Mike McComb

Cover art for Eurowhat 276 Lingua Franca: The Language Rule at Eurovision. The signers from Urban Trad (Belgium 2003) perform gestures during the song "Sanomi"

🗣️NEW EPISODE🗣️

The 2025 Grand Final of #Eurovision featured 21 songs with non-English lyrics, the most to appear since the language rule was abolished in 1999. In this episode, we'll explore the history of the rule and why language diversity has returned to the Contest www.eurowhat.com/276

Started Somebody Somewhere and do I need to plan for twenty more sobbing sessions (complimentary)?

For some reason remembering the time I got into a playful Twitter fight with one of the other judges from $10 Million Bigfoot Bounty

ALoRoWaHAiBA Abbreviated List of Resources on Why and How AI is Bad, Actually Worsening Climate Change, Pollution, Environmental Racism, and Associated Negative Health Consequences On the pollution and health con...

Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Watching through The Good Fight for the first time in 2025 is… cute…

Chairface from The Tick looks up at the moon with “CHA” etched in the surface

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"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Adding “Pointless” to the list of acceptable definitions for “oximated”

Resolved: The most poignant scene with an imaginary friend task is the most unhinged Taskmaster task

Retirement

When I was 10 my favorite CD was a “Bugs Bunny and Friends Sing The Beatles” and I just think we need the cast of Bob’s Burgers to do that but for pop songs

All the Music Played on MTV’s 120 Minutes: A 2,500-Video Youtube Playlist The mid-nineteen-nineties was not a time without irony. You may recall that, back then, 'alternative' rock had not only gone mainstream, but, in certain regions, had even become the most popular genre...

All the Music Played on MTV’s 120 Minutes: A 2,500-Video Youtube Playlist

My whole USA logo is a dolphin giving a blow job theory recently resurfaced. I made this video almost 15 years ago to illustrate what I thought was VERY OBVIOUS.

In which we cover the non-stop hits of the last five years… of controversies afflicting the Contest.

Enjoy!

I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face. -Andre the Giant

Baseballs cool bc you’ll be like wtf? And then see that what just happened didn’t happen since 1901 or some shit

A random head of cabbage in the gutter in the rain in Columbus

Was James Acaster here?

That might explain the calligraphy font of the sign

In Columbus this weekend and love some of the business names:

* Waterbeds ‘n’ stuff
* Fancy Store

May everyday be another wonderful secret. What's mine? I sleep with a nightlight.

Just left the office party where things got more Real™ than planned and then checked Bluesky.

Good. Night.

POD! CRAWL! POD! CRAWL! POD! CRAWL! POD! CRAWL!

Enjoy!

"The Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense" encapsulates so much American history

TV stand with tastefully add knick knacks

New TV stand 🥰

When Sun Country becomes the state airline of Numerica in 2029 you’ll appreciate these practice runs

Vicki from Small Wonder

Watching Murderbot

Oh, you know, just taking in some Finnish community theater about the dangers of fascism. It’s a light comedy!

Image of a freaky guy with the caption "meet the dark new generation of clowns making you spill your deepest secrets"

I know I'm going to get some use out of this pic in the coming years

Ladies Love Solidarity James

A $1600 Jeopardy clue, from the game that aired on February 26, 2019. It reads "Some think the electric car will abolish ICE, short for this traditional type of engine."

Remember when Jeopardy said abolish ICE