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Every time I mutter something about Pete Crow-Armstrong needing to walk more, he hits a pitch up by his earlobes 410 feet.

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Autocracy shall founder and the people shall overcome through our polite expressions of disappointment. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

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I wonder if Thom Yorke felt anything today, as he assumed the burden of being our Saddest Living Musical Genius.

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Hit the farmer's market and liquor store in like eight minutes flat. Cherry tomatoes, snap peas, cold beer. It's too hot to fuck around.

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Times've been tough on the floor of the insurrection factory. Lotta folks went broke, else gave up the trade. Moved into mutineering, subterfuge, rabble-rousing. But Trump has the industry back on its feet. You can once again feed a family of four on an insurrectionist's salary. It's dignified work.

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This is a beautiful explication of precisely why Fuck All of This. tosiello.substack.com/p/is-our-chi...

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I can't get over how cheap and ugly sports broadcasts are these days. The games are a multi-billion dollar product and they look like an Xbox 360 rendering of the yellow pages.

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Screaming at the cops and setting cars on fire seems like a sane and even kinda restrained response to what's happening.

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Gavin Newsom continually issuing and retracting executive orders as public opinion on Being An Asshole toggles between 50.1 and 49.9 percent.

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Oh yeah, I'll get stoned and take in a Godspeed! show at a cemetery. I'm at exactly that point in my life.

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My theory is that the league, despite the immense skill of the modern player, is mid as hell. And in that environment, Rick Carlisle's genius reigns.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Guys, it's fucked up that they made a new Rod Beck and nobody told me.

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To some extent it's always been like this, but it seems bad that so much of what happens in the world is decided by functionally illiterate speed freaks.

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A soothing playlist of Hubie Brown narrating the fine mechanics of ordinary tasks. Sorting laundry, parallel parking, making an omelet, etc. I feel like this would make me a better person. I would learn things.

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Back on my bakery bullshit. I'm carbed up and loafed out.

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It remains one of the wildest things in the world that Disney paid late-career Hunter S. Thompson to write despairing columns about the sickening depravity of American empire and, to a slightly lesser extent, Skip Prosser's Wake Forest. www.espn.com/page2/s/thom...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

During brief spells of unemployment Tom Thibodeau still flies in and out of NBA cities, grinding Hornets-Wizards tape at night on the creaking beds of Red Roof and Ramada Inns, an iPad perched on his belly. "I lack the proper focus when I'm at home," he says. His home is the Times Square Sheraton.

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The summer of 2010 was the psychedelic bottom of my depression. I holed up for three months in a balls-hot studio apartment, wrote bad jokes and drank vodka and hated myself. Maron's podcast was the only thing—more than any human interaction, really—that cut through the stifling loneliness.

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Shai and Haliburton are going to wear some eye-wateringly bad outfits. Mesh capes, Tommy Bahama overalls, papier-mâché Napoleon hats. Their stylists will be sentenced to death by a tribunal before the start of free agency.

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I don't know if Eric Adams has actually toned the day-to-day wackiness down or if the national media is just, you know, focusing on The Crimes but I could really go for a pronouncement that he and John Starks were roommates in 1991 or that "Isiah has done a tremendous job with this team."

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Democrats failing to take serious action against Trump has proved immeasurably destructive. If you call a guy a threat to democracy for years but don't try to jail him and/or ban him from office, people get the impression it's either not a big deal or there's nothing to be done about it.

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Unearthed my former Cokemachineglow colleague Mark Abraham's Retconning series on, of all places, Github. This was a really great entry point for 16-year-old me into genres I knew nothing about. I'm glad it's alive somewhere. gist.github.com/modality/2df...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Mediafire and Megaupload were more reliable circa 2008 than half the digital services I use now.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Lotta blustery hype from UPS on forthcoming deliveries. A minimum of three emails that are like GET READY TO SEE SOME SHIT. I'm aware that I ordered pillowcases last week, calm down.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Feel like my contributions to the local Little Library are under-appreciated. Motherfuckers are stocking that thing with For Dummies manuals and I'm gifting the world Donald Barthelme and Thomas McGuane collections.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Famed mob lawyer Sotto Voce.

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Though the gods proscribe it, we are making densely herbed butters.

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Tony Reali seems like a swell guy but treating Around The Horn as a treasured institution is weird. It's a show where newspaper columnists in varying stages of professional deterioration offered disingenuous 35-second arguments about headlines they skimmed that morning. It sucked.

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