Ian Froeb
@ianfroeb.bsky.social
St. Louis Post-Dispatch restaurant critic. Sailor in a big green boat. Orioles fan. Dad. Progress, not perfection.
istg at this point I would rather a restaurant use AI generated food pics than participate in the You Left Without Paying trend
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Apotheosis of the two-sentence headline. Retire the format.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoCornell University has banned the processing of wild game in residential kitchens on campus after two students carved up a bear carcass to make “black-bear pastrami”
I did not choose to live in this universe at this time, I did not want to fall so far afoul of the grace of god or the gods
White-knuckled that last hour re the 8yo’s other favorite O, Jackson Holliday On bright side, probably won’t have to worry about deadline day next year!
My colleague @dgoold.bsky.social just filed an official Hug Watch on Nootbaar
Get to have “The Talk” with the 8yo after camp. The other Talk would be preferable tbh
Andy Kostka@afkostka.bsky.social · 2w agoThe most drastic move of Mike Elias’ tenure at the helm of the Orioles has arrived. Baltimore is trading catcher Adley Rutschman to the Boston Red Sox, parting ways with Elias’ first draft pick and the face of the club’s rebuild. www.thebanner.com/sports/oriol...
Was the Syd Thrift “confederate money” era any more humiliating than this?
Andy Kostka@afkostka.bsky.social · 2w agoAlex Hoppe is a 27-year-old who reached the majors this year. He has a 5.79 ERA. Kreiling, 24, is in Single-A and Moore, 26, is in Double-A
good morning there is a half-eaten brick of cheddar (?) cheese on the sloped portico roof outside my study window
You know who should be pitching for the Orioles
Andy Kostka@afkostka.bsky.social · 3w agoNow in to pitch, catcher Chadwick Tromp
PIZZA HISTORIAN WATCHING “MYSTIC PIZZA”: I don’t even know where to begin. I would be ashamed to serve these pizzas.
<Me shoving Stefan Zweig’s The Post-Office Girl and Manuel Mujica Lainez’s Bomarzo at the camera> ABSOLUTE CINEMA
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 4w agoNYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
This note gets it just right. You apologise for eating the plums, express sympathy for their owner and explain your motivation for eating them. Just one note: consider offering to replace the plums. This small gesture could do a lot to smooth things over
By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”
Honestly that whole travesty was worth it for Rebecca Lowe to have to promote an Iñárritu flick seconds before the world biggest sporting event
FILM REVIEW: My daughter and her friend (both 12) went to see the live-action Moana expressly to make fun of it and still asked my wife to pick them up early because it was so awful.
one of my favorite lenses for looking at american history is “country shaped by successive generations of people experiencing religious psychosis”
Lately, Kurt Vile. I keep trying but it just doesn’t click for me. Too ambling maybe?
Rob Chapman@scribblerrob.bsky.social · last mo.What band or artist do all your music tastes suggests that you probably should like and yet you don't. Me Plastic People of The Universe. Chet Baker.
Three years sober today. Humbled and grateful day by day. It’s never too late to quit or ask for help.
Lmao the 8 year old outlasted the 3 hour rain delay and just wants to be on the jumbotron, someone please tell the camera dudes section 452
Ian Froeb@ianfroeb.bsky.social · last mo.what torrential rain
