Marc Singer

“To lose one vice president, Mr. Trump, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

Portland 101st Anthropomorphic Infantry has arrived.

One thing I love about my neighborhood--from pedestrians to drivers, we all fucking loathe Donald Trump.

This whole thread is just one bullseye after another.

WaPo is hemorrhaging subscribers over this stuff but they don't care. It is no longer a newspaper, it's the publishing arm of Amazon's lobbying operation.

Interesting disjunction between Grant's thoughts on Rebellion stealing their IP (traditional, wrong) and their approach to using the IP-stealing machine themself (a beautiful new life form we must flower into being).

But I mean, this is exactly the take I would expect from Grant, so...

Interesting disjunction between Grant's thoughts on Rebellion stealing their IP (traditional, wrong) and their approach to the IP-stealing machine (a beautiful new life form we must flower into being).

But I mean, this is exactly the take I would expect from Grant, so...

I saw this was labeled as adult content and at first I was like, what the hell is this? this is censorship! this will not stand--

(looks at the album cover again)

oh yeah, never mind, good call

Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville

Pulp, Different Class

Came to this one late, but better late than never.

Soul Coughing, Ruby Vroom

Beck, Odelay

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

mandatory faculty development retreat

Well, this just launched to the top of my 2026 reading list.

1. None of those things are true
2. Presented with a counterexample (1992) you started inventing reasons why it didn't count. That's the goalpost
3. Do 1980 next!

House comes with elevator, Sno-Cat, hedge maze. Lots of history!

One of the unheralded factors behind the sudden push to introduce AI into every industry is that so many journalists, academics, and other knowledge workers clearly hate their jobs and don't actually want to do the work.

Keep moving those goalposts.

To everybody who is responding to this post with "but Ro Khanna is an outlier among Dems" - yes, and the way we make sure he stays an outlier is by condemning this antisemitic bullshit in no uncertain terms.

1992 would like to have a word with you.

I don't mean to dump on Biden, who won an impressive victory against an incumbent in a year that was actually middling to bad for Democrats. But he won by a nailbiter and we do ourselves no favors by pretending he had some kind of huge FDR style blowout.

Biden barely won in the states that determined the EC, Dems barely took the Senate on special elections, and they actually lost ground in the House, barely holding it by four seats.

Biden did a lot with what he had, but he never had a huge majority.

Yes, limiting access to long rests through safe haven rules is just as good as limiting them by extending the time required--and it offers a lot more flexibility in adventure design.

Because he's the hero we deserve, but not the one we need right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A frog knight.

Almost as funny as "McKenzie"

Peak v4.

(I mean literally, shit went downhill fast after that.)

Well worth your time! I wouldn't linger, though--don't know how much longer it will be in theaters.

But mostly I am thinking about Benicio del Toro's sensei. While the film's revolutionaries slide from liberating innocents to robbing banks, he just keeps calm and keeps on doing the work.

Doomerism, apocalypticism, fanaticism in all forms is the enemy. Keep calm and carry on.

Still thinking about One Battle After Another. The way PTA seamlessly updates Vineland for the 21st century. The way he keeps a properly Pynchonian humor while reining in the wackiness. The way the whole movie seems to be set in a horrible endless present that becomes more present by the day.