I wa in Italy for a month last year and most of the public under the age of 30 are fully sympathetic toward Hamas. I am ashamed to be an Italian right now.

If I could be a tourist in any period of history, Hong Kong in ~1997 seems pretty fun.

The saddest part is that canonically, in 2032 Americans had been going to Mars for a few years and we had ultra-modern beautiful cities and everyone got along and today’s social media, gambling, and opioid addictions are never even alluded to.

I’m watching The Martian (2015) on cable and wow, what an unintentional time capsule of the early 2010s. The plot is meant to take place in 2032 but the hairstyles, clothing, syntax, and general political and cultural clues are very “second term Obama era.”

This is an adult man in his 30s. He tells people his name is “Bad Bunny” and he dresses like this to a press conference. Has nobody expressed sincere concerns for his mental health? If one of your coworkers showed up tomorrow in this sorry state, they would be hospitalized.

Wrong.

Some photos from my weekend in Kranj this past October:

This is Kranj, Slovenia. It’s my 7th favorite city on earth. Most people have never heard of it. Most Americans have never heard of Slovenia. You should all go there.

the fact that these are probably the 3 most famous slovenians

One of the hardest realizations of being as elderly as I am (late 20s) is that I will *never* get to actually live Ernest Hemingway’s life. He was wounded in WWI at age 18. By the time he was my age he had a wife and kid and had published two hit books. And what have I done?

The past five years in cable television have seen the (relatively quick) deaths of legacy awards shows and late-night talk shows, and their hosts/founders screaming and blaming everyone but themselves the whole way down

I just randomly checked the Billboard Top 10 on February 3, 2010 and my god, we were on something else in the depths of the Recession

Why’d they quote me in this…

The whole idea of the groundhog seeing his shadow on February 2 and getting six more weeks of winter after that as the worst possible outcome is so laughable. What’s the alternative? Spring in February? In Pennsylvania and Ohio, it’s normal to have snowstorms in mid-late March.

The fact that all the Balkan countries are canonically in the same wizarding school in the Harry Potter Universe would make for an immensely entertaining TV series

If you are a 31-year-old man and looking at people in the face and calling yourself “Bad Bunny,” you have made many mistakes in life

A gentle reminder that Billie Eilish, worth $50 million, has given $0.00 to the original inhabitants of this “stolen land.”

When traveling I relied on this, at the end of the night supermarkets throughout Europe would sell unsold meals for €2-4 and I knew I could always eat well for cheap. American supermarkets, meanwhile, would rather throw unsold food away than sell it at discount - and they do.

My Italian dad watching the Grammys: “Managgia, misere, madonn’, how did she win”

He’s posting this as if this is anomalous and people are commenting as if this is anomalous, it really isn’t