I'll never have a Ring camera.

The lies are exhausting enough, but the media STILL reporting the lies as "this person said this" instead of "this person lied" is enraging.

Everything about this Super Bowl is fire... except the game itself. (which may not even matter anymore?)

This unabashedly Puerto-Rico-forward, multi-cultural halftime show is the first time in years I wish I still had Twitter, so I could watch the meltdowns happen in real time.

Project Hail Mary is one of my favorite books I've ever read, and it looks like Goddard and Lord & Miller have nailed it. Only six more weeks!!!

The game is within reach of either team, but I do feel like my last hour or so has been spent watching boring football.

I'm not sure I want to see a single biopic about The Beatles, let alone four of them. deadline.com/feature/the-...

Maybe this was good casting after all... deadline.com/2026/02/mast...

I really like following baseball people who are smarter than me.

The new Muppet Show special captures the spirit of The Muppets perfectly. 100%. I loved it. Gonna take me a while on some of these new voices, though.

"I never wanted Framber to be an Oriole anyway." -Many lying O's fans feeling the cope right now.

I continue to be absolutely shocked at how many people I respect, who obviously heard about how Substack happily platforms nazis... but then just kept on publishing their newsletters there.

"Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man." Watching one of my favorite movies.

Every time I see an Instagram video with the text, "Turn your phone sideways," I sigh and move on... because I am on a desktop computer 99.9% of the time and my neck is not built like that.

Speaking as a preacher's kid who was often paraded up on stage & treated like I was special... I see a lot of adorable kids in Instagram content that have no more agency over their current lives than I had as a kid. And I truly hope they end up less bitter about it than I did.

I'm more interested in a spot's consistent fry cook level than I am fry type. Soggy, half-cooked fries are awful no matter where you get them. For me... locally to my local locale... Wendy's and Arby's are more consistent with their fry cook than any other fast food chain.

Over 200,000 in Middle TN are still without power, including my wife's good friend. The high today was 16 degrees (F) and it's 10 right now. We still have power, so said friend & her cat are now comfortable and warm here in our house. Check on friends & neighbors; help them however you can!

Happier than ever that I didn't join TikTok. Jesus.

Oh, good. Seattle vs. New England... again. Everyone can enjoy that.

Imagine what we could do with the money if we just stopped flying military aircraft over sporting events.

OMG! Hahaha.

Well, we only got about an inch of snow, but now we're getting sleet and overnight we will get freezing rain 0.25-0.75". Ugh. THEN, after the freezing rain, it's going to snow more tomorrow. So, yeah, I'm no going anywhere for a while.

For anyone in the storm's path that is forecast to get snow first, followed by freezing rain (as we are), here's a tip: If you are home & able, get out to shovel in between the snow and the freezing rain. Ice melts faster on concrete than it does on snow & shoveling snow+ice is lots more work.

I've lived in Baltimore, Indianapolis, Chicago, Chattanooga, and Nashville, & NO ONE freaks out about incoming snow like Nashville. 2" in the forecast and bread & milk disappear at the store immediately. Now they're saying we might get 6-14" & I still have to do a regular grocery shop tomorrow.

Holy shit, Indiana won it!!

Yesterday my wife wished for snow and this morning we get this forecast for Saturday. (For reference, we usually only get about an inch or two, total, all winter long).

Did I dream that play? Was that real?

Every single person that I have recommended The Pitt to has raved about it after watching. Just saying...

I might be reading this wrong, but this appears to be pure insanity.

Or, if your Mom or Dad were terrible... then call a friend. I only intended to encourage folks to call someone they love tonight. :)

Call your Mom or Dad!

New England was already good for a super long time. I don't need them to be good again already. It's too soon.

The Martian is one of my top three favorite movies. But it's still hilarious to me that when they made the film in 2014, they just assumed GoPro design wouldn't change for the next 20 years.

Indiana University is the best team in college football this year and it's not particularly close. (I can't believe that sentence is true). BUT... they still need to finish this game out AND win the last one to prove it. As someone who grew up in Indiana... I hope they do.

I'm playing one of the online spelling games I enjoy and am really frustrated by its refusal to accept "snotbutt" as a real word.

It's getting harder and harder for me to escape into sports in the face of the daily shocking news events. Just feels weird to witness something awful and then cheer on (mostly) wealthy athletes. If it's still a viable distraction for you, I'm jealous (no shade).

Today went really great... until I got out of bed and read the news.

This is a movie-related post: I can't stop watching the 2024 French-language Count of Monte Cristo. It's just exquisite filmmaking in every way.

This kind of stuff is vile, and is almost certainly driven by gambling.

Okay, after that game outcome, I may have to be careful how much time I spend on the feed here, as I'm expecting my Orioles fan mutuals to be pretty salty, justifiably.

We've moved beyond things I've feared and are squarely in the territory of "things I never thought to fear that are somehow worse than all the things I feared."

If em dashes are truly dead because of AI's overuse of them... I am screwed. I've published 6 books and I use them constantly!!

Ah, my usual fireworks neighbors are at it again, because they super love the passing into the New Year and not because they just love setting off fireworks for any excuse they can find. Anyway, yes, my cats are traumatized and hiding right now. Happy New Year, fireworks assholes near me!

I have taught myself to do lots of things in the kitchen over the years, but "cracking an egg without getting bits of shell in it" continues to elude me.

House hunting in Tennessee means that every house will be full of religious imagery... and will probably also have a large metal star prominently displayed for some reason.

I'm not geeked about signing Eflin, but I'm far from thinking it's a terrible move. He should be a solid bottom-of-the-rotation guy.

Just now getting around to the first season of The Pitt and, yeah, it's as good as everyone said it was. Absolutely riveting television.

My brother & I were raised by a father still learning to say "I love you"; though he did learn to say it. Now that we're older & bonding more, my brother & I end all emails with "love you!" & it's awesome! "Happy birthday, love you!" "Go Orioles, love you!" "Christmas at our house, love you."

Tomorrow my wife & I are repeating our annual tradition of Christmas Eve Bacon. It's a very complicated ritual that involves cooking a bunch of bacon and then... eating a bunch of bacon. This year I'm going to make some everything-bagel bacon and some peppered bacon, alongside regular bacon.

I try not to crowd this Orioles-centric account with too much non-Orioles noise, but I really liked One Battle After Another, though maybe not quite as much as everyone else.