Nick Wanserski
@nickwans.bsky.social
Illustrator and writer Formerly The A.V. Club, currently occasional Retronauts illustrator, the St. Paul half of the Twin Cities. He/him
I’ll go a step further and say I believe this is the culture the cops cultivated and Her thought she could ingratiate herself to them with this behavior. But believing the force would ever be your friend is sufficiently disqualifying for a mayor on its own.
Unnamed sources are giving Mayor Her's side of the story. Police chief's sexual harassment complaint against the mayor was preceded by "multiple strong disagreements" over ICE response, the budget, and police accountability. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
I tossed pineapple with brown sugar and cinnamon, grilled it, cooked down the marinade into a syrup and served it over vanilla is cream and I gotta say it was pretty fuckin good
Have you gotten the barrow sword yet? The only reason I got pest those guys is because they’re super-vulnerable to Blight.
Kids today will never know the feeling of physically wedging yourself between bolts of cloth at the fabric store in a desperate attempt to provide your brain some stimulation.
the death of brick and mortar retail has my kids way too interested in Going Somewhere. They don't have any fear that one of us picking up our keys might mean they're going to TJ Maxx, where they'll have to stand quietly for an hour while I talk to someone I know who also happened to be there.
It’s very depressing for me to learn how many of our institutions are wildly more frightened of a mayor working with renters to form a tenant’s rights office than an unaccountable militia of well-armed racists.
The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.
Let’s see how anti-cop you are when you’ve been mugged and officers Jack and Shit arrive at your home to be mad at you for experiencing a crime.
It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
As Emily Post famously said: never wear a t-shirt that could double as a Chuck Tingle book title.
"Property of Hamburger University Athletic Department" might be the best phrase ever printed on a t-shirt (McDonald's SmileMakers Catalog, 1983)
Try explaining this to an entire generation that reflexively clacks their fingernails against an object whenever they pick it up.
a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
I’ve realized Nolan’s work reminds me of those cross-section picture books that show the different internal layers of vehicles and machinery. Each component is immaculately, perfectly rendered, but the people are a little lopsided and stiff.
It’s a cruel god that would curse this being with shame, but give him no arms to secure his own belt.
when my child misbehaves i make him go stare at the old Hardee’s fry statue
The Tuba Hippie of Summit Boulevard
New St. Paul mayor, wrong answers only.
My current favorite snacking cheese is Wild Boar by Deer Creek Creamery. All their cheeses are excellent, but also, each label is illustrated by the owner’s daughter. It’s both very sweet and how amazing to be a cheese label illustrator.
The Wild Boar — DEER CREEK CHEESE
Our Favorite Pairings Soft Pairings: Sparkling Grape Juice Beer Pairings: Peroni Nastro Azzurro Wine Pairings: Moscato, Italian Red Wines, Brut Champagne Hard Pairings: Grappa, Vodka Nibblies: Dr...
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People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
Producing, then ushering out into the world, Weiss, Brooks, and Douthat; the NYT is the sludgy womb where the Uruk-Hai are birthed except it’s Reasonable Conservative Assholes.
“Writing would be easy if your lyrics were made by prompt/ Claude AI and Grok, Claude AI and Grooooook”
“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say
This bit from Onion’s ‘Our Dumb Century’ is a reasonable summary of the Craig vs. Flanagan primary, and I can tell you which one is resonating with voters.
What is best in life? To crush your enemies To see them blink a few times then disappear To pull off the weird jump to reveal the power-up that lets you shoot lil’ beams out of the end of your sword
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Avengers is going to be a mess, I imagine. But Doom’s updated look with his smart lil’ brigandine tunic is pretty good.
The best thing you can hope for with a Ghost Rider movie is a modest but dedicated success as an unexpected genre experiment. I envision some kind of Route 66 Cramps phantasmagoria, but it doesn’t have to be that . Just something specific and weird. It’s absolutely not a star vehicle.
Ryan Gosling will play supernatural horror hero Johnny Blaze, aka 'Ghost Rider,' in a new big-screen incarnation of the Marvel character that will be directed by 'Deadpool & Wolverine's' Shawn Levy. bit.ly/45ndg8Z
It’s an interesting exercise in the evolution of camp from the modest 60’s iteration to this full-blown Broadway theatrical production. But even appreciating the conceit, the more is more execution is exhausting. Also, it’s badly written and Tommy Lee Jones is woefully miscast.
Confidentially, I think a lot of nerds and geeks hate those Schumacher Batman movies not because of their shortcomings but because they're, frankly, gay as hell (complimentary).
Mumm Ra really is the funniest character design. A wrinkled old mummy calling on the all the powers of ancient and profane dark arts to transform into an extremely jacked mummy.
Mumm Ra really is the funniest character design. A wrinkled old mummy calling on the all the powers of ancient and profane dark arts to transform into an extremely jacked mummy.
Frey is the emptiest of empty suits. A worthless golem of vanity and hair gel. His lil’ tough guy speech immediately followed by an appearance at the White House correspondents dinner shows just how deep his conviction goes.
jacob frey, the mayor of minneapolis who only stood up to ICE by swearing on TV instead of joining city residents even just for a school patrol shift, is now featured in north star dawn’s new ad on behalf of angie craig and it’s being funded by dark money