Unnecessary dispatching of anchors to war/disaster/storm/mass shooting zones is somewhere around 8 or 9 on the list of reasons I consistently use scare quotes around TV "news"
Like a cat purring. A very big cat
Could have been! The train was crowded and I couldn't see where it was coming from
On two successive days in the past week, someone was playing Call Me Maybe over their phone speakers on the A train
Wasn't this literally the plot of the TV show Colony?
Macbeth: Oh shit
Apropos to nothing, whoever wrote this apparently thinks that University Park is a place that exists and can be visited rather than just the postal designation for the Penn State campus
Was already leaning toward not renewing my digital subscription. Final nail in the coffin, if this is true
I wouldn't want a cleaner going into places where one of these ducks would be out of plain view (other than the cupboard with the cleaning supplies)
I'll say it's bad. That should be "whom to admit" in the hed
Me: [Washington Heights intersection], please
Cabbie: Is that Yonkers?
***
Me: [Washington Heights intersection], please
Cabbie: Uptown?
Me: Yeah, Washington Heights
Cabbie: Shit
Congrats!
Next will be its sister ships, Puttanesca and Alla Vodka
Never did that, but for weeks — MONTHS — after moving back to NYC from Hong Kong, I would pull out my wallet as I was leaving the subway
If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.
Always had a good juvenile snicker when I spotted one of Hong Kong's cum recycling bins
He's in for a shock when he has to adjust to actual pizza instead of casserole pretending to be pizza
As did "Bostoo Yook Yarters"
"Toronto Blue'ns" made me snort-laugh
What is this, an Eagles game?
Is that like the brown acid at Woodstock?
Puts me in mind of another piece assessing a veteran actor's late-career work, with an all-time great headline:
www.npr.org/2012/01/25/1...
I got one a similar message on LinkedIn telling me my background made me an excellent candidate to enroll in a master's degree program in electrical engineering. It was the best laugh I've had in a long time
I have read cricket articles out loud to British and Australian people and gotten blank looks in return
The What Is New York account on Instagram just had a post where someone saw one in Wisconsin, which I think is where the factory is. They just drive them over from there
These Bond guys are amateurs. The last Terminator film killed off a still-teenage John Connor, effectively retconning the two previous films out of existence. More franchises need to set themselves this kind of challenge
Is he largely forgotten though? There's a popular show on Prime Video based on his books
Where are the MythBusters when we need them the most?
