normalizing bereavement leave is good, and all, but this is sort of like if aubrey huff wanted to give campaign speeches

A little pro-tip for my fellow Jews. If you find yourself in a setting where people are arguing vociferously about the USS Liberty and those people arguing are not elderly Navy veterans, then you should leave that setting asap.

i am now going to spend the rest of the day brainstorming my ideal apocalypse cheeses

I'm thinking ash, drunken goat, stinking bishop - that should take care of the first three seals

let’s eat the tomb bread, let’s drink the gelatinized mummies, let’s slice up any mysterious antediluvian cheeses we find, let’s hatch the doom egg and make doom egg salad, let’s make an apocalyptic charcuterie board and feast

If you took the vocals out of “The Bad Touch,” it would be indistinguishable from a late-80s New Order track. And I think that’s beautiful 💜

I'm a little astonished by how much both Schwarb and Alonso went for. And, like... for example, is Jorge Polanco really a safer option?

spending hanukkah with mandy patinkin just went on my bucket list tbqh

SPORPS

is the murakami bust risk as high as it was for yoshida, who was viewed by all non-boston teams as being worth *vastly* less than they spent on him? i'm having trouble understanding why all of these teams appear so thoroughly unconvinced!

frustratingly, ours is not the only ethnoreligious identity group with which the vehemence of a person's identification is mistaken for strictness of adherence to the tenets of the creed.

(seems like, if anything, this happens with civic religions at least as often.)

also my wife made cranberry banana bread sufficiently good that we have evacuated the kitchen in the hopes that doing so will slow down the rate at which we’re devouring it. pretty good evening tbh