An Apple CarPlay screen showing SOS by ABBA playing

ABBA! At the Dropoff Lane

A sign that says “exclusive - design your custom estate here” in front of the sign for Sunset Memory Gardens, a cemetery

Shoutout to the low level employee at the fancy real estate company who put the “Exclusive: design your custom estate here” sign in front of a cemetery

Finishing it tonight, and I think a problem with this movie is that it’s pretty good, but Michael feels like a totally different character in a lot of ways?

If your favorite writer is a transphobic piece of shit that is frankly a skill issue on your part

It's easy to dunk on this, but this is the kind of dramatic transformation for a role that wins people Oscars

Oh nice. What's it called?

This war is a bloody and criminal mess, inflicted on us by a gang of self-serving and incompetent crooks.

But: Vance spending the foreseeable future ineffectually flying back and forth to Islamabad like white nationalism Sisyphus is a little funny.

Adopting the team that somehow managed to squander having Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani at the same time out of a fit of pique sums up modern American conservatism in a way I can’t fully put my finger on

Also stylistically it’s fun. Gorgeous sets, great costumes. It’s a different tone than the others - very operatic and over the top. I think it works (but not necessarily as part of the trilogy).

There is Elvis Costello in this movie, hell yeah

Underrated movie, also underrated cozy sweater movie

Obviously nowhere near as good. But it’s good! Vatican bank corruption, theatrically overtop the top, Sofia Coppola being thrust into the kind “over your head because of family connections” casting that led to “Marie Antoinette” years later.

Completing are Godfather rewatch and, hot take, part III is good actually

*point shaving investigation*

Blue Cybertruck on the back of a tow truck

Somebody got their Cybertruck painted blue, and then it got towed. Sometimes the world really can be a beautiful place.

Those memes about liberals getting the NFL in the national divorce, but about the Papal States

Just coached the 4YO’s first 3 on 3 soccer game by default, because there wasn’t an official coach, against a team with matching uniforms and organized drills and stuff. I will be consulting a reputable lawyer regarding the point shaving competition that I’m sure will be coming.

Both the Nuggets and Wolves have some cool looking uniforms, why is neither team wearing them?

What's it about? A tale of two friends, Elena and Lila, as they navigate life, love, and loss in a small Italian town.

How much can a (presumably AI) summary of the Neapolitan novels get wrong in one sentence?

The late Melissa Hortman is a great model here. Having the cultural aesthetics of a suburban moderate, more or less calling herself a suburban moderate, and pushing through a pretty thoroughly progressive agenda.

Yeah, I mean realistically. Also I’ll be there for work for one night the day of game 5, and I’ve never seen the Wolves in the playoffs before, so honestly I just hope they make it that far so I can use my ticket

Wolves in 6. If not for themselves and for the fans, then for the poor harness racing fans of Serbia who crave the early return of Jokic

Telling a cokehead that they’re right to be paranoid, a recipe for the bleak end to a 70s movie

Like a traditional Finnish sauna, but for poultry

Enough moisture got into the grill that it unintentionally smoked the chicken in a really nice way

Not bad for a Friday night during a downpour. Picture on left is Samin Nosrat’s Persian-ish rice, kale salad with lime, dill, cilantro, and parsley, and grilled chicken with yogurt saffron marinade. Picture on right is what the grill area looked like when I was done.

Selfie of an increasingly unkempt bearded white guy trying to stay dry, holding a red drink, next to a smoking grill

It’s Negroni o’clock on Friday, grillin’ in a rainstorm edition

Waxahatchee - "Lone Star Lake" (Lyric Video) YouTube video by Waxahatchee

Song of the day for Friday

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Whenever the actual villain, the inequities of contemporary American society, isn’t onscreen, all of the other characters should ask “where is the actual villain, the inequities of contemporary American society?”

I miss the really big magnolias in St. Louis, with the thick, glossy green leafs. But a nice silver lining of climate change is that the slightly hardier variety is becoming much
more popular here in southern Wisconsin