Baby Boy Monaghan
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Arts editor for MPR as Max Sparber. Award-winning cultural critic & Jewish Studies writer. 3X illegitimate. He/him.
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Stop asking Jews when Hanukkah is. We don't know either.
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Stop asking Jews when Hanukkah is. We don't know either.
I know him! He lives on Drury Lane!
A muffin man, making deliveries to households and announcing his presence with a handbell, London, 1924
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I know him! He lives on Drury Lane!
Huh, so seeing your past, not as a unified whole but as a series of disconnected epochs, as though they were all different stories experienced by different people, is a form of dissociating, who knew
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Huh, so seeing your past, not as a unified whole but as a series of disconnected epochs, as though they were all different stories experienced by different people, is a form of dissociating, who knew
Salesman: Can I interest you in a van?
Dracula: That might be helpful, a nice Ford van to move my coffins —
Salesman: A van Helsing!
Dracula: (sees stake) Oh no.
Dracula: That might be helpful, a nice Ford van to move my coffins —
Salesman: A van Helsing!
Dracula: (sees stake) Oh no.
November 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Salesman: Can I interest you in a van?
Dracula: That might be helpful, a nice Ford van to move my coffins —
Salesman: A van Helsing!
Dracula: (sees stake) Oh no.
Dracula: That might be helpful, a nice Ford van to move my coffins —
Salesman: A van Helsing!
Dracula: (sees stake) Oh no.
Fun fact: the word “gender“ never appears in the Bible
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Fun fact: the word “gender“ never appears in the Bible
Spider Man: I still don’t understand why you’re a goblin.
Green Goblin: Because it’s scary!
Spider Man: But why green?
Green Goblin: Because I’m Irish.
Green Goblin: Because it’s scary!
Spider Man: But why green?
Green Goblin: Because I’m Irish.
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Spider Man: I still don’t understand why you’re a goblin.
Green Goblin: Because it’s scary!
Spider Man: But why green?
Green Goblin: Because I’m Irish.
Green Goblin: Because it’s scary!
Spider Man: But why green?
Green Goblin: Because I’m Irish.
Don Draper: (pitching a snow chain company) I’m tired. You’re tired. We’re all tired—
(Reveals ad art)
For snow tires.
(Reveals ad art)
For snow tires.
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Don Draper: (pitching a snow chain company) I’m tired. You’re tired. We’re all tired—
(Reveals ad art)
For snow tires.
(Reveals ad art)
For snow tires.
Me: I think I’m emotionally ready for the Mr. Rogers documentary.
Mr. Rogers: (three seconds into the film) I think my job is to help children through the difficult modulations of life.
Me: (Sobbing)
Mr. Rogers: (three seconds into the film) I think my job is to help children through the difficult modulations of life.
Me: (Sobbing)
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Me: I think I’m emotionally ready for the Mr. Rogers documentary.
Mr. Rogers: (three seconds into the film) I think my job is to help children through the difficult modulations of life.
Me: (Sobbing)
Mr. Rogers: (three seconds into the film) I think my job is to help children through the difficult modulations of life.
Me: (Sobbing)
(Two dictionary editors leveling a sick burn against somebody who just slipped on a banana peel)
1: He’s a certain fashion of adroit, truly.
2: Pray, what fashion?
1: Mal.
2: You and your preponderances of jest!
1: He’s a certain fashion of adroit, truly.
2: Pray, what fashion?
1: Mal.
2: You and your preponderances of jest!
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
(Two dictionary editors leveling a sick burn against somebody who just slipped on a banana peel)
1: He’s a certain fashion of adroit, truly.
2: Pray, what fashion?
1: Mal.
2: You and your preponderances of jest!
1: He’s a certain fashion of adroit, truly.
2: Pray, what fashion?
1: Mal.
2: You and your preponderances of jest!
King Arthur: (doffing a fedora) M’lady of the Lake
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
King Arthur: (doffing a fedora) M’lady of the Lake
Are there humans named Frank anymore? I knew one when I was 10 and that’s the last I ever met.
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Are there humans named Frank anymore? I knew one when I was 10 and that’s the last I ever met.
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
— coyote
— groundhog
— Opossum
— Dolphin
— Black bear
— coyote
— groundhog
— Opossum
— Dolphin
— Black bear
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
-moose
-coyote
-whale shark
-blue whale
-black bear
-moose
-coyote
-whale shark
-blue whale
-black bear
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Armadillo
Turkey
Scottish wildcat (I can not 100% confirm this rare sighting but I don’t know what else it could have been!)
