Andrea Monagle

Date predictions for when the street will be completed: Go Birds.

The street that had a broken water main in July will go unrepaired until morale improves.

After this morning's trip to the DMV, I am pleased to report that Pennsylvania has two new registered progressive voters.

An explanation of acceptable forms of proof of residency with "magazine" highlighted.

(Finally) going to the DMV tomorrow to get my PA license, and it looks like my sweet, precious print media, which Matt says I should "cancel yesterday" because I "never read any of the issues," will be my saving grace.

"Thirty miles to the southwest" echoes in my head as we fade from a shot of the Boston skyline to the next Patriots drive.

he hasn't and oh god

The stadium is in Foxboro, you fucking dunce.

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Thank you so much for spelling this out in the newsletter. Everything Red Scare–related is a complete blind spot for me, but I love mess.

The part of Ethan Hunt will now be played by M3GAN.

M3GAN 2.0 (2025).

Me and my child, who is actually a dog

We heard fireworks, but we’re doing better now.

Took a little longer to reskeet than expected, but

Let me, an extremely casual fan of the game, tell you how it should be.

It’s been years since I’ve actively watched a full televised baseball game, but I’m here to declare that FS1 has the worst sports camerawork I’ve ever seen. Deeply unpleasant POV shots, delayed cuts to action (you didn’t want to see that attempted pickoff at first, right?). Tomato, tomato.

Dangling modifier in the second sentence. Disqualifying.

I admit that I forgot to mention the PS/Xbox factor, which probably would have bridged that gap nicely.

Lyric from Date Everything: Oh for god’s SAKE you cannot sneak up on me like that when I’m reading!

Mood.

Alternately, Brian Cox at the end.

Anna Paquin’s True Blood audition tape.

TRICK ‘R TREAT (2007).

"There's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence."

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Hegseth declares an end to 'politically correct' leadership in the US military Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of U.S. military officials to an in-person meeting to announce directives for troops that include “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physic...

you know what probably isn't great for military readiness? turning a blind eye to violent hazing, sexual assault and bigotry, while purging leaders on the basis of race and gender.

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

Shout-out to Junglepussy for establishing us in a post-1996 world by referencing Set It Off, a movie I’ve half seen on cable at least a dozen times.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025).

The first Philly addition to the RIP section of my deranged food map 😢

Yep.

Rodeo Bar and Grill in Murray Hill. Those margs. Those cowboy kisses.

And Bleecker Street Bar. (The original. The one they opened around the corner is a pale imitation.)

Seeing people who are just not wired for anything but rage and schadenfreude try to figure out the performance of grief is genuinely anthropologically fascinating

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.