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A good Twitter name in 2010 would be Adam Lavigne.

The kid’s not wrong.

“When they throw down, we throw up”
—The Barf Battler’s Creed

"I’m home alone at a sleepover, and we’re terribly behaved boys."

I once had an alt account named after a famous baroque piece that almost has my real-world last name in it, with the bio "Puns so baroque you can't Handel it."

It's two puns at once!

Baroque counterpunt.

Both are good responses to when someone is telling you stories about their mouth guard.

For me that finished him as a candidate, (if a Nazi tattoo isn't a deal breaker, what is?), but I was willing to believe he didn't know what it was until recently, since I do Holocaust research for a living and didn't recognize that particular symbol.

Same, and same.

Maybe that’s why he had that tattoo.

A Google Street View screenshot of that neighborhood in Copenhagen that's all seventeenth-century barracks. They are very long and orange-cream colored, receding toward a distant vanishing point in the center, and there are some parked cars in the middle and a person crossing the street in the foreground.

Good lord this is nostalgic for me. Chicago channel 2 news from my early childhood. Walter Jacobson, Bill Kurtis, that guy who works with my parents' friend...

Legally speaking, Santa is known by all these presents.

How can you not love Sade? I get the Danzig thing, though I’ve always liked the Misfits.

And not just because of his last name

One of my faves

It was pretty darn cool. The downside was experiencing a full-body cringe when a fanboy asked a very fanboy question.

You were right; it was bears. I got away though.

You were not wrong! Although during the Q&A he said “Abstract philosophy is utterly alien to me.” He also called March of the Penguins “a despicable, vale, base film.” It was wonderful.

Nope, elephants, I think

This morning I was listening to Paul F Tompkins do his Werner Herzog character on an old Comedy Bang Bang episode, and this afternoon I got a surprise invitation to a screening of the new Herzog film tonight that the director will be at. It’s a sign, but of what?

Munchings AND crunchings? In this economy?
—online Gurgi

In a cool youth pastor voice, right?

I keep forgetting to check this out. I’ve always liked Flea.

A photo of an artificial orchid in some fake grass. It’s a very red picture overall. Funny story about this artificial orchid. I found it on the sidewalk and took it home. Then I put it in the cup that’s the trophy that the trivia team with the most points for the month gets to take home for a month. So then when it was time to take the trophy back, I left the orchid inside. Then a week after that my trivia team sat at a table we don’t usually sit at, and there in the table ornament at our table was the orchid. Well, I had to take a picture of it, even though the lighting in the bar is insane and red.

Hey all, Ginny is my roommate. She is safe and in-care 💙 Thank you all, your help got her located.

Am I the only one who associates dormice with Alice in Wonderland?

There’s some dors in this mouse
There’s some dors in this mouse
—Lewis Carroll, “WAP” (Weird Alice Poem)

Ah, Sakura Park. I spent a lot of time there twenty years ago.

At first I assumed you were talking about the 80s sitcom Wings, and now I want a gritty Wings reboot.