Andy Grimm

Just how many party balloons were there? 99, perhaps?

@petersagal.bsky.social had good coverage of this important topic on WWDTM last weekend

Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.

Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach

here's my 2026 bingo card

I knew I couldn't have been the first to think of this one.

This reminds me of social media posts where they scramble all the letters in words or leave out all the vowels to show that your brain can still read the corrupted text... which is true for good readers, but is likely something you develop _after_ you have the fundamentals. 3-cueing seems similar.

QotD: "Wealth is like manure: spread it, and it makes everything grow; pile it up, and it stinks." - Djaffar Shalchi

Good thing they made trades for multiple relievers at the deadline. 🙄

All these years it never occurred to me that that funny looking arrow was supposed to be a paper airplane. I guess it makes sense. 😅

Did they run a whole meet during the banquet?

YouTube video by MightyMightyBossVEVO The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Someday I Suppose

This was the first ska song I loved, and I recently got my 12-year-old listening to it. youtu.be/gmOmAuhAQbE?...

Reel Big Fish still makes me happy. They deserved more than fifteen minutes of fame, but I love that they were self aware enough to write this one: g.co/kgs/ZyyHtfL

I really enjoyed the Netflix Conan O'Brien special. The comedy was good, but his acceptance speech near the end was excellent.

Betty White as Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim’s music video for Weapon of Choice.

betty white in music videos: thread

Barn doors are bad, but I think the La Quinta hotels with saloon doors on the bathroom are worse.

As I understand it, the evolution went something like Margaret->Margie->Maggie->Mag->Meg->Peg

Not so different from Robert to Bob or William to Bill.

That makes sense. Those areas would tend to be more cosmopolitan and left-leaning than, say, Fort Myers or Daytona Beach. (Not that I think you'd have had a bad time in those places). I think the caricatures these days are probably from places like The Villages, which is like an alternate universe.

Interesting observations! Thanks for sharing. Of course, the US is a large country, and different regions, as well as different socioeconomic classes within regions, have entirely different ethos. The urban/rural divide is significant as well. I'm curious where you spent your time here.

In case you're looking around for your next boycott...

This just triggered a song lyric in my head that I'll bet you remember:

...and that's how I got to go to the prom with Geena Davis. But you probably already read about that in People...

I feel old and out of touch today. I took my son to see Minecraft, not realizing that there was a "trend" of people ruining the movie with constant screaming, throwing popcorn buckets, riding on each other's shoulders, etc. I gave up when I got showered with soda about 75 minutes in. 😞

Penguin flying off an iceberg

Effective immediately: Heard Island will be canceling our contract with Spacex for ALL future space travel. Dr. Amelia Sealhart and CPT Charles Icebergh will be leading our charge to adapt all flightless birds to flight capability. This will supplement our already extensive Albatross Space Force

'They belong here': In defiance of Trump, Guster shares Kennedy Center stage with canceled children's musical Guster shared the Kennedy Center stage with the cast of kid's musical "Finn" after its national tour was canceled by Donald Trump's board.

The country needs more of this. www.boston.com/culture/musi...

Outstanding 40K foot view on where we are, from @benjaminwittes.bsky.social. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The ruined Ploutonion (temple to Pluto) at Hierapolis.

One of the world’s most chilling ruins is the Ploutonion at Hierapolis, otherwise known as “the Gate to Hell”.

Here crowds once watched priests lead animal sacrifices down into a cave, where they died mysteriously as if dragged down to the underworld. And no one knew how they did it until recently.

Coincidentally, that is the approximate length of the song "Tweezer" by Phish.

Essay | American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths. That’s left more women resigned to being single.

Despite the title, this article is not about marriage; it's about women more generally deciding that in the current culture war, they can do without men and be better off. It reminds me of Lysistrata, except that our modern war is over women's own rights. Gift link: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

I volunteered at Food Bank CENC yesterday, and boy does that place always have weird projects to be done. Saturday's mission was to sort through and bundle 12,000 Capri Sun pouches, discarding leaky ones, cleaning the sticky mess off of the good ones, and making sure they all had straws attached.

Wow, this is a very cool project. Nice work!