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Chris Suellentrop
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Waiting to announce my next thing. Used to be on Friendster. Maybe Orkut, too. Google+ skeptic.
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Tonight’s biggest surprise: The unexpectedly huge ratings for the Akron-UMass football game
YouTube TV default Election Night quad box: CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and … CBS Sports Network
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Games literacy is dead
The names of ghosts from Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, a red herring nonetheless beyond the ken of the AI that analyzes missed guesses for NYT’s Connections game. (Pinky, Inky, Clyde, Sue)
November 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Game criticism is dead
A Spelling Bee board denying that “ludic” is a word
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Huge game with Southwest Conference implications
Baylor-SMU in overtime
September 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Department of (Border) War
A bottle of Tank 7, a beer from Kansas City’s Boulevard brewery, to indicate that this is a pregame reference to a collegiate football game between Missouri and Kansas
September 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This should be A1 news @michaelstipe.bsky.social
Michael Stipe reports on Bluesky that the lyrics to “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” include “Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped, Look at that low playing, fine, then” And 'Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck”
September 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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This is abuse
Roy Cooper apologizing for texting more often than Jon Favreau leaves voice mail in “Swingers,” and then asking, “But how about a phone call?”
August 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Exterior of Joe’s Kansas City barbecue A full slab of ribs, a pound of brisket, a half pound each of turkey, pulled pork and burnt ends
August 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I of course see the Colbert cancellation as a way to relitigate Leno/Letterman
Erik Wemple: I watched a lot of the clips on social media. Never tuned in to the show. The last time I watched late-night comedy via appointment viewing was, perhaps, Jay Leno in the 1990s. Chris: Oh, no, a Leno man. Erik: A former Leno man. I liked the "Headlines" feature, what can I say?
July 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Window shopping
The “Raider Killer” firework The “Sassy” firework … for her The “Trophy Wife” rocket — 480 shots!
July 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I wrote this story as an intern in 1999
WSJ headline: Why you should think twice before you click “unsubscribe”
June 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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In this lecture, I will discuss how this chart illustrates that Missouri was a better fit for the SEC than the Big 8…
NYT map of counties that went further right or left in the last three elections. Missouri is a blot of red, like the whole Big Ten and SEC. Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado are more white than red, meaning they broke the trend. (For Big 8 completists: Iowa State looks like Missouri)
June 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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In my lifetime, I have watched the demolition of the capacity to read and engage with books. Not just of our children, who have been the unwitting guinea pigs of growing up inside of a cellphone, but among all of us human beings. We have lost not just our ability to concentrate on deciphering long passages of written language; we have, I believe, begun to lose our attachment to the meaning of words and sentences, which we once trusted to carry the precious freight of communicating who we are — to ourselves and to each other. The blatantly, proudly senseless speech of our current leaders is not the cause, it is merely the most extravagant example of what happens when an entire culture — increasingly, the monoculture of the world — gives up on, and ceases to be capable of, the struggle to funnel meaning into language — to translate themselves, their thoughts, and their ideas into words that others can read and share. Writing and reading are not effortless. But, without that effort, we will slide deeper and deeper into inchoateness, darkness, violence, diminished freedom for all and a diminished state of human being.
May 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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We might have a new leader in the clubhouse
Headline: “A brilliant Norwegian dramedy”
May 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Share a bad guy (but which one?) from the 80s
Kent and William Atherton in “Real Genius”
May 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Very good odds this involved Necco wafers
Chicago Tribune: While growing up in the Chicago area, Robert Prevost often played "pretend priest," his older brother John Prevost recalled after the announcement.
May 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Did no one send the pope a Bluesky invite
May 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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What a riff by @stephenmarche.bsky.social
had just come back from Senegal when the Guardian sent me on assignment to Rust belt Ohio, during the first stirrings of Trumpism, back in 2015. I was there to report on the growing swell of populism by way of the postindustrial immiseration of middle America. I was stopping for gas on the way to a rally, and at the station they were selling a hotdog with as much chilli and cheese as you liked for $1.99. The chilli and cheese came out of the wall. You pressed two buttons, one for chilli and one for cheese. On the streets of Dakar, children hawk packs of peanuts and plastic bags of clean water on the street, and I wondered if you could even explain to them that there existed a place, on the same earth, where chilli and liquid cheese came out of a wall, and you could have as much of it as you liked for the equivalent of 20 minutes' work at the minimum wage, and that some of the people in that place considered themselves so hard done by that their resentful fury threatened the political order, that they just wanted to burn it all down.
May 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Washington Post app front page, leads with Bukele saying he won’t return a wrongfully detained man to the US WSJ app lead story: Harvard (and stocks) NYT app lead story: Harvard and Harvard
April 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I can’t believe Disney ruined Star Wars after it was managed perfectly under Lucas with nary a misstep or cash grab
Poster for the 1985 TV movie “Ewoks: The Battle for Endor” starring Wilford Brimley
April 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I remember when one of the selling points of the Xbox One was supposed to be that you could Skype with Kinect #intheyear2000
Email from Microsoft about retiring Skype on May 5, 2025
April 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Also in San Antonio, as CBS just reminded us, and also extremely painful for fans of North Carolina. (Look, I don’t have much left to root for in this tournament; nostalgia is all I have.)
A chryon from the 2008 Kansas-North Carolina semifinal, when it was 40-12 Kansas, and Brandon Rush of Kansas had as many points as UNC did at the time.
March 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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This is the most important work of my career
We put emojis in a headline in The Washington Post
March 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Tom Izzo muttering “You were right, Luke; you were right,” as he acknowledges to his son that there was still good in him.
March 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Halftime in Providence at the Kansas-Arkansas men’s basketball game
March 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM