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me when a cowboy makes a spurious claim

Try estate sales! Excellent place to find nice furniture if you have the ability to transport it.

Hoagie roll filled with stewed beef, collard greens, pickled julienned carrots and radish, and cilantro

Run, don't walk, to the Sego Indonesian food truck at 16th and Market for the beef rendang hoagie ($12). This is rocketing up the Enterim's Sandwiches to Watch 2026 list.

British people call them snoughploughs

you were cooking

my pleasure. they're a good band.

I've said before that Life Without Buildings offers a simulation of what English sounds like to someone who doesn't understand it. The lyrics are so (deliberately) repetitive that they lose their semantic content and the vocals become just another instrument. It's cool.

we used it effectively as a tape machine for our bands and then would ssh into it and copy the raw wavs to a macbook that had a DAW on it for non-sickos for editing and mixing

in 2014 I had a small home studio with some friends where we had an early 80s mixing console I got off craigslist running into a linux desktop with JACK/ALSA into Ardour (no REAPER on linux yet!). it made me feel very smart but was so incredibly inconvenient we used it maybe 3 times

Polvo – When Will You Die for the Last Time in My Dreams. Also my favorite >10 minute song. music.youtube.com/watch?v=sPh3...

(Let's Watch a Disney Channel Movie voice): Criss Angel's Breakfast, Lunch, and Pizza

Chief Wiggum sternly telling a lunatic demanding a gun, "I told you, you don't get your gun until you tell me your name."

democrats playing hardball

if I wanted to see the founding fathers in a work of historical fiction anchored by innovative animation technology I would simply play the 1993 adventure game "Day of the Tentacle"

Dan McQuade Got Philly Like No One Else The writer, who died Wednesday, was one of the most gifted chroniclers of the Philadelphia experience.

One great writer's obituary for another.

Brian Howard on Dan McQuade.

"Nobody understood Philadelphia, and Philadelphians, like Dan."

www.phillymag.com/news/2026/01...

aw man, RIP Dan McQuade 🙁 a philly journalist for the ages who really made this city seem larger than life. a twitter mutual of mine of many years based on nothing more than us living in the same city & having similar tastes in writers. I imagined I'd still be reading him blog in 40 years' time.

when I get my thermal imaging camera, it's over for you hoes

Burned-out 4-story apartment building being sprayed with water by the fire department. Ice is on nearly every surface.

Apartment building fire at 52nd and Pine in West Philly. The surrounding streets are absolutely covered in ice from the fire hydrant runoff instantly freezing.

the number of breath-fog VFX shots is gonna be off the charts

I used to read them for their e-bike and micromobility coverage exclusively and had to roll my eyes and scroll past a lot of Tesla worship. So it's been a delight to see them come around.

ahh I love missing album art
2026-01-23

surgeon clad in white makes a "c'mon, what'd I say?" gesture in the middle of a crowded surgical theater while performing a masectomy

Thomas Eakins's "The Agnew Clinic" (1889) masterfully depicts Dr. David Agnew performing a "C'mon, what'd I say?" gesture during a surgery.

You've got some nerve. People are risking life and limb to protect their neighbors and you dare to scold them about hypothetical violence? The people resisting deserve praise and support, not lectures from a cosseted old fool.

looking through the free games you've claimed from the epic store is one of the premier ways to see some of the most unappealing art direction in all of minor league video games 👍

The kiosk demo of Mario Kart DS contained "Flesh Trucks" due to a spelling error. While the error was fixed in the final version, looking at the preview image for GCN Mushroom Bridge very closely shows that the truck still has an L. As such, the memory of the Flesh Truck remains.

The reverse-engineering of an NEC chip by Near & co. for bsnes was used by Stephen Hawking to emulate his 1988 speech synthesizer after the original hardware started failing!

lotta Pogues and Stan Rogers this week
2026-01-16

this is fucking incredible

there's a lot of early 90s Bay Area avant-garde band satire in Day of the Tentacle. it really pleases me to imagine the LucasArts guys writing jokes about like Thinking Fellers or Gregg Turkington

inshallah the Nintendo Kid shall fall from his place of cultural hegemony