Wife and I saw Tristan and Isolde at the Met Opera. Really innovative use of projection and staging. I was mesmerized. Actor accidentally broke a glass near the top and they chose to pause and restart the show to clean it up. Audience was very supportive. Been quite a month for on-stage accidents!

sorry i never responded to your email, i didn't want to and then i forgot

You're kidding

Was wondering if The Pitt will ever run out of systemic issues in hospital care to highlight and *looks around* probably not

Something they don't tell you about getting older is you can hurt yourself sleeping

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

Writing out that first draft and grimly deleting the exclamation point after the "Thanks!" You hate to do it but sometimes you have to let em know who you are

Wife finished Mad Men, her first time watching it, and enjoyed it, female characters especially. I think it still holds up and remained charmed by its sharp, witty dialogue. Though I'm reminded how much TV of this era were stories about "complicated" morally ambiguous men (Breaking Bad, Bosch, etc.)

On a remote support connection with IT and watching them Google "why camera not working"

They watched Zohran win running on practical, publicly-funded solutions to real and specific problems people face and thought "what if also tax credit"

Wife and I saw Death of a Salesman with Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, and Ben Ahlers (aka Clock Twink from the Gilded Age). Highly recommend it! Terrific performance from Lane especially.

Every day I collect another piece of supporting evidence for the idea that the pandemic made a dangerously large plurality, if not an outright majority, of Americans go absolutely feral. Zero sense of or interest in how to interact with other humans in shared spaces. None.

*whistling Farmer in the Dell* "Herbs comin'"

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood. trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️ republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️ “sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️ naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️ villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️ powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️ list goes on

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

2008 gas prices? Retvrn.

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns

Yesterday I fed my dog 3 minutes earlier than her usual time so today she comes in whining 20 minutes earlier. You give 'em an inch, they take a mile!

noem's dog looking down from heaven

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

They call it "the widening gyre". I said, wow, I've never heard it before, but it sounded beautiful. Turning and turning. Well we will have the widest gyre you've ever seen, wider than anyone could have imagined, and it'll never fall apart, no it won't!

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Nothing worse than hearing "y'all" from someone who went to a cold liberal arts school. Like an American tourist trying to speak French in Paris.

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

No wars except my wars

Those cops would have been heroes if they got in on the fun and threw a few snowballs back. That's community policing and good PR. Instead they once again took the smallest thing as a slight against the Infallible Champions of Virtue and Righteousness.

It's so funny watching our socialist GOAT continuously dogwalk the president.

Get ready for a lot of stuff to happen for “purely financial reasons”

A hotel lobby needs maybe one TV at most for the news if at all. This isn't a sports bar.

Why is this framed like it's bad

Blizzard claims first victim as I am dead from that NYC Emergency Phone Alert

The USA men's and women's hockey teams have each defeated Canada in OT to win gold. That's really something! 🏒🥇

Had to repeatedly pause Strip Law to calm down from laughing. Absolutely tremendous. I have to rewatch some of the episodes to catch all the visual gags.

Not only is Mel one faves, but The Pitt's depiction of an autistic doctor feels way more thought out and authentic than those of other medical dramas.

I think part of the decline of broadcast TV isn't just streaming, it's that new TVs are all designed to be streaming-first. When was the last time a new TV remote had a numeric keypad?

What a day for powerful people experiencing the consequences of their actions.

new Strip Law clip where we thoughtfully and respectfully grapple with the legacy of one of the titans of animation that came before us

Trent Lott had to *resign* after saying he supported Strom Thurmond's presidential campaign. Conservatives today say worse shit before breakfast and end up better off for it.

Maybe controversial but I'm sick of those reusable bags at the store. I try to bring my own but sometimes I buy more than I planned. Now I have piles of them but it feels wasteful to throw any away. Just a thicker plastic and littered everywhere. Should have just charged .10 for the old thin bags.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

Gonna learn the hard way why we had mandates in the first place.

James Van Der Beek, best known as the sensitive heartthrob star of TV show "Dawson's Creek," died Wednesday at age 48, his publicist confirmed. He is survived by his wife Kimberly Van Der Beek and their six children. on.wsj.com/46uWGoE

Satire is dead. www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Birnam Wood has come to Dunsinane