Jake Anbinder

I watch it while I do the dishes

Now having watched HEAT for about the sixth time my take is the vibes and “love letter to LA” location shooting are impeccable which allows it to skirt the fact that the plot makes absolutely no sense

Cooking for one can come close if you shop at a high end grocery store and/or are not good at planning how to use leftover ingredients. But it scales very quickly with 2+.

see also: vaccines

Most of the people who say their ancestors immigrated "the right way" are describing an era when you could basically just show up at the dock

Oscars: ok generally I know these people despite not being a movie buff

Grammys: Jesus Christ I’m old

As the (maybe apocryphal) story about the US News rankings goes, when the man who used to run them was asked how he was sure of his methodology he said "because Harvard and Yale are at the top"

I could swear before the age of influencer moms no one used the terms “hubby” or “little ones”

The experience of writing a book can be summed up by finding a note you wrote to yourself eight years ago that says "see also Plotkin" with no further explanation

the crux of the problem is 50% of winters even in upstate New York don't require winter tires anymore

I have lived my whole life in places that have real winters and if there's a place where "people know how to drive in the snow" I haven't found it yet

The main funeral home in Ithaca is Bangs Funeral Home and the main ambulance company is Bangs Ambulance. It just seems like a conflict of interest, is all I'm saying.

The Ravens job is the most appealing job up for grabs this year, thus I predict it will go to the top available candidate: John Harbaugh

Savannah is a little less twee

Drove by last week and noticed how dreary it looks now

Langston Blvd? That was mine growing up. Lost my first tooth in that PlayPlace.

My printer now mostly exists to print return labels

This is completely unprecedented from a winner of the FIFA Peace Prize

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My dry cleaner went from extremely low tech to extremely high tech all at once. A year ago they were cash only and hand wrote their tickets. Now there’s an app where each of my shirts is tracked like they’re making me a pizza.

Everyone knows that if you win a championship in New York, you get a parade down Broadway. I propose that if you win an NBA Cup you should get a parade down 10th Avenue.

Like, Mamdani's success is not because he captured the ideological zeitgeist. Nor was Obama's. They're good looking, they're good on the stump, and they're good at synthesizing a lot of conflicting opinions into something that sounds good enough to enough people. That's the power of ideology.

Something I've really come to believe is we spill oceans of ink on the question of what precise mix of policy views is politically optimal when reality shows that sufficiently charismatic candidates can get voters to agree with pretty much anything

“I wish for the Knicks to win a championship in my lifetime” [monkey’s paw curls]

lol Susie Wiles is Pat Summerall's daughter?

people online every day are like "this one newspaper, WHICH I DON'T READ OR LIKE, did not publish the exact stories I want in the exact wording I demand, and THIS is what's wrong with America"

ah yes, the New York Times, famously antagonistic toward [shuffles notes] Hollywood liberals

normal people: this is insane

academics: ah yes the search committee was deadlocked on a successor so they are asking the beloved emeritus prof to lecture a bit

Charging for Tweetdeck was the beginning of the end

No one cares about the stupid geminated kaf. Certainly no one in the Anglosphere knows thats why there are two k’s. It’s pretentious and confusing.