Justin Carroll-Allan

I'm getting increasingly tickled by a colleague who insists on saying "what occurred" instead of "what happened" on a zoom call. Great choice, pal.

Everything about this is just incredible: the face bleeding off the right side of the cover when the title is "Dead Center," the intro by Saban, etc. It's...wow.

OH NO

The orcs burst into the writer's office before he could finish.

I want to read the Mary Robison Giants novel so badly

I think it is our duty to egg his house.

On this day, I find myself pondering an important question: which American writer will be the first to do the Griddy on the way to podium after winning a major award?

Wait a minute, is baseball...back?

I woke up everyone in the house. Just unbelievable.

We must've been standing next to each other with our arms crossed.

Wish they had a "Louie Louie" cover.

Still open to getting matching tats of that weird saxophone plane from Barry Hannah's Airships with literally anyone.

How many glasses are we at now, Tom? Give us the count.

Cracking myself up by texting, "How about that Sabrina Carpenter?" to everyone in my contacts.

Awful time to be alive but truly an amazing time to be a hater

Jesus ,Willie, it should be "oi me mate..." WTF man.

Why would you open yourself up to Awolnation like this

Valid points here, but you can't say that a violent, CGI gorefest would NOT have improved HOUSEKEEPING.

Time to revive the pod

The Pulitzer Prize, presented by FanDuel

Get TC Boyle to come on the pod.

For this alone he should crack top 5. Super Bowl win? Yawn. Developing Hurts? Meh. The ability to endure a stranger losing their mind while steadfastly refusing to give them what they want? He has the heart of a champion.

It's worse: he's from Midlothian.

The pope is focused on Higher matters, Brad (trading Vucevic)

Very Carmen Sandiego (complimentary)

The "trend" of podcasters adding video on Spotify? Don't like it. Fellas, we do NOT need to see you in the unforgiving gaze of cinematic lighting.

Pizza Hut, Chili’s, Olive Garden: The Death of the Middle-Class Restaurant (Gift Article) The boom in American sit-down chains has come and gone. What replaced them isn’t so great for human connection.

I've spent the past few months reporting a feature on the rise and fall of casual dining chains. These 20th century juggernauts are struggling as the middle class's fortunes falter and Americans are turning away from dining rooms. How did this happen? 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/d...

I'm being forced to attend a neighborhood picnic today. I plan to alienate myself from everyone I meet by claiming I'm an alpinist any time I'm asked "So what do you do?"

I endured a neighbor explaining to me (for the second time) the cleverness of his new dog's name: Garrison Heeler. This is love and tolerance in action.

The Case for Telling Total Strangers to Shut Up Reminding others how to behave in public is a civic duty.

Shushing others in public? I love it.
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