I can’t go back there after like the third wedding between coworkers whimsically held at work with only other coworkers present. Later seasons are too schmoopy.

Habeas corpus is the friends we deported along the way

Guess I need to log off for a few days while the worst humans sound off about the suspicious timing of an aggressive cancer diagnosis.

My wife and I both grew up in households with Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs. And we can both quote passages from memory. So kinda formative but yeah … pretty inexplicable (neither of us from Florida)

On a Mad Men re-watch and my dumb brain did me a disservice over the years: Though I loved it the first time, I remembered it as being a bit slow-moving. NOPE. Totally wrong! We get Dick Whitman clues in Episode 1 -- and these episodes are packed with plot.

it's not going well for Bears ownership. I swear the Titans' new stadium is going to be one of the last of the "allow billionaires to use public money" model. Our city had leverage but refused to even let things get slightly uncomfortable for ownership.

the Clint Stoerner fumble ("Stoernover") against UT in 1998. Was 16 and there in person with my family -- it rained most of the game but we didn't even notice we were soaked/cold until after that play.

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

failed to mention it, but yeah, that's definitely one of the only good songs present. But I guess I was fortunate to be in college at that moment -- easy to walk next door, borrow someone's cd collection, and rip what you wanted onto your computer in no time.

wildlife like the giant chicken in a chef's hat in front of the Boobie Bungalow (just north of the border)??

oof. The era of my first iPod (2nd gen), which may have contained the Blink song, the AFI song, and Reptilia (best song on this list besides Maps). But a pretty putrid time for popular music -- we all scrambled to the indie scene and (in my case) relied on cooler friends for better music

often carried a roll of Assorted Fruit Certs in my pocket in 8th and 9th grade. Sue me, I was still looking for an identity while trying not to smell like a teen.

so tired of hearing from guys who think there is some kind of virtue to being in the middle (as they reason, they're not susceptible to the excesses of either side). They're empty vessels.

don't accept a glass of red wine in a place where spilling red wine would spell disaster

(but I'm not clumsy or anything)

real Chicagoans strongly prefer the less-talked-about tavern-style Pope.

GIF upload clearly won't work. For the uninitiated: www.reddit.com/r/horror/com... (that's Dead Alive in North America)

when's gonna be his time??

since I get a lot of zoning/housing discourse in my feed (not complaining!). Bloody amazing.

I watch programs on my Disney+ bundle like a legit Marxist-Leninist, not an uncool wine mom cringe lib!

came across the most Bluesky post that's Bluesky'd: a leftist posting that they'd discovered Andor, and that the politics of it were indeed good. However, they were preemptively worried that posting about it would attract resist libs and other unwanted types ("I am not like you," etc. )

this is not a commentary opposing the development (seems like a good idea) -- just a tangent on how I do love a creepy, bombed-out mall that inexplicably still exists

I already use it for mixed purposes: 1. getting photos of the baby at the ghost town JC Penney; 2. Celebrating item 1 with gyros and a mountain of fries from Pyramids Cafe

AI evangelists always say their tools will spark creativity and innovation but time and time again it only gets used to manipulate stuff that already exists. Make a dead person say new words, generate images of a famous person naked, etc

"something called molly" as the Attorney General turns into a Tim Robinson character

prequel-era Lucas is not a secret genius because he wrote some laughably boring scenes about a trade skirmish.

Please, just remember that sequence with Obi Wan riding a giant CGI lizard thing. It's annoying as hell (both the sound it keeps making, and its existence in general)

seen a few think pieces (from respected culture websites) on Revenge of the Sith. And let me state for the record, after many years to consider and reconsider: No. It was not underappreciated. It is dogshit. The lightsaber fight where Anakin gets his shit wrecked is like the only 5 watchable minutes

not the worst (I liked it and wore it out), but my most "buyer beware" CD was a used copy of Reel Big Fish's Why Do They Rock So Hard. Only it was the CLEAN version and not labeled as such. So many awkwardly spliced blips.

Good sign for Journalism that owners of a horse named Private Equity were disallowed from buying their way into the race last minute

Remove a letter, ruin a movie.

Peed. (And Peed 2: Cruise Control)

Wife: Who is that dude? Aquaman??
Me: (summoning my bitchiest deadpan) Yes. It is Aquaman.