Jack Scheer
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Storyteller. But really, aren't we all?
Yup, this tracks. Thanks for the pod, @scottaukerman.bsky.social, Shaun Diston (get your ass over here!), @brettmorris.bsky.social, and @cbbworld.bsky.social!
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Yup, this tracks. Thanks for the pod, @scottaukerman.bsky.social, Shaun Diston (get your ass over here!), @brettmorris.bsky.social, and @cbbworld.bsky.social!
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Spin the Bottle
A full bottle of wine is placed in the center of the circle. One player spins, and whoever the wine bottle points to must drink more than two glasses without apologizing that wine makes them sleepy, and they have to be up early to shop for a new ottoman.
A full bottle of wine is placed in the center of the circle. One player spins, and whoever the wine bottle points to must drink more than two glasses without apologizing that wine makes them sleepy, and they have to be up early to shop for a new ottoman.
Middle School Party Games, Revised for Thirty-Five-Year-Olds
Truth or Dare If a player chooses “truth,” they must reveal how much money they make. If they choose “dare,” they must hand someone their phone and...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Spin the Bottle
A full bottle of wine is placed in the center of the circle. One player spins, and whoever the wine bottle points to must drink more than two glasses without apologizing that wine makes them sleepy, and they have to be up early to shop for a new ottoman.
A full bottle of wine is placed in the center of the circle. One player spins, and whoever the wine bottle points to must drink more than two glasses without apologizing that wine makes them sleepy, and they have to be up early to shop for a new ottoman.
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Okay cool but do it like Rocky Horror: fling our empty popcorn buckets for the trash compactor, do the wave for "These are not the droids you're looking for" and OBVS shriek, "If you strike me down now..." That would rock. Let's "make it so" (crap, wrong universe). www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...
www.starwars.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Okay cool but do it like Rocky Horror: fling our empty popcorn buckets for the trash compactor, do the wave for "These are not the droids you're looking for" and OBVS shriek, "If you strike me down now..." That would rock. Let's "make it so" (crap, wrong universe). www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...
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"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus."
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The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
Wow. This one spoke to me. Bravo, @scalzi.com
The December Comfort Watch series continues today with Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life, which posits one of the most interesting afterlife scenarios ever -- and once helped me get a big damn raise at my newspaper job.
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day 4: Defending Your Life
There are many ways to die in this world, roughly as many ways as there are to live, but there is one thing I know for sure: I do not wish to die the way Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) dies in Defen…
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December 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Wow. This one spoke to me. Bravo, @scalzi.com
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A giant. One of the greats. Rest In Peace, Steve Cropper. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...
Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music
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December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A giant. One of the greats. Rest In Peace, Steve Cropper. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
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The right wing media machine being turned up to 11 for a special election in a ruby red district in Tennessee probably means something
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The right wing media machine being turned up to 11 for a special election in a ruby red district in Tennessee probably means something
We *can* bring back what was lost…
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
We *can* bring back what was lost…
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The actual "worse than watergate" scandal is how much news media collectively worked to ratfuck a Democratic presidency by largely inventing health/mental acuity concerns for hyperventilate about while largely ignoring the very real & worsening issues in front of their faces from Trump
November 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The actual "worse than watergate" scandal is how much news media collectively worked to ratfuck a Democratic presidency by largely inventing health/mental acuity concerns for hyperventilate about while largely ignoring the very real & worsening issues in front of their faces from Trump
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The best thing about this administration is that they can’t stop confessing
November 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The best thing about this administration is that they can’t stop confessing
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I asked Grok for a good chili recipe and it said “Elon Musk is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I asked Grok for a good chili recipe and it said “Elon Musk is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.”
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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Little TV screens at the gas station pump blaring ads directly in your face as you spend $70 on a tank of gas is enough to radicalize a person
November 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Little TV screens at the gas station pump blaring ads directly in your face as you spend $70 on a tank of gas is enough to radicalize a person
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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Northwusstern
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Northwusstern
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Found this stupid banger from 2016 in my photos I'd forgotten about from the other site
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Found this stupid banger from 2016 in my photos I'd forgotten about from the other site
Oh no. I got one point.
"Did you loudly ask what the turkey’s pronouns were, then smirk into your Modelo?"
Quiz: Are You the Worst Person at Thanksgiving?
Give yourself one point for each answer yes. 1. Are your pants unbuttoned before the appetizer is even put on the table? 2. Are you wearing a pilgr...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Oh no. I got one point.
If this “Mr. Fantasy” isn’t telling me whether or not to start Amon-Ra St. Brown he can GTFO. #MacysParade #MacysThanksgivingDayParade
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If this “Mr. Fantasy” isn’t telling me whether or not to start Amon-Ra St. Brown he can GTFO. #MacysParade #MacysThanksgivingDayParade