it was the question that kept me up at night, like a splinter in my mind: why is
@JoeRogan
so popular? two words: mushroom coffee. two more word: suicidal grasshoppers.
@colinenpraxis
@davidminpdx
this is bad newswriting.
the police did NOT mistake the SUV for a stolen motorcycle. that is obviously a lie, and so it should be in quotes or attributed to the police -- NOT presented as reported fact
one sign of a healthy organization is announcing the shock firing of your GM via two-sentence press release in which you misspell the name of your franchise
@desusnice
+
@THEKIDMERO
are the funniest people alive and I talked to them about desus's sneakers, mero's days boosting hydroxyzine, their new political clout, their destiny hosting the price is right...
they talk a lot.
for the april issue of
@VanityFair
i wrote about
@Grimezsz
, her killer new album, life and death on mars, and the secret baby with
@elonmusk
she was hiding upstairs.
"If Georgia voters send Walker to Washington, they won’t be electing a failed ex-athlete who fumbled his pro career, beat his wife, and terrorized his children—they’ll be electing grainy YouTube footage of a Heisman Trophy winner."
my book is out 3/16, so every day till it drops im going to post one of my favorite
#MetsiestMetFacts
from my research.
Metsiest Met Fact 1: In 1974, the
#Mets
lost both games of a doubleheader 11 times. Eleven.
share if you care!
#LGM
if you need some FUN counterprogramming: I wrote about the fabulous Buffer brothers, who were born to be ring announcers and then didn't meet each other for decades.
Watch this for your morning laugh.
@RepThomasMassie
is apparently serious but this is the dumbest line of questioning in committee this year, and that’s hard to do.
my book has gotten two bad reviews so far on Amazon, and they are both from
#Mets
fans who think my 400- pg book about mets losing wasn't comprehensive enough about mets losing.
#LGM
"Rather than ask whether conspiracy kookery is relevant to Republican politics at this moment, it would be better to ask if there is anything else to Republican politics at this moment."
“Trump’s always been a conspiracy kook. What we’re seeing in the twilight of his kookery is the merger of QAnon, the GOP, and the large part of the conservative movement that earns its bread peddling miracle pills to gullible elderly people on the radio”
"We're just like, 'All right, I guess that's what happened today.'"
new one for ESPN: so many more ways to lose--the amazin' true story of the 2021 new york mets!
why is this framed as the GOP trying to "rein in the Fed"? implicit is that the Fed needs reining in (why?) and its reasonable b/c reining in stuff is what reasonable people do.
how about handicap the Fed? Circumvent the fed?
*******BIG, big, big hit to hopes for relief package today as Senate leadership, rank-and-file dig in over GOP plan to rein in Fed
Unemployment benefits for 12 million expire in 7 days
30 million ppl at risk of eviction
But stalemate intensified today
I put a $20 bill in my son's bag for a bake sale and apparently a girl in his class talked him into trading it for ONE fruit loop, so I guess it's all on my daughter to take care of us when we get old
before the oscars, tickets for the opening night of chris rock's new US tour at the wilbur here in boston sold for $60. by wednesday night before the show, less than 72 hours later, it was $1200. I paid $600 and wrote about what happened for
@VanityFair
my book about the Mets is on sale NOW!
1) pre-order link in my bio
2) tune into
@CBSThisMorning
at 830am today for a segment on the book
3) read this excerpt about the true story of Bobby Bonilla Day in
@BW
#LGM
!
ive wanted to profile this guy for a while: Joe McLean bought 25 cars for NBA clients last yr & closed on 4 houses in a month. pool tables. bowling alleys. hurricane netting for hassan whiteside's koi pond. all part of the job.
book news! if you or a sad person you love would like a signed copy of SO MANY WAYS TO LOSE (out March 16) I have a pre-order link for that now! (full disclosure, tho: it's signed by me, so that'll decrease its value)
"Short Term 12" -- an overlooked indie classic made for $500k that launched the careers of Brie Larson, Rami Malek, LaKeith Stanfield, the director of Shang Chi, and many more -- turns 10 yrs old this month. I spoke with all of them for
@VanityFair
are pitchers today throwing too hard? yes--and good luck getting them to slow down. my new one for
@TheAtlantic
on how modern baseball is caught in a velocity trap.
1)
@taffyakner
is worth way more than $4/word
2) she did ALL of us a HUGE favor by reminding our bosses what gold costs
3) yall urge women to be honest about $$$, then shame taffy for killing it?
4) you make way less than her cuz shes way better than you
"We don't really have one guy who's getting after people. Maybe it's something we do need. I've never really had that on the Mets. Three or four years, I've never really had that."
Jeff McNeil and others suggested that the Mets lack a clubhouse leader
@Jillbles
@TheAtlantic
"because they're there" is actually a big part of this -- i think millennials were the first generation to come of age culturally when you actually could easily flip on subtitles / closed captions. it's a new reflex.
@AdamMilstein
@washingtonpost
this is a disgrace.
since he's now 18 and no longer a minor, I encourage anyone who sees him in public to yell at him to go fuck himself and film it so I can watch it.
"It's okay to talk about the NBA . You are that good, you do have those goals—we understand. Now, while you're here, fulfill all the requirements. This is not an extended-stay motel.”
my piece in
@GQMagazine
on coach K, the NBA + DOOK