I forget sometimes that I do an extremely niche thing:

I title this photo—of the #usmnt jerseys I wore this Cup—“2030.” Hang it in the Prado.

Well, France sure won in this regard…

My moral flexibility:

I will be taking no further questions:

The only July 4 I’m celebrating:

Yesterday was fun (I wasn’t looking at my phone while watching with my face). The one huge bummer was the lack of soccer IQ in the stands (chant- and anticipation of goals-wise) and the influencers in front of me taking photos of products in their hands. But still very fun. (Minus red card)

Soccer chat’s name is Denim Adu:

I reiterate:

I don’t care what the final result is. This will forever bring me joy.

My heart hurts. How did Nike give this to France and not USA?! (My buddy who works there says there’s a pretty clear hierarchy about which teams get design dibs.)

So I’m not good with numbers, but… we play Bosnia?

Oh this is rich. FIFA is worried that someone was gaming the system for monetary purposes?

A man of the people.

Ayo, @nytimes.com, you can just say it: it’s “Unconstitutional” and “Illegal.”

The most New York Times thing imaginable.

In the pre-Buttigieg murmur at The Paramount.

Damn, girl. Slow down. I thought we were taking it slow, KQED

Dear Time Machine: please send this push notification to 1989.

You had me in the first half, thinking this might be a good headline

Y'all. At my new job as the Editor-in-Chief/Layout Artist of The Rockridge News, I've been able to tap into my dusty-but-eager design brain a bit more. Feeling proud of this spread on a vacant triangle (h/t Piet Mondrian):

Good bunny postgame show.

Laura Dern can never appear on my screen without thinking of this and this only:

I need to be better at speed reading because this is all I saw, omitting a very important “that beat Melania:”

Baby formula behind locked cabinets and some dude stepping in someone’s face “is there a problem” after cutting him. We are so broken.

NYT bothsiderism in an article about whether Bovino’s coat is “WWII” reminiscent. Isn’t journalism about saying the quiet part out loud?