that would be so good in a mai tai

where exactly did this reduction in open-air drug use happen, bc i live a few blocks away from north aurora and the reduction sure as shit didn't happen here. if anything, it got worse.

yeah there are somewhere between 500k and 1m native neo-aramaic speakers across 5-ish linguistic subgroups. the jewish mourner's kaddish is spoken in aramaic, too

ancient aramaic. sounds cool, alphabet looks absolutely sick nasty. it was the lingua franca in the fertile crescent AND forms of aramaic are still spoken in the region.

i assume this means he's now the weird burgermaster (i.e. the one on 100th and aurora)

Danger! High Voltage by Electric Six

if you're on a "books about the tragic impact of systemic ineptitude and austerity on british sea power" kick, The Wager by David Grann would be a perfect follow-up if you haven't read it already

imagining a Department of Toddler Parents: The morning meetings are mostly footwear-related struggle sessions, the filing cabinets are full of sheets of paper with a single crayoned squiggle on each, and the coffee urn is the size of a nuclear cooling tower

they could put matthew rhys in a freshly teased lady bunny wig and he'd still be the most inexplicably attractive man alive

can't send a boy to do a man's job

what we need is a widespread psa campaign about how to wash your goddamn gym clothes because a warm water cycle and regular detergent simply will not cut it. those stink particles are tenacious.

fifty bucks says the disembodied voice was actually a drowning person shouting "help"

don't let him hear the intro, chat about being at the gym and worrying that you'll fart if you lift too big, then hit 'em with a "and speaking of blowing it out your ass, here's this guy." let him into the zoom, yes-and him for a couple minutes, and then bring the hammer down. please, i need this.

jd vance as a person is a plate of plain buttered noodles. the beard is just parsley.

three tuborgs and a majority-shrimp diet will do that to ya

i can't remember seeing him be proactive about literally anything except killing progressive economic initiatives.

Congratulations!!!

in context, the fact that he chose to spell his alias as "jon" instead of "john" is such a delightful little touch. ALSO you guys should do a patreon bonus where pat catfishes prospective sugar daddies on one of those websites using fake pictures but his entirely real personality