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Alex Remington
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Atlanta baseball fan. Music lover.
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cover art for the album "lulu" by lou reed & metallica
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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there's only ONE person who gets to make a humanoid robot.
The first of two screenshots from Chrono Trigger – if you haven't heard of it, it's a 1995 RPG for the SNES that's generally reckoned one of the greatest video games of all time. Our protagonists are in the postapocalyptic wasteland of 2300 AD, where they come upon a junked humanoid robot. Lucca, the engineer of the group, spends a sleepless night fixing him. In this screenshot, the metal plating covering his head has been removed. The first of two screenshots from Chrono Trigger – if you haven't heard of it, it's a 1995 RPG for the SNES that's generally reckoned one of the greatest video games of all time. Our protagonists are in the postapocalyptic wasteland of 2300 AD, where they come upon a junked humanoid robot. Lucca, the engineer of the group, spends a sleepless night fixing him. In this screenshot, the metal plating covering his head has been replaced; Robo is just hunched over, almost as though he were sleeping, while Lucca is on her knees working on his arm.
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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i.redd.it/srrxcuf2pvd8...
Mike Myers as Linda Richman on Saturday Night Live. Periodically he would say this catchphrase, "I'm getting a little verklempt," followed by, "Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic." Among the ones I remember: - "A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut" - "A chickpea is neither a chick nor a pea" - "Duran Duran is neither a Duran nor a Duran"
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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the third marshal of the riddermark, eomer son of eomund?
"Jim Downey Asks to Clarify" meme from the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast. As KnowYourMeme explains: "Jim Downey Asks to Clarify refers to a series of memes based on a skit from the podcast "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" in which guest Jim Downey refers to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as "New York Financier." In the memes, Downey refers to people famous for their crimes and misdeeds by their occupation."
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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From the SABR biography of Turk Wendell: "In the minors, Turk quickly gained attention for the many elements of his routine. Among the most notable: • Bounding over the foul line as he approached and left the mound. “In high school, I stepped on the foul line when taking the field, I gave up some runs that inning,” Wendell said in 2009. “From that point on I never wanted to step on the foul line again.” • Squatting on the mound until his catcher squatted. Turk would then rise and begin to warm up. He and the catcher could never be standing or squatting at the same time. • Drawing three crosses in the dirt on the mound. “The crosses are for the three prayers I pray,” said Wendell, who read the Bible nightly. “I pray out there to do the best of my ability. … I pray to be injury free, and I pray to win.” He followed by licking the dirt off his finger. • Waving to the center fielder before his first pitch. The center fielder had to wave back. This little custom also dated back to Wahconah, where the player behind him was future big-league executive Jim Duquette. • Chewing black licorice and brushing his teeth between innings. The clean-living Wendell didn’t want to chew tobacco – in fact, he noted in 2010 that he had never tried tobacco in any form or had even a sip of alcohol. “Or any drug,” he also emphasized. The tooth-brushing was a direct consequence of the licorice and his desire for dental hygiene. “I don’t like the way licorice makes my teeth feel. It just sits there. I don’t want my teeth to get stained.” • Not wearing socks. “Socks don’t serve a purpose. They’re useless.” He wouldn’t put on a pair even for his sister’s wedding. The lack of socks was a factor in his later switch to high-top shoes. • Insisting that the umpire roll the ball back to him. If an umpire did throw him the ball, Wendell watched it go by or took it off the chest. Then he picked it up."
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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what a lede!
screenshot of the first page of Joe Klein's 1991 article "Deconstructing Duke." It begins with the sentence: "David Duke once saved my life, sort of." Basically, when he was following Duke around to do a glossy profile of him, Duke told Klan members not to kill Klein, even though he was a journalist.
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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counterpoint:

LT. RACZAK: I expect the best. And I give the best.

