Patrick Newman

God, I hate Black Friday

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My concerts this year— Phish, Ministry, Oasis, Garbage. 1995 me would be thrilled (though a little surprised at Phish)

The first time I heard Annie Lennox’s version of the Ash song she covered (shining light?) was in a CVS

Robotaxis, robot axis

Wait til you hear about micro vacations

That happened to me too. The issue seemed to be that people don’t understand that Gmail doesn’t recognize dots in addresses. Eventually I just closed the account.

Bart Simpson plays travel ball now?

Peace through not attacking other countries

But the one French guy was champion 4 times and probably should have been 5 times. Who were the Italian champs? Farina and Ascari?

There’s also one-time winner Jean Robert Alesi

Remember when Mitt Romney was a laughing stock because of “binders full of women”?

“Something about trump no getting into long drawn out wars” (…) “we’re going to permanently dismantle their nukes over the next several years”

And grab me a hamberder

Pass the covfefe

Many people remember the farce that was “freedom fries” but we don’t seem to talk about the origin of that foolishness as much. French pm Jacques Chirac opposed the war vocally, so supporters of the war started disavowing French things including the incorrectly named fries. We need a Chirac now

Where is our Jacques Chirac?

Why is that guy doing the Nic Cage thing from Gone in 60 Seconds

This is a bad day

Bloody hell stop with the fucking fireworks at 2am. It’s annoying and it wakes up dogs. Jesus

PSA for idiots only: stop shooting fireworks at 2:00am. You are idiots.

When is that mma fight with Zuckerberg again?

Yep Trump was a proper laughing stock back then

Okay everyone. Hit me with some weird obscure pop culture

Why are they in 1987

"I'm not owned!" I continue to insist as I shrink in to a corncob

Technically we’ve already had four popes from Chicago.

If his peak had been a little higher, or if he had lasted a little longer, we'd be talking about his Hall of Fame case.

Lost amidst all this rambling is the more important point -- Trump is granting Rolls-Royce an exception on a 25% automotive tariff. There is a good argument to be made that _only_ products like Rolls-Royce should be subject to extra taxes

Hey I've been reading your stuff for years now. I'm sorry for your loss. It's great you are sharing his stories.