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Your other choices are impeccable. I will submit this as "a favorite" rather than "favorite." I suspect you would not agree but @johndankosky.bsky.social might.

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Or, I should say, I will have to figure out how to use Comcast's DVR capabilities, which I have never found to be as user friendly. But maybe I am just dense.

I still use my TiVo frequently. It's particularly useful for me when there is a basketball game I want to watch, but I am teaching or something. And I want to watch it as soon as I get home, not wait for a rebroadcast. I guess when it dies I will be out of luck.

Listened to the album version in my car yesterday. That last minute and half when he just goes ecstatic is so friggin' good.
He did something similar at the end of I Have the Touch, back in 1982.

This song was just used in the sitcom English Teacher (which I really enjoy). As it played, I was thinking how amazing that a boomer Brit, who was in a prog rock band, could actually get this funky, and obviously love it so, and be so authentic about it. Still one of my favorite PG songs.

5 is really difficult, but let's go:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Annie Hall
Ordinary People
American Beauty
No Country for Old Men

(Two of those will get me cancelled but I just think they are really good films.)

The Nose looks at ‘Dept. Q’ and ‘Pee-wee as Himself’ This week’s Nose looks at the new Netflix Scottish mystery detective series, ‘Dept. Q,’ and the HBO Original documentary ‘Pee-wee as Himself.’

Check it out. Listen to this episode while squeezing a tennis ball.

Not coincidentally with the 1992 release of Spike Lee's Malcolm X masterpiece, hats, t-shirts, etc., with a big X emblazoned on them became, for better or worse, a fashion statement.
Just another thing stupid Elon Musk ruined.

I really enjoyed my conversation with Nolan Higdon on his Disinfo Detox podcast. We talked about Trump's attacks on CBS, Musk's AI "white genocide" fiasco, and journalistic culpability in Biden's failures.

(We look way too happy in this picture, considering what we were talking about.)

Thanks for having me on.

Ocean's Twenty-Two. (Wait, did I do that right? I'm not a math guy.)

Weekly Five Things I Did To Earn My Pay Memo (wish list edition):
Punched a Nazi in the face.
Punched a Nazi in the face.
Punched a Nazi in the face.
Punched a Nazi in the face.
Posted four videos of me punching Nazis in the face.

I cannot fucking stand this vile administration using the history of my ancestors to pursue their despicable aims.
We don't need your fake fucking "protection" from fake fucking "antisemitism," you nasty fucking swamp monsters.
A pox on you every single time you say that word.

The "but there is real waste in government" dudes are a lot like the "but vaccines do have side effects" dudes. (Often the same people.)

Yes, to both. But the way you deal with that is not by attempting to ban vaccines or trying to destroy all of government.

1. Kanye can kiss my Jewish ass.
2. But, honestly, Kanye is the least of the Nazis I am concerned about right now.

I aspire to be underrated.

What are Mark Bauerlein and Scott Yenor possibly getting on about in the Chronicle? Ridiculous stuff.

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I heard that the last chapter is a banger.

I am feeling personally attacked.

Me: I'm gonna run some errands.
Lori: Be careful.
Me: Ummm...
Lori: People be crazy.
Me: People DO be crazy.
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Never trust an academic who utters the word "entrepreneurship" unless it's in the context of critique, disdain, or mockery.

FX's adaptation of Say Nothing is fantastic.
This is how you make intense, captivating television without sacrificing complexity.

❤️

So wait, killing their CEO didn't change everything about capitalism?

Really clever packaging. I love this movie... probably a little too much. I could watch the scene at the end, when Tommy Lee Jones tells that story, over and over and over.

Just released.