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Honestly who even needs climate-fueled catastrophes when your weather disasters are THIS biblical.

Bringing Honesty To Billy Joel: And So It Goes Podcast Episode · Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV · 07/24/2025 · 1h 35m

The love and enthusiasm I’m seeing for the Billy Joel doc is proof that all you have to do is live long enough to see your hobbies become cool again. I talked about it (and many other things) with my best and favorite TV friends on the latest Extra Hot Great!

Nope you’re right he’s not in the film so if I ignore the other clip he can keep not existing to me.

This is so lovely, and I’m glad to be celebrating the Billy renaissance together. The 1982 Nassau Coliseum taping was the first concert I ever attended!

I made a Connections, Billy Joel Edition.

My actual dream Billy Joel karaoke song has got to be Stiletto, but other than that I stand behind the other 1,000,000 words I had to say about Long Island's finest.

YouTube video by whitesharks3 Uncle Walter - Ben Folds Five

We should be referencing this song way more often, especially the bridge.

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Here is the complete list of 2025 Emmy Awards nominations: REALITY/VARIETY BEST REALITY COMPETITION SERIES The Amazing Race RuPaul's Drag Race Survivor Top Chef The Traitors

For the next 30+ minutes it is largely true that this is the complete list of 2025 Awards Nominations, and I for one intend of enjoy it.

Go Local sign in Canada

Canadian flag and kid

Canadian flag on bed

Kid in red cowboy hat

Anyway hope everyone had a great 4th.

One thing about the current panic and how it’s almost exclusively targeted at LGBTQ people is looking back at growing up and realizing that almost every single instance of either straight up criminality or just being a creep at my school was done by a middle aged male teacher to a female student

Supreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books The Supreme Court has ruled that Maryland parents who have religious objections can pull their children from public school lessons using LGBTQ storybooks.

AGAIN I AM ASKING what happens when my kids reference their parents in their public school? Or if we chaperone a field trip to the zoo? Or if we speak on career day? This ruling doesn’t just make my family disappear like Marty McFly in the family picture.

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Happy tenth anniversary to Obergefell v. Hodges, and a friendly reminder we are always one pissed-off-baker-in-Wyoming away from the end of federal marriage protection for same sex couples.

(And no, a compelling argument is NOT "at least you're still married as long as you avoid just 13 states.")

I believe “How to Train Your Dragon Ballerina” was also the poorly translated foreign title of Black Swan.

A jaunty two-step I have long called “The Andie MacDowell Dance,” where she and I were walking toward each other on 57th Street and kept stepping in the same direction trying to get out of each other’s way. For a while.

In good news, only 500 more years until The B-52s have the hottest (and most) wigs alive.

In honor of 🏳️‍🌈pride🏳️‍🌈, please avoid using my nice little family as part of your bigoted political fever dreams.

In unrelated news, here is our two year-old practicing his finest vogueing death drop.

I will talk to Joe whether it’s being recorded or not, and in this case I wasn’t even sure which one it was.

My favorite topic with my favorite people! Help us answer the question, “When it comes to Mr. Long Island 1980, is any amount of French too much?”

Well he oughta know (by now).

Billy Joel Says He Has Brain Disorder, Cancels All Scheduled Concerts Billy Joel says he's been diagnosed with a brain disorder ... and as a result, he's canceling all of his scheduled concerts.

Absolutely the saddest, but I know he will pull through because if there is one thing Billy knows it’s how to handle (Normal) PRESSURE (Hydrocephalus).

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Wildly awkward photo of me at 13.

Go ahead, try and bury your MOST awkward phase DEEP in mom’s basement all you want, the horrible horrible truth will always find you. DON’T LOOK AWAY.

I’m not sure anyone can beat this one.

Thanks to tariffs it now takes 2.5 to tango.

Have worked for 20+ successful years in my industry and my top two retirement options in America remain:
1) Discover vintage baseball card/garbage pail kid/two dollar bill in my stuff in mom’s basement.
2) Crash conclave, become unlikely next pope.

Annnnnd that’s it.

Happy “explaining to my 79 year old mother that no, actually, his name is not ‘Lamar Schmendrick’ and just because you don’t know who he is doesn’t disqualify him from performing at the Super Bowl” day to all who celebrate. #lamarschmendrick

If someone used this word in casual conversation with me (“My dog runs widdershins around the backyard!”) it would be grounds for ending the friendship immediately.

NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART: live look at nature’s snowy destruction that has shut down greater Seattle for two days running.

When “I’m Still Here” is the deepest cut Woodface reference of them all.

Hard Truths!
It’s starring Jean-Baptiste
Hard Truths!
Director Mike Leigh
You’re not
An Oscar nominee
You’ll have
To settle for BAFTA
Hard Truths!

1700 Cascadia earthquake - Wikipedia

Triple centennial w silver bonus anniversary (so, 325 years) of the last earthquake/tsunami combo that plunged the entire PNW underwater in a matter of seconds.

In good news, when the next one hits (soon!), it will be a massive natural disaster that isn’t even tied to climate change. So it’s cool!

Absolute facts.