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Screen cap from Instagram: Baileylakings posts: aren’t you supposed to boop them on the nose if they come too close. The Hershey bears respond: wouldn’t recommend.

My favorite part of this post was the Hershey Bears weighing in:

3rd grade—Shuttle launches were still special events gathered around the AV cart. They just stood there in shock before wheeling the cart out. Never showed a launch again. It was pretty traumatic and taught me that teachers didn’t have all the answers. My parents talked a lot that night.

Was dumpster diving in a trash can at an Anaheim Ducks game to get a piece of cardboard. Come up and smack right into someone. My mouth said, “Sorry, Pat Sajak.” I walked away and then only then did it really hit me what I had said and who it was. (@terpgrrl.bsky.social can vouch!)

Kevin explaining pop culture to Ben is always a hilarious aside to Orioles games.

It may be time to update my DC Ted Talk for 2025: Ted Leo > Ted’s Bulletin > Ted Leonsis > Ted Lerner. (The homemade poptarts have moved the Bulletin up on the list.)

I was there that night. I sang along loudly. Then promptly went back to Rockville anyway.

El Salvador is a tricky one for me too. But I didn’t have any Pollo Campero, nor did I bring any home, so it doesn’t count for me. Airports are funny liminal spaces that transcend all categories.

Conducting commerce outside an airport to be specific. Technically, I’ve been to Colorado and Utah but I’ve never set foot outside the airport so I don’t count them.

Screen cap of text: In the past 20 years, hockey players in the Potomac Valley have increased by 71 percent, totaling more than 20,000, while youth hockey players (18 and under) have increased by 43 percent, surpassing 12,000. More than 9,000 players also have been introduced to hockey since the Capitals launched their Future Caps “Learn to Play” program in 2016, supported by the NHL/NHLPA Industry Growth Fund.

What is this Potomac Valley the NHL references when talking about Ovi?? Who wrote this press release??? DC Metro area, sure. DMV, sure. Potomac Valley? No!

Cartoon image of a walleye holding a hockey stick

Did you say Walleye?

a woman is screaming at a man in a suit while he looks on . Alt: Jessie Spano is so excited so excited so scared. Me too, hon.

Capitals Round 2 starts tonight.

Friend: So does John Carlson become the Secretary of Defense instead of Rod Langway when he retires?
Me: No. He becomes the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS). He already has the initials.

a woman is screaming at a man in a room while a man looks on . Alt: Jessie Spano is so excited so excited so scared

It’s Capitals playoff time. You know the drill.

Something from Ted Leo, please? I would have requested something for the anniversary of The Both album with Aimee Mann last week but I was on a mountain with no service.

Woo hoo! Road trip and camping!

Here for the music, but the cookie reviews are a welcome bonus!

I thought about buying tickets to this game back when Ovi was broken and tickets were “cheap.” Regrets. Oh well.

Alex Ovechkin bobblehead wears Mardi Gras beads, but most importantly the counter is at 894 career goals

894

A couple of years ago I had a mouse sit down in front of my couch and start watching the hockey game with me, as if to say “Hey, I like hockey too.”

I’m so glad you love this song. It’s one of my favorites.

Mynabirds!

I frequently talk about the price of competence.

No judgment, I had chips and TJ’s guac for dinner tonight! That’s why I only go once in a blue moon.

TJ’s is where the snacks live!!

This Capitals Jets game is like a good old Southleast division tilt!

Just barely squeezed in that Billy Joel, @jgreenberg.bsky.social!

Olie Kolzig: Who’s your favorite goalie?
Mite of the night: Well, it’s not you.

Whelp, it was a good football run. And it got me to pick up knitting again. See ya next year, DC football team. (Got a 1 in 2 chance of a full protest cake.)

Nothing brings you back to harsh post-vacation reality like a Sunday morning trip to Trader Joe’s.

It’s 12:45 here in Puerto Rico. So technically I was watching after midnight Capitals hockey.