Dan Burton

The first week of April I was in the car with my mom explaining that I was getting a little tired of the audio clips about oppo tacos and Mike Piazza’s Home Run. That was 6 months ago.

You cannot ask me if I know what an oppo taco is right now

i wish I were at the bar where I watched game 6 so the drunk guy next to me (Chris) could be leaning into me hard and saying “tied game at the bottom of the 9th? Game 7 of the World Series? This is…. Baseball”

If you had asked me “do you know how to drill a hole and put a screw in the hole” I would have laughed. And yet

After like 6 months of it being broken I finally fixed the door in our apartment that came off its hinges. At the cost of only like $50 and all my self respect

a lot of the time what I want is, like, the one guitar shoegaze cover

I really really like a bunch of Kinks songs but it’s like they have to put one last layer of frosting on the perfect cake to make it a little too sweet

These Council Districts Produced Zero Affordable Homes This Year Voters are deciding on a proposal to bypass the City Council on planned developments in the neighborhoods that have built the least. They include swaths of eastern Queens and southern Brooklyn.

Gale Brewer’s district hasn’t built a single affordable unit of housing in 2025 (so far)

Vote Yes on Ballot Proposals 2–4

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(realized wrong direction only after riding a few stops)

Ran after a bus for multiple blocks and caught it at the light only to discover it was going the wrong direction. Somehow i‘ve lived here years and never encountered a bus that goes back and forth on the same street

How is it that the instagram algorithm has figured me out to the point that it shows me screenshots of old tweets by people I know in real life with a soft rock soundtrack in the background

Like this is rockabilly-ish country but I still want a more specific descriptor. It’s like commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen? That frenetic guitar is so different from Wanda Jackson or the Stray Cats

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Tbh in high school for a lot of the songs I liked, the thing going on was “I like this really specific vibe they’re doing a pastiche of and I have no idea how to find the real stuff”

My dark secret in high school and college was still really liking Cake. I saw this video yesterday and the guitar solo was stuck in my head all night

ALCS Game 7 Recap: When the Rope Gave Way | Baseball Prospectus Sometimes, seasons just die.

an absolutely gorgeous, heartwrenching Game 7 recap from @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com:

You should ignore what the so-called “experts” are saying on this website. The baseball game tonight is actually pretty important

I gave away a copy when my Dolmenwood box came with one, but now I realized they’re slightly different? Do I buy it again? Tempting

Chicago avenue is closed so I am taking a Chicago taxi instead

Visiting wife’s family in Chicago, where I am taking the Chicago bus to get from the Chicago L stop to the Chicago L stop, to get on the Chicago L

Imagining a Chicago toddler who throws food tantrums but exclusively following the dictates of Chicago-style foods. NO I WONT eat that hot dog the bun HAS TO HAVE POPPY SEEDS and those are THE WRONG PICKLES

One downside (for you employees) of making a latte $7 is that if you mess up the order the customers get to justifiably be like “this was $7”

Crafting a joke take where a salary cap is like over representation of small states in the senate. Why shouldn’t the places with the most people have the best baseball players

Confirmed this sukkot: if a single guy is singing out the front windows my dog will lose his mind, but an entire family can sing in the backyard until after midnight and he’s like “idk whatever we don’t have back yard access in this unit”

I remember so strongly listening to this play on my phone in line boarding an airplane and having to google the rule

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I have been with family and unable to watch all of every game I wanted to see, but I have had absolutely insane luck throughout the playoffs tuning in right when something fun happens. The last Yankees strikeout. Games getting tied multiple times. It’s fun

Every once in a while I remember my coworker from Bay Ridge who said I shouldn’t complain about my rent being too high for a crappy building because I live in a ”fancy neighborhood.” I guess Crown Heights has really made it

Tweet from Basil: “I love Queens so much” Image shows Google maps with 60th St, 60th Pl, 60th Ave, 60th Ln, 60th Rd, 60th Dr, 60th Ct

Unfortunately, apartments are banned here.

Due to outdated zoning, you can only build 1 and 2-family detached homes on the block bounded by 60th Ave, 60th Ln, 60th Rd, and 60th St.

The dodgers started scoring the second I turned the game on, maybe I’m what they’ve needed all along

A tiny moon peeking out behind some train station signage

You just gotta believe me that this harvest moon or whatever looks crazy when it’s not on an iPhone camera