Mike Garofalo looks like he's morphing into Kevin Pollak. I'll need to see his Bill Shatner impression first to be sure, though

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!

Dick?

ETR

Today is Godzilla Day, an anniversary celebration for the monster that made me fall in love with cinema. I've written a lot about the big guy over the years, so here's some of my favorite pieces:

Techbro surprised when autistic and/disabled people do not fawn over his neurotechnology claiming to help identify "pathologies such as autism" seems to be a recurring thing; but also speaks to a deep rooted ableism in the way tech is being taught, understood and enacted in relation to disability

Pour one out for Diane Ladd, truly unforgettable in Wild at Heart and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

"You want Les Misrables? Because that's how you get Les Misrables!"

Les Americables

2025 finally got one right?

You're shooting angels in the face in heaven now. 😢

Jacoby Brissette putting out some serious Pursuit of Happyness Will Smith vibes. 🤣

I had to look it up. The real surprise from the artwork that Lattimore tore his ACL. That fucking field strikes again.

I thought one guy had some teeth knocked out, but then I saw they were missing a priori

Grounded!!

STEAL AND SLAM! #GoZags!!

We're getting the Zags on the Spokane NBC affiliate. So I'm able to cope

share it or they will be in literal agony over it.
It also made me think of Mike's epiphany about laughter in Stranger in a Strange Land: all laughter comes from pain, and laughing is what makes the pain go away. Maybe that's the root of laughter being the best medicine.

Your musings remind me of a thought I had once. A comic is someone that the world doesn't make a lot of sense to. Their jokes come from some nonsensical aspect of the world that amuses them. They then stretch it like silly putty until they laugh at it. It goes in their act when they have to

I wrote a piece about this Calvin & Hobbes strip I love that I think might be the epitome of great comedy, perhaps all art, and life.

I hope you enjoy!

open.substack.com/pub/myqkapla...

Criminal Minds and NCIS. Just so we get a Abby Sciuto/Penelope Garcia team up

I hope they were asking about him kicking Andy Pages square in the nuts.

Dude is absolutely dominating November.

Cuomo Makes 11th-Hour Pass At Female New Yorkers