Best fiction reads of 2025:

A River Runs Through It
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Small Things Like These & Foster

Honorable mention:
The Shell Collector
Aliss at the Fire
Annihilation

Best non-fiction:
The Warmth of Other Suns
Say Nothing
Braiding Sweetgrass

Honorable mention:
The Burning
Migra!

Why don’t more pipes use bags?

I think I’d be the easiest character to cast for in a biopic. Absolutely no range needed.

What I thought 2025 would look like 10 years ago was embarrassingly optimistic

Senator Van Hollen is a hero, credit where credit is due. It’s hopeful to see actual action on the ground.

I judge every employer I’ve ever had by how much March Madness they are cool with me watching

Bagels: better than they should be

His supporters can’t afford eggs, but they think they can afford Teslas

Slava Ukraini

oh no am I living in times that Gandalf tells Frodo no one wishes to see but that it’s not for them to decide…

I’m always surprised when Philly fans spell Eagles correctly

It’s kinda starting to feel like if you don’t pay your taxes this year, who’s really gonna know?

When you start a show you both want to watch, but she’s had some wine

Now the only NFC team to not play in the conference championship game this century — or even since 2010 — is the Dallas Cowboys, which I find very amusing.

Kate McKinnon better be playing Bishop Budde this Saturday

Over/under for sieg heils during the Inauguration: 2.5

Tik Tok was down for one morning and now the house is clean

Best reads in 2024:

1. Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter

2. The Sea by John Banville

3. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

Worst:

White Nights by Dostoyevsky