Robert McDonald

despite not knowing his height, i still hold that Smedley Butler's nickname should have been "Little Red Corps Vet"

just finished the latest episode of Pluribus, and I think I figured it out:

Peace
Love
Understanding
Rhea (Seehorn)
1
Bcan't think of anything
Ucan't think of anything
Seehorn

Owl outside of our window

The owls are not what they seem

Teach Me How to 'Doche: Tropological Rhetorical Pedagogies & American Hip-Hop (Cambridge University Press, 2028)

everything is infrastructure

Kansas City Current disagrees

I sleep in a big bed with my wife.

not seeing a lot of "the Heideggerian call of conscience" on people's "Spotify wrapped" this year 🤔

it shouldn't be called "falafel," it should be called "falgreat" because i never fal-afel (feel awful) after i eat it, i feel great

A farmer with celiac disease could say something like "my grains cause migraines". They don't have to, but they could. No pressure

If your marginal (expected) return from outside labor is greater than your marginal cost of forgoing domestic work, it's because you have more power than the person who ends up doing the domestic work that you've forgone.

"What's rhetoric?"

I just tell people "it's the agency of the letter" and stare smugly at them until they leave

"What's rhetoric?"

Committing, because I've got one R&R and one back-burner essay that needs some heat, and I think I can finish both this month

Would have hit him with a second egg, but in France, one egg was un ouef.

OK let’s see: Lévi-Strauss said Father Xmas aka Santa was a fantasy of boundless generosity, as if it were possible to escape the law of exchange. For Derrida, exchange—balance—is as impossible as the gift “itself.” The gift IS contamination. Your Santa is hella contaminated! So, yes, this is canon.

"Toblertwo"

Don Draper pitching to a different candy company

Troy McClure from the Planet of the Apes parody. Except his head is Karl Marx. He says “I hate every ruling class I see from Bourgeoi-a to Bourgeoi-z

I love it when a plan comes together.

His name's Concrete Halloween, and he skates in a monster mask because he hates his head, and it's fffffuckin' hard to do

Worst drive in my life was across Nebraska, I-80, in a U-Haul. Freezing rain, howling winds, and no windshield wiper fluid, I had to look through the space below the steering wheel, because that's all the defroster would hit

Josh Brolin's 2025 performances--Dan Killian in The Running Man, Monsignor Wicks in Wake Up Dead Man, and Archer Graff in Weapons--offer a perfectly poised cinematic triad of American capitalism, American Christianity, and American patriarchy. No one's doing it better.

Opinion disregarded

When a guest on the podcast you're listening to says says the only good Michael Mann films are Collateral, Thief, Manhunter and Heat, and "the rest are garbage"

(classily) Thomas Bahamas

"After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter (awaiting reproducibility now) by University of Tokyo" headline

should the residents of Tokyo be concerned about how close by this dark matter is?

my favorite album of his? Shart Piss on the Edge of Brown

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

Ice! A Grinch musical at the Gaylord Resort of the rockies

Selfie

Taking a moment to formally denounce this attraction at the Gaylord Rockies & Resort

if you think about it, Creon was the paradigmatic "unc" of antiquity