Assateague Island pony
Bald eagle
Armadillo
Turkey
Scottish wildcat (I can not 100% confirm this rare sighting but I don’t know what else it could have been!)
Assateague Island pony
Bald eagle
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
— coyote
— groundhog
— Opossum
— Dolphin
— Black bear
— coyote
— groundhog
— Opossum
— Dolphin
— Black bear
This is the wildest yet:
1. Semitic is a linguistic category, not an ethnicity
2. Even if it were, Mamdami is South Asian, not “Semitic”
3. Even if he were, antisemitic exclusively refers to hatred of Jews
1. Semitic is a linguistic category, not an ethnicity
2. Even if it were, Mamdami is South Asian, not “Semitic”
3. Even if he were, antisemitic exclusively refers to hatred of Jews
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is the wildest yet:
1. Semitic is a linguistic category, not an ethnicity
2. Even if it were, Mamdami is South Asian, not “Semitic”
3. Even if he were, antisemitic exclusively refers to hatred of Jews
1. Semitic is a linguistic category, not an ethnicity
2. Even if it were, Mamdami is South Asian, not “Semitic”
3. Even if he were, antisemitic exclusively refers to hatred of Jews
All of you expressing surprise that there is a Jewish racist are just communicating that you don’t know very many Jews
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
All of you expressing surprise that there is a Jewish racist are just communicating that you don’t know very many Jews
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For the comic script character Cathy, today is Aaack Friday
(I get trampled by a mob of shoppers)
(I get trampled by a mob of shoppers)
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For the comic script character Cathy, today is Aaack Friday
(I get trampled by a mob of shoppers)
(I get trampled by a mob of shoppers)
Listen (ooh wah ooh)
Do you want to know a secret
(Yes I do)
Do you promise not to tell
(I do not)
Oh oh
Do you want to know a secret
(Yes I do)
Do you promise not to tell
(I do not)
Oh oh
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Listen (ooh wah ooh)
Do you want to know a secret
(Yes I do)
Do you promise not to tell
(I do not)
Oh oh
Do you want to know a secret
(Yes I do)
Do you promise not to tell
(I do not)
Oh oh
Fatphobia is so strange. People pretend it's about health, but you can't tell somebody's health by looking at them, so actually it just revolves around a preference for shapes: lines or circles. Why have a shape preference? Who cares? Grow up. Shapes are beautiful.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Fatphobia is so strange. People pretend it's about health, but you can't tell somebody's health by looking at them, so actually it just revolves around a preference for shapes: lines or circles. Why have a shape preference? Who cares? Grow up. Shapes are beautiful.
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Nicholas Sparks returned to Minnesota last week to see the touring production of “The Notebook: the Musical” at the Ordway. He also revisited the state where some of his earliest memories were formed. Here’s what we learned.
Five things Nicholas Sparks told us about ‘The Notebook’ — and Minnesota
Nicholas Sparks returned to Minnesota last week to see the touring production of “The Notebook: the Musical” at the Ordway. He also revisited the state where some of his earliest memories were formed....
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November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Nicholas Sparks returned to Minnesota last week to see the touring production of “The Notebook: the Musical” at the Ordway. He also revisited the state where some of his earliest memories were formed. Here’s what we learned.
The advantage of being a very old religion is that we got to claim blue, so all the rest of you are stuck divvying up lesser colors
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The advantage of being a very old religion is that we got to claim blue, so all the rest of you are stuck divvying up lesser colors
I'll tell you something that seemed interesting when I was younger, that turned out to be awful: The sex lives of famous people
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I'll tell you something that seemed interesting when I was younger, that turned out to be awful: The sex lives of famous people
You couldn't do Blazing Saddles today because nobody would understand why Hedley Lamarr stares at Douglas Fairbanks' footprints and says, "How did he do such fantastic stunts...with such little feet?"
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
You couldn't do Blazing Saddles today because nobody would understand why Hedley Lamarr stares at Douglas Fairbanks' footprints and says, "How did he do such fantastic stunts...with such little feet?"
Moses: (in a warm sweater) Mosie supposie his clothies are cozy
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Moses: (in a warm sweater) Mosie supposie his clothies are cozy
Is it good for the Jews? What kind of question is that? Nothing is good for the Jews.
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Is it good for the Jews? What kind of question is that? Nothing is good for the Jews.
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Forget it, Jake
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Forget it, Jake