Mike Vachow
@mikevachow.bsky.social
Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
STL
STL
Pinned
I love this show and its one exquisite season. I grew up in exactly the same time/place and had a Lindsay-like HS classmate who was similarly brilliant, beautiful, and enigmatic. Everyone was in love with her and scared of her.
Cities are hell and immigrants are stealing your tax dollars are the A side hits MAGA plays on hard repeat to keep rural and suburban supporters aligned despite everyday evidence that they’re marks for the grift too.
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Cities are hell and immigrants are stealing your tax dollars are the A side hits MAGA plays on hard repeat to keep rural and suburban supporters aligned despite everyday evidence that they’re marks for the grift too.
Elegant solution: Kelly chips in 90% of the buyout as a gift to the $154M library reconstruction. Still walks away with $5M and eddies out into an offensive coordinator job in the NFL.
Kelly files suit, says LSU seeking 'for cause' firing
In a legal filing Monday, Brian Kelly's attorneys say LSU has taken the position that it has not "formally terminated" Kelly as the Tigers' football coach and is now seeking to fire him "for cause" an...
www.espn.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Elegant solution: Kelly chips in 90% of the buyout as a gift to the $154M library reconstruction. Still walks away with $5M and eddies out into an offensive coordinator job in the NFL.
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I’m sorry, Bill Pulte who got famous on Twitter with those “post your cashtag” posts??
The one whose company tore down an entire neighborhood by Eastern Market in Detroit for Dave Bing and then left it fallow and unmowed??
He’s the fucking DIRECTOR OF HOUSING of the whole country????
The one whose company tore down an entire neighborhood by Eastern Market in Detroit for Dave Bing and then left it fallow and unmowed??
He’s the fucking DIRECTOR OF HOUSING of the whole country????
POLITICO: “.. The White House was blindsided by the idea, according to two people familiar with the situation .. and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.” 🤡
@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m sorry, Bill Pulte who got famous on Twitter with those “post your cashtag” posts??
The one whose company tore down an entire neighborhood by Eastern Market in Detroit for Dave Bing and then left it fallow and unmowed??
He’s the fucking DIRECTOR OF HOUSING of the whole country????
The one whose company tore down an entire neighborhood by Eastern Market in Detroit for Dave Bing and then left it fallow and unmowed??
He’s the fucking DIRECTOR OF HOUSING of the whole country????
Flying back to STL from BOS today. Wish me luck.
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Flying back to STL from BOS today. Wish me luck.
Dude, we’re opening for Hairy Butthole!
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Dude, we’re opening for Hairy Butthole!
required reading
Thanks to The Ringer for republishing my 2022 piece on 'Nebraska' amidst the excitement surrounding 'Deliver Me From Nowhere'. It's one I'm very proud of- both a celebration of a transcendent album and a melancholy reckoning with the broken American labor movement. www.theringer.com/2022/12/14/m...
Please Don’t Stop Me: 40 Years of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’
Decades after its release, the haunted highways and haunted characters of the Boss’s largely acoustic masterpiece still haunt the American psyche
www.theringer.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
required reading
Life Van Halen and Time Jesus
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Life Van Halen and Time Jesus
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Rare is the perfect photograph, a photograph that is both literal and metaphor, a photograph that fills the void where a person should be.
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Rare is the perfect photograph, a photograph that is both literal and metaphor, a photograph that fills the void where a person should be.
Just a reminder that the entire point of Thanksgiving is
a) lethargy
b) leftovers
c) turkey and sausage gumbo
a) lethargy
b) leftovers
c) turkey and sausage gumbo
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Just a reminder that the entire point of Thanksgiving is
a) lethargy
b) leftovers
c) turkey and sausage gumbo
a) lethargy
b) leftovers
c) turkey and sausage gumbo
Bc god is great, there are Youtube channels that contain unnarrated footage of garbage trucks picking up trash, which is the preferred content of my 18 mos. old granddaughter.
youtu.be/UluH0QmnwfM?...
youtu.be/UluH0QmnwfM?...
