Maggie Koerth

I liked it!

They made me rewind several scenes so they could watch them a second time. The youngest says her throat hurts from laughing. Leslie Nielsen would have been proud

Pleased to report that the new Naked Gun stands up to the tastes of a modern 10 and 12 year old.

Skywayyyy map!

So uh, did we all know already that Norway gave out the Peace Prizes instead of Sweden? Asking for a friend.

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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

anyone living in mint properties now or recently who can answer a question about language in their leases? DM me please

More importantly, if the gangs have figured out how to counteract the Bowling Alone problem then someone needs to call Robert Putnam

I have long maintained that if I ever get rich, I’m donating an endowed copy machine to the University of Kansas. The Koerth Memorial Print-Copy Machine will have a plaque on it. I plan to locate it in the creepiest corner of one of the Humanities buildings.

genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?

As an adult, I refuse to believe 5% of any city is regularly attending ANY organization.

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

I love that this allows you to read Captain Ahab in the voice of The Dude.

Cornbread Harris is an American treasure.

The Schooner just played the two best country songs humanly possible (i.e., Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox When I Die and I Like My Women Just a Little on the Trashy Side). They followed that up with Purple Rain. I already love it here.

And then they all went and did drugs by the lake so the shaman cat, Mystikal Hedge Fund, could speak with the ancestors.

Same. That sign is absolutely there for a reason.

Also this happened, apparently.

Also this explanation of how Mary learned to write again after she became blind was pretty cool. And a letter she wrote!

This museum was a delight because it doubled as the county history museum and the overall effect was Minor Background Character Theater. Here’s the effects of Laura’s kindergarten teacher! Here’s the life history of her cousins who stuck around Wisconsin!

So I went to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Pepin today. Major highlight: A real life pig bladder ball!

Did you all know that some kids once found a whole ass mastodon just falling out of a hillside in Wisconsin?

I should note that the store is called Crazy Frank’s Flea Market

I regret to report that I’m now the mom who stops at flea markets in the middle of nowhere and texts her preteen to see if they want this amazing $25 phone desk and might just buy it even if I don’t hear anything back cause where else are you gonna get that kind of deal

Amazing reporting from Andy Mannix who got ahold of images a bystander took of HSA official texting plans to send an elite military strike force into Portland and how Hegseth is trying to get Trump to tell him to do this as CYA against legal violations.

It’s worth every penny

Sam, I almost died last night trying to climb out of moon lander shaped bed in the dark with a mirror over me. I thought I was gonna fall from the second floor

I need you all to know that I am staying in the Moon Landing room at The Don Q Inn.

Something I didn't remember is the shut down ended last time when air traffic control stopped turning up.