ASCII City Prototype 2. Incredibly detailed, walkable ASCII City. Playable in browser. Buy here if interested.

Watch the ASCII City live.

The following are the best drug names and what they make me think about.

10. Dupixent: Sounds like a drug from the 1960s which keeps it on my list.

9. Taltz: Sounds like a put-down from The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.

8. Humira: Modern day version of Nexxus Humectress which I first came across in the mid-80s. Full of good hair days.

7. Mounjaro: Mount Kilimanjaro come on with this. It gets on the list because of the audacity but a little too “nail on the head” for their own good.

6. Zepbound: I’m taking this and I feel like I can take on the world. Actually just thinking maybe I can try jogging for the second time in my life.

5. Wegovy: My mouth just has a great time saying this. See my earlier post about Dextromethorphan.

4. Sotyktu: Xenu’s nice brother/Xena: Warrior Princess’ dad.

3. Vyvgart: Bar where Thor and Sif hang.

2. Bimzelx: Superman usually got him to say his name backwards, saving the day.

1. Skyrizi: Number one with a bullet it’s a power pack. Nothing will top this and I would like to shake the hand of the first person who said this out loud.

Honorable mention:

This order still never arrived, and the tracking number just disappeared from UPS. UPS lost it, but the manner in which they lost it and the way their customer service handled it was totally hilarious except it was happening to me which sucked. Anyway, your order page still just says “Scheduled for delivery on September 3” or something along those lines and this thing is just lost and the tracking number defunct. This was for a small purchase. If it was something expensive, my anger would be quadrupled. You, reader of this message, have the power to make this better. Don’t believe anyone who says you don’t. Apple should have a weekly phone call with UPS with a list of packages that have “disappeared” and make them explain themselves. This is clearly not happening today. Start caring!

Kotozakura: chillest face ever and more baseball.

Good names for dogs: Shido, Pony (Shido from YouTube, Pony from John Roderick’s Dear John Letters). Both with the prerequisite ending in a vowel sound for proper calling.

Courtney Love and Harvey Weinstein
The Size of Valuev
Buscemi 9/11
Marion Stokes
Waterbombing a truck
Bomb squad guy
Gym main character
Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg

Kotozakura having a fun shio-maki.

Paul McCartney, Geddy Lee, Phil Lynott, Glenn Hughes, Benjamin Orr, et .

Nothing makes you feel old like walking down stairs.

Kotozakura, the chillest rikishi, with the chillest baby.

1. Audiotool Day 2016 — Xtract
2. emo song — The Haunted Youth
3. Runaway — City and Colour
4. Bad Decisions — The Strokes
5. Hot Blooded — New Constellations

Warner Bros Backlot – Midwest Street

Band/Album Name: Qualms and Questions

Current location. More info about this cool vessel that from a distance looked like a futuristic tall ship. She’s the first and only Jones Act-qualified, US-flagged wind turbine installation vessel. Dominion built her specifically for Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind.

Merlin Mann in Episode 637 of Roderick on the Line: “She’ll say, ‘You seen this?’ and I go, ‘I have, but I did not click it because I do not click things that are meant to provoke me.’”

Me scanning the NYT and half of reddit.

From r/EstatePlanning: My parents have a condition in their living trust that limits the weight of me and my sister

The YouTube algorithm sometimes strikes gold. Comments section: “Bro started gym that day” and “new trend Brutal ASMR”

Sudo Aquarelle, a watercolor simulator built with Claude. However you feel about that, this is amazing.

Eater covered this already waaaaaay back in 2024. I am slightly interested in the why but way more interested in stopping this abomination.

David Crowley Wins Democratic Primary for Wisconsin Governor
I love threads like these because there are just so many bad takes to read while eating pretzels

My daughter is happy. That makes me happy. More than anything else. I remember reading a book to her and feeling this way 20 years ago. I still feel it in exactly the same place. Right in the middle.

Brothers in Arms on Harmonica and Piano in Season 2, Episode 7 of Sugar. I had never heard this version by Grégoire Maret and Romain Collin. Perfect song for the moment.

This is for the United States. Apologies to Great Britain.

