Ethan Tomlinson

Sun 5 am: Wake up, Bologna-Milan train
Sun 8 am: Milan-airport train
Sun 9 am: Airport security
Sun 12 pm: Flight to JFK takes off
Sun 3 pm (EST): Flight lands at JFK
Sun 4 pm: Drop bag home, shower
Sun 7 pm: Carissa's Wierd reunion show (unelevated stage + tiny room = no views)

Sat 6 pm: Trapped on a sardine packed train that refuses to leave the station for 40 mins bc police won't approve departure with this many people. Kicked off train, forced to take bus.
Sat 8 pm: Finally arrive, showtime, transcend
Sat 11 pm: Mad dash to the bus ensuring my merch doesn't get stolen

Fri 7 pm: get to Unipol Arena hopefully early enough for a decent floor spot, succeed, bask in glory.
Fri 11 pm: realize we're stranded bc the arena is 7.5 mi away from the city and trains end at 10pm. 20k ppl leaving via shuttle is disaster. Many merch thefts occur in the scramble to get on bus.

Now that it's over I can reflect on the insane PBP of it all.

Thu 6pm: Go to JFK directly from work for flight
Fri 11 am: Land in Milan, wait in auto border line
Fri 12 pm: Malpensa Express train from airport
Fri 1 pm: Train from Milan Central to Bologna
Fri 4 pm: Get off train, check in lodging

There is a nonzero chance that I walked right past PT Anderson on Saturday and didn't realize because I don't know dick about movies and wouldn't have recognized his face even if i did

Do I like Carissa's Wierd enough to sacrifice the wellness of my being? Apparently I do!

I can't stop abusing my body, pushing myself to the limits of how much activity the human body can handle at once

Imagine having the train network shutdown by 10 when a massive show ends at 10:40 and now 20,000 people have to get 7.5 miles back with only a tiny fleet of shuttle busses available. That everyone violently pushes their way onto out of desperation, leading to multiple merch thefts (bag it, people!)

Imagine running only one train per hour from the city center to your mega arena 7.5 miles away. Now imagine that train got delayed 35+ mins because it was "too overcrowded to depart" and police had to forcibly remove people off the train. A train that is overcrowded bc there are only 4 measly cars

Bologna will go to hell for what its dirty excuse for public transport has done

They grow up so fast

Could the Red Sox bring Alex Bregman back in free agency?

“No one wants a Breg-xit,” Scott Boras said.

Poetic

Call me the 30% then

BREAKING: The Giants are firing head coach Brian Daboll after Sunday’s loss to the Bears, per sources.

Daboll, who won Coach of the Year in 2022, finishes his New York tenure with a 20-40-1 record in 3+ seasons.

Starting both Swift and Monangai this week is an indictment of how I feel about this Giants run D

In 2040:
"Dad, where were you the night Zohran won?"
"Jumping into the Boris pit during Just Abandoned Myself. What a night it was."

Can I get 30% off every drink in Brooklyn with this special badge?

Putting up 150 pts in back to back weeks feels pretty sweet!

Rico Dowdle and the Panthers do the Key & Peele sketch for a celebration and get flagged. Dowdle insists there were only 2 pumps 😂

Nike's ad for the Dodgers win featuring Kendrick Lamar

Ohtani home run ties it

One of the earliest photos I have on my phone is from when the 2014 Super Bowl was in NYC and players were showing up in midtown for festivities. Mangold was the first one I saw, in a float waving to everyone.

Yamamoto: you have to pitch a complete game tomorrow. Sorry. No real alternatives.

When I was 14 I really wanted Autechre's "Draft 7.30" to be a concept album about the NFL Draft

Four year anniversary of the infamous Topgolf incident

When I saw Autechre for the first time in 2022 I had no idea what a typical Autechre set entailed so this picture taken a few mins before they went on is the only evidence I have

The Mariners can no longer be an endless tragedy. The exhausting self-defeating narrative of fate is overdone. They deserve glory as much as anybody else.

I hope the Dodgers colonize Canada

Do you think Caroline Polachek knows that they play Spring is Coming at 11:30 pm loud throughout all of the Caesars Palace in Vegas