My friend’s Dad doesn’t know who Cookie Monster is and referred to him as COLD ELMO.

[key and peele fake football player voice]
Marmaduke Grylls

Focus on Tim.
Pull focus to window.
You get right next to Tim for it to look real. You gotta be right next to him. Everybody tries to make it look fake. Fuckers.
Pull focus back to Tim.
Tim moves head.
Tim smokes perfectly.

You're driving with the Driving Crooner, baby.

It’s crazy how basketball players can perform an alley oop and not develop feelings for each other

turning your own money into taxable income 👍👍

My most millennial trait is big purchases must happen in big laptop screen

Oh my god the Mets have a driving crooner cam

Wife just heard me have some coffee

loved talking to one of my very best friends about getting his start online, Detroit sports fandom, and of course food. and deez nuts.

Personal news

It started w/ a blog, The WorldOfIsaac. Then a few of us joined forces to create Guyism. Then we sold to Woven, which later became Uproxx. The last move was Warner Music.

I've had one of the longest, most stable journeys in digital media and it has come to an end

There was an Austin public access show in the 1990s called 'Raw Time' where the host would insult the intelligence of the callers and hang up on Limp Bizkit fans. It's great.

[extremely Some Personal News voice ]

some personal news…

briancgrubb.substack.com/p/goodbyes-and…

There’s a longer version of this coming in the next tweet but…

Today is my last day at Uproxx. The site was sold and things got shuffled around and I got shuffled out. It’s a bummer.

Not sure what my next step is but I promise I have been through worse.

as Deadspin limply changes hands again, now’s a good time to remember how fun those early days were

Great talk with Will Leitch about his Internet experience, maturing online, productivity, and of course Deadspin.

we’re giving away Internet history lessons for free

michael bluth: we have to get dad out of prison

tobias funke subplot:

i can’t get over the Snowden looking guy getting burned by voluntary surveillance

one minute you think you’re a clean person, the next minute a sunbeam hits your laptop screen