Garbage Trucks: The Ultimate Compilation
YouTube video by Thrash 'N' Trash Productions
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Bc god is great, there are Youtube channels that contain unnarrated footage of garbage trucks picking up trash, which is the preferred content of my 18 mos. old granddaughter.
youtu.be/UluH0QmnwfM?...
youtu.be/UluH0QmnwfM?...
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
Bowdoin College posted this tepid “congrats” to its alumnus, Zohran Mamdani, made worse by the fact that the visual is clearly AI slop. Comments are a bonfire.
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Bowdoin College posted this tepid “congrats” to its alumnus, Zohran Mamdani, made worse by the fact that the visual is clearly AI slop. Comments are a bonfire.
My 18 mos. old granddaughter has a new sibling who will supplant Garth, the Roomba, as the only other member of the household. She finds and greets Garth just about every time every time she enters the house.
November 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My 18 mos. old granddaughter has a new sibling who will supplant Garth, the Roomba, as the only other member of the household. She finds and greets Garth just about every time every time she enters the house.
Cuomo can’t possibly step lively enough to avoid the NYC screen door hitting him in the ass.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Cuomo can’t possibly step lively enough to avoid the NYC screen door hitting him in the ass.
Mansard Mania!
Day St., Somerville, MA
Day St., Somerville, MA
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Mansard Mania!
Day St., Somerville, MA
Day St., Somerville, MA
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This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a ...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Local public radio reporter named Rose Dalton—instant Steely Dan trigger, to the chagrin of all others in the car.
November 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Local public radio reporter named Rose Dalton—instant Steely Dan trigger, to the chagrin of all others in the car.
Nice city ya got dere. Be a shame if some addled, racist world leader sent a buncha goons in.
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Nice city ya got dere. Be a shame if some addled, racist world leader sent a buncha goons in.
Probably an insufferable thing to say, but my local library’s collection is tenaciously middlebrow.
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Probably an insufferable thing to say, but my local library’s collection is tenaciously middlebrow.
Just finished a two week Willa Cather tear—My Antonia and O, Pioneers! So good. Have partially filled a gaping hole in my education.
November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just finished a two week Willa Cather tear—My Antonia and O, Pioneers! So good. Have partially filled a gaping hole in my education.
Most nutrition influencer recipes are horrible. These cottage cheese protein bagels are not. Equal parts cottage cheese and flour, a little salt. Most recipes call for baking powder but use yeast to avoid the chemical tang. I throw in a little whole wheat and rye flour.
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Most nutrition influencer recipes are horrible. These cottage cheese protein bagels are not. Equal parts cottage cheese and flour, a little salt. Most recipes call for baking powder but use yeast to avoid the chemical tang. I throw in a little whole wheat and rye flour.
What if you chose a protein with flavor? 10/10 recommend.
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What if you chose a protein with flavor? 10/10 recommend.
My homemade pizza counsel: find a dough recipe that’s simple and delicious, make your own red sauce, splurge on high quality cured meats.
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
My homemade pizza counsel: find a dough recipe that’s simple and delicious, make your own red sauce, splurge on high quality cured meats.
For all you hopeless romantics who still hold out hope for our species even after Kim Kardashian
A) exists
B) believes the moon landing was a hoax
I give you the cable channel at my gym that plays Gordon Ramsay 24/7.
A) exists
B) believes the moon landing was a hoax
I give you the cable channel at my gym that plays Gordon Ramsay 24/7.
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
For all you hopeless romantics who still hold out hope for our species even after Kim Kardashian
A) exists
B) believes the moon landing was a hoax
I give you the cable channel at my gym that plays Gordon Ramsay 24/7.
A) exists
B) believes the moon landing was a hoax
I give you the cable channel at my gym that plays Gordon Ramsay 24/7.