Is a concept album about Jay Cutler as a tragic figure not the best idea? I can't stop thinking about it.

It's literally a picture of shit.

La nouvelle vague, Stephen. Vague is feminine.

Which Smithsonian? I was at Air and Space a couple weekends ago.

LOOK AT MY SHIT

Do you ever get a particular turn of phrase stuck in your mind? Right at the beginning of the Primary Chronicle, a very old account of Kievan Rus', we are told that we will hear of «откуда есть пошла русская земля», meaning "whence is come the Russian land". It's just as archaic in Russian as in English, if not more…

This is true.

I like Minnesota a lot! I often surprise and alarm Minnesotans I meet with my knowledge of the place.

Oh, man. I have thoughts about this.

Yep.

It's fascinating how the Romanian "Revolution" led to Ceaușescu being executed but basically everyone else staying in power just like before.

1. 22 Jump Street
2. Guardians of the Galaxy

I saw Inside Llewyn Davis in 2013! I've always wanted to see one of these movies that basically qualifies as being from the next year in the actual year it came out.

Someday I intend to write a series of short stories about Jews and Jewish life at college (and specifically this college). The image of revelers in kippahs carrying cases of Natural Light into the night on Simchat Torah is too indelible for me not to memorialize it somehow.

You people will see sad drunk Annie forever and like it.

Seeing Louise's Halloween costume reminded me that if you don't love Drive then we probably can't be friends.

It reminds me of the decision not to send Matty Alou from third with two outs in the bottom of the ninth down a run in Game 7 of the 1962 World Series.

Nah, he didn't have a chance.

I can't breathe.

Has anyone seen Palo Alto? It's on Amazon Prime now so I figure I might as well watch it.