-hard fans revolted. slate.trib.al/G0vIVHt

Me, ruminating on sublime aspects:

don’t need a first baseman we’ll sign a second baseman to play first and a shortstop to play third and our third baseman can play first what’s the worst that can happen

oh this is so bad

there’s a non zero chance that at the end of the second Trump presidency the reflecting pool will be ruined, the South Lawn will still be a mess, and there will be a giant hole where the East Wing used to be

incredible to see Zac Gallen on trade deadline target lists even though we’re a year and half into him being the most washed pitcher on planet earth

The Bushwick Starr is doing Toshiki Okada’s “The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise” next spring, and that’s good news for all of us.

weird that in just over a week the stock market completely reversed its opinion on the viability of a company promising mars colonization

I'm an avowed portmanteau junkie and I am already finding this construction intolerable www.wired.com/story/soloma...

Lawrence Kasdan's elevator pitch for Body Heat.

Happy Bob Fosse's birthday!

my capsule review of THE INVITE: laugh out loud funny and thoroughly enjoyable with a very strong quartet of performances and also we are blessed to be living in the age of Peak Rogen

okay, I’m in, but also: WHIPLASH FOR GUFFMAN youtu.be/clyzHmBx43E?...

My longtime friend, Tom Rothman tells it like it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

algae welcome to the resistance

I’m the captain now

this implies that every other player has lost their childhood joy of baseball, which we all know is only true of Anthony Rendon www.thebanner.com/sports/oriol...

Ernie Clement is now the leading All-Star vote getter in the American League, this is not a drill www.mlb.com/news/blue-ja...

watching highlights of Trey Yesavage striking out Mike Trout and man he really does look like a cricket bowler maybe my favorite One Weird Trick player currently in the major leagues

@dieworkwear.bsky.social A NATION TURNS ITS EYES TO YOU www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/f...

A low-stakes and probably pedantic craft post on POV countercraft.substack.com/p/there-are-...

Using criminal charges to scapegoat innocent people for the regime’s mistakes is about as authoritarian as it gets. www.reuters.com/world/us/peo...

once a year, the fathers stir

I’m an writer and I don’t use AI because, as you might recall my mentioning earlier, I’m a writer.

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

Here is painting of my father when he & the world were young.

might have to celebrate Father’s Day by rewatching one of my favorite films about fatherhood

Advertise your bluesky account with a Simpsons meme

the 3D Gameday graphics on the MLB app remain the funniest way to watch a baseball game

Did you touch the Reflecting Pool

seems pretty clear the mandate was just to arrest some people to bolster the vandalism narrative and they wound up arresting an Olympian which honestly is right in line with this whole farkakte affair

Michals died on Tuesday at 94. He often used the kind of ghost images he employed for this essay, notably in "The Spirit Leaves the Body" (1968), which you can see here. It was a true honor to share space with one of his final pieces of work. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

if you know me at all you'll know this is literally the highest compliment I could get

fantasy baseball owners every time Jarred Kelenic is called up

RIP James Burrows If I saw his name on the credits, I watched it. Some of the happiest moments of my teenage years where when I watched Taxi & Cheers and then later on, Frasier. A master of the sitcom. youtu.be/gruBx-dU1lw?...

Swamping the drain

nyc rules www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...

having just made the journey I guarantee that the John J. Cafaro internet rabbit hole is one you want to fall down

An interesting thread from a month ago that predicted exactly what we’re seeing in the reflecting pool now (peeling up, prolific microbial activity)

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

The chunks of blue paint peeling off the bottom of the pool is too much. I can’t. How is this real?

this is now better than 60 MINUTES

Mamdani giving a speech at the Knicks victory parade and Obama giving a speech at the opening of his Presidential Library on the same day is the BARBENHEIMER of oratory, it's MAMBAMA

the only acceptable use of AI would be to generate video of a Knicks championship speech from Giuliani, Bloomberg, De Blasio and Eric Adams

Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened.

Nobody talks about this