To be fair, his other playlists were not this vanilla. Like someone pointed out above, his most recent playlist before this one featured Khruangbin and Leon Bridges.
This is also the same guy who created both “daytime” and “nighttime” playlists during his presidency that included D’Angelo, Chance the Rapper, and…

It’s actually crazy how bad they are at mating. They only attempt it every 2-4 years, when a specific coniferous tree bears fruit (to feed the 1-4 chicks that might not be eaten immediately by a predator but probably will be), and the males use a “booming” noise to attract females, who then have to walk for miles (they…

Boys keep swinging. Boys always WORK IT OUT!

London-set Remake of Back to the Future where a young “radical centrist” YouTuber has to make sure his parents kiss at the Blitz Club. He fails because he keeps fainting in shock.

I worked this out in college, meaning 45 years ago.  Thanks, science!

They should have tapped Richard Ayoade. His and Noel’s combined energy is bizarre and electric, and I would love to see the havoc they could wreak together in the tent.

How does she feel about her time on Ghostwriter?

I will get to the jelly cakes, which redeemed an episode where I wondered if the whole season was lost but:

I’m surprised that no one has mentioned the likelihood that Mulaney is preparing to take over as the Late Night host. Mulaney has the right disposition, as well as the SNL pedigree held by the last three Late Night hosts.

GET RID OF PAUL!
Replace him with Nigella Lawson or Lorraine Pascale.

Biden, who has doctorate in education, currently works as an English professor at community college in Virginia

Could not agree more. I find it super inspiring and a great message to send. I am old enough that culturally, I grew up with very conflicting and confusing messages about women and work, and my own education and achievement - which was you are a high achiever, you are valuable, and you are going to excel - to sudden…

Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, newspapers and magazines have been obsessed with constructing a mythology of a “forgotten” white working class through interviews at down-home diners and reportage from tractor pulls in deep red states.

Steamed fraud?

‘This was an original thinker and master storyteller speaking his way through to the heart of the public discourse—and diagnosing our shared disease.’

I’m honestly not trying to be “that guy,” but this has been a fun bit of trivia for me and it was just kind of weird to see the show get it wrong: Kamala actually isn’t the first biracial Vice President, as Herbert Hoover’s VP Charles Curtis was part Native American.

The protagonist from A Confederacy of Dunces was a Royalist. I thought everyone knew that. Anyway, beaming all the good stuff your way.

Or like Ignatius J. Reilly! Though if he deigned to participate in the corrupt system that is democracy, he probably would vote for Trump...

TIL that hot takes are not a recent social media phenomenon — they are at least 96 years old! Seriously, I love how you tied the original article to your family history. And, um, hopefully a week from today, maybe we’ll all succeed in delaying the coming of the cossacks for a while longer?

I think it also showed up the show’s continued diversity issues with the female cast, as Maya is the only biracial female currently involved with the show (and was not even involved with the show when they asked her to play Kamala).