Christopher Owen

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

There is a lovely cold bracing wind. However it does not brace me.

Ramaswamy's campaign has not only taken responsibility for the ad- they're doubling down and actually running it? I really thought they were going to try to weasel out of it and say it was an internal thing and blame the leaker for the controversy.

I've been seeing trailers for Wildwood at theaters that won't end up showing it this weekend. Weird.

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

Block 37 has a new owner. Is it cursed, or has it just been mismanaged? Maybe we can finally find out! blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/07/b...

Unedited Rick Steves is hilarious. I watched this talk on his visit to Guatemala and El Salvador live, and his rum-enhanced, 95% woke tangents really make it worth the time. youtu.be/kGh1uNnMw4U?...

“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.

Does anyone ever use an address at, say, the European Council to repeat domestic partisan attacks on the Mayor of Brussels? That would be weird, right?

But seriously so many people cultivate an audience off being harsh and judgmental and stirring up online dogpiles and then go shocked Pikachu face when people are harsh and judgmental to them. Tale as old as time. Song as old as rhyme.

Bears-Panthers is currently the highest-scoring NFL game since 2018, and in a 3-way tie for 12th highest ever. 3 minutes left!

KnowYourMeme has become unusable at some point since I last used it. A tragedy.

Adult Bluey fans would rather do praxis than go to therapy

We didn't need this rain.

How often has someone as unwell as Graham Linehan been able to publish delusional screeds in major periodical? He is allowed space in the Telegraph to literally list out people he believes have personally wronged him. It's not even punditry.

Days of Thunder is no Top Gun, either in initial box office performance or cultural memory. I had to google the name of Tom Cruise's character. Mostly I remember it being a stylistically distinctive Tony Scott outing. W/i him, Kidman, or Duvall, what is it? Why not just a make a new racing movie?

The wrong 80 year-olds are dying.

Faster trips could be coming— but slowly.

Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals  i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that

The Vorkosigan Saga Seasons 1-2- the first 2 Miles novels, each with a movie ep. of a Cordelia novel 3-4- Remix freely Miles' exloits in his 20s, Mark as villain, expand on Aral's bisexuality 5- Mirror Dance/Memory 6- A Civil Campaign 7- Take hints from later novels for conclusion arc

Dean Martin was a series regular on a mid-80s show? Did he take the gig to keep his SAG insurance?

I just don't understand why so many people take Jeremy Strong's acting techniques personally.

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it's so darkly funny these dipshits keep waving around communications, from Andersen, Collins, Fauci, and others, saying "this could be a lab leak and we have to look into that seriously" as evidence they irresponsibility dismissed a lab leak and didn't take it seriously

Has anyone else run into the issue of people being surprised that you read the template email they sent you and believed the contents to be accurate? Honestly, at this point, maybe I should be relieved that the offending message is so old and dusty that no LLMs can be blamed.

I am so excited to have a movie theater within walking distance again.

they're so cooked we're fine

Air to Ground Message: DOES TULSA HAVE CUSTOMS Area: Meaford, ON, Canada Type: Boeing 777-200 A: #a279eae2e66 F: #fd52abaf655

The timely announcement in the wee hours of the morning of Graham's death does not seem to be giving the "McConnell is dead" crowd any pause.

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This is very sad. kfor.com/news/local/o...

Interesting article on the complicated legacy of my 7X great-grandmother. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/t...

I feel like we're not talking enough about the possibility of a Sox-Cubs World Series, now that both teams are winning at the same time. They're both long shots this season, but if they remain simultaneously competitive for a few seasons, who knows?

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

When you think about it, the Rhys heroine was often a "Girl Who Is Going to Be Okay."

We, the general public, do not know when and where Zendaya and Tom Holland got married. I wish more celebrities would try that.

Two people that’s happily married be quiet

These people are afraid of every low income neighborhood in the country, but they think they would be safe in this scenario?

JUST IN: Former "Broadview Six" defendants seek special counsel to investigate, and possibly prosecute, Chicago U.S. Attorney's Office officials for criminal contempt. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/ca/86/6e85af...

The two Twitter features I miss the most: "People you follow" search and "mute retweets."

I'm not a picky eater, so cold shrimp is the best I can do

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

That Wajahat Ali guy manages to be 10-25% wrong on so many factual statements. I finally muted him. It's bad for the brain to read people like that.

When the BBC presenter asks an artist what she learned from the late David Hockney, her response: “Remember to fuck.” The BBC guy immediately goes into panic mode: “We apologize for the offensive language.”

The Hollywood Reporter mis-spelled the title of the show!

If the road team wins every game, it will be Knicks in 7.

Grand juror: "Do you have unlimited tries?" Mecklenburg: "I don't think we have to worry about that." AUSA Matthew Skiba: "I think the saying is the second time is the charm."