I think a good title for a memoir would be “it’s 100% grosser to have a banana in your pants than be happy to see me”

Oddly feel that Nixon would have been in his element with alien first contact. It's easier for me to visualize him shaking a tentacle and saying "It is a, uhh, honor to welcome the Xendigarians of Krylar-5 and let me be the first to say *gurgling yell*" than other Presidents.

March 2023: An Open Letter signed by 30k luminaries calls "all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems” to avoid “loss of control” April 2025: still not entirely clear how we reliably analyze a bunch of PDFs in corporate folders with AI

Obviously the prequels were hit or miss but “Obi-Wan the Jedi Knight is close personal friends with the guy who runs a greasy fifties-style diner” was George Lucas cooking at full capacity

The Knicks genetic code contains a distinct strain of Metsness and it is very important to understand this

Sticker on my new Tesla that reads "I bought this after Elon went crazy".

I just sent a letter to the president of the LA protests, explaining all the optics and branding mistakes his organization has made. If he orders his subordinates to implement my suggestions, the government will have no choice but to recognize the protests as legitimate.

Storycorps but it’s just my wife telling me about the marriages of the other people in her art studio that I am vaguely aware of.

For my entire adult life the political establishment has wanted to attack Iran but they could never quite cook up a good pretext. It turns out they didn’t need one, they just needed the world’s dumbest man to pull the trigger and the bloodthirsty press will take care of the rest.

Sort of disorienting to come out of a Danny Boyle zombie movie and learn that the US has become involved in a war on the Persian Gulf

Everybody can see that little red soup stain on your shirt by the way. They know that you ate at xian famous foods and that you ordered the pulled pork noodles in broth, and to a lesser extent, bought chrysanthemum tea to go with it too

Once you’ve been to Orc City, you’ll never stop wanting to beat the Elvish King to death with your bare hands

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Just so you know: even if you say “don’t say I didn’t warn you” I’m still going to claim you didn’t warn me.

Cormac McCarthy, sir, you are on notice. Let’s make the next one a little more upbeat.

the concept of a monkey living in obscurity

Big day for your friends without a personality

For a while, I couldn’t really articulate what this period of conservative cultural power felt like, but I saw this and it was like a light turning on. This period feels like a “Hollywood-themed” bar/bat mitzvah you’re forced to attend at gunpoint

poor alonso....