gas station attendant: it's a air fryer. it fries the air.

anton chigurh: you don't know what you're talking about, do you?

Kinda goofy news today, which is that I had to choose between my job of the past 6 years as a software engineer at the Times and my new co-op magazine newsletter Gourmet. I chose the latter!!

hoping that goat is Sippy, these are great!

*looking at Amazon* "I'm sure reputable seller of baby gear and....welding tools, VNEBFREERS must have done the proper testing and certification of this stuff"

*frantically googling*

moral arc bent wrong how to fix

wikihow diy moral arc fix

moral arc technician near me

Does anyone else feel completely insane right now

need someone to care about my well being (the being which resides within my well)

They union better get to work.

The scam I am least likely to fall for is you randomly texting me asking a question. I can't even text my mom back promptly, you think I hop right on that?

I read them because I read the whole daily newspaper comics pages, I don't think I cared all that much about Mary Worth but it was there so I read it. The collected editions were an extension of the comics page - but, just the things you like, in one place and more of them.

i do not want chicago to be in the epic meme production industry. i know we're not actually better than that, snl and what-not, but i don't think we should continue with our rat holes and our cheese grater guys. i consider this "philadelphia behavior" and if it were up to me we wouldn't engage in it

ruin two bands by combining them:

Death Of Montreal

How are we both in like a monoculture but also in a world where I’ll catch a late night interview w/ an actor I’ve never heard of where the host will be like “how does it feel to be on the most popular tv show in America?” And the show is something like “Pills Tomorrow”, 3 seasons deep on Paramount+

Just a really really happy audience

A friendly audience

I will say it until I’m out of breath but if you’re critical of colleges offering “fake” degree programs with absolutely no intellectual rigor, start with the undergrad business degree or I’m not taking you seriously. 100% fake curriculum of airport Leadership slop.

#pixelart

[spends an hour trying to find the perfect background YouTube video to get me through the last hour and a half of work]

"Oh wow, where did the time go?"

B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs, Mignola 2005

Anton Chigurh - Wikipedia

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I agree that House of Jealous Lovers is an absolute banger but I don't get why we're all talking about The Rapture today

looks down suspiciously into my coffee cup to make sure it's actually coffee I'm drinking

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

Endtroducing....

Until you’ve participated in union contract negotiation it can be hard to conceptualize that an owner or manager would care more about screwing their workers than keeping a business profitable or indeed open at all, but it’s actually not so uncommon!

The Decent

#MildHorror

This is probably awful, on the other hand a very real question that comes up quite often is "How did you end up with only one shoe right now, and where is the other one?"

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