1. Kevin Zavian — Along with Ken Jennings, John Roderick and Michael McKean, Kevin is at the top of my “people I would like to have dinner with” list. Just an all-time mensch for me. Everything about his way. So gentle, so invested, so smart. I feel like he is just presenting to me when he talks. I trust what he says. Then he breaks out the leather vest and … chef’s kiss.
2. Nicholas D. Lowry — Mustache game is so strong, but then the suits. I mean, come on with this. You know he has it on lock from the presentation but then he talks and it gets more locked? Perfect.
3. Lark E. Mason — Lark (I would call him Mr. Mason) has so much gravitas but so much patience. And his understated style. His focus being Asian Arts because it is the only thing it can be.
4. Laura Woolley — So fun. I know it will be a fun segment when I see Laura. She has shown great breadth of knowledge over the years.
5. Simeon Lipman — Watch this for what you need to know about Simeon Lipman. The nice older lady steals the show but I like Simeon’s reactions just as much. I love expressive faces!
6. Leila Dunbar — I always have high expectations when Leila comes on the screen and she always meets them, even if they aren’t baseball card collections worth $1 million. She makes it all interesting because she knows the history so well.
7. Ken Farmer — Would be at the top of the chill list below but he gets on this list regardless because a) Virginia represent, and b) he cares and it comes across. People could watch Ken to see how to act around other people. Affable, funny, all that stuff.
8. Rafael Eledge — Rafael, who hasn’t been on in some years, still makes the list because his accent rules and he seems like the kind of guy that would be great to talk to for hours. Obviously an insane amount of knowledge about war-making implements but he makes those interesting even for a peaceful dude.
9. Allan Katz — Allan isn’t on the 2026 roster but I think I have seen him recently. Possibly the nicest guy on the show? He has had so many interactions on the show where I was struck by his kindness towards the guest.
10. Travis Landry — The new guy(?) and I guess one could say he sneaks into the top 10 because he is mainly reviewing items from my own childhood. But he treats those items with the right mix of nostalgia, reverence and irreverence. There is something different about presenting a fine work of art, a baseball and Firestorm #1. But he always strikes the right balance and brings the excitement.

Honorable Mention (Mustache)
James Supp

Honorable Mention (Wife Likes)
David Walker

Honorable Mention (Not Sure If It Is Just My Anticipation Of Huge Watch Prices Or If He Is The Best At Building Up To A Crescendo)
Jeff Cohen

All Chill Team
Noel Barrett
Alasdair Nichol (the voice)
Ken Sanders
Eric Silver
David Lackey

All Nice Team
Ken Gloss
Wes Cowan
Eric Hanks
Bruce M. Shackelford
Jeff Shrader

Full list of appraisers.

Band/Album Name: Automatic Politeness

baremetalHW is still in my brain’s “Top 10 of all time list” (and number two on the most chill of all time list, right behind The Crafsman) and he hasn’t posted in five years. He commented on a video about his disappearance, stating, “YT no longer supports the videos we make.” Bummer.

Great ship name: Golden Fridge.

The way the word “dextromethorphan” moves one’s mouth.

Kotozakura throwing a baseball.

Band/Album Name: Pretend Offended

Post Malone Tour With Jelly Roll Underselling as Some Venues Sit At 75% Empty
The “music for people who have tattoos of their children but not custody” tour

Buffalo and Bison. Same

Kotozakura chilling on a bike.

I just finished the first season of Sugar, so I am behind. Colin Farrell wears one outfit: dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, suspenders that make an occasional appearance. I literally paused it and noted to self: “get a good suit.”

Roberto Revilla, a London tailor, wrote a deep dive on what exactly the suit is: a uniform and not a costume. It was cut for a man who runs and fights in it, not one who stands still for photos.

The costume designer is Christie Wittenborn. She told MovieMaker some more details about their choices, but this Reddit thread where somebody who knows Wittenborn relayed questions to her has one key piece of info I didn’t notice. The suits go black, then midnight blue, then lighter blue as the show approaches the reveal of what Sugar actually is. The suspenders go black to navy. Mohair shows up late for the sheen.

I made an appointment with a tailor.

The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project explains why I’ve heard “needs washed” more in the past five years than in the forty-five before them.

The construction is need — or want, or like — followed straight by a passive participle. “The car needs washed.” “This needs replaced.” No to be, no -ing, nothing in between. Its home is the Midlands: Ohio, Indiana and western Pennsylvania at the core, thinning out through Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. YGDP traces it to Scotland and Northern Ireland, carried over by Scots-Irish settlers and held in place by nothing more than inertia ever since.

I’m from the mid-Atlantic and never heard it before watching YouTube channels like Project Farm and Elkskin’s Mower Junkyard.