David_j_roth

With all due respect, I've built an artificial acting career in the Tillyverse that exactly parallels the one that Bruce McGill has in real life. I suspect that you cannot say the same. I'm in the Tillyverse version of Rizzoli & Isles and a lot of people are jealous of that. (Tilly plays Isles.)

Sedgwick’s prescription is “reparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: “Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.

Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/

Forgetting Some Guys Modern baseball puts up numbers.

Typically good stuff from @sammillerbb.bsky.social on the current MLB Guy Situation and the challenges it presents to those of us in the Guy Remembering Community. (I assume everyone that cares about baseball and follows me already gets this newsletter.) pebblehunting.substack.com/p/forgetting...

Finally, Trading Cards Commemorating The Dumbest Year In American History | Defector Trading cards were not a big part of my life as a sports fan when I was a kid. I cared a lot about Ray Allen, Tino Martinez, and Juan Román Riquelme, but I did not care about collectible rectangular r...

We ran a great blog about the Politics Card Biz back in 2021, but the random autos are new to me. defector.com/finally-trad...

Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car

I imagine eventually yeah

I understand people getting upset with NBC News for writing about this shit, but also maybe get outside your bubble a bit. In America's diners and taverns, on the bus and in the office, online and off, everyone is clamoring to "enter the Tillyverse" and build artificial acting careers there.

Looking into this Clue

"Pete, talk about your mindset going into today's round of school and hospital bombings."

Fundamentally just a very degrading line of work to get on the horn with Donald Trump while he's at one of his little clubs, some shithead chiropractor's second wedding going on 50 feet away, and ask "so what did you have in mind there?" where the question concerns bombing a bunch of foreign kids.

Kind of an ominous dearth of bad news from there actually

I once saw Sam Dalembert and a date coming out of the Wahlburgers that used to be in my neighborhood. But the media covered that up, as usual.

Boom times for instantly writing 380 ireedemably insane words in a google doc with the working headline The Whole Place Is Dark and then deleting it. I do not think this is quite as much my fault as usual.

I think it's nice

Well I hope it goes well. The wedding I mean.

/Mistaking the SCIF at Mar-a-Lago for the coat-check for a chiropractor's second wedding that is happening in the ballroom right next to the SCIF at Mar-a-Lago and briefly seeing a drowsy Donald Trump in a suit and baseball cap looking at a TV with a bunch of tweets on it. "Ope, sorry guys."

Source for this claim?

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Live a starting pitcher who looks like Hal Holbrook As Mark Twain during his age-30 season.

Oh wow, Jerry Reuss?

hell yes, this is chronological. first guy checks into the vegas hotel, second guy performs the magic show that the first guy pukes at.

This is an amazing career. I feel like it has to be a knuckleballer to log that many innings over that many years. Is it Joe Niekro? Tom Candiotti?

www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

Innings-eater approach to executive sociopathy. The Doug Davis of illegal military action. I don't care for it.

Ending nine wars [lowers sunglasses to look you dead in the eye] and starting ten new ones.

indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

I’m 62 years old, I live in Tampa, I eat corn and beef everyday, I always have a titleist hat on, and Iran is the biggest threat to my freedom

The Substack right has now unironically adopted the end of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile as their talking points.