I only knew him as cheerfully amiable (Heaven Help Us) or petulantly slimy (Big), and effective in both modes. Then a few years ago I saw this and 🤯 -he should’ve been huge.

This clip is an essential watch in my house every year. Did you know the narrator played Francis's dad in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure? (And did about a million other things)

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Homemade brownies are not UPF while a bottled kale smoothie with some benign preservatives is UPF. It’s not a particularly useful category for determining how nutritious or healthy food is.

Of course, the Cardinals never should’ve traded Carlton…

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Maybe they just hated rice.

In the first few months after I moved from St. Louis to Seattle, several locals made snide remarks to my face about how backward my hometown is. ”Liberals” in America’s whitest cities love to shit on the blackest cities.

Blockbuster nostalgia always makes me think this. Our local video stores each had their own niches and had way cooler stuff. Even the supermarket video rental sections had random left-field finds. Blockbuster was always mid and got worse as they leaned into the more-copies-of-new-releases thing.

Meanwhile my family had homemade "Cabbage Patch Kids". Here's to all the parents who scored their kid a reasonable facsimile despite their lack of funds.

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This one never ages

Except a baby laughing in wonder at the power of its pooping abilities is actually funny.

I use newspaper archives a lot for the stories I write. So many details about daily life were written down up until like 2000-2010, then the historical record is a massive black hole.

Which school shooting will mark the moment American citizens notice how far their country has fallen behind?

Good point - and we also know how to reduce homelessness and they don’t want to do that either. They need people to despise and degrade. If today’s targets disappeared, they’d move on to new ones.

The great Sony rootkit scandal of aught-five! One of my Pitchfork colleagues got his laptop wrecked by that stupid thing.

Hear me out: Crocodile Dundee