One of the things I love about the Championship is you still retain those golden moments of rapture. Do they sometimes get it wrong, yes, but the margins are so close and things tend to even out over time. I hate the way VAR robs the game of its joy and its tempo.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

And $50 million on his goddamn wedding

The dude, a cinematographer mind you, has no idea what “Triumph of the Will” is, does he?

YouTube video by Nate Reiter Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis - First Ave 260130

Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

I saw Heart twice in the 70s. Does that count as four?

they did this in Powderhorn for a fuckin reaon

Thanks! I had never heard of the Eleanor Clubs — and to think they were still running in the 21st century, wow.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

You gotta be kidding me

I just read someone calling Mr. And Mrs. Bezos Baldilocks and Beelzeboobs and I will never call them anything else.

I miss the tradition of watching the Marx Brothers Movie Marathon on New Year's Eve on WGN-TV Channel 9 in Chicago back in the day! I’m waiting for the Vasilopita (Greek New Year’s Cake) to be cut at midnight!

Here is Roger Ebert's review of Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo from 22 years ago. It was one of those movies which somehow insulted Rog in the way that would get him foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/deuc...

Haha, same! Giving my nephew an inside drone!

Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas— you can’t say I never … well, you can’t say @kevinmkruse.bsky.social never gave me anything to give you.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

This is what you tell subjects of stories when you’re gathering information. “Look, I would really like you to answer questions about this. It will give your viewpoint and will make it more complete. But I’m doing this story with you or without you.” This is basic journalism.

Boughs of Anthony Joshua holly about to deck the Jake Paul halls

I’m sure it’s just coincidental that the Sun-Times ran an expose about him two days ago.

“DOTcom bubble” goddamn autocorrect

There was an entire website in the early 2000s called fuckedcompany dot com that existed to document the sitcom bubble burst for crying out loud

Hey thanks! I’ll have to swing by the Mitchell Building next time I’m in Milwaukee. What a fabulous beaux-arts pile! That whole block has awesome buildings.

Trump was born on third base and managed to steal second.

Abject cowardice.

Holy crap, this is full Ted Lasso

I’ve never seen a manhole cover like that and Google has no idea who WH Bayley & Sons was.