Possibly I've been unfair because I've only seen Into the Woods performed by a college cast. I saw Urinetown on Broadway with a cast that included the dad from The Nanny. That same weekend I saw Bernadette Peters in Gypsy.

It was O.K. Urinetown was the only one I've really liked.

"Mom, is dressage a sex-thing?"

Do it in 2008.

I now use the "nuke-u-leer" pronunciation only for "nuclear family."

Should I go buy Jameson to prepare? I stocked up in January of 2025, but I drank it all.

Oatmeal and coffee.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes]

Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.

Me: wut?

Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

A dozen years ago, I never heard of Tito's. Now it's everywhere.

They tried so hard to make this headline shorter but there just wasn’t a way to do it.

Those are Tubes, not Tunnels.

Yes. I'll be happy to subscribe now.

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

Orbán turns out to be more of a democrat than the U.S. president and a nontrivial number of GOP candidates.

The pants have promise because you can never have too many pockets.

Did you shop that?

I'll never be able to move north of Forbes in this environment.

I'm fine. I can, without undue hardship, save enough to weather a 2007-level recession. I'm just more cost-sensitive than I would be otherwise.

It's not just vibes. We've been saving for unemployment/early retirement based on very real attempts to destroy the types of businesses and institutions that could hire me.

The average American knows the difference between mean and median, but only because of Medians Georg, who lives in cave and knows 10,000 medians per day.

You need to see this, folks talkingpointsmemo.com/news/staff-a...

What does gout taste like?

Vasceviticulture.

GHALIBAF: "So I'm not really sure what our objectives are here because our leader is in a coma and maybe has brain damage so it's all just scheming viziers, y'know?"

VANCE: "You're not gonna believe this."

I have a friend whose hobby is helping people fix flat tires.

I first saw that several years after my son was born, which is probably for the best because "Snake" is probably not a good name for a kid.

The Pennsylvania steelworkers very explicitly hooked their wagon to Trump and reminding them that Trump is fucking them over seems like very good politics to me.

They added to the very short list of things you can "mong".

Quick name change to Cuomo.

[takes a long drag off a cigaratte thinking about all the time i spent stopping people from editing the "arianism" wikipedia page to say that muslims/unitarians/mormons are arians] yeah