Need a delightful distraction from all that 2026 that's going on? Well then, enjoy this life-affirming compilation of Peter Tork mouthing all the other Monkee's lines.
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also got my word count in for the day so I’m basically winning at life
A screenshot from the New York Times Spelling Bee game announcing that I got all the words today and reached the level Queen Bee.
heck yeah
#nytspellingbee #nytbee #spellingbee #hivemind
I usually get Olympics obsessed, but I was away the whole first week so this year’s has mostly passed me by. But today I am on my couch with nothing to do but go all in on the men’s curling gold medal match. GO CANADA!!!
A grim fact about the Olympics I just learned: The corpses of the contestants who die during the skiing events are left on the slopes as it is too dangerous to collect them for proper burial
(sea monster bio)
You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic
Just get my name right IT'S BRIAN NOT BRINE!!!!!
Um, actually, pickles are disgusting and ruin everything they touch, and if you get even one drop of pickle juice on a sandwich you have to throw the whole thing away. Sorry, I just have to speak up when someone is spreading misinformation online
Thanks! And welcome back!
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
Fine today, thanks! It came and went quickly, but I still had to quarantine. Today was just boredom and self-pity…
When I said I wanted the full cruise experience, I didn’t mean spending the last two days quarantined in my room with norovirus
In the background, a big party on a cruise ship pool deck. In the foreground, me, looking oh my goodness so handsome.
White Party on the ship. The party was only so-so but I think I look quite nice in this selfie so enjoy me
Definitely better than the conch fritters I had in Key West last year
A plate of cracked conch and fries
I’m at Twin Brothers Fish Fry in Nassau and I don’t know if the cracked conch is better than the fancy pants seafood dinner I had last night, but I do know I am enjoying it just as much
Me with a glass of rum on front of some barrels of rum.
So I did a fancy rum tasting and now I’m a certified rum taster. Did you know that rum is delicious? That’s the kind of trade secret you learn as a certified rum taster
Me at the beach in the Bahamas, not a big deal
So I guess I’m in the Bahamas
A fantastic little dome of chocolate cake.
I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, but this little chocolate cake was also so amazing, I had to document
A plate of mixed grilled seafood.
I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it’s a food post, but I just had the grilled seafood at the fancy seafood restaurant on this cruise and dear god it was so good
Some of these were quite difficult, but if the theme had the show title in the lyrics they would often play that part, which was less difficult
Perfect score on guess the tv theme song but two other teams also did, so they randomly picked a winner and it wasn’t me. I feel like I should have got a bonus point for playing alone. Fixed!
I saw her mouth as she was getting down “there’s no rule anywhere about it” and I’m sorry ma’am have you heard of the social compact or maybe just context clues
In the big theater waiting for an event and a guy on stage is playing the saxophone. This woman brought her little girl up on stage and they started dancing and running all over. Someone got on the PA and asked them to stop and the woman reacted as if her behavior hadn’t been completely deranged
Hitting the buffet for second lunch. I bought a bunch of new clothes for this cruise and I’m not gonna fit into any of them by the end of this week
I kept getting lost following signs for the ship’s library and wondering why I seemed to keep walking right by it. Eventually figured out it’s been turned over to slot machines and they haven’t changed the signs. I find this profoundly sad
I said exactly this in a loud defensive tone to everyone who looked at me as they walked by
Me, sitting at a bar table with three empty seats, next to a sign reading LGBTQIAP+.
For a second I thought this was William Hartnell, and then I was delighted at how perfect this sounds when read in his voice
It is very strange to sit alone at a bar next to a big sign that says LGBTQ+ Meet Up.
