Black Cold Rain Edition

What is Project 2025?

You may have come across this term in the last few days. It has finally bubbled up from the cauldron. If you don’t know what it is, I highly recommend visiting this Reddit site, Explain Like I’m Five. There’s a great post there with simplified explanations. Also, this picture is right to the point. In short, it’s pretty horrifying.

Cobra Kai Season Six

I still can’t quite believe a sequel series to the Karate Kid movies has reached a sixth season and has been as well-written and fun as possible. Essentially, getting every actor who was a part of the movie trilogy back is really the icing on the cake, while the younger actors who make up the next generation are equally interesting. I’m looking forward to watching how it all ends. Also, nice use of KISS in the trailer.

Pickup Games

At this stage, nobody knows how good this Illinois Basketball squad will be. As of right now, a couple of players aren’t even yet on campus. In the meantime, we get fun videos of the team running pickup games. I’ll take it.

Crime Spree

A day after Steve Bannon reported to prison, Rudy Giuliani was officially disbarred in New York for Trump election interference efforts. If I’ve told you once I’ve told you a thousand times: If you want to get away with crimes, run for president. H/T: Nextdraft

Kintsugi Oreos

Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery repair with visible “scars.” The Brazilian advertising firm Leo Burnett Tailor Made came up with the clever idea of selling tubes of Oreo frosting so that people could repair their broken Oreos in the same way. In the promotional video, the agency expresses that it hopes to convey that customers saddened by their broken Oreos can create a new narrative for their traumatized cookies.

“No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.” — Harriet Beecher Stow

Listening to an album from start to finish feels like a lost art.

“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.”  — W. Somerset Maugham

If I had three wishes from a genie, my first wish would be that the genie couldn’t remember how many wishes they had given me, and then to get a lot of wishes while claiming they were all my first.

“I was hoping we'd start thinking outside the box. Now I'm hoping we’ll just start thinking.” — Molly Ivins

Basically, coffee is nothing more than bean soup.