Keith Brake

I knew he LIKED country but also thought he was like a Bakersfield Sound guy and not whatever this is

I don't follow popular music at all wasn't Post Malone a rapper what the hell is this

Stop telling half of college football they don't belong Paul Finebaum, Taylor Lewan and others say the Group of Five doesn’t belong in the playoff. Here’s the case for why they’re wrong.

The campaign against Group of 5 schools is one of the worst things about college football.

awfulannouncing.com/college-foot...

Cricket Is Just College Football With Bats From personalities to politics to lifestyles, cricket isn't that different from a sport we know and love in the United States

We got a wild start to #TheAshes last night. Are you an American watching your first one? Not sure what you're looking at? It's not that different from a sport we all know and love.

I have tried to take a "don't post while you're depressed" mindset but that's also when I have the most to say.

Frontiers, Pioneers, Community: The Path to Growth in the Young World of College Cricket Stories from a day spent on the bleeding edge of one of cricket's biggest upside plays in the US, from the people who play it to the people trying to make it all work

I went to the CCL's Atlantic Regional outside DC and met its founders as well as leaders from tradition rich clubs at Virginia Tech and @sickoscommittee.org favorite West Virginia. It turned into 4300 words on a crucial theatre for the game in the US.
stumpsandstripes.substack.com/p/frontiers-...

if a machine ever told me I was 'goated with the sauce' I would start the Butlerian Jihad.

See, if we couch "needing multiple jobs to support yourself" in a cutesy little buzzword, people will think it's actually fun and desirable!

Fanart of Minako Aino from the back. She's holding a fancy purse with multiple accessories, including a tamagotchi, senshi wand and Artemis lafufu. She's wearing a denim coat with a sword attached. Drawn by gdbeeart in Nov 2025

In the Name of Venus

Also worth noting these two have delivered some terrific games in the past... their 5OT epic in 2018 was one of the best CFB games of the year.

I held out hope that the Times might be redeemed in the future, that its credibility could be rebuilt. That this got published is a stake in the heart of that hope.

Beandaddery

Dance Yrself Clean by LCD sound system

Millennials haven’t had easy lives but at least we’ll always have this beat drop at 3:07

Bee-Do Mee-Maw: an *instant* classic 😂

With a face cast in stone, sneering in command cold
Ozymandias did bid them welcome
That frowning old king stamped on old lifeless things
Brings despair to all that might see them

The legend lives on from the antique lands down
Of the desert they call lone and level
The desert, it is said, has two vast trunkless legs
The remains of the kingdom of Ozy

There once was a king, Ozymand
Who bragged about all he’d command.
Trying to fill his foes with fright he
Said “Look on my works, ye mighty!”
But now it’s all trunkless legs and sand.

This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old

Magneto:

A house is not a home, by Rein Kooyman, 2025, 📸 via @mlbonfox

I left Twitter two years ago and haven’t regretted it once. Popping back in to say you can do it too. Staying here means choosing to let your mind marinate in a right-wing cesspool. I don’t care how savvy you imagine yourself to be, you’re not immune to its distortions. Get out.

Time for my annual Get Out tweet. Feels like a lost cause at this point but anyway …

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

Kansei Matsuzawa has Kanji on the back of his jersey, apparently Hawai'i has now gotten permission from the Mountain West to do this for the rest of the season

The NFL Just Messed With One of the Best Things About Sundays The league is making the channel worse and expecting people to swallow it.

The people whining about one minute of commercials on a 7-hour RedZone broadcast are ... well actually they're right lol. The problem isn't the minute. It's that 1) it's gonna soon be more than that and 2) the NFL is trying to change its relationship with its fans. Again. slate.com/technology/2...

He's doing the reverse-Teddy Atlas, from football analyst to boxing analyst

cornerbacks when the QB overthrows the intended receiver by 10 feet:

A single stalk of bamboo, likely arundinaria gigantae, that grows out of frame in front of a wooden fence. Behind the fence, more bamboo likely from the same canebrake can be seen on a neighboring lot.

TIL there are three species of bamboo native to the Southeast, two of which are growing in my backyard and one of which is now twice my height. This was not there three weeks ago.

Hal, it's about cats