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there's an entire club named after me and i'm simply honored but then again totally makes sense there would be

beavis and butthead bang their heads while singing and air guitarring JUKING THE STATS JUKING THE STATS
messi laying down in pain suffering from imminent defeat has an outline similar to spacex stock graph suffering from imminent de-cap
just a typical greg sargent post that's twice as long as it should be because it wraps itself up in exactitudes that don't say a fucking thing: I want to be clear that I recognize this as a serious dilemma. Of course we don't want to let toxic/objectionable ideas go unchallenged. But we also need to forthrightly face how the incentive structures really function for editors at publications like these. I really don't know what the answer is.
beijingpalmer post that reads: there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
the favicon area of the CCA staff portal where you send in your resume if you want to be considered for vanderbilt's staff has the phrase, I KID YOU FUCKING NOT: sanfran
greg sargent says this is the short version it's a wall of gray font size 7pts
split view of NYT and WaPo headlines about tonight's speech over election fraud NYT hed says claims are outlandish, sub says documents posted by WH don't back him up the post hed says trump alleges "vulnerability" w/o weighing in on reliability of allegations, and sub-subhead two-sides it saying biden also stoked fears of election subversion (when??)
the beginning moments of a copa argentina game between boca jrs and sarmiento de jujuy complete with badly lit field and the general feeling that this is going to be not that stressful and probably just OK
ben affleck smoking while tired of this shit meme, except he has no cigarette, both his hands are in pockets while he exhales soke
wikipedia info box for the 2026 finalissima between spain and argentina the date sayd: 27 march 2026 and in parentheses (planned)
harry kane is a soccer player who breathes through his mouth but it's finally come to pass that somebody shut it for him score in the bottom right corner, england one, argentina two
a high-tea setting complete with dainty porcelain and one of those plate racks where you put the scrumptious little pastries and finger sandwiches
a photoshop file showing primary colors red, blue, and yellow with a filter to turn them all grayscale showing that blue and red look very similar in black and white
the kid from gummo sitting next to mrs mcconnell
screeshot of the teams participating in the FIFA WC semifinals: france, spain, england, argentina
two consecutive posts by @muellershewrote.com with newsflashes about the ongoing world cup game no insights, just reporting a scoring action and its retraction
this is a quote from an easily forgotten TV series, "the sympathizer" spoken by a vietnamese man about the feeling of living in a culture and place different from where one came from "wandering ghost, living between two world, forever" because even if you go back, whatever changed in you by living and learning the new culture, it doesn't unchange paradoxically, it causes a new change going from A to B and back to A is going from A to B but also once you're so used to B it needs all the change required as someone going from B to A going from a culture of kiss on the cheeks when you meet to a culture of standing back and saying nice to meet you makes standing back seen strange, cold but when you go back to kissing on the cheek from standing back it can feel like too much, too cloying — i was going to make an example out of the different attitudes when the bill comes at a restaurant how the one who wins being more macho in argentina is the one who shirks paying their part the best and how in the US the one who wins being more of "a man" is the one who plops down their credit card first to pay for the table but that's hard to explain, being in the US with a bunch of argentines who invited you out to dinner as payment for giving notes on a movie script they're working on, and when the bill comes each one goes through the motions of having forgotten their wallet, excuses about how each thought the other would pay, and you're sitting there ready to fucking pay the bill already just to shut them up and get this embarrassing display over with, even though they invited you and this is supposed to be their treat / recompense for your work
videla next to henry kissinger when he visited argentina in 1978 make no mistake, whatever the junta did, they did it because of kissinger he taught them, he backed them, he didn't give a shit about them (or us)
videla not in uniform, though he usually was, at the world cup final standing in front of the gold trophy looking arrogant or something he's the main guy in the military junta dictatorship that ruled argentina during "el proceso" that kidnapped people in the streets or at home, a lot like ICE does today, and disappeared them
classic chris hayes sentece so full of countervailing clauses that by the time you get to the end you can't remember what he's talking about
publishers weekly post that shows two covers from haymarket books
yep that's me wearing my dad's hard hat, standing in front of a bulldozer that was leveling what would become the field i'm tiny, i'm guessing late 76 or early 77 not sure if i'd even seen a soccer game on TV yet, i was just happy to be with my dad
my internet friend, tom tomorrow trying and failing to sing: you got to wake up early in the morning you got to stay up all night long you still won't catch up 'cause I got the warnin' i got the feelin' you wanna do me wrong
meeting by james turrell is basically a hole in the ceiling/roof of PS1 that you stand under and look at the sky
an engraved stone plaque on canal street in new orleans that talks about the vieux carre and says open quote derived it apostrophe ess name close quote
a street kerb with parking meters but also painted red for no parking
oh just the typical greg sargent post full of low res, no alt text, independent-clause polluted unreadability
a photo of two bald, corrupt men one of them showing a card that seems to match the tone of the foundation makeup on his face
fasces are part of the ornamental details on the door frames of the oval office
maradona in the 1986 world cup setting up the reason that his second goal counted for two which was unfair to england but whatever they suck anyway
eddie murphy trying to pocket a cigar box or something in the movie trading places because in the plot he's a learned thief and can't stand not stealing something if he can
screenshot of zócalo cam showing a crowded plaza under dark, stormy clouds
pierluigi collina, a retired italian ref and a stalwart of good refereeing, whose bald, bulbous noggin makes him look a bit like nosferatu here seen in body language that any italian can decode as meaning "not me, i don't know who you mean but you can't possibly mean me, it's the rules."
