Adam J.B. Lane

Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau

Never fear, the French have put their finest man on the case—

NOOO!!!!!

(First I'm hearing of it 😧)

Action shot of QB Joe Flacco, dressed in the home uniform of the Cleveland Browns, his former team, about to uncork a throw in last month's opener against his current team, the Cincinnati Bengals.

If Joe #Flacco sticks with the #Bengals the rest of the way he could conceivably start v. the #Browns in Week 18... the team he led against Cincy in Week 1! Has this kind of volte-face ever happened before within a single #NFL season? Surely not. #football

Amazing

"May I introduce Alto Cumulo-Nimbus?"
"Of the Troposphere Cumulo-Nimbuses? It's a great pleasure."

A man costumed as a Roman centurion stares at a smartphone in his hand. A structure partially seen in the background may or may not be the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome.

If America's present trajectory is roughly analogous to the decline of the Roman Empire (it's sure tempting to see it that way) is social media/AI slop our equivalent of their lead pipes, brain poisoning everybody and weakening the ruling class?

Ugh, these designs. Not good.

Emmanuel Clasé's pitching line against New York in the 2024 playoffs: 2.1 innings, 7 hits, 4 earned runs, 1 walks, 2 Ks, 2 HR, 3.429 WHIP, 27 hits per 9 innings, 7.7 home runs per nine innings, -0.88 WPA

Literally just now occurred to me that there is a non-zero chance that Emmanuel Clasé threw the 2024 ACS against the Yankees.

After a season with a 0.659 WHIP, he put up this line in three games against New York:

The local food pantry endorses cannibalism.

A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

fortunately our corporations are rising to the moment

Amazing! Wonderful poses.

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

Could there be a more perfect example of the "This-is-how-you-found-out-Celebrity-X-has-died" social media post?
With no hint of any trouble at first, praise for a tasteful but overlooked career highlight, followed by an oblique sting in the tail.

Keep that bunny content coming!

A sketchbook page featuring various drawings in black and white including an Edwardian gent, a woman with a sharp bobbed haircut and a woman sitting amongst plants.

Sketchbook page.

A selection from the Guardian's American news liveblog: One neighbor who lives across the street from the Robinsons, declined to be named. He said he’s “blind to the world”, and only learned about Robinson’s arrest when he saw reporters and law enforcement in the street this morning. He was agnostic about the massive media presence on his street. “Mother nature is mother nature, whatever she calls to do, let’s do it,” he said. And was similarly accepting when asked about Robinson, the subject of a massive 48-hour search, living just across the street. “If it’s close to home, if it’s 50 miles from me, it’s the same damn thing,” he said. “Shit happens and that’s what it is.”

The Guardian cuts to the heart of the matter with its hard-hitting reporting.

I wonder how Parker & Stone's revived Casa Bonita has worked out... that could be inviting kitsch.

No argument from me there. But in a dining space, I'd suggest it needs to be a certain *kind* of kitsch - inviting, comforting. Dive was too cartoonish and plasticky. I recall as well the cacophonous simulated "dive" that happened every 15 mins - that was grating.

I made a pilgrimage soon after arriving in LA. The food was generally ok, though not worth the price of admission. The interior design was impressive and memorable, but its unrelenting kitsch grew overbearing over the course of our meal. Honestly I'm surprised it lasted even as long as it did!

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

Infamous pic taken by Atlantic editor Dante Ramos of a young woman sitting in the seat in front of him on an airplane. Her long ponytail hangs over the back of her seat and into his space, even blocking his view of the seatback video screen.

Opthamologist voice: "Now look at this and tell me, better? Or worse?

My wife (older than you) had minor thyroid trouble most of her adult life, but then her thyroid function went tot wacky after she got COVID. She would probably be considered a long hauler had we not found a skillful gp who was able to treat her condition. So perhaps the virus has played a role...

The Spy Who Came In From The Cloudy, Breezy, Highs In The 50s.

I think internet brainrot is the true culprit here. By his own admission he's been hooked on Xitter for years. And it sounds like his transphobia preceded the breakdown in his marriage, caused it, even.

He's an octogenarian! He probably gets cold sitting under a sunlamp.

Does Rogers get one last swing for the fences (i.e. a playoff run) with the Steelers, á la Bronco Peyton Manning, or does he flame out and get replaced mid-season by Mason Rudolph?

Black and white drawing of a veiled woman and two men stand by a grave covered with a Gates Ajar floral tribute

Blue-grey cover of A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death showing a veiled woman in mourning and a man with his hand over his face flanking a skull-stopped tomb backed by a weeping willow.

G for Gates Ajar is one of the entries in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, wonderfully illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social "Gates Ajar" was one of the most popular funeral flower arrangements of the 19th-20th c. The motif arose from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' 1868 novel, Gates Ajar.

Charming topiary sign at the end of the Bourne Bridge, welcoming visitors to "Cape Cod"

Visiting Cape Cod today the idea for the perfect name of a local cannabis dispensary struck me like a bolt from the blue:
THE LOBSTER POT

At least two of the "wars" he's referencing are conflicts where his admin has put its oar in to "broker peace"
1) Armenia-Azerbaijan
2) DR Congo-Rwanda
...Perhaps Syria-Israel also makes this list.

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