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If you can throw the (very) occasional spiral, your football skills are WAY ahead of her writing skills.
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If you can throw the (very) occasional spiral, your football skills are WAY ahead of her writing skills.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, he is, in fact just that stupid.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, FFS, I'm now meant to like both Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene? On the same day?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, am I meant to like both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie in the same week?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
It wouldn't be possible to lose her. If I'm more than six feet away, she has a panic attack.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
A meth lab, maybe.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Dommage
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Am I a bad person for wishing that every ICE agent gets the worst possible cancer?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Josh Hawley has some beer he would like you to hold
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Then, God thought, come to think of it, I can do better. And, lo, He begat Stephen Miller.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Soft-secession
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
...who in all of his drunkenness was a superior tactician.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
These ICE agents are otherwise-unemployable punks. They love doing this. And when this reign of terror is over, they should all face justice.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
The best part is the hat means absolutely nothing to the guy and everything to the kid. He's despicable. A kid only gets to be a kid once. FFS, let him have his memories.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
No one will remember him. He's a non-entity, which he's been all his life. A nothing. History, as it should, will forget him.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
In California, in the '60s, it was a big John Birch deal. There were billboards. Somehow, fluoride was a communist plot. In fairness, to the Birchers, to them, pretty much everything was a communist plot.
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✋🏼
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention the backlash from graphic designers.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Compared to mine, you could hire yourself out as a calligrapher.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
I want everyone from Tom Nichols to Bill Kristol to Joe Walsh to Bernie Sanders to be Democrats. It's a fight for the soul of the country and I'll take all the allies I can get. We can argue about marginal tax rates later.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
A victory for ham sandwiches everywhere.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Coming in Wednesdays's Food section: Slimming With The President: The Trump Diet, Learn How The President Stays In Shape
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Then, there was the whole 'Hitler blew his brains out' thingy.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a book of letters sent among the sisters. They are as literate and bitchy as you might imagine.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
That's because JJ Abrams is the most overrated director in history.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
I go there because my university's ✌🏼 athletic department doesn't post here, but I never engage politically.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
When I was a kid, growing up in Southern California, Disneyland used to feature jazz bands and Basie was there every summer. They played in the Carnation Plaza. I heard Satch on the paddle wheel river boat. We'd go to meet girls and never muster up the courage to talk to any
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
The Old Testament band was better, but that's a pretty great lineup.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Or, my anniversary, which is why I insisted that the band at our reception play Corner Pocket and why our Scottie dog was called Lester. Say what you will about Ellington or anyone else, the Basie band was the absolute best.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Judging by how most of these guys look, in the lockers of middle schools.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Or—and hear me out—he's the Ben Franklin of our age. Personally, I'm leaning toward really, really stupid.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
One could argue that it's the great American musical. Maybe Gypsy. But it's close.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
What these idiots don't understand is that new CEOs ALWAYS want to fuck around with the logo. When the loathsome Steve Ross bought Time-Warner, he scrapped Chermayeff and Geismar's great logo for a crap word mark. And it just kept getting worse. 1000logos.net/wp-content/u...
