Matt Ufford

the Mancini Test™️, start the Wikipedia page

my favorite soccer players are fullbacks with sauce. Algeria’s Achref Abada with the scorpion flick to bicycle clearance that starts a counterattack for the go-ahead goal vs Bahrain

“circulates blood outside the body”

any scientist can tell you that it’s good for blood to get a change of scenery. take a little vacation and come back to your body refreshed and ready to work

Book Cover: The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley. It’s orange and black.

20. The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley. Solid Western noir — strong narrator, good characters. A little too booze-fueled for my taste, even for the genre. And the lack of description for the American West is a miss for any writer.

btw I'd never seen this picture of the Kam Chancellor hit on Vernon Davis before. Kam hit him so hard the rain came off his helmet *still in the helmet shape*. full-on Looney Tunes hit.

you are describing World Cup qualifying in CONCACAF

two winnable games but not feeling great about the UFC fight

I have some important advice for any of my younger followers about to enter the job market for the first time, hard-won advice that has been passed down through generations of email jockeys who just want to get through the day without too much hassle: the CEO must never know your name

buddy I live with Super Bowl 49, I would rather miss the championship entirely than come close and lose it in a way that people never forget. let's revisit this in ten years.

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a mock-up of a Spotify Wrapped screenshot, except it's been changed to "Sportify" and the top five list is of sports highlights with screenshots of each. In order: Marshawn Lynch's "Beast Quake," Jorge Polanco's ALDS-clinching hit for the Mariners against the Tigers, Landon Donovan's goal against Algeria in the 2010 World Cup, Mike Tyson punching Mr Beast, and Kam Chancellor's 2012 hit on Vernon Davis in a 42-13 Seahawks win.

no surprises in my Sportify Wrapped, but it's good to see some new material crack my top five

penguin classics cover for extremely loud and incredibly close by jonathan safran foer, but the cover image is the "girl shouting at boy" meme

increasingly clear that Olivia Nuzzi’s grossest kink is writing a book on an iPhone

not at all quintessential but I saw this in print back in the ‘90s and it’s stayed with me ever since

same

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

monetizing a lack of belief in anything defector.com/toward-a-the...

Will Cain is a whole bitch who got wrecked in sports and had to go shake ass for racists for money

I’m imagining a playlist with both “Sorry” and Concerto in D Minor

I will now sell 5 copies of The Three EPs by the Beta Band

yeah it’s on my main running playlist and I saw them in concert with LCD

Top 5 songs 1. Sabotage by Beastie Boys 2. Birdhouse in Your Soul by TMBG 3. Hello by Martin Solveig & Dragonette 4. Common People by Pulp 5. Dry the Rain by The Beta Band

1. In Rainbows by Radiohead 2. Silent Alarm by Bloc Party 3. The Sunset Tree by the Mountain Goats 4. Lonesome Dreams by Lord Huron 5. Bryter Later by Nick Drake

they’re calling it “big dad energy” (gonna blame my son for Birdhouse in Your Soul but I’m not ashamed of it)

guys I quit Instagram and Twitter. I don’t use Facebook or TikTok. I’m sorry but I’m gonna share the shiny thing from the evil music platform

UGH a grammar error in a post celebrating excellent writing, I have brought shame upon my family

The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...

no one else has been so consistently artful in describing the last decade of conservative politics than David Roth, and for this accursèd talent the least he deserves is a Pulitzer defector.com/the-conserva...

Lane Kiffin: Yoga Lout both checks out on the merits and is appropriately on-brand for him in that it is unappealing in ways I hadn't previously conceived of.

the pylon cam 😚👌

sorry but I’m not visiting you in that prison