At least Memorial Day Sales Weekend is coming

I was convinced I would keep on waking up from the pain of rolling over on my shoulder every night forever, and I regret to give you the good news that going to the mattress department of a big furniture store and getting a brutally costly extra-extra-firm new mattress fixed it literally overnight

It's marvelous: no, no, not "files" in the sense of "you can see folders listing the hundreds of jpegs or mp3s you have on this device"

How were they supposed to prepare for unpredictable contingencies like "catcher gets nagging injuries and his hitting tails off" or "minor-league slugger can't hit major-league breaking balls" or "guy can't stay healthy" or "other teams also sign and develop prospects"?

Westburg is good but he’s the Steve Finley in the mix

Where even is “files”? The entire premise of iOS has always been that you aren’t allowed to see or interact with the system outside app silos.

Four images: 1.) A map: LONGITUDE AND TIME CALCULATOR. GLEASON'S NEW STANDARD MAP OF THE WORLD ON THE PROJECTION OF J. S. CHRISTOPHER, MODERN COLLEGE, BLACKHEATH, ENGLAND. SCIENTIFICALLY AND PRACTICALLY CORRECT; 2.) Stovetop clock reading 8:56; 3.) A melanistic squirrel; and 4.) Close-up front view of a white painted door with an old round metal door knob that has been painted white.

Today is a perfect day for a journey down (or up) THE STAIRS, a serialized novel by @tomscocca.bsky.social found exclusively at INDIGNITY www.indignity.net/tag/the-stai...

I want to mail a letter indie, buy some mom-and-pop stamps, get the personal touch

Screenshot of Google information box: United States Postal Service 1.8 stars 501 Google reviews Post office in New York Website Directions Reviews Save Share Call [Highlighting begins] Government chain [highlighting ends] providing mail and package delivery services, money orders, and passports.

Government what now

It doesn't seem like traffic death in the United States has been reduced to the point where the problem of unavoidable residual accidents is meaningfully worth talking about

More a Cecil Fielder type

Bon Jovi wasn't really an accumulator though

The low-hanging fruit is the sweetest

Paired up with Alex Rodriguez in a way that made people think less of both of them

"Humans aren't blank slates" therefore wealth is genetically inherited hmm maybe go over your intermediate steps again

No knock on Pavement—a band I have more affection for than 99.99 percent of the population does—to say it's hard to see which part of their artistic development is supposed to map onto "retooled around studio innovation after the constant nightly screaming of 50,000 fans made touring impossible"

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What if my entire line of reasoning is based on being a college radio DJ in the early '90s and owning and loving a bunch of Pavement records

THANK YOU

Pavement is good

I was going with the definition of "'90s indie rock" as "rock music distributed on independent labels in the 1990s" but we didn't have the benefit of hindsight back then

Hm OK sure Pavement was one of the more influential bands in the genre of "bands that sounded like Pavement"

Sorry!

But the fact they didn't even try to say which Pavement album would be Sgt. Pepper's is as good a place as any

I mean—speaking as someone who had Perfect Sound Forever on vinyl before the person who wrote that Instagram caption was born—the idea that you can map even Pavement's musical development onto the Beatles' is so daffily inside-out I don't even know where to begin

I'm more or less the Liberace of guys who wear jeans and t-shirts and can't play piano

LMFAO *the Beatles of indie rock* is an incredible concept, sure, the Beatles of bands that didn't sell records, why not

Did Donald Trump just commit ‘blasphemy’? | CNN In the midst of a Truth Social tirade against Pope Leo XIV, President Donald Trump posted a now-deleted image depicting himself as Jesus Christ. Christians across faith traditions roundly denounced th...

This fun CNN piece on the meaning of blasphemy features the first interview with me as a culture war expert! Baby’s an authority now.

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Apollo 11 (2019) on the biggest screen you can put it on

Just couldn’t plow through it far enough to form an opinion about the underlying situation