Michael Morrison
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Table rapping came about shortly after the telegraph appeared. A lot of spiritualism is adjacent to the latest technology. This is just the new version of asking a medium to talk to her through the ethers, but somehow even worse.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Table rapping came about shortly after the telegraph appeared. A lot of spiritualism is adjacent to the latest technology. This is just the new version of asking a medium to talk to her through the ethers, but somehow even worse.
The new Melody’s Echo Chamber album is perfect for Sunday morning. Really digging the drums on it this morning.
Melody's Echo Chamber - Eyes Closed (Official Audio)
YouTube video by melodysechochamber
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December 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The new Melody’s Echo Chamber album is perfect for Sunday morning. Really digging the drums on it this morning.
The one naturalization ceremony I’ve been lucky enough to attend was one of the most moving experiences of my life. A room full of people from all over the world who worked so hard and sacrificed so much for years to be part of this country. It was humbling to be there. Weaponizing it is a disgrace.
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The one naturalization ceremony I’ve been lucky enough to attend was one of the most moving experiences of my life. A room full of people from all over the world who worked so hard and sacrificed so much for years to be part of this country. It was humbling to be there. Weaponizing it is a disgrace.
For reasons known only to my subconscious, I’ve abruptly decided it’s a good time for a rewatch of the 2015 Amazon show Patriot. Incredibly stacked supporting cast, dark, funny, and sad. A show too strange and beautiful for this cruel world of ours. Maybe people just don’t appreciate piping anymore.
December 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
For reasons known only to my subconscious, I’ve abruptly decided it’s a good time for a rewatch of the 2015 Amazon show Patriot. Incredibly stacked supporting cast, dark, funny, and sad. A show too strange and beautiful for this cruel world of ours. Maybe people just don’t appreciate piping anymore.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
also
what we remember of love is starlight
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
also
what we remember of love is starlight
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
also
what we remember of love is starlight
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
also
what we remember of love is starlight
Sure, everyone loves The Ghost of Christmas Present and his happy go lucky attitude, but when I wear nothing but a loosely tied robe to Trish’s office Christmas party I’m “being incredibly inappropriate” and “embarrassing me in front of my coworkers.” Hypocrites
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Sure, everyone loves The Ghost of Christmas Present and his happy go lucky attitude, but when I wear nothing but a loosely tied robe to Trish’s office Christmas party I’m “being incredibly inappropriate” and “embarrassing me in front of my coworkers.” Hypocrites
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I wish Grant Wahl was here rn
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I wish Grant Wahl was here rn
The thing about events like the World Cup Draw or the NFL draft is you don’t have to watch them to find out what happened! Unless you’re doing it as part of your job, you miss nothing by looking it up on a website instead!
2017- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2021- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2025- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2021- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2025- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The thing about events like the World Cup Draw or the NFL draft is you don’t have to watch them to find out what happened! Unless you’re doing it as part of your job, you miss nothing by looking it up on a website instead!
2017- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2021- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2025- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2021- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2025- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
2017- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2021- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2025- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2021- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
2025- Watching Infantino cozy up with a thug makes me queasy about watching the upcoming World Cup
Just got a medical bill cut by 60%! I’m very excited and happy but also hate that you have to haggle healthcare like you’re buying a used car.
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Just got a medical bill cut by 60%! I’m very excited and happy but also hate that you have to haggle healthcare like you’re buying a used car.
Always appreciate this monthly list, for TCM pre-codes, but today it made me realize there aren’t really any Christmas pre-codes. It’s a tragedy we don’t have Joan Blondell and/or Glenda Farrell getting into hi jinx for Xmas cash or something. Feels like a real missed opportunity.
Book tour musings plus Marx Brothers madness on TCM in December! Check it out! pre-code.com/pre-code-mov...
Pre-Code Movies on TCM in December 2025
Well, I’m back! Back in my house, at least, in gorgeous, cold Germany. And this year my furnace actually works, which is a splendid change of pace from the prior two years. What does this mea…
pre-code.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Always appreciate this monthly list, for TCM pre-codes, but today it made me realize there aren’t really any Christmas pre-codes. It’s a tragedy we don’t have Joan Blondell and/or Glenda Farrell getting into hi jinx for Xmas cash or something. Feels like a real missed opportunity.
The Beatles’ Rubber Soul was released 60 years ago today. What makes that interesting is that Help! came out less than 4 months prior. Wild how fast they worked while evolving just as quickly. It would take them a whole 7 months to come out with Revolver the next August.
