Eastern Tony

* A 3-year-old who was dressed better than me and seemed to know it
* Bar dogs, almost as a concept
* Deciding against the carpaccio and the restaurant accidentally delivering some to our table anyway (it was fate, baby)

Still way behind on my word count but can't complain all things considered

Highlights of the weekend:
* A very drunk woman at a restaurant very drunkenly answering her phone, explaining to the person she forgot to pick something up from that it's no stress for her to just reschedule, then complaining to a friend about how much a mutual friend drinks

The one with the hat

The band? The postwar building boom? I cannot find anything on this via Google and am begging for details

I am helplessly picturing John Birch types taking a bold stance against shady German construction cos at Pasadena City Council meetings in 1948 as everyone rolls their eyes

It cannot be overstated how corrosive wealth inequality is on every level

It erodes the social fabric and institutions, but it boils away the billionaires' brains too

The danger of AC is that it might actually punish corruption (slips on goggles)

Like this

I don't know which makes me dumber:
* Being excited for a new La Croix flavor in the co. fridge
* Excitedly going to sip the new flavor only to realize that I'd been sipping it to no fanfare ... Twice

WSJ is running an op-ed mocking Dems for their weak 2028 presidential slate — you know, 33 months before the election

This story really should have been treated as what it is, a sad man's resignation from an industry he can no longer keep pace with

So I missed a step on the stairs and fell and half-turned my ankle, and the dogs rushed down to see if I was alright and like

Whether I needed to be licked or pawed at or something

So this is my deeply irrational moment of the year, but I don't know that I can watch Mother's Basement again after he compared Kate Bush to Maroon 5

Me: I have so many ideas but so little time to really develop them you know, to do them justice

Michael Reeves: I spent 4 months making a video about shooting a dog in a catapult

Fooooooo painting some ungors and they look like garbage, but only when I look at the blown-up picture on my phone

My eyes are so bad lol

I'm not an advisor, but I feel comfortable telling people three things: an index fund is good enough for you; life insurance isn't an investment; if someone is selling you an investment and says the word "guarantee," they are pitching you a scam

Woof just found out a friend is being taken for a ride by an insurance company and the more he tells me the more my hair is on fire

Lmao WSJ running an op-ed that boils down to "I don't know how to do math, but these numbers are begging you to stay invested in the big tech companies"

No. We're not doing redemption arcs.

JFC WSJ running a piece on recruiters that charge jobseekers, not companies

This gem in the middle:

"(Person) ... had qualms when he first paid a reverse recruiter from Fiverr ..."

"Now he wonders if he should parlay the experience into a side-gig"

(He did not get a job)

Lady at the checkout line told me my Uncle Dog shirt scared her and I reflexively apologized

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

I mean, I fear doubling down on "the least relatable way imanigable" is kinda this person's brand

Dunno why she's like that, but it is a consistent throughline in every one of her appearances on my TL

Slonald Stallump

The Cold War echoes in this graphic will ring in my head forever

NYT Big Brains doubling down on the battles of their dead fathers so Tucker Carlson might consider using his inside voice when calling them commies

I have seen at least three utterly impenetrable think pieces explaining why BTC down ~50% is good for BTC

This is all terrible but that first woman is going to lodge herself in the back of my mind, that's truly terrifying

10 Games Workshop Chaos war hounds. They have shaggy brown manes, yellow haunches — some with leopard spots and some with tiger stripes — and bright blue tails and snouts with red noses. The bases are a muddy mess of bones and blood.

Chaos hounds probably done? The matted blood came out a little too black, so might hit that real quick with something a little brighter, but trying to not let "halfway decent" be the enemy of "actually finished"

10 plastic Games Workshop Chaos war hounds. They're on 3-d printed bases that are just piles of skulls. The war hounds have yellow bodies, some with tiger stripes, some with leopard spots and some unadorned. They have large, light brown manes. Their tails, horns, teeth, eyes, etc. are just base coated and clearly unfinished. The bases are a mess of glossy red paint splashed roughly over the skulls, which are brown and ivory.

First models for my Old World Brayherds are almost done — need to pick out details and tusks n horns n tails, but I wanted to see how my high-concept bases looked before settling on a color

"High-concept" of course means "more blood" like I'm Hubbard on a movie set

Today's also-ran gripe about rich assholes: If you can afford to buy a yacht and sail it to pedo island, you don't get to name it a jokey reference to your karmic debt

Coin with a leering skull above a crossed pair of skeleton arms that are both throwing devil's horns. In all caps, it says GEN X THE BADASS GENERATION BEFORE ALL YOU SISSIES WERE BORN. Below it says Kenismo: The Ultimate Tribute to the Badass Generation, Shop Now & Dave Up to 50%, Fast and Reliable Shipping, Sponsored: Kenismo

You think this coin has a scratch & sniff for a Guns N Roses concert

This post deserves more love, I say, mostly because I have been spending every spare moment this morning trying to come up with a Rainbow Warrior joke

Lol meanwhile The Economist is running the hed "Elon Musk's mega-merger makes little business sense"

Potato-potash I guess