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Dommage
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, it's much simpler to turn on a Trump press conference if you want to listen to a crazy person yelling.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
You're in luck, in the Chicago suburb of Oakbrook, there is a Crate and Barrel with a restaurant. Alas, not a Cracker Barrel.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Kevin drove to the studio in his new Studebaker.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
For me, a Green's cinnamon babka—no envelope required—would do it.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, there goes my opinion of you as our greatest, living journalist.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
If one finds oneself in the charming little town of Chagrin Falls, visit Cuffs Clothiers, one of the last of the dying breed of gentlemen's clothiers.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm on the left, but I'm a designer and I'm outraged. The new logo is horrible. Great pancakes, lousy logo.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
It's effectively 1 1/3 fewer murders. A statistical anomaly.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
That's basically 1.35 fewer murders over the nine days.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
They couldn't take it during the civil war, so giving it another go. Where is Cump Sherman when we need him?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
The Stolen Girl, on Hulu. With the great (and delectable) Holliday Grainger.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
I have one golden. Don't have a good-enough vacuum for two.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Fat, stupid thugs.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Now, change "Russia" to "Germany" and apply it to WWII. How does it make sense?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly, it is now.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
These assholes all need to go to prison. This is shameful.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Gotta have that funk
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Putin is bringing his own idiot-to-Russian translator to use for Trump.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd rather hear from someone I believe.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
They're not mutually-exclusive.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll have an Opera (don't see one there, they must be in the back). And a Paris-Brest to go.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
What's this Constitution thing of which you speak?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
How many great Michelin-starred restaurants in London? Great Indian food. St John's, on its own, would make it a great restaurant city. The reputation of lousy food in England is long gone.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
London has the best collection of museums anywhere. A food scene, which may be the best on earth. Brilliant parks. Rent a chair in Green Park and watch the people go by. A great transport system, and the Eurostar, which allows you to have breakfast in London and lunch in Paris, dinner in London.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretty much everything. London is a city of neighborhoods. Each of which has a separate personality and a high street. On the north side of the Thames, you have traditional architecture and no building taller than St Paul's. On the Southbank, skyscrapers and young renters. 1/2
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Chicago, once you get past Lincoln Park, may have the ugliest neighborhoods in any major city.
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Dommage
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Here's what people need to understand about Chicago. The area around the Mag Mile and Gold Coast is lovely. Lincoln Park, too, largely. But effectively every other neighborhood is hideous. It's a great tourist city, but not great to live in. The restaurants are overrated, too.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in Chicago. It is vastly overrated. London Copenhagen Paris Tokyo Berlin
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He reminds me of someone. m.media-amazon.com/images/I/510...
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
sorry, but there is no fucking way this idiot took on anyone older than a fourth grader.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
That will certainly calm the markets.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Just don't expect it to tell you how many "Bs" in blueberry
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Can it run a little faster? Please.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Not exactly Usain Bolt.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
That's our new national motto
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Better than that, they think he has lowered prices
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
...for now.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Why do these guys always look like they'd prefer to patrol a Dunkin' Donuts?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Jesus, don't make me like a Bruin.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Time of day? Was it early in the morning?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep. I hate like heck to do it, but here we are. Fight on, you gutty, little bruins. ✌🏼
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
As a person naturally disposed to hate anything ucla (Fight On!), I hate to admit that's a great idea. I'd go farther and say that the state should backstop any university that he attacks, public or private.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
How'd it work out after the Civil War? Jim Crow. Whites-only restrooms. Now, we have the secretary of defense reinstating the names of the traitors all across the military. I'm fine without them, thanks.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm fine with the dissolution of the union. As a blue-stater, I'd be happy to disassociate with the red states. Either form our own country or join Canada.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
She. Fucked. Stephen. Miller.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
He thought it was ICE CREAM
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Every blue state where it's possible.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
They already have disproportionate representation.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Uriah Heep, without any of the charm.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Tired of being the party that plays by the rules when there are no rules.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
You're halfway to your goal!
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Jump!!!
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Anyone know the load-bearing rating of that roof?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, he could be a dog.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Of all the soulless assholes in this administration, he's near the top of the list.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Dershowitz needs to explain where in the Constitution it says that "asshole" is a protected class.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
You mean "golf spray painted" monuments.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Melania, is that you?
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no Pravda in Izvestia and no Iz vestia in pravda
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
No, not possible. But he knows their supporters are.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
CA. NY. IL. MN. NJ. CO. OR. ETC. Gerrymander the gop out of existence.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
And more shame on the institutions that are caving to him.
Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure that "asshole" is a protected class.
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Dommage
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This is the revenge of a group of people who were friendless in school and pantsed every day from kindergarten through twelfth grade.