Beautiful news!

Cover of the Magic Treehouse series featuring Shakespeare

Telling my kids this is Hamnet.

A great and correct list, missing only “Castilian Blue.”

A lost-and-found “posters” asking for assistance finding a rickety umbrella with lemurs on it.

Close-up of a 6-year-old now more worried about getting wet in the rain

Good luck to the young scofflaw who took my daughter’s balky umbrella, featuring jolly lemurs and incipient tetanus.

I can only add my admiration not only for the post but also for Steves’ correct spelling of minuscule, which is almost gilding the hero lily.

Warren Zevon voice

Who needs battle ropes when you can just launder and refit your duvet cover.

Lot of pressure now on John Ford Coley.

I do have them. Books, discs, no boxes. But keepers anyway.

Same. Thanks, Pell grant.

I wonder if I still have all three Nuggets sets...

Album cover of King Crimson’s “In the Court of the Crimson King”

My second-favorite casting is the Bud Lite “dilly dilly” king as the hit man. To me, a valentine to Pynchon the TV addict.

I expected to get got and I definitely got got. I could resent that, I guess, or I could just feel it. Film is acutely manipulative; I sign up to be manipulated but hope not to be aware in the moment of whatever choices are pulling the strings.

Loved these books.

Lego women in a Magna Tile sleigh bed, talking about their day and enjoying a two-tone Silly Putty pillow.

Me: I smell the grape silly putty, but where is it?
Willa (age 6): It’s in the bed.
Me: Your bed?
Willa: No! Their bed. [points at living room floor]
Their bed:

Submarine Bells

I didn’t understand how prolific I was with “nevertheless” as a retort to my 6-year-old daughter until she countered with “nevertheNOTless.” Checkmated.

I will never forget seeing this at a Blockbuster in 1999 and telling my then-wife and her sister that we had a new nickname for their dad, one of those briefs-around-the-house guys.

C-SPAN is replaying Neal Katyal's winning SCOTUS appearance ahead of Trump's press conference reacting to this defeat.

This is like being in a concert hall and hearing all of Born to Run play as the preshow music and you know the curtain is about to go up on Gallagher and 16 watermelons alone onstage, somehow in a good way.

On the one hand I hate it and am disappointed in myself, but yeah.

Van Morrison dancing and singing "Caravan" in the Band convert movie The Last Waltz

Standing up to take a break from writing and regain sensation like...

Why choose? Underdog contender for most offensive ad moment for me: MrBeast casually handling, then tossing, what looked like a tear-gas grenade, walking past anonymous-looking soldiers. To pimp inescapable workplace juggernaut Salesforce.

Same.

Thanks, I’ll Eat It Here (Lowell George)

Begging Costco to resume stocking Thomas English muffins. You don’t have to stop selling Farm to Market’s flavorless, weirdly spongy version, but people need another option.

That’s very kind, thank you. Sad, infuriating day for anyone in any market who wants a working press.

American Music Club: “I Just Took My Two Sleeping Pills And Now I'm Like A Bridegroom Standing At The Altar”

American Music Club: “I Just Took My Two Sleeping Pills And Now I'm Like A Bridegroom Standing At The Altar”

Some businessmen in my community might see a lesson here.