Matt Ufford

my favorite part of parenting is getting my kids ready for school. cajoling, repeating myself, grinding my teeth as I shake with rage — I love starting each day the angriest I’ve ever been

World Series, WNBA Finals, Monday Night Football, great NBA slate, I assume some hockey. incredible sports night.

Amon-Ra joining him

the WNBA Finals are spiritually Big 10 football

the quote posts here are a nice emotional lift if you need one today

me reading the news:

RIP Tom Skerrit. the only reason you should ever cover eyes that blue is if you happen to look better than anyone has ever looked in aviators.

Caleb owes Santos a nice deep-dish pizza, the signature pizza of Chicago

I have two tweens and this sentence (from Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead) is the single best description I've ever seen of their age

David Roth on the Ohio gubernatorial race defector.com/vivek-ramasw...

screenshots of funny old tweets are always welcome. posting a screenshot from the morass of X gets you a block. pass it on.

I simply do not have the time or intellectual bandwidth to watch both Digger and You Can See Everything. please engage with me online when I see them 5-10 months from now

I missed this one last week, but as always @davidjroth.bsky.social on Trump is the only way I willingly learn about something the president has said or done defector.com/what-is-the-...

brother if you haven't driven east to west across South Dakota and seen the Corn Palace and Wall Drug you are missing out

I am dissociating from the Seahawks becoming mediocre but DEEPLY invested in the Rams being mediocrer

this is bad producing. don't let your talent get memed. and ESPECIALLY don't let them be unanimous that the Falcons will win a football game

hey so what's wrong with this guy

first time flying out of the new Burbank airport and I hadn't realized the old one was already shuttered. it's kinda messing me up. I never even got to say goodbye.

mother of god www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...

Al Michaels is checked out and Kirk Herbstreit is a casual, let me spend Jeff Bezos's money

oh snap, new Hernan Diaz! Trust is one of my favorite books of the last 5 years, anyone pick this one up yet? yay or nay?

seeing a lot fewer outdoor cats in my neighborhood. might be related to the four coyotes that were cruising down the sidewalk at 11:00 last night

"girl plucked from obscurity because of her singing voice becomes wealthy and is undone by a shopkeeper refusing to sell her a mechanical singing bird" is simply too hans christian andersen for me

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

Showed my kid the 80s My Little Pony and one of the ponies is unmistakably Nancy Cartwright doing an early version of the Bart Simpson voice

this was a nice appetizer, but now I'm hungry for a mixtape of ALL the Rams' special teams miscues

I believe strongly that NFL telecasts are showing Kelly Stafford at a much higher rate than Taylor Swift at peak blowback

Sir Walter Raleigh is down bad since my son turned this assignment in

the other day I was thinking about Peak TLC programming (late-aughts modern freak show) and I thought, "hey, all those Jon & Kate + 8 kids must be grown up now, I wonder how they turned out." and, well: www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

When an eBird reviewer I don’t know questions my ID

yes yes quite a game from the Niners and Seahawks. unfortunately I must demand that George Holani head to the darkest fathoms of the practice squad.

Valks 💜

favorite WNBA matchups based on team names: 1. Fever-Dream 2. Sun-Storm (*RIP Connecticut Sun) 3. Fire-Storm 4. Sky-Wings 5. Mercury-Sun 6. Sky-Aces 7. Sparks-Fire the NBA simply can't touch this kind of word association, get it together fellas