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That's the trick - everything's a bit these days.

Die Spitz - "American Porn" (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Die Spitz

Shit yeah - a new Die Spitz video dropped!

And here we go.

Watching the AP page for the Virginia election results and Fairfax County is just sitting there, lying in wait, with 0% of votes counted.

We had a run on the CSA side with Dempsey and Odierno back-to-back, and then the Army said enough of that.

And people though a case of the barracks crud was bad before...

What? Next you're going to be saying coffee milk is bad.

Dog.

Escape the noise in this off-the-grid Maine destination Grand Lake Stream is famous for fly fishing but a hidden gem for other travelers seeking a break from their busy day to day.

Oh hey, it's my favorite place on planet Earth:

It's also totally a thing in Texas (where I first heard the term).

tvc.texas.gov/mental-healt...

I have so many great lizards living in my yard - I mean look at these fantastic little guys I saw just today.

Ooof - I ate too many waffles.

Rowed fast. Legs rubber, lungs screaming, alive. Happy Friday.

17 days off? Must be nice.

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

One of my dumb little daily puzzles I play is a geography one where you guess countries by their shape, and this one from the other day - specifically the part showing how I did compared to other players - stopped me in my tracks.

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

‘The Coldest Winter’ (Published 2007)

The first chapter of The Coldest Winter, especially the part from 3-8 CAV, has lived in the back of my head for years now. Shit practically reads like a horror story.

www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/b...

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Kills Wife and Self, Police Say The couple was going through a complicated divorce, according to Fairfax County police.

WTF

Never thought I'd see an SAT analogy in the wild.

That kid was about to enter the darkest chapter of his life, lol

If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses (2009!)

I can't even imagine having that bleak of an outlook on life, let alone if I was a 20-year-old like this guy.

Hera says good night.

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO | First Look Teaser YouTube video by GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO

Fuck yes. It's officially Godzilla season again.

Austin TX: Please foster a dog from Austin Animal Services! They have 31 dogs living in crates in a hallway right now! Even a few days break can be beneficial and help dogs get adopted.

Mannequin Pussy: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Incredible stuff.

Wildly enough, I just saw Kaleen Reading fill in on drums for Baroness the other week in Austin so the timing on this is something else.