Every time I listen to Street Legal I'm like man I forgot how great this album is, and then I immediately forget about it again for two years, leading me to wonder if Bob Dylan's 18th studio album is in fact an anti-memetic artefact.

Just started reading Lord of The Rings to my six year old. My six year old:

I will never leave the comments section of the NYT Crossword.

Ben Jenkins@bencjenkins.bsky.social · last yr.

BJ Novak you have made a fool out of me with your little book for the last time

I have a really clear memory of being six and driving down the freeway with my dad and saying “I reckon I can run this fast” and him, weirdly annoyed, saying “no you can’t”. I always wondered why that pissed him off so much but now that I have a six year old I get it. I get it, Dad.

This is fucking insane. I know we have other stuff on but I feel like this is something the UN could sort out if they put their minds to it.

Slow Horses gripe: I don’t think Roddy Ho is a fan of Shadow of the Colossus.

Exciting news: I have given myself a tummy ache from eating too many chicken crimpies from the snack table.

Ben Jenkins@bencjenkins.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Well this is extremely fucken exciting. Insanely blessed with this cast and team. Going to set every day not quite believing it, trying not to knock anything over. au.variety.com/2025/tv/news...

- Hey there’s a really smart guy at the New Yorker who only interviews people he’s pissed off with and everyone who does it comes out looking like a bozo. He wants to talk to you, I figured you wouldn’t - - My God yes can he do 2pm

Well this is extremely fucken exciting. Insanely blessed with this cast and team. Going to set every day not quite believing it, trying not to knock anything over. au.variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Stan Announces New Series 'The Killings: Parrish Station'

Production has begun on a new Stan Original cold case crime series, 'The Killings: Parrish Station', due to premiere next year.

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I only recently learned that John Wilkes Booth wasn’t just an actor but a reasonably famous one from a famous acting family. Having run the numbers, I’ve decided it’s like if Bill Skarsgard or maybe Liam Hemsworth shot the president today during a screening of one of the Conjuring films.

originally tweeted this when the thing happened. reposting it here because i remembered the phrase and it made me laugh

Just tried to listen to an audiobook while not doing anything else. Not cleaning or walking or driving, just sitting there. Feels absolutely demented.

I am thrilled to announce that I am the the guest (not counting the other guest) for the first episode of this bananers show hosted by the wonderful @demilardner.bsky.social. Watch and see my invention, Creature, serve as my body #SYWTWAPP

Demi Lardner Made The Most Unhinged Game Show 🤯 Ft Paul F. Tompkins, Alexei Toliopoulos [SYWWAPP]

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My 6 year old asked me this morning what ID stood for and I got so excited to do the Norm joke that I absolutely fumbled it. 😒

I’ve only seen the trailer but is the plot of the new i know what you did last summer that a different group of teens run over the same fisherman three decades later? Because if so that’s incredibly funny.

lol all the characters in paw patrol on paramount+ have English accents for some reason instead of the original Canadian, and Moses just looked at the tv in disgust and said “there is something wrong with our speakers”

I will find, and kill, the villainous mayor from Paw Patrol. This has gone on long enough.

One of the interesting things about animated kids tv now is that I guess animating large numbers of people is expensive so they all take place in these towns full of lovely buildings but with haunting, empty streets and like six residents, giving the whole thing a post apocalyptic feel.

If you think about it hard enough, all nouns are proper nouns

I worry that recommendation algorithms may be getting too good.

I am drowning/There is no sign of land/You are coming down with me/Hand in unlovable hand

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · last yr.

“Between 12:19 pm and 3:20 pm Musk fired off 49 posts, reposts, or replies. That’s an average of one new missive every 3.5 minutes, over a three-hour stretch.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

This bed is on fire / with passionate love / the neighbours complain / about the bed that's on fire

This has pissed me off for close to two years now. Why would the bread dream of a field of *corn*? It wouldn’t, it would dream of a field of wheat, which is exactly what the illustrator has drawn, possibly in an act of open defiance.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... This is grim. (Full disclosure: This street kitchen is run by my sister. Carly is an incredibly decent person. Does that make *me* an incredibly decent person? By association?? Possibly even better than her??? Ha ha well that’s not for me to say but yeah maybe!)

‘Such a clear message’: homeless community kitchen told to move last-minute during Sydney’s Vivid festival

Exclusive: Organisers say alternative sites proposed by City of Sydney are unsuitable, leaving them nowhere else to go

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Hamish Linklater. Now there's a guy, if he turns up in something, I'm always going to do the Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing At The TV Thing. Love seeing that guy in stuff.

95% of making television is this, but without the whimsical doodads.

We need to update the record here.

Shane Liesegang, SJ@sjml.bsky.social · last yr.

I think about this old banger of an article from @bencjenkins.bsky.social maybe once a month. I think he was spot on with both reasoning and conclusion around Francis. www.gawkerarchives.com/celebrity/wh...