I'm Looking Through You (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic
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December 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The Beatles’ Rubber Soul was released 60 years ago today. What makes that interesting is that Help! came out less than 4 months prior. Wild how fast they worked while evolving just as quickly. It would take them a whole 7 months to come out with Revolver the next August.
During Covid I got into genealogy, I found a puritan minister famous for an anti-beastiality sermon, a 70 year old who spent 2 years in jail for killing livestock and a ggg grandpa who died in a drunken brawl over a jug of whiskey. The idea American culture is inherently superior is a racist joke.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
During Covid I got into genealogy, I found a puritan minister famous for an anti-beastiality sermon, a 70 year old who spent 2 years in jail for killing livestock and a ggg grandpa who died in a drunken brawl over a jug of whiskey. The idea American culture is inherently superior is a racist joke.
Didn’t realize they made a whole skincare line just for twitter users, good for them!
December 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Didn’t realize they made a whole skincare line just for twitter users, good for them!
This sandwich shop is C.C. Sabathia and Kevin Smith approved, two guys whose opinions on sandwiches I’m willing to trust.
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This sandwich shop is C.C. Sabathia and Kevin Smith approved, two guys whose opinions on sandwiches I’m willing to trust.
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The line from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia that inspired a new treatment for breast cancer: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” [kottke.org]
A Line in a Tom Stoppard Play Inspired a New Breast Cancer Treatment
In a letter to the Times of London, Dr. Michael Baum tells how a line in Arcadia by Tom Stoppard sparked an idea which resulted in adjuvant systemic chemotherapy, a therapy Baum helped pioneer which greatly increased the
kottke.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The line from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia that inspired a new treatment for breast cancer: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” [kottke.org]
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Yohannes + Macario = a problem.
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Yohannes + Macario = a problem.
Macario doing crazy things on the pitch always makes me happy. She and Yohannes play so well together, I genuinely feel sorry for opposing defenses.
A lot of ink’s been spilled on “what’s wrong with the USWNT?” over the past year or so and I think a lot of it boils down to Cat Macario was injured. Great to see her back and scoring today. She’s special
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Macario doing crazy things on the pitch always makes me happy. She and Yohannes play so well together, I genuinely feel sorry for opposing defenses.
It’s cheating but the best answer is Bess Flowers, a background actress who was in hundreds of movies, including dozens of the best films of all time. For decades she seems to have been in everything. Vertigo, The Big Sleep, The Lady Eve, Singing In The Rain and it keeps going
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
It’s cheating but the best answer is Bess Flowers, a background actress who was in hundreds of movies, including dozens of the best films of all time. For decades she seems to have been in everything. Vertigo, The Big Sleep, The Lady Eve, Singing In The Rain and it keeps going
After my pointless attempt to delay it, we’ve started marathoning Christmas movies. Started with It Happened On Fifth Avenue. It’s one of Trish’s favorites mostly because a character Mike spends the movie getting scolded by everyone else.
Christmas Time is Here…
Movies to watch this Christmas (and New Year’s Eve) season
boxd.it
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
After my pointless attempt to delay it, we’ve started marathoning Christmas movies. Started with It Happened On Fifth Avenue. It’s one of Trish’s favorites mostly because a character Mike spends the movie getting scolded by everyone else.
Feel like I have to revisit this and admit that yesterday I was in fact reading The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov on the plane. My ebook hold came through, so still not an impulse buy. Also finished Lapvona, by Ottessa Moshfegh. Trying to decide what I make of it’s ending.
This Hudson News has a surprisingly great book selection, but I’m real curious who is at the airport and thinks, “yes, now is the time for the unabridged Les Misérables.” A great book but a terrible impulse purchase
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Feel like I have to revisit this and admit that yesterday I was in fact reading The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov on the plane. My ebook hold came through, so still not an impulse buy. Also finished Lapvona, by Ottessa Moshfegh. Trying to decide what I make of it’s ending.
Back home, tired but grateful for the past week and the time we got to spend with family. Also super grateful that it turns out we were one of the last flights out of Chicago before they did a total ground stop due to the blizzard.
a person is laying on the ground in a dark room with a window .
Alt: Indiana sliding under the big stone door then grabbing his hat just before it slams shut
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Back home, tired but grateful for the past week and the time we got to spend with family. Also super grateful that it turns out we were one of the last flights out of Chicago before they did a total ground stop due to the blizzard.
Slipping in just under the wire, today’s poem:
Thanks by W.S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
Thanks by W.S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Slipping in just under the wire, today’s poem:
Thanks by W.S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
Thanks by W.S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you