Chris Csont 🥐

millennium falcon going to light speed

when the drums switch from halftime to standard time on celine dion’s it’s all coming back to me now

This is modern poetry.

This is eating the plums out of the fridge and then leaving a note just to say the other person doesn't understand plums, so maybe they should start with that next time (or at the very least do their own grocery shopping instead of adding plums to instacart).

This is the sort of advertising I love. - It's not very well targeted, because it doesn't need to be. - It's not got a link to buy, or "find out more" or use promo code 10 , in order to merely be able to prove it's success - It's not pretentious or ambitious or demanding or "smart" , it's just based in the reality of the world. - It's calm, confident, noticeable, bold. - It's what it needs to be. I do wonder why we make everything so complicated. Simple isn't easy, but it's essential.

Onion ad for the National Pear Council: Just curious, when was the last time you had a pear? That long? How come?

Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.

Somewhere in the bowels of the FBI, a man with no official title opens a copy of the Epstein files.

On the screen he clicks EDIT > SELECT ALL

He pauses for a drag on his cigarette.

He sneers, “Welcome to the Resistance, Zapfino.”

CLICK.

So yes, it is not a very high self-image day.

It is sometimes difficult to feel like the people who know us both don't just see me as a disposable stepping stone on her journey toward her true identity and happiness.

Quite honestly sometimes it's difficult to not think that about myself.

"[My ex] annoyed that I hadn't finished cleaning up the dishes and kitchen counter before her friends got here to help her move out. In front of the kids she says, 'This is why I'm leaving.'"

It's not my kid's fault. I don't hold it against them. I do tell them I don't like it and hopefully they'll respect that.

But I was reading through old bullet journal pages the other night and one has been scratching at my brain.

When your tween interrupts and talks over you to change the subject the same way their mom always would... It's great how your ex doesn't even need to be here for them to still make you feel insignificant. It always felt like a "You did what I wanted, now scram," kind of power move.

I'm more than a day late on this, but I think Paul Dano's acting in Little Miss Sunshine is equally as compelling and worthy of praise as his work in There Will Be Blood. Like a Pixies song, he can modulate the size and volume of his performance at just the right moment.

Brad Neely George Washington “so divine” meme with CBS Sunday morning sun in the corner

When that CBS Sunday Morning trumpet hits

The only thing Tarantino probably has a credible opinion on is feet, and I don’t want to hear about that.

Always happy to see love for Grosse Pointe Blank.

“Workers of the world, unite!”

A very real thread about knowing what “enough” means to you.

It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.

Mad Dash to Love: Writing the Emotional “Run Toward” Moment A look at the classic run-toward-love moment; why it works, why we love it, and what it reveals about our favorite characters.

This would be a lecture instead of a blog if I were still teaching…

“Oklahoma.”

…I woke up a few days ago with the idea for this blog, had an ugly cry, then started outlining.

Divorce is hard.

blog.quoteunquoteapps.com/the-mad-dash...

Apple did their replay thing. I listened to New Order a lot. A lot a lot. Other main artists included my emotional support billionaire, Radiohead, Sufjan, Sigur Ros, and Gaga.

KPop Demon Hunters showed up like the Kool-Aid Man mid-year.

I listened to MAYHEM more than KPDH, but not by much.

Kelly is absolutely right on this: Hegseth is not a serious person, and that is especially dangerous because of the job he has.

I named my fists Shawn and Gus or Gus and Shawn. I've heard it both ways.

I know this is small potatoes in the real of Healing One’s Inner Child…

But I finally got past the speeder bikes in level 3 of Battletoads. Nintendo Switch Online adding the game this past week was a call to adventure, and I showed up.

a pixel art of a video game character holding a green weapon . Alt: Samus Aran in full body armor watching a baby Metroid float around her.

If I could claim any Nintendo IP to write, I would pick Metroid without hesitation.

Honestly I should just bang out a draft for fun/getting my groove back…

Elizabeth Taylor saying, "And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, 'Bitch, do something yourself.'"

When no one wanted to know about AIDS, when the government didn't care about the death of so many gay men, when everyone wanted to look away, this was the energy Elizabeth Taylor brought for real. She *meant* it. It's a beautiful thing, this energy.

Thank you for sharing. That was epic.

I am convinced that one reason why NPR’s Books We Love has been so successful is that while it allows you to filter in a bunch of ways, it also emulates elements of browsing. In its regular cover mode, it’s not a list, it’s an array, and when you refresh the page, it shuffles. (1/)

Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together

"The Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters" artbook (physical) is coming in 2026.
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com

I believe in television.

Let TV be TV.

Streaming era show orders and scheduling are like if the Tigers play 18 games in '26, sit out '27, and then play a full week of double-headers in '29.

Longer seasons and more consistent scheduling allow more opportunity for risks and failures, along with more chances at excellence.

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The traditional network television season was 22+ weekly episodes with seasonal breaks over the course of several months. The expectation was a new season would start a year after the start of the previous season in the Fall.

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(This is not a reaction to any one thing.)

The NFL has an 18-week regular season where each team plays 17 games. If you lose 8 of those games, you lose 47% of all your games that season.

MLB plays 162 games. If you lose 8 games, you've lost ~5% of that season's games.

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