Wasn’t it In the Context of No Context? Read that in a New Yorker article once....

Feels like the equivalent of senators motioning to filibuster instead of actually doing the dang thing. Is there a nuclear option for intentional walks?

Is Djokovic not playing his best because he has... other priorities?

I don’t think this is just something that alt-right comedians and Fox News bookers do. Chapo Trap House’s entire strategy is finding straw men on Twitter and then yelling about how bad the Dems are.

Relatedly: did they blonde up Casey Affleck for this Hollywood Reporter “for your consideration” ad?

Literally just yesterday I was thinking “it’s so annoying when there’s no image for a co-written story”!

The NYT recently referred to Russell Westbrook as a “superelite athlete with a highly unusual mind.” Which is true, I guess, but is there a weirder way to phrase this?

The saddest thing is Rovell retweeting this guy’s blog post saying “Rovell is right, it worked for me!” and then when you go to the guy’s website, he’s asking you to donate to his patreon because he’s not employed by a media outlet right now :(

I heard a great rumor over the holidays that Djokovic’s drop-off was because he had been cheating on his wife and she found out. Huge if true!

In high school, I went to the Teenage Jesus & the Jerks reunion show at the Knitting Factory. Lots of 80s New York semi-legends are there. I walk up to Lydia Lunch, get her autograph, awesome. Lee Ranaldo’s there too—he offers to give his autograph as well. Awesome. Thurston Moore is there too—he looks at me, then…

Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel_head

In his autobiography Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves has a great anecdote about the misguided cycle that keeps British kids at boarding schools:

I always get an “evil puppet come to life” vibe.

Re: slave day: Every year, the sixth-graders in my (very white) Connecticut public school would go on this four-day-long camping trip in the woods, which culminated in one night where we reenacted the experience of slaves in the underground railroad. No joke. It kinda blew up a few years ago, but I think they still do…

I interned at a Smithsonian museum a few years ago (unpaid) and they decided to throw all the summer interns a going-away party at the end. The cost was $10 per person. I think all of us skipped it.

Agree that Clinton barely lost this election. However, I don’t get why people keep trotting out the statistic about getting “the most votes of anyone besides Obama.” Of course her vote total is higher than Nixon’s 1972 landslide: there are more than 100 million more people in the United States.

I mean, c’mon.

• “Cut-rate Leon Wieseltier”
  

If you want all of Smith’s self-congratulatory drivel packed into one tweet, have I got a hate-fav for you!

Something about all the sidebars gets me. Inside Blake Lively’s 21st Birthday. Tina Snubs Sarah Palin. Charlie & Brooke Twin Bliss. Why Russell Dumped Katy.