Aw thanks. We get to make everyone else’s fans happy this year, so that’s something.

This team is an abomination. DFA everyone, make the minor leaguers free agents, fire all the staff, burn all the gear, liquidate the franchise, and use the proceeds to let fans enter the witness protection program.

Amused by SNY going full woo-woo trying to stop this losing streak.

I was broken by whatever that movie was about immortals. The one that was like a week long and deeply boring.

(I don’t actually care if it is or isn’t Bono.)

I felt culturally inept and so watched all the Marvel movies before COVID, but now I’m behind again and don’t think I care. Oh well.

I thought that was Bono. (It isn’t, right?)

A sequel to “The City Under Ground” by Suzanne Martel. When I was nine I read an excerpt in some “get kids to read” sampler book and got my parents to figure out how to get the actual book ordered. Made quite the impression!

Collective Shrugs All Around Faith and Fear in Flushing

Good God I'm incapable of learning anything. Your recap of an 11th straight Mets loss, at Faith and Fear in Flushing.

That was a when, not an if.

Cup Snake Jake returning to SNY made me briefly happy when the Mets are seemingly incapable of it.

Two lights. (With reflections.)

Good God that's the worst picture of the Parachute Jump in human history. Sorry all.

Me wearing a Cyclones jersey I got as a prize with Superman and Krypto on it.

View of the Parachute Jump

The Wonder Wheel from within a swinging cage.

Me and Emily on the Wonder Wheel

Coney Island, baby.

Stop 👏 caping 👏 for 👏 cheap 👏 billionaire 👏 baseball 👏 owners 👏 who 👏 gaslight 👏 you 👏 into 👏 believing 👏 your 👏 favorite 👏 team 👏 is 👏 poor.

THE SAN DIEGO PADRES ARE ABOUT TO SELL FOR $3.9 BILLION. THEY WERE LAST SOLD FOR $800 MILLION IN 2012.

You can't get away with the crunch because the crunch always gives you away.

Ooh a new FORBIDDEN:

* You appear to be clicking on something about Clavicular, whoever the fuck that is

Goodness yes. The Legion of Super-Yutzes needs its own indifferently distributed comic-book series that gets canned two-thirds of the way through the first arc.

I like FORBIDDEN coming up in a pink banner and would ask Bluesky to deploy it more widely.

Some ideas for me:
* You’ve complained about the Mets 5x already today
* Your blood is up and you want to find people to block
* You do not in fact have to find that thing that was kind of funny last week

Some valid concerns that date back to things that got short shrift during COVID and needed to be addressed, like sidewalks being passable to all and rats. But mostly it’s the usual plaints from people who don’t belong in the city: noise, newness, other people actually having fun.

Where Has All of New York City’s Outdoor Dining Gone?

Go Lincoln Restler! And a pre-emptive fuck you to our town’s legions of NIMBY dickheads.

Where do I find a new hobby since the 2026 baseball season is effectively over? Leaning toward “setting fires.”

Three people you don't want to get into a public beef with are Kendrick, Isaac Chotiner, and The Pope

METS BY THE HUNDRED
100 J Schaffer 1965
200 B Sudakis 1972
300 P Mankowski  1980
400 R Milligan 1987
500 P Smith 1994
600 L Harris 1998
700 R Sanchez 2003
800 M Alou 2007
900 S Hairston 2011
1000 M Conforto 2015
1100 D Peterson 2020
1200 J Walker 2023
1300 MJ MELENDEZ 2NITE! #LGM

True. Ruined everything.

Good God I grew up in the 70s so the answer is “everything.” Let’s just say the philosophy of child-rearing has shifted.

Ha I crossed my fingers and waited to be told no. Whew!

TLJ novelization

Prologue of the TLJ novelization, which opens with “Luke Skywalker stood in the cooling sands of Tatooine, his wife by his side.” OP wants to know who would open a book that way and expresses a wish to strangle me.

Ha, pretty much the effect I was hoping for.

Johnny Somali, American Online Provocateur, Is Sentenced to Prison in South Korea

If we clapped every YouTube grifter into a labor camp I’d say, “Gee, that seems like a pretty broad brush.” But I wouldn’t say it very loudly.