Okay. It’s been a couple of weeks and I’m ready to call it. Opalite is my favorite track.
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The purples are getting increasingly unhinged. #connections
Ranting and raving about fraud and abuse in the welfare system while blithely ignoring fraud and abuse in the White House doesn’t make you a conservative (or a liberal). It makes you an asshole.
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin:
I’d rather 100 welfare scam artists enrich themselves than 1 child go to bed hungry.
I watch a lot of college football and have seen a handful of Capital One ads dozens of times and it wasn’t until Week 4 of 2025 that I realized they were trying to push this dude as their version of “Jake from State Farm“. (I just thought he was a random MLB star I didn’t recognize.)
Holy hell. I just saw Seth Meyers new segment, Introducing the Interns and How They Mock Me, and I am dying at his commitment to the foam cinder block bit.
“I never realized how much I hated every single one of my friends and relatives.”
– Homer Simpson, At Long Last Leave, S23:E14
Hoo boy, I cannot wait to watch Seth tonight. I hope @salgentile.bsky.social didn’t spontaneously combust when he heard about Kimmel and was able to eviscerate the GOP in what I expect will be the best A Closer Look ever. (No pressure!)
Fun activity: Any child who licks his elbow can open one Christmas present early.
When I was about twelve, all of the landscaping at our apartment complex changed one day while I was at school. I thought the new design looked really cool and mentioned it to my mom. She said, “I just can’t believe they let a man do this.” When I asked why, she said, “Men always use railroad ties.”
I had no idea what railroad ties were and assumed it was some sort of neckwear and didn’t put two and two together for at least a decade.
I think about this probably more often than I should.
My mom loved “Do not go gentle into that good night”, and I have thought about that poem quite a bit since she died. Last week I stood in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey and explained who Dylan Thomas was to my son. When Taylor Swift released ttpd a few days later, I heard the title track and almost couldn’t believe the serendipity.