Barry Petchesky

The big Home Depot skeleton is the best feat of American ingenuity and engineering since the Erie Canal.

I know it’s hard to keep track of everything but I was shocked this was the first I’d heard about this. Just straight evil.

I don't fuck with any other MCR but this one album is a ton of fun. Great writeup by Tom. I hadn't made the Mellon Collie–era Smashing Pumpkins connection before but that's exactly it.

Hockey is at its best when it’s basically pro wrestling. defector.com/ottawa-vs-br...

I'm guest-hosting @drewmagary.bsky.social's Funbag this week, so if you have any me-specific questions, send them to funbag@defector.com

An instant classic, at least by the low, low standards of Jaguars Junction

hadn’t really seen anyone talking about this so PSA: the Blacktongue Thief sequel is out

Coworkers once again mocking me for my world-changing idea of Big Rice. "Barry, are you talking about Big Rice again?" "Barry, you never say just how big the Big Rice would be." "Barry, wouldn't Big Rice be pretty gross." "Barry, this is the worst idea anyone's ever had." I work with philistines.

A good fantasy map is soooo satisfying, though.

Good blog, as always, from @patrickwyman.bsky.social. But for my own sake I shall keep Warhammer restricted to the "I will read the lore wiki sometimes" category. defector.com/warhammer-40...

Every positive thing I’ve read about Digger only makes me want to see Digger even less.

Christine Brennan has not fully lost it, according to Christine Brennan in two baffling phone calls: defector.com/christine-br...

Couldn't make it the top image because of copyright but you have to see the first photo in the Instagram embed in here.

NFC East the NFC South of AFC Norths.

After the Knicks win I thought to myself “I don’t really need anything out of sports for a while to be happy.” Since then my three teams all lost their most important player to season-ending injuries.

Igor Shesterkin you can have any of my ligaments you need. Cruciate, collateral, whatever. You name it, it’s yours.

mike ditka used to have a branded resort in kissimmee florida and there were lots of staged photos of mike ditka hanging out in it. i will post a bunch of them now. sorry for hte low resolution these are from like 2008

Is the new Amon Amarth album basically interchangeable with their previous three? Yes. Are they totally predictable by this point? Yes. Is that good enough for me? Hell yeah it is.

I wrote about my J.D. Salinger phase and also a little about my John Buchan phase and also very briefly about how all the Puffin books of my childhood were confident that what a child needed after some nice E. Nesbit was H. Rider Haggard’s She

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Yup I’ll read that

Christine Brennan has fully lost it over Caitlin Clark: defector.com/christine-br...

Whoever invented the drum fill was really cooking. Hell yeah, here comes a different part of the song.

One thing I think would be good for national morale would be to get a new Tiger Army album

Book club is going Other Mommy mode defector.com/incidents-ar...

Written from a place of love. defector.com/eagles-fans-...

Huge. Pre-internet, this was pretty much the only way to find out which episodes you hadn’t seen, if any. (Mine was ‘Lemon of Troy.’)

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social Did you really say this?

Monk blog monk blog

Train blog train blog

Memento mori, Atlantic City–style.

Shan't be seeing this or playing any of the games but this is such a great piece of criticism. defector.com/resident-evi...

First graf here gives you a look at the creative process defector.com/rice-guys-tw...