a photo of ms emily litella in mid rant saying: i don’t usually support toxic herbicides the likes of paraquat but i’ll give it a chance if it’s playing soccer against germany
a poem called "six-seven" is on page 69
somebody commenting on the story about SCOTUS and deportation of perfectly legally residing haitian immigrants, and all she can think about is that her parents have nurses, some of them haitian, and calls it "suffering" that said parents may lose haitian nurses …when the haitian nurses get deported to horrible conditions they used legal humanitarian means to escape from
a adobe cloud tile for a font called "chinese rocks" designed by somebody named ray
my hopefilled vs doomer chart is exactly 50/50
cement over a steel framework that forms the head of a statue of lionel messi—a soccer player named after lionel richie who we all hope is doing OK after last night's on-stage dizziness—and it kinda does look like messi, remarkably so, because there are public monuments of historical figures in argentina that... wooooof
baby birds mouths open can't see their eyes because they're looking up (at themselves)
a $3.50 price sticker from logos, the one-time best record store in santa cruz, on a VG+ copy of sly & robbie's rhythm killers LP
the sun below horizon casts the shadow of a cloud onto the sky
clip of article from KQED that says Even more jarring is the mayor’s accompanying post on social media. “Anchor down!” he says in the video, referencing a Vanderbilt sports mantra. “Let’s go, San Francisco!” He sits in his office, in front of a painting made by CCA alum and current faculty member David Huffman, never mentioning the art school once.
screenshot of the entirety of photos in the photos page of the IMDB listing for the princess bride showing 30 photos and they all contain mandy patinkin as inigo montoya
the reflecting pool no-bid contractor who looks straight out of johnny dangerously
group table showing the czech republic and south africa 3rd and 4th place after two games when mexico and south korea had only played one each
el chavo del ocho
an early TV remote control that was actually wire-bound to the cable box it has a row of push buttons and a toggle so that each button had 3 positions the first button is marked 1, 13, and 25, so if the toggle was up it was channel 1, in the middle it was channel 13, and down it was channel 25
a jansport 2-pocket backpack
home screen of roku tv with the tile for the ongoing world cup game showing the score so if you were going to watch the game on replay (which roku platforms replay games) because you want to—say—watch something else first with people who don't care for your completist approach to the WC, well now it's spoiled
a NYT opinion subhed that says in the first line: i asked the vice president what is christian about this white and leaves you hanging because you don't know if the noun is going to be "supremacy" or "washing," but it's both because the noun turns out to be "house."
an english goalkeeper dressed like a cone puppet
marcelo bielsa, argentine coach to the uruguayan national team, and lookalike to my dad
panel from jack survives with a wallet, keys, and change that's fallen through a drainage grate and a speech bubble coming from above says "that's sad"
two argentina kits, one with the 2-star AFA emblem and a newer one with 3 stars
ties, ties, ties!!!! but very fun ones
the cast of the newsradio pilot
front cover of the talking heads' more song about buildings and foods record is a grid collage of polaroids each showing a small part of each member of the band, arranged together to form a group portrait very much in the style of david hockney's composite polaroids