Here's the beer!
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Copyright page and intro page to The Harvard Lampoon's BORED OF THE RINGS, a Lord of the Rings Parody written by Doug Kenney and Henry Beard. The page opposite the copyright page reads: "Other HARVARD LAMPOON Parodies in the Great Books Series DAVID MATZOHFIELD THE MATZOH OF CASTERBRIDGE TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MATZOH MATZOH DICK LITTLE MATZOHS ROBINSON MATZOH CRIME AND MATZOHBALLS HARVARD LAMPOON Parodies in the Not-So-Great Series VALLEY OF THE MATZOHS ROSEMATZOH'S BABY THE MATZOHBITIONIST"
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Sheriff Amos Tupper of Cabot Cove, Maine, in the show Murder, She Wrote, looking nonplussed.
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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famous far side strip depicting a cat pressed up against a living room window, rapt while watching the aftermath of a head-on collision between two trucks, one labeled "Bob's Assorted Rodents" and the other "Al's Small, Flightless Birds" as the delicious cargo begin to empty out onto the road
October 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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it is going to be blank and it is going to hurt my heart
A photo of Greg Maddux's Hall of Fame plaque. He is wearing a blank cap.
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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DJ Qualls, smiling mischievously.
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Life In Hell, (c) 1991 by Matt Groening. AKBAR: I don't mean to be impertinent, but how do we know we've won? JEFF: When we've kicked Saddam Hussein's butt. AKBAR: Then we've won? JEFF: Then we bomb Iraq into submission. AKBAR: Then we've won? JEFF: No. Then we fight the Iraqi ground forces until they surrender. AKBAR: Then we've won? JEFF: No. Then we move in and liberate Kuwait. AKBAR: Then we've won? JEFF: No. Then we occupy Kuwait until tensions cease. That may take awhile. AKBAR: Then we've won? JEFF: No. Then we guard against terrorist retaliation all over the world for several years. AKBAR: Then we've won? JEFF: Yes. Then we live happily ever after in the new world order. AKBAR: JEFF: AKBAR: Victory is ours.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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From "Yertle the Turtle," by Dr. Seuss. A turtle is perched on top of a precarious stack of turtles whom he has demanded to assemble so he can be raised higher and higher. "Then Yertle the Turtle was perched up so high, He could see fourty miles from his throne in the sky! "Hooray!" shouted Yertle. "I'm the king of the trees! I'm king of the birds! And I'm king of the bees! I'm king of the butterflies! King of the air! Ah, me! What a throne! What a wonderful chair! I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me! For I am the ruler of all that I see!""
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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me, reading the ESPN headlines:

sure, mookie betts makes sense as an all-american. but richard hidalgo retired years ago!

me, after clicking the story: oh

www.espn.com/womens-colle...
Screenshot of the Top Headlines section on ESPN.com: "Sources: Angels to hire Kurt Suzuki as manager Belichick among 12 final coaches for HOF class Hidalgo, Betts lead preseason All-America team"
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Excerpt from "The Twenty-Seventh Man," a short story in Nathan Englander's collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES. The story takes place amid a Stalinite purge of Jews. A writer named Pinchas writes a short story. Here he recites an excerpt: ""This is all very startling, Rabbi. But I think we--at some point in the night--have died." The rabbi stood up, grinning. "And here I am with an eternity's worth of Talmud to study." Mendel took in the volumes lining the walls. "I've a desk and a chair, and a shtender in the corner should I want to stand," said the rabbi. "Yes, it would seem I'm in heaven." He patted Mendel on the shoulder. "I must thank you for rushing over to tell me." The rabbi shook Mendel's hand and nodded good-naturedly, already searching for his place in the text. "Did you come for some other reason?" "I did," said Mendel, trying to find a space between the books where once there was a door. "I wanted to know"--and here his voice began to quiver--"which one of us is to say the prayer?""
October 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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classic icon of the "Sad Mac," a pixelated depiction of a 1980s-era Macintosh with x'es for eyes and an unhappy frowny face. You'd see this if the computer would simply not boot at all and it engendered a horrifying sinking feeling as NOTHING GOOD COULD POSSIBLY COME OF IT.
October 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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there's only one i trust
Lance brand Captain's Wafers crackers.
October 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Gif from the Simpsons, S7 E14. BURNS: "I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation." SMITHERS: "Unlikely, sir."
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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my bad, i thought that was called
film poster for CELTIC PRIDE (1996), which starred daniel stern and dan aykroyd as psychotic fans of the boston celtics who kidnap a player on another team so that their team will win the championship. i do not know why i remember that this movie exists. it is not a fact that anyone needs to know.
September 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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when the hurricane cancels flights all over the east coast but i get to sleep better cause it's raining
September 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Share your favorite black and white movie
Mad Max: Fury Road: Black and Chrome edition
September 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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fundamentally... i think it all boils down to this, from aaron david miller in an april 2024 chotiner interview:

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Chotiner: "Yes, that’s very moving, but there is another kind of loss going on now which he apparently can’t conflate with his own experience." Miller: "Oh, if you’re asking me: Do I think that Joe Biden has the same depth of feeling and empathy for the Palestinians of Gaza as he does for the Israelis? No, he doesn’t, nor does he convey it. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that."
August 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM