Leonard Cohen, behind me in the checkout line at the Organized Living store circa 2002.

That clip starts with a very heartfelt "Tabarnak"

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Misspelled "illegally"

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

They were a good crew, sounds like we were not too far from you.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Timeline cleanse

L’écrivain Jacques Poulin s’est éteint Le milieu littéraire québécois est en deuil. L’écrivain Jacques Poulin, à qui l’on doit le célèbre roman Volkswagen Blues, s’est éteint jeudi, à Québec. Il avait 87 ans.

L’écrivain Jacques Poulin s’est éteint

People missed the likely explanation for Trump's bizarre ramble yesterday, when he falsely said his MIT-professor uncle taught the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Trump is under huge stress right now about the Jeffrey Epstein files. And it's Epstein who told people that he studied with the Unabomber. 1/

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

I would bet a zillion dollars that in the same way we use Nazi to describe a particular kind of person today, in 20 - 30 years people will use MAGA. So good job, america

Interesting progression. Could the dip from 29-32 and bounce back from 33-36 be linemates? Kempe stepping up seems to have helped Kopi's aging. The dip years probably had a lot of minutes with Brown on his last seasons.

hmmm that’s weird. I’m at a rock show of a band I loved 20 years ago and most of the audience is gray-haired or bald. yet I am in the bloom of youth and very cool. something to monitor.

Bluesky passed the Earthquake test

Earthquake!

Singlehandedly killed what seemed to be an inevitable Conservative win!

I’m not sure Senator Klobuchar is reading the room

Word of the Day: actuarial This word has appeared in 13 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

Oh, I've got this one.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/l...

Entire neighborhoods are gone. Friends have lost everything. Regular neighborhoods with houses and grocery stores and schools and libraries and apartment buildings—all gone.