No, wrong, fuck the Dodgers forever

I’m like legit way too curmudgeonly about baseball and baseball game behavior but for some reason this doesn’t bother me

This was a good and thoughtful article, and I think the general attitudes espoused here are good guidelines for almost any situation.

Also Lloyd Alexander (but for Westmark not Prydain)

Actually from what I can tell neither John Bellairs, Ellen Raskin, nor Susan Cooper are involved in this project, so none of my favorite YA authors are trying to create the next Star Wars. I expect a formal apology for this incorrect headline delivered to me personally by the end of the day.

Restraining my natural inclination to make jokes about Canadians on grounds of anger

that sounds bad

Is this real

Speaking as a demonic Marxist rodent IRL, I can’t really object to any of this

Hero

Shit like this is why I’m glad I decided to stop watching football.

Taking this opportunity to strongly encourage anyone who hasn’t to read Lois McMaster Bujold’s Chalion series, which is set in an expy of Europe, specifically around the equivalent of the period in Spain leading up to the union of Aragon and Castille. Although (the fictional equivalent of) de Luna is dead at the time…

DEFINITELY Kawhi Leonard

Maybe I would enjoy fall less if I enjoyed summer in the way you describe here. But I never have, and I don’t know if I am suited to enjoying it in that way. I’m sweaty and hot and constantly miserable and fat. I’m not on a perfectly grass-smelling lawn with a paper cup to sip from. It’s just not.

Another crazy legal remnant of feudal times in the UK: a hereditary monarch is still the head of state and legal ruler of the country

That commentator is outstanding. His chill is on a whole different level. A++ cricket commentating.

No. Do not do this thing.

Rephrased: definitely own a pool and a hammock

Yeah. It’s a story about Sacramento.

I agree with most of this, except that Old Soul doesn’t suck imo