Rich O’Malley
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“One Lucky Fan” / @NYBuildingCongress / Ex-Executive Editor @NYDailyNews / Ex-Deadspin, Newsday, SJU, Medill, LIU / Flânerie / Irreparably fraught / (he/they)
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Dec 11th 1983 - Rollergirl catches up with an old classmate, Dirk Diggler makes a new friend, and Buck Swope stops for donuts.
📽️📅 Boogie Nights (1997)
📽️📅 Boogie Nights (1997)
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Dec 11th 1983 - Rollergirl catches up with an old classmate, Dirk Diggler makes a new friend, and Buck Swope stops for donuts.
📽️📅 Boogie Nights (1997)
📽️📅 Boogie Nights (1997)
Beautiful!
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Beautiful!
"Those damn Gideons"
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Dec. 3, 1925: Attendees at the National Association of Amusement Parks convention in Chicago entertain themselves by riding a "Missouri mule" at the Drake Hotel.
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Those damn Gideons"
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I stand with my classmate, & just ended about 25 straight years of (small, but still) monthly giving, and tossed the money to PBS, clearly far more worthy and in need of it, instead.
Faculty voted nearly unanimiously to not cave & the school did.
You know who made my experience there?
Faculty.
Faculty voted nearly unanimiously to not cave & the school did.
You know who made my experience there?
Faculty.
I’m disgusted with my alma mater, which is behaving contrary to everything I learned while getting my master’s degree from Medill, their once lauded journalism school. I hope Ken Towers’s ghost haunts these spineless administrators.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I stand with my classmate, & just ended about 25 straight years of (small, but still) monthly giving, and tossed the money to PBS, clearly far more worthy and in need of it, instead.
Faculty voted nearly unanimiously to not cave & the school did.
You know who made my experience there?
Faculty.
Faculty voted nearly unanimiously to not cave & the school did.
You know who made my experience there?
Faculty.
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"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
Agree on pretty much all here. Plus that Mitchell needs to be starting. #sjubb has historically, no matter players or coach, been a horrible first-5 mins team. Put your best guys out to start & he’s core 3 of this team IMHO w/ Zuby/BH on D alone.
Late game: BH, ZE off-ball, & if a 3 OzS 1st choice.
Late game: BH, ZE off-ball, & if a 3 OzS 1st choice.
A thread on the state of the Johnnies as we head into the final stretch of the OOC:
St. John’s is currently 15th at Torvik and 18th at kenpom. Started with a preseason AP rank of 5, but may fall out completely this week.
St. John’s is currently 15th at Torvik and 18th at kenpom. Started with a preseason AP rank of 5, but may fall out completely this week.
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Agree on pretty much all here. Plus that Mitchell needs to be starting. #sjubb has historically, no matter players or coach, been a horrible first-5 mins team. Put your best guys out to start & he’s core 3 of this team IMHO w/ Zuby/BH on D alone.
Late game: BH, ZE off-ball, & if a 3 OzS 1st choice.
Late game: BH, ZE off-ball, & if a 3 OzS 1st choice.
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Yes, truly... where WOULD it go?
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Yes, truly... where WOULD it go?
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Why *does* the mayor of Subway City always end up in the back of a Suburban? There are good reasons: Security, productivity, travel to non-Manhattan destinations. And a bad reason: Habit.
The politics/practicalities of mayoral mobility from Lindsay thru now — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/s...
The politics/practicalities of mayoral mobility from Lindsay thru now — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/s...
Security Blanket: Will NYPD Smother Mamdani’s Love of Transit and Bikes? - Streetsblog New York City
Zohran Mamdani spent his mayoral campaign riding the subway and biking around — but the demands of City Hall may test his transit habit.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Why *does* the mayor of Subway City always end up in the back of a Suburban? There are good reasons: Security, productivity, travel to non-Manhattan destinations. And a bad reason: Habit.
The politics/practicalities of mayoral mobility from Lindsay thru now — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/s...
The politics/practicalities of mayoral mobility from Lindsay thru now — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/s...
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This very old sign under the Bruckner is about to see its sixth mayor
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This very old sign under the Bruckner is about to see its sixth mayor
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Today I learned (thanks, NPR) that from 1875 to 1975, there were more than 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The publicity of song led to safety standard changes and there has not been a single commercial wreck since then.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Today I learned (thanks, NPR) that from 1875 to 1975, there were more than 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The publicity of song led to safety standard changes and there has not been a single commercial wreck since then.
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My suggestion for everyone with the TouchTunes app is play this around 7:15 tonight. You don't even have to be at the bar. If you're just sitting at home play it at the nearest place to you.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My suggestion for everyone with the TouchTunes app is play this around 7:15 tonight. You don't even have to be at the bar. If you're just sitting at home play it at the nearest place to you.
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Seems like a good day to revisit my favorite book review of all time.
www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/b...
www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/b...
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Seems like a good day to revisit my favorite book review of all time.
www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/b...
www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/b...
He’s running… again.
Again…
A…gain.
Again…
A…gain.
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
He’s running… again.
Again…
A…gain.
Again…
A…gain.
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We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
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This is great. Public transit is public space and public space should be more playful.
MTA arrival signs have little ghosts haunting the screens
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is great. Public transit is public space and public space should be more playful.
Fun read, and worth it to see the NYT headline offered that day on the same story, which I had never seen but is absolutely [chef’s kiss]!
It’s rare that a headline outlasts the person who wrote it. But long after Bill Brink’s father had died, “Ford to City: Drop Dead” endures in the national consciousness.
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Fun read, and worth it to see the NYT headline offered that day on the same story, which I had never seen but is absolutely [chef’s kiss]!
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Ah, she was wonderful. Goodbye to her. 😔
Breaking news 🚨
Fawlty Towers actor Prunella Scales dies aged 93
Fawlty Towers actor Prunella Scales dies aged 93
Prunella Scales death: Fawlty Towers actor dies aged 93
Actor was best known for playing the bossy wife to John Cleese’s eccentric hotelier Basil Fawlty in the acclaimed Monty Python sitcom
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ah, she was wonderful. Goodbye to her. 😔
These all look WAY too official. Where's the guy in the Monster Drinks baseball cap and big-boy Batman badge I saw last week? Who is he with?
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
These all look WAY too official. Where's the guy in the Monster Drinks baseball cap and big-boy Batman badge I saw last week? Who is he with?
“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe…”
October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM