Willy Staley

Would love it if the pope does Ameriky Republiky stuff. Just randomly getting really defensive all the time, letting kids at an orphanage in the Philippines know that there's actually cool buildings and lots of fresh water in Chicago. And a great restaurant scene.

Setting the edgy politics aside, every modifier deployed in here is hilarious. Its tone reminds me of the sort of restaurant that opens two years before your neighborhood gentrifies properly, and totally misses the mark.

Fiume @GalleriaFiume

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RT @hexprax: I honestly can't get over the idea of a cultural vanguard that's made up entirely of people who are exactly like the hairdress…

Damn…that’s pretty exciting. Can it make cartoons that don’t fucking suck?

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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RT @mmunzenrider: Society would benefit if more people got broke off every now and then, took a slam, pulled a muscle. Nothing serious, but…

RT @ThrowingFits: https://t.co/PRkayrh7Vp

People really do watch TV on their phones nowadays. Seeing it more and more on the subway. I bet they’d pay for a service that delivers quick, short-form shows tailor-made for this experience. Not a whole show, but a snack — a quick bite, if you will.

What does this mean? Is that why there was an asterisk in the other title? Are they going to have to change the theater marquees? What does it mean

DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

The cast of ‘THUNDERBOLTS*’ revealing the film’s actual title ‘THE NEW AVENGERS’ Read our review: https://t.co/VLBmJSYPfY https://t.co/S4mAJHFsxO

Fun piece. Could have been enriched with some insights from the latest in Parking Theory, but the writer (and his editor) didn't even think to call. Minor quibble, really.

The New Yorker @NewYorker

.@zhelfand reports from behind the wheel on the peculiar challenges of parking in New York, where drivers waste 200 million hours a year circling the block. https://t.co/A36JTLTRbd

Annual reminder

willy 🌜💧 @willystaley

In 2009, I was working at Monkey Bar and someone told me we were doing the after party for the Met Costume Institute Gala, and I said, What is the Met Costume Institute Gala? That’s how things used to be.

Time was, any "Why I left New York" essay would light this site up for a day, maybe even two. Now if you added Lena Dunham to the mix, you'd be looking at a full cycle — backlash, backlash to the backlash, backlash to the backlash to the backlash. And so on.

One of the weirdest things about Maine is that they have their own fucked up kind of hot dog

Jonas Denenberg @jdlogistcs

They have special fucked up hot dogs on the Amtrak Downeaster service not found anywhere else in the network https://t.co/lZSDzHMVbH