A screen shot of a news story with a photo of a Canada goose on a baseball field with the headline "The Phillies had a fourth outfielder at Wrigley, although it had feathers."
The MLB app decided to highlight the best thing about tonight's Phillies game.
Spending my prep period listening to Wu Tang Clan and reading journal articles about James Joyce that lead off with recaps of The Simpsons.
The other day, my students were talking about playing Clue and I asked if they knew there was a movie version. They did not, and I said, "Oh, there is. I'm not going to tell you it's an objectively great movie, but it is an extremely fun movie."
Happy 80th, Mr. Curry!
Tim Curry, in every role: Here mr. director, I made it real extra sexy like you wanted
mr. director: hey what
CHANGE MY MIND!
Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago has the world’s largest retail collection of zines.
You can’t get this sh!t at Barnes & Noble! 🤘🏽
It’s Saturday now so if you’re emotionally prepared to review the news from this extremely stupid week, I can help. www.todayintabs.com/p/5-6-millio...
The MLB TV app doing the good work of saving is from watching the end of turn Phillies game.
This is a great retelling with good links to the present day. Wish I'd heard more about it from my grandfather when I was a kid.
22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.
As Superchunk put it, "there was more than one Reagan Youth."
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I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.
I would l to have a president in the mode of NYC’s mayor who celebrates the common good that governance can promote.
Clean air, clean water, safe food, healthy & educated kids, support in times of crisis.
We deserve to have the government we pay for.
Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods
I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.
Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.
I love donuts, I love making things, and I love this post.
"Making is an act of sharing, it’s an act of using our joy, our labor, or expertise, in the service of adding to what’s here...We make things so that we can bond with others."
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This is an outstanding read. The bit about "Using an AI chatbot to help me write would be like using the kitchen garbage disposal to help me eat dinner" is just incredible.
Definitely teared up watching the return of Artemis II.
Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.
NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.
As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII
This is right but let's also be clear what is also - and maybe primarily - is, which is a mechanism to direct massive contracts with little oversight and often no competition at all to friends and family of the regime.
"Show me the country where bombs had to fall / Show me the ruins of buildings once so tall / And I'll show you a young land with so many reasons why / And there but for fortune, may go you or I, or I"
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My intro to Phil Ochs was a cassette recording of my dad playing "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" at a neighborhood party. Found my dad's copy of "Chords of Fame" later on and have been a fan ever since.
"There But For Fortune" has been on my mind lately.
And I know this next batter's name is not Gordon Legume, but that is what I heard.
I can't hear the television all that well (the volume is sort of low), so I'm pretty sure I got it wrong when I heard the announcer say "There's a hard-hitting Presbyterian at the plate."
I am watching minor league baseball and the announcer just said "The bases are loaded with Blue Claws," which is a fantastic out-of-context phrase.
something I am proud of is my friends’ ability to survive but also still have the energy to be kind and to live their values. I think as they get older instead of becoming hollow, money-hoarding gammons, like society told us we would, they have become more determined and more kind
Barry's moon blogs have been so good, and this is the best of those. Really excellent stuff here: defector.com/artemis-moon...
I am fully tired of living in constant exposure to a malignant narcissist. I assume you are too.
You and me, we're like the two cousins texting each other at the Thanksgiving table while grandpa gets drunk shouting Rush Limbaugh talking points and gramma cries.
My grandfather was a student at ND in 1924 and claimed he was part of the crowd of students who went after the Klan. He told one of my cousins that he still had the hood he stole from a Klan member, though neither my cousin nor I ever saw it.
"It has never been easier to find a grown man pitching a child-size fit in public than it is at that moment"
David Roth always delivers.