writer, editor, failed musician, lifelong coog
Houston, TX
Joined March 2009
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This guy said the quiet part out loud and you can feel his anger and disgust…
I couldn’t agree more..
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We asked Xavier Becerra if he identifies as a NIMBY or a YIMBY and I am still dying over his answer. Great interview by @SophiaBollag, who tried to get him to say literally anything substantive.
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This is actually kind of wild because once you hear it laid out like this you can’t unhear it. The 90s “wow… yeah” sarcasm and the early 2000s vocal fry on conference calls hit way too close to home. Armisen’s ear is disgusting in the best way.
Fred Armisen breaks down the fascinating evolution of conversational accents and speech patterns decade by decade on The Tonight Show.
"I've been working on some impressions of accents through the decades"
1900s: "the manufacturer and the farmer, people thought it was very British, but it's actually very Dutch and German"
1920s: "They start getting very aware of the microphone"
1950s: "It starts to flatten out a little bit. I'd like to on a Friday night, I'd like to read a book on a Friday night"
1960s: "Diverges a little bit where there's an official sort of news hour... and then the sort of people in interviews looked like they were in shock"
1970s: "There's a whisper to it. There's a sort of confusion as to what's going on, there's a whisper"
1990s: "Very kind of laid back, wow, the nineties laid back, yeah, very sarcastic and ironic, wow"
2000s: "You start to hear the vocal fry... guys are in a meeting and they can sort of hear that throughout when they're talking on a conference call"
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It's a problem, obviously, that the FCC is run by an authoritarian jackass. But the bigger problem is that the agency contains so many tempting tools for an authoritarian jackass to wield.
During this election season, there has been a significant surge in entirely Fake Polls and Suppression Polls designed to do nothing more than interfere with the regular functioning of the electoral process and alter the normal patterns of voter turnout and enthusiasm.
Many journalists and broadcasters have been amplifying or airing these Polls without regard to basic journalistic ethics and without informing the public that those Polls lack a scientific, accurate, or even real basis.
The FCC takes these issues seriously. Broadcasters are prohibited by the terms of their federal licenses from engaging in News Distortion or promoting Broadcast Hoaxes. It is important that broadcasters comply with their public interest obligations. After all, the country benefits greatly when Americans can trust and rely on the media to report the news fairly and accurately.
Broadcasters are advised to avoid engaging in News Distortions or running Broadcast Hoaxes by airing Polls that would violate their regulatory obligations. If broadcasters believe they should provide their viewers with additional context and information about Polls they have covered, they can now take those actions consistent with FCC regulations.
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The Trump corruption issue is like the Biden cognitive decline issue in one key sense: Everyone around the president or even supporting him professionally from afar should be asked about it, and their lies/claims of ignorance should be hung around their necks like dumbbells.
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Seeing some doomers in our fanbase say our season is over while we’re ranked No.18 in the nation with a 6-2 record…
If you’re ready to cut and run on the Coogs this season you have the complete wrong outlook on where we are.
Houston has a lot of goals to meet this season. We’ve only lost to Tech due to a questionable spot on the 2 point conversion and to Utah with a banged up offense who will recover this bye week.
November 7th is homecoming against Cincy and the first official CFP poll will release the day after on Nov. 8. We’re projected to be a Top 15 team with a CFP at-large bid in reach.
Focus on going 1-0 every week and everything else will take care of itself. We faced adversity and now we respond both as the team on the field and the fans in the stands.
Houston went 4-8 in 2023 and 2024. If you told me we’d be a top team in the nation a few years later I’d call you a liar. Willie Fritz is pushing to give us our first consecutive seasons with double-digit wins in UH Football history. Not supporting this team because we lost to the now No. 6 team in the country would show us you have no loyalty.
Every win we stack builds to something greater for this program and the point is to be there for the ride and celebrate every milestone along the way.
Being a fan means supporting the team, not just the success. If you really want to see this team succeed, make that statement by continuing to support and rep the Coogs. That’s how we turn our games into an unbeatable home field environment.
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Iconic entrances are part of college football’s pageantry. Houston is on its way to creating one of its own with its candy red slab.
“Now that’s H-Town,” Bun B said.
For @TheAthletic, my story on the coolest new team entrance in CFB: nytimes.com/athletic/7718443…
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I tweet for the real houstonians who ate at ponchos Mexican buffet or casa ole. You don’t know what them is you is not from the H
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HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.
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Looking back, this clip from Willie Fritz’s first year at Houston feels almost prophetic.
Congratulations to @CoachWEFritz of @UHCougarFB on being named to the 2026 Paul "Bear" Bryant National Coach of the Year Watch List! #BryantAwards
ALT A person wearing a Houston-branded polo shirt and headset stands with hands in pockets. The background features a football and the Bear Bryant Awards logo. Text reads: "Watch List" and "Willie Fritz, Houston.
