Jonathan
jonathankessel.bsky.social
Jonathan
@jonathankessel.bsky.social
Not an Oxford comma, just a conjunction (and) or a semicolon. The comma is properly placed. "Frankenstein," and a... or "Frankenstein"; would both work.
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
World Leader Pretend, but the entire album is in my top 10.
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
There is the Ice Palace.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Weekend America was my introduction to you and MPR when I moved to the Cities years ago (lifelong NPR nerd but only a Minnesotan for 18).
Later realized you were the same guy who radicalized me to McSweeney's.
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Great The Office reference. 10/10 no notes.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
When they did this 10 years ago it was equally painful. We had several weeks' notice (WARN act) so we had to show up every day knowing a bunch of us were getting laid off. Then the day of we got called into American-idol style conference rooms (I did not move on to Hollywood).
October 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Personal friend was Prince's private DJ at Paisley for a decade. He doesn't talk a lot about it but pretty sure it was exactly as cool as that sounds.
October 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Point of all this -
1) If you're going to smack talk a team you hate, turn around and check they aren't standing behind you
2) Chauncey Billups was a super nice guy, and I'm really sad things turned out the way they did for him
5/5
October 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I turn around, and standing behind me is the entire Pistons team giving me murder stares. I'm about to (metaphorically) crap my pants when Chauncey Billups wanders by randomly, cracks a joke, and sits down next to me.
So I got to spend a few minutes just hanging out with the Pistons 4/?
October 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So postgame, I'm ranting about f'ing Bill Laimbeer (then doing color for the Pistons) and probably some other colorful stuff, and the bartender suddenly looks at me with a bemused expression and starts giving me the slash across the throat (shut your yap) motion.
3/?
October 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
During that time, Chauncey Billups was traded to the Pistons and for a while lived in the same hotel.
One night, at the hotel bar where I spent most evenings, I'm watching the Pistons play the Bucks. Now as a Bulls fan who lived in Chicago during the Jordan years, that hatred runs DEEP. 2/?
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Do better Politico. Yes, overt, performative white supremacist terrorism is bad. Private, clandestine white supremacist Nazism is bad. They are, however, not the same.
And calling KKK provocateurs satirists? Have you ever actually read satire?
October 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sir if you saw the Burnsville crowd... there are WAY more of us than them.
October 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It was amazing. People not from here might think the Twin Cities suburbs are deep blue, but this area was incredibly red just a decade ago.
Also as someone who is very engaged in party politics in this area...these were not activists!!! The soccer/hockey moms are pissed.
October 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This was before the official start time, people are stretched for at least a mile either direction both sides of the street
October 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM