Jonathan Blake at Smoke last night doing his upcoming Blue Note release “My Life Matters” and *just outstanding*
Your email, you’re also guilty 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 “I'm a longtime NYT reader/subscriber. I've noticed an annoying trend in many of your opinion essay headlines.”
For anyone worried that we might find new ways to prevent or cure cancers, worry no more!
Awfully easy for a Friday
Yeah we trucked back out to the burbs early today and… no rain 🤷♂️
Who will stop them and their evil plans?
Hahahahaha! I read that and was like, “What’s his problem with five year olds?”
Why??
“Half-moon?” works too (haven’t checked db, don’t mean to add to the tragedy)
Reminder: Only five days left to make plans for overusing your iPhone’s calendar emoji
First thing I do when I open the Bee is check genius score. If it’s over 150, I’m already annoyed that it may be more than a minute or three of work. For 283, this was surprisingly merciful.
Friday NYT: Nice grid
Oklahoma City and Oklahoma City
“Every accusation is an admission”
I like looking at my time and feeling smart once in a while 😉
That’s awful news on many many levels
Same! Last two words (you know what I mean)
I read the news after I do the puzzles every morning, so “Puzzle > Frustration > Uncertainty > Sadness” is pretty much my daily story arc.
32 - 50 - 68 - 86 00 - 10 - 20 - 30 I was in my late 40s before I’d committed those numbers to memory.
Friday 6/20/2025 New York Times, nice grid
It’s occurred to me many times now that I’m going to miss Local Law 11 for this reason. Also nice to have some shade in July/August. We were in Takayama like ten years ago and it rained all day one day. The covered sidewalks were totally key, felt so civilized to be dry.
Brings to mind the quote from “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
What “precedent”??? JFC
The King on his throne 🤣
I consider it high praise that we’ve been mostly glossed over given that “gen” discussions are pretty much always about why that particular generation sucks and how they’re ruining everything for everyone else. Plus once the boomers die out, we’ll certainly be in the crosshairs…
Mayor Zero Mostel?
Welcome to the machine 😉
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THE EDMONTON OILERS HAVE MADE IT BACK TO THE STANLEY CUP FINAL 🏆
At the roller rink, you’d stomp on cue while skating around: “Private eyes [stomp] are watching you [stomp stomp]…”
Duh, too easy: THANES and NOBLIS Surely you could come up with something more challenging?
It was a toughie!!!
XIV is back, baby, without need for Peter Gordon math exams
I have washed the squeeze-bottle of raw milk that was in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast…
So much for light-hearted jokes…
Our place is around the corner from a Crumbl and I judge everyone in that line
Hey you posted this from a computer! Busted!!!
After extensive research, no surprise to find that my happiness is inversely correlated to my score on the NYT news quiz
Minis!
Element found in magnets
They oughta pass a law that bans appraisers on Antiques Roadshow from starting their estimate with the words “thirty-five” when it’s $3,500
Here’s hoping you solve faster than the Acela!
Team where I don’t know/recall name of the park; this also serves as a list of “places I’ve been for business and had free time”: Candlestick Oakland Shea Yankee Stadium Milwaukee Brewers Cincinnati Reds Pirates Nationals Astros White Sox Wrigley Phillies Fenway Camden Yards
100% as foretold by “Idiocracy” www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/p...
Things have gone completely sideways when every pharmaceutical ad uses a song that came out after you turned 35
I’ve told this story before and I’m going to tell it again: We sat at the same table for each puzzles and every time you put your hand up after like 11 seconds I thought, “That poor kid, is he quitting already? I hope he’s OK…” P.S. I think I came in 249th that year. I’m a moron…
I refuse to believe this is a good post with no AI assist logos or branding on load, sorry
Bic Mechanical Pencil HB#2 0.7mm (“Perfect for standardized tests!”)
As a kid, circa 1980, I delivered the Star-Ledger by bicycle every morning to around 40 houses.
Weird that #NYT #Wirecutter includes espresso/Nespresso machines but omits super-automatics (e.g., Jura). Yes, expensive. But no capsules, use your own beans. Button-push for a way-better-than-drip 6-8oz cup of coffee with crema on top (plus espresso/cappuccino). www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
OENO would be a perfectly cromulent name.
Boston bachelorette bash?
Hahaha! Happens every night
If you hear me sighing 6:30am, it’s because Spelling Bee genius is over 150 points.
A movie children could watch, not a children’s movie
I decided a while ago that I don’t do surveys unless the company is paying me to their work.
Who doesn’t love ya, baby?
In case you’re looking for it: youtu.be/yvhmg1lvnx0?...
You’re on a roll! Don’t stop..
“the Russian habit of covering my reading material” Well that’s piqued my interest. To protect the book? Privacy? Just a thing one does?
Never give up, never surrender.
43 minutes, just couldn’t get going on the top half. Brain is calcifying.
Rewatched The Maltese Falcon, and I’m reminded that the very end of the film is GOLD (the whole film is gold)
Also, I did not know that about game shows!
We lived in Stamford, CT, where they shot Jerry Springer, Maury, et. al. They gave “contestants” a free hotel room… which was apparently the main reason some people went on the show: a free night at a hotel… in Stamford, CT…
Is this normally how it’s done??? “Filming may take place in the Atlanta, Georgia area, but is subject to change in the Producer’s sole discretion… you will be solely responsible for any and all costs […] including but not limited to transportation, accommodations, meals and any entertainment.”
Appealing symmetry, minimalist design. Looks like a sunrise. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
I am more careful on “Walk” with the bike lane than crossing the street itself (yes yes, cars also run lights and cars will kill you).
Her Friday grids are like butter…
A lot of talk about how this platform is so much more constructive and high-minded versus the old place. Also a lot of hot takes, jokes, and likes for a murder with a gun.
Reading this reminds me: at about 7pm on 12/31/1999, one of our servers had a hardware failure completely unrelated to Y2K. Had to convince a string of panicked executives calling my flip phone that it was just a crazy coincidence, not impending doom. datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/ky...
He was right all along youtu.be/LH5ay10RTGY?...
Sunny (on AppleTV) was OK, but that theme song is the real star youtu.be/Wt6Jh3BB4fI?...
Content creators who think defending IP rights is uncool?
“… Morgan, Mason, Matthew, and Modine…”
Next challenge: five miles with the gas cap off 🤣
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Kinda related: the DuMont Television Network “produced more than 20,000 television episodes from 1946 to 1956” but their “vast library” was “reportedly disposed of […] in New York City's East River to make warehouse space for videotapes.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuMont_...
Empire www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5pq...
¡Felix Navidad!
Happy Unger Day to all those who celebrate “On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence…” m.youtube.com/watch?v=Af1h...
I’ve read dozens of articles now about how Gen Z, Millennials, and Boomers voted, and it is striking how Gen X goes completely unmentioned in almost every article. I am perfectly content to be ignored and left alone but it’s kinda eerie.
I thought therapy was supposed to make you feel better about the future?
Gonna be looking a lot at www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAt... in the coming years.
PMTC silver lining: millions of Americans met Frank Zappa for the first time.
I’ve seen the needle and the damage done (and streaks are a curse)
All-musical episode is how Strange New Worlds lost me forever.
Why not both? (Don’t encourage them)
I approve: “They taste just like Goldfish. Except they’re called Chilean Sea Bass. So sophisticated.”
On the ballot in CT: “no excuse absentee” voting. Don’t forget to turn over your ballot and vote “YES” on the back of the page.
Options
Fair point, but what were the Jets on?
“pleasant”
