I think being an alcoholic in love with the city and youth's possibilities, while you're actually running the clock down and failing a whole bunch and wasting your chances

So I guess this is a divorce concept album, but Berninger and his wife aren't actually divorced and wrote the lyrics together?

I can go along with that. REM, baring a few albums in the late 90s/early aughts, was pretty solidly consistent, as is The National, but the actual content of the songs has trailed off. I think The National still have some stuff to say, but it's deeply personal stuff about Berninger's family life at this point and I…

The Jay Z gimmick commenter will be exclusive to Kinja for a two week window.

The list is a Kinja exlusive

Hormel Black Label Bacon.

Hey man I am a regular 9-5'er and then I'm on a bus for hours

I'm always there… waiting…

I'm psyched for this. It's crazy that he's 70. I find myself watching old Late Night episodes on Youtube pretty frequently to this day.

Adding my voice to say that this seems like a poor decision. I read some of the ex-gawker (Master Splinter? Univision Fun Pals, Inc.? Haim Saban's Kinja Rangers?) sites daily but haven't commented in years and years because the comments sections are so unwieldy, ugly, and difficult to load. And that's ignoring that…

IIRC both Beckys are coming back, but Sarah Chalke will be playing a different character.

I like people*

While Trump refers to his good friend as "N. Ricky Penny NATO," and demands he pay his fair share.

"I was walking through the rose garden and I saw my good friend Enrique and he chanted 'build the wall!' and we high fived!"

Wait, what? At least saying he had that boy scouts conversation in person is feasible and impossible to really check depending on the timing, but has he even met with the Mexican president recently? How does that even make any god damn sense?

I hope Shyly Woodelf makes a comeback. People were all excited about her acting in that one little-seen indie and her love of holistic medicine.

I thought David Anthony was back and Gork was some new fourth wave emo band.

I'm going to change my name to Moore Moonves and commit myself to destroying CBS through competition.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Yeah, I actually agree, but I seem to remember rumors that he also had a difficult time working with the Lucasfilm brain-trust and wanted